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Book Scout @thebookscout.bsky.social · Jul 10

What book are you planning to read in July? 👀
Declare it to the timeline so peer pressure can do its thing. 📚💪 #JulyReads

Book Scout @thebookscout.bsky.social · 10d

"People said Ove saw the world in black and white. But she was his color. She was all his color." - A slightly different, but equally moving sentiment on the same theme. #BookQuote #Heartwarming

Book Scout @thebookscout.bsky.social · 11d

"He was a man of black and white. And she was color. All the color he had." - Ove's beautiful and simple description of his late wife. #FredrikBackman #Love

Book Scout @thebookscout.bsky.social · 11d

A heartwarming and hilarious novel about the grumpy old man next door. Fredrik Backman's 'A Man Called Ove' tells the story of a curmudgeon whose solitary life is turned upside down when a young family moves in next door. #AManCalledOve

Book Scout @thebookscout.bsky.social · 11d

"Please don't talk to me about isolation. No one has to tell me how it changes a person. I have lived it. I am it." - A powerful quote on the deep impact of being an outsider. #BookQuote #ModernClassic

Book Scout @thebookscout.bsky.social · 12d

"I wasn't aware that words could hold so much. I didn't know a sentence could be so full." - Kya's discovery of the power of reading and language. #DeliaOwens #BookLover

Book Scout @thebookscout.bsky.social · 12d

A stunning modern classic that's part coming-of-age story, part murder mystery, and part ode to the natural world. Delia Owens' novel follows Kya, the 'Marsh Girl,' as she grows up isolated in the wilds of North Carolina. #WhereTheCrawdadsSing

Book Scout @thebookscout.bsky.social · 12d

"So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?" - A question from a radio broadcast that echoes the book's central themes of wonder and perception. #BookQuote

Book Scout @thebookscout.bsky.social · 13d

"Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever." - A poignant reminder to appreciate the world, especially powerful in the context of the blind protagonist. #PulitzerPrize #HistoricalFiction

Book Scout @thebookscout.bsky.social · 13d

A beautiful, intricate, and moving novel set during World War II. Anthony Doerr's Pulitzer-winning book follows the parallel stories of a blind French girl and a brilliant German boy whose paths eventually cross. #AllTheLightWeCannotSee

Book Scout @thebookscout.bsky.social · 13d

"Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him..." - Father Zosima's profound advice. #BookQuote

Book Scout @thebookscout.bsky.social · 14d

"The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for." - A powerful statement on the search for meaning that defines the novel. #Dostoevsky #Philosophy

Book Scout @thebookscout.bsky.social · 14d

Dostoevsky's final, monumental novel. 'The Brothers Karamazov' is a passionate philosophical novel that explores faith, doubt, and morality through the story of a patricide and the three brothers accused of the crime. #TheBrothersKaramazov

Book Scout @thebookscout.bsky.social · 14d

"If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden." - A beautiful metaphor for finding beauty and potential everywhere. #BookQuote #Classic

Book Scout @thebookscout.bsky.social · 15d

"'Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world,' he said wisely one day, 'but people don't know what it is like or how to make it.'" - A child's pure belief in the wonders of the world. #Magic #ChildrensLit

Book Scout @thebookscout.bsky.social · 15d

A classic tale of healing and transformation. Frances Hodgson Burnett's 'The Secret Garden' follows a sour young orphan, Mary Lennox, who discovers a locked, neglected garden and brings it—and herself—back to life. #TheSecretGarden

Book Scout @thebookscout.bsky.social · 15d

"He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy." - A key insight into McMurphy's philosophy. #BookQuote

Book Scout @thebookscout.bsky.social · 16d

"But it's the truth even if it didn't happen." - A brilliant, paradoxical line from Chief Bromden that speaks to the nature of storytelling and subjective reality. #Kesey #AmericanLit

Book Scout @thebookscout.bsky.social · 16d

A powerful novel of rebellion against conformity. Ken Kesey's 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' pits the boisterous, rebellious patient Randle McMurphy against the tyrannical Nurse Ratched in a psychiatric hospital. #OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest

Book Scout @thebookscout.bsky.social · 17d

"But man is not made for defeat... A man can be destroyed but not defeated." - Santiago's iconic reflection on resilience and the human spirit. #Hemingway #ClassicQuote

Book Scout @thebookscout.bsky.social · 17d

A short, powerful novella about an aging Cuban fisherman's epic battle with a giant marlin. Ernest Hemingway's 'The Old Man and the Sea' is a masterpiece of endurance, courage, and the struggle against unbeatable odds. #TheOldManAndTheSea

Book Scout @thebookscout.bsky.social · 17d

"I knew that there had been a choice to be made, and that I had made it. I knew that I was going to starve to death. But I had no choice, except to go on." - Jonas's desperate, brave decision. #BookQuote

Book Scout @thebookscout.bsky.social · 18d

"The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared." - The Giver's heartbreaking confession to Jonas. #Dystopian #YALit

Book Scout @thebookscout.bsky.social · 18d

A thought-provoking and powerful dystopian novel. Lois Lowry's 'The Giver' presents a seemingly perfect society that has eliminated pain and strife by embracing 'Sameness'—at a terrible cost. #TheGiver #LoisLowry

Book Scout @thebookscout.bsky.social · 18d

"'Stay angry, little Meg,' Mrs. Whatsit whispered. 'You will need all your anger now.'" - A surprising and empowering validation of a young girl's difficult emotions. #BookQuote #SciFiFantasy

Book Scout @thebookscout.bsky.social · 19d

"'Like and equal are not the same thing at all!'" - Meg's powerful argument against the forced conformity of the planet Camazotz. #Individuality #Classic