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Carina
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"People have a way of fighting through the pain of change when they want the outcome badly enough"
“He’s like the most dangerous species of American there is: heterosexual white male who didn’t get what he wanted.”
― The Nix
― The Nix
“When Samuel was a child reading a Choose Your Own Adventure novel, he’d keep a bookmark at the spot of a very hard decision, so that if the story turned out poorly, he could go back and try again. More than anything he wants life to behave this way.”
― The Nix
― The Nix
“You have to be careful,” Pwnage said, “with people who are puzzles and people who are traps. A puzzle can be solved but a trap cannot. Usually what happens is you think someone’s a puzzle until you realize they’re a trap. But by then it’s too late. That’s the trap.”
― The Nix
― The Nix
“But you cannot endure this world alone, and the more Samuel’s written his book, the more he’s realized how wrong he was. Because if you see people as enemies or obstacles or traps, you will be at constant war with them and with yourself. Whereas if you choose to see people as puzzles, and if you see yourself as a puzzle, then you will be constantly delighted, because eventually, if you dig deep enough into anybody, if you really look under the hood of someone’s life, you will find something familiar.”
― The Nix
― The Nix
“Empathy. Most people think empathy is like understanding someone else or relating to them. But it's more than that. Real empathy is the actual corporeal feeling of someone else's emotions, so that it's experienced not only in the brain but also in the body, the body vibrating like a tuning fork to the sadness and suffering of another, as in, for example, you cry at the funerals of people you never even knew, you feel actual physical hunger when you see a starving child, you get vertigo when you watch an acrobat. And so forth.”
― The Nix
― The Nix
Banned Books
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To celebrate our love of reading books that people see fit to ban throughout the world. We abhor censorship and promote freedom of speech.
Literary Award Winners Fiction Book Club
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Literary Award Winners Fiction Book Club is dedicated to reading award winning adult fiction books published in English from the four major awards org ...more
New York Times Groupies
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What's America Reading This Week? Each week the New York Times updates its list of the bestselling books in the United States and each month our group ...more
Books Stephen King Recommends
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-------------------------------------------- Are you curious about the books and authors Stephen King has enjoyed reading in the last 40 years or so? ...more
The Newbery Award and Honor Book Club
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The Newbery Medal is named for John Newbery (1713-1767), known as the first publisher of books for children. The goal of this Club is to promote and g ...more
Carina’s 2019 Year in Books
Take a look at Carina’s Year in Books. The good, the bad, the long, the short—it’s all here.
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Adult Fiction, Art, Biography, Book Club, Business, Children's, Classics, Contemporary, Cookbooks, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Politics, Psychology, Religion, Romance, Science, Science fiction, Self help, Suspense, Spirituality, Thriller, Young-adult, and banned-books
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