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KrisT

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KrisT’s Quotes

“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

tags: books, journey, reading, travel

5250 likes

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes

23590 likes

“One day I would have all the books in the world, shelves and shelves of them. I would live my life in a tower of books. I would read all day long and eat peaches. And if any young knights in armor dared to come calling on their white chargers and plead with me to let down my hair, I would pelt them with peach pits until they went home.”
― Jacqueline Kelly, The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate

tags: books, peach-pits, peaches, reading, white-knights

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“When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: inspirational

1510 likes

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor

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KrisT’s Groups

By The Book — 18 members — last activity 7 hours, 4 min ago
A place to read with friends and discuss books. We do buddy/group reads. We have an author and genre of the month, we do book related challenges and w ...more

Chicks On Lit — 5157 members — last activity 7 hours, 52 min ago
(Est. Feb 14, 2008) More than a reading group of women but a place for honest, respectful, intelligent conversations led by adult women. Discussions a ...more

Cover to Cover Challenge — 1224 members — last activity Oct 12, 2025 10:13PM
Interested in reading a certain number of books in 2025? You've come to the right group. Cover to Cover Challenge is all about choosing your reading t ...more

Busy as a Bee Books — 81 members — last activity Nov 03, 2024 01:40PM
Welcome to our hive! The Bees are a close-knit group of readers who completely enable other members' book addictions and enjoy the friendship of each ...more

The Modern Library 100 Best Novels Challenge — 392 members — last activity May 06, 2021 11:01AM
If you are working at reading your way through the Modern Library's Top 100 novels, join us! We will read one-two books per month together (depending ...more

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