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Sandra’s favorite books

Gift From the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Custodian of Paradise by Wayne Johnston

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Sandra’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (375)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (1167)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
canlit‎ (513)
read-2014‎ (131)
read-2015‎ (119)
read-2006‎ (114)
read-2012‎ (113)
read-2013‎ (111)
read-2011‎ (100)
toronto-discoveries-2012-2013‎ (100)

read-in-2016‎ (91)
read-2017‎ (86)
read-2010‎ (84)
read-2008‎ (81)
contemporary-issues‎ (65)
read-2009‎ (65)
fantasy‎ (64)
children-s‎ (63)
ya‎ (57)
biography‎ (43)
graphic-novels‎ (42)
classics‎ (33)

memoir‎ (23)
sampled‎ (21)
booker-read‎ (20)
science-fiction‎ (18)
by-about-seniors‎ (15)
read-2007‎ (15)
poetry‎ (12)
british-women‎ (11)
fsf‎ (11)
historical-fiction‎ (11)
dystopias‎ (9)
fable‎ (6)

re-read-in-2015‎ (6)
australian-lit‎ (5)
short-stories‎ (5)
cdn-aboriginal‎ (4)
autism‎ (3)
irish-women‎ (3)
read-2005‎ (3)
read-2x-0r-more‎ (3)
read-before-2005‎ (3)
bakka-books‎ (2)
re-read-in-2016‎ (2)
addiction‎ (1)

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Sandra’s Quotes

“Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.”
― Ali Smith

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“The real power of books is their deep companionability. We learn from them as we learn from the deep companionability of love to know our own hearts and minds better.”
― Jane Rule

tags: books, love

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“It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”
― Lemony Snicket

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“Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.”
― Iris Murdoch

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“Our lives teach us who we are." I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's description of reality to supplant your own ... then you might as well be dead.”
― Salman Rushdie

tags: death, life, reality, self-determination, self-knowledge

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