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Iris
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“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
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“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
― The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
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“There is an odd synchronicity in the way parallel lives veer to touch one another, change direction, and then come close again and again until they connect and hold for whatever it was that fate intended to happen.”
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ManBookering
— 1777 members
— last activity May 17, 2023 10:29AM
Join us as we read the backlist of Man Booker Prize winners and the nominees each year for the MBP!
YA Book Club! :D
— 76 members
— last activity Jun 16, 2014 10:28PM
Hey everyone, Welcome to this Young Adult book club! - If this works out to plan, what we aim to do with this book club is to choose a book all the me ...more
On the Southern Literary Trail
— 2156 members
— last activity 5 hours, 51 min ago
Whether you prefer Faulkner, O'Connor, McCullers or more recent authors of Southern Literature such as Clyde Edgerton, Tom Franklin, William Gay, or M ...more
The World's Literature in Europe
— 871 members
— last activity Sep 03, 2025 06:03PM
Literature from across Europe: Latvia Photos (Wikimedia Commons): --Dimaniznik, "Ольховый лес под Ригой" [Alder forest near Riga]. --Einarspetz, "Nor ...more
Reader's Paradise
— 1043 members
— last activity Jun 15, 2025 08:54AM
This is place where you can share your thoughts on a book. If you want to express your feelings of a book you like or if you want to vent out your fee ...more
Iris’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Iris’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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