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“We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.”
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“A good book is an event in my life.”
― The Red and the Black
― The Red and the Black
“Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies — for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry — I say to myself, “What a pity I can’t buy that book, for I already have a copy at home.”
― This Craft of Verse
― This Craft of Verse
“Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but the range of articulate human imagination as it extends from the height of imaginative heaven to the depth of imaginative hell.”
― The Educated Imagination
― The Educated Imagination
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AS AT JANUARY 1st 2022, THIS GROUP IS NO LONGER IN OPERATION. This group is for participants in the Australian Women Writers Challenge. Everyone who ...more
Shannon ’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Shannon ’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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