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Daphne du Maurier
“Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.”
Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca

George R.R. Martin
“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

Jonathan Safran Foer
“What did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think. I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”
Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Diane Setterfield
“Reading can be dangerous.”
Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

Walter M. Miller Jr.
“You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

139460 I Like Big Books! — 53 members — last activity Sep 09, 2015 03:03PM
A group to help people read large books together or independently. Large books are books that are over 500 pages that sometimes seem daunting when a r ...more
175457 A Brief Reading — 58 members — last activity Apr 03, 2016 02:02AM
A booktube buddy reading group dedicated to reading short story collections. We'll start this group by reading one common collection a month and seein ...more
116231 International Reads — 591 members — last activity Aug 31, 2019 08:44PM
This book club's focus is on reading as diversely as possible. We hope to read books we may not otherwise have read or even heard of! This book club ...more
137329 The Under-Hyped Readathon! — 567 members — last activity Sep 06, 2016 07:12PM
Basically, there has been a lot of talk on Booktube, and the internet in general, about the shifting community and the difference between hyping books ...more
163712 BooktubeSFF Awards — 1692 members — last activity Jun 01, 2021 12:01PM
A group for discussing the BooktubeSFF Awards and associated readalongs. To learn more about the awards have a look at the website: http://booktubesff ...more
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