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Fredrik Backman
“At a certain age almost all the questions a person asks him or herself are really just about one thing: how should you live your life?”
Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

Fredrik Backman
“Soccer is a curious game, because it doesn’t ask to be loved. It demands it.”
Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

Helen Macdonald
“Some things happen only once, twice in a lifetime. The world is full of signs and wonders that come, and go, and if you are lucky you might be alive to see them.”
Helen Macdonald, H is for Hawk

Fredrik Backman
“The winter requires whoever is doing the watering to have a bit of faith, in order to believe that what looks empty has every potential.”
Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

Fredrik Backman
“The reason for her love of maps. It’s half worn away, the dot, and the red color is bleached. Yet it’s there, flung down there on the map halfway between the lower left corner and its center, and next to it is written, “You are here.”
Sometimes it’s easier to go on living, not even knowing who you are, when at least you know precisely where you are while you go on not knowing”
Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

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103643 Readiton — 82 members — last activity May 21, 2013 11:28AM
An exciting new book club based in Sanditon, California. We are three friends who love reading and wanted to share this passion with our fellow Sandi ...more
179584 Our Shared Shelf — 222838 members — last activity Jul 22, 2026 11:54PM
OUR SHARED SHELF IS CURRENTLY DORMANT AND NOT MANAGED BY EMMA AND HER TEAM. Dear Readers, As part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading ...more
185058 Victorian-style Dickens Readalong - Bleak House #dickensalong — 288 members — last activity Feb 15, 2019 09:48AM
So welcome to a Victorian-style Dickens readalong, run by me, Katie from Books and Things. Following on from our reading of Dickens's Our Mutual Frie ...more
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