Robert Teeter

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Robert is Currently Reading

Robert Teeter is currently reading

The Wife of Willesden

by Zadie Smith

bookshelves: currently-reading, chaucer, london, plays, women

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Feb 03, 2026 08:47PM

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The Golem of Brooklyn

by Adam Mansbach (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, jews, golem, antisemitism

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Jul 08, 2025 04:36PM

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Jitney: A Play

by August Wilson

bookshelves: plays, african-american_literature, american_literature, currently-reading

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“Van, The Good Novel will not be an ordinary bookstore. That's our challenge. Our customers won't be ordinary customers. The people we'll see in our store will be people who never buy a book because it just came out, unless they adore the author already, but for other reasons that have nothing to do with its pub date, because they couldn't case less about that. . . .”
― Laurence Cossé, A Novel Bookstore

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“That debauchery was not a good thing in a married man did not even occur to him [Tsar Nicholas I], and he would have been very surprised if anyone had condemned him for it. But, even though he was convinced that he had acted as he ought, he was left with some sort of unpleasant aftertaste, and, to stifle that feeling, he began thinking about something that always soothed him: about what a great man he was.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Hadji Murád

tags: hypocrisy, narcissism

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“You have just confirmed to me that one of the most fortunate purposes of literature is to bring like-minded people together and get them talking.”
― Laurence Cossé, A Novel Bookstore

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“Janet! Donkeys!”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

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“In previous years, they might have spent hours in the cellar, on their feet, never seeing the time go by nor feeling their legs, and they would go back upstairs at closing time enthralled, radiant, a bit drunk, and there were more and more of them who, when they got back to Paris or Basel, would tell those around them, 'I only ever buy my books in Meribel now, once a year; obviously I've had to change my suitcase (my car / my leisure time / my life)' . . . .”
― Laurence Cossé, A Novel Bookstore

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