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The.Bookish.Duchess

The.Bookish.Duchess

Joined September 2016

My library is an archive of longings ~Sontag
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The Makioka Sisters by Jun?ichir? Tanizaki, Edward Seidensticker
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The Woman Next Door | Yewande Omotoso
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I really enjoyed this book. Such a great exploration of life through the eyes of two old women who are arch rivals!

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Pachinko | Min Jin Lee
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People are rotten everywhere you go. They‘re no good. You want to see a very bad man? Make an ordinary man successful beyond his imagination. Let‘s see how good he is when he can do whatever he wants.”

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The Makioka Sisters | Jun?ichir? Tanizaki, Edward Seidensticker
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The ancients waited for cherry blossoms, grieved when they were gone, and lamented their passing in countless poems. How very ordinary the poems had seemed to Sachiko when she read them as a girl, but now she knew, as well as one could know, that grieving over fallen cherry blossoms was more than a fad or convention.

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The Muse: A Novel | Jessie Burton
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I am in Paris for the weekend and the first thing i did was to locate this absolutely charming bookstore just opposite the Notre Dame... they have a cat in their reading room! 📚❤📚❤📚
#bookheaven

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A Study In Scarlet Women | Sherry Thomas
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For this was a poisoner with forethought.

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Untitled | Anonymous
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Dracula (Revised) | Bram Stoker
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Alone with the dead! I dare not go out, for I can hear the low howl of the wolf through the broken window...

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It was summer when I came home, and I wore sleeveless dresses, and I didn't realise I was so skinny. But I saw people look at me with fear...

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Here I Am: A Novel | Jonathan Safran Foer
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In sickness and in sickness. That is what I wish for you. Don't seek or expect miracles. There are no miracles. Not anymore. And there are no cures for the hurt that hurts most. There is only the medicine of believing each other's pain, and being present for it.

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Another year, and I still don't like old people. Their Zimmer-frame shuffle, their unreasonable impatience, their endless complaints, their tea and biscuits, their bellyaching.
Me? I am eighty-three years old. 😉😁😁

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Norwegian Wood | Haruki Murakami
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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking....
This should keep me busy for a couple of weeks!
Happy Reading 💚📚💚📚💚📚💚

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Woman Who Walked in Sunshine | Alexander McCall Smith
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And the adventures of Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi continue. I have loved this series from the very beginning!

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Conclave | Robert Harris
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I was solitary before, but nowmy solitariness becomes complete and awesome. Hence the dizziness, like vertigo. Like a statue on a plinth - that is how I live now.

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I Stared at the Night of the City | Bakhtiyar Ali, Bextiyar El, Kareem Abdulrahman
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I am an honest person, and so you should know from the start that in this story my intentions are not honorable.

MrBook Interesting cover! 8y
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Train To Pakistan | Khuswant Singh
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Both sides killed. Both shot and stabbed and speared and clubbed. Both tortured. Both raped.

MrBook Oh boy. Sounds like a tough read. Welcome to @Litsy ! We hope you enjoy your stay, I think you'll like it here 😎👍🏻. 8y
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