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“People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.”
― The Grim Grotto
― The Grim Grotto
“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
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“It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.”
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“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
“Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.”
― The Road
― The Road
Alexandra’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Alexandra’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
356 books
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57 friends
691 books
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251 friends
393 books
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185 friends
255 books
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62 friends
90 books
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44 friends
35 books
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22 friends
139 books
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74 friends
262 books
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62 friends
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Favorite Genres
Art, Classics, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Memoir, Music, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Romance, Science, and Travel
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