Katariina Kottonen

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Eight Months on Ghazzah Street

by Hilary Mantel

bookshelves: literary-fiction, lizzie-s-book-club, owned-books, oxford, currently-reading

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"“[Frances] read the information sheet the library woman had given her, with its regulations and list of opening times. There was only one indication that life in Saudi had its tiny upsets. ‘PLEASE,’ begged the hand-out, ‘make EVERY effort to return your books if you have to leave the Kingdom hurriedly and unexpectedly.’”" — Oct 29, 2025 09:18AM

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Carbonel: The King of the Cats (Carbonel, #1)

by Barbara Sleigh

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"‘V. H. Drummond’, credited as the book’s illustrator, stands for Violet Hilda Drummond (1911–2000), a British children’s author and illustrator of the 1930-1970s. Pictures for later books in the Carbonel series were created by other artists (but Drummond’s hand can be seen in the illustrations for Lawrence Durrell and Helen Cresswell, among others)." — Aug 19, 2024 05:34AM

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Beauty: A Very Short Introduction

by Roger Scruton

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Katariina’s Quotes

“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books, children-s-books, reading

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“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Reference

tags: war

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“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: family, friends, parties, social

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“If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.”
― Pythagoras

tags: darkness, death, life, light

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“Once upon a time," he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best, the most powerful words that he knew and just the saying of them comforted him.”
― Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux

tags: comfort, darkness, despereaux

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