Bethany
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“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― The Lathe of Heaven
― The Lathe of Heaven
“The act of true reading is in its very essence democratic. Consider the nature of what happens when we read a book - and I mean, of course, a work of literature, not an instruction manual or a textbook - in private, unsupervised, un-spied-on, alone. It isn't like a lecture: it's like a conversation. There's a back-and-forthness about it. The book proposes, the reader questions, the book responds, the reader considers. We bring our own preconceptions and expectations, our own intellectual qualities, and our limitations, too, our own previous experiences of reading, our own temperament, our own hopes and fears, our own personality to the encounter.”
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“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Twilight of the Idols
― Twilight of the Idols
“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
― Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Iris Murdoch
— 61 members
— last activity Nov 03, 2018 04:16PM
A group to celebrate and discuss the work of Dame Iris Murdoch.
Our Shared Shelf
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— last activity 3 hours, 58 min ago
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
Mental Health Fiction
— 130 members
— last activity May 17, 2018 12:41PM
This group is for books centering around mental health. I personally enjoy mental health fiction novels to give me more insight and understanding of m ...more
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