Mabel
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Reading. Dreaming. Living. One page at a time.
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Books become more than paper between hard cardboard, more than the alphabet organized into words and printed on a page.
💙📚 Amanda Peters, The Berry Pickers
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💙📚 Amanda Peters, The Berry Pickers
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December 3, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Books become more than paper between hard cardboard, more than the alphabet organized into words and printed on a page.
💙📚 Amanda Peters, The Berry Pickers
#Booksky
💙📚 Amanda Peters, The Berry Pickers
#Booksky
I turned to books to keep me company. I stayed awake until the sun started to break through the blinds, lost in those other worlds, so vivid and so removed from my own.
💙📚 Amanda Peters, The Berry Pickers
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💙📚 Amanda Peters, The Berry Pickers
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December 3, 2025 at 8:01 AM
I turned to books to keep me company. I stayed awake until the sun started to break through the blinds, lost in those other worlds, so vivid and so removed from my own.
💙📚 Amanda Peters, The Berry Pickers
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💙📚 Amanda Peters, The Berry Pickers
#Booksky
On some rare occasions a person can be so engrossed in a book she does not hear the surrounding voices and sounds.
📚💙 Toshikazu Kawaguchi, When the Coffee Gets Cold
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📚💙 Toshikazu Kawaguchi, When the Coffee Gets Cold
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October 12, 2025 at 10:33 AM
On some rare occasions a person can be so engrossed in a book she does not hear the surrounding voices and sounds.
📚💙 Toshikazu Kawaguchi, When the Coffee Gets Cold
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📚💙 Toshikazu Kawaguchi, When the Coffee Gets Cold
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Above painting she loved literature. She was a tireless reader who followed her inclinations rather than the rules dictated by the guardians of taste.
Murder mysteries. A mere pastime, of course. But she was always trying to outsmart the detectives.
💙📚 Hernan Diaz, Trust
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Murder mysteries. A mere pastime, of course. But she was always trying to outsmart the detectives.
💙📚 Hernan Diaz, Trust
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October 2, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Above painting she loved literature. She was a tireless reader who followed her inclinations rather than the rules dictated by the guardians of taste.
Murder mysteries. A mere pastime, of course. But she was always trying to outsmart the detectives.
💙📚 Hernan Diaz, Trust
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Murder mysteries. A mere pastime, of course. But she was always trying to outsmart the detectives.
💙📚 Hernan Diaz, Trust
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Nevertheless, the book gave Jack a feeling he had never had before, that the past was like a story, in which one thing led to another, and the world was not a boundless mystery, but a finite thing that could be comprehended.
💙📚 Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge #1)
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💙📚 Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge #1)
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September 4, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Nevertheless, the book gave Jack a feeling he had never had before, that the past was like a story, in which one thing led to another, and the world was not a boundless mystery, but a finite thing that could be comprehended.
💙📚 Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge #1)
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💙📚 Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge #1)
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She had always been a good reader... she had read with rigor what she had to read, and went on reading what she liked best: love stories by well-known authors, the longer and more ill-fated the better.
💙📚 Gabriel García Márquez, Until August
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💙📚 Gabriel García Márquez, Until August
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August 25, 2025 at 10:42 AM
She had always been a good reader... she had read with rigor what she had to read, and went on reading what she liked best: love stories by well-known authors, the longer and more ill-fated the better.
💙📚 Gabriel García Márquez, Until August
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💙📚 Gabriel García Márquez, Until August
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When he needed to calm his mind, he opened a book. Any book. He had never failed to feel refreshed, even if the book was no good.
💙📚 Louise Erdrich, The Night Watchman
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💙📚 Louise Erdrich, The Night Watchman
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August 10, 2025 at 2:33 AM
When he needed to calm his mind, he opened a book. Any book. He had never failed to feel refreshed, even if the book was no good.
💙📚 Louise Erdrich, The Night Watchman
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💙📚 Louise Erdrich, The Night Watchman
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I'd taken solace in books for my entire life. As a child I'd become so absorbed in my favorite stories. Even as an adult, I could still lose myself in fictional worlds, feeling the wrench when I was forced to return to real life.
💙📚 Clare Leslie Hall, Broken Country
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💙📚 Clare Leslie Hall, Broken Country
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August 6, 2025 at 4:57 AM
I'd taken solace in books for my entire life. As a child I'd become so absorbed in my favorite stories. Even as an adult, I could still lose myself in fictional worlds, feeling the wrench when I was forced to return to real life.
💙📚 Clare Leslie Hall, Broken Country
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💙📚 Clare Leslie Hall, Broken Country
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July 28, 2025 at 9:53 AM
"So what do you like to watch on television?"
"I prefer to read."
"That's great! What do you like to read?"
"Books."
"What kind of books?"
"The kind with words."
💙📚 Freida McFadden, The Housemaid
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"I prefer to read."
"That's great! What do you like to read?"
"Books."
"What kind of books?"
"The kind with words."
💙📚 Freida McFadden, The Housemaid
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July 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
"So what do you like to watch on television?"
"I prefer to read."
"That's great! What do you like to read?"
"Books."
"What kind of books?"
"The kind with words."
💙📚 Freida McFadden, The Housemaid
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"I prefer to read."
"That's great! What do you like to read?"
"Books."
"What kind of books?"
"The kind with words."
💙📚 Freida McFadden, The Housemaid
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Every encounter with a poem would be unique, every reading an interaction between the same words and a different spirit. There is no key to unlocking the precise meaning, because a poem is not a puzzle to be solved. Each reader encounters a poem as nobody else ever has.
—Jeff Chu, Good Soil
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—Jeff Chu, Good Soil
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June 30, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Every encounter with a poem would be unique, every reading an interaction between the same words and a different spirit. There is no key to unlocking the precise meaning, because a poem is not a puzzle to be solved. Each reader encounters a poem as nobody else ever has.
—Jeff Chu, Good Soil
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—Jeff Chu, Good Soil
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"Dostoevsky put his feelings in a book. I don't have his talent."
"You didn't strike me as a reader," Bannon said
"I get by," Reacher said.
💙📚 Lee Child, Without Fail (Jack Reacher #6)
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"You didn't strike me as a reader," Bannon said
"I get by," Reacher said.
💙📚 Lee Child, Without Fail (Jack Reacher #6)
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June 22, 2025 at 3:33 AM
"Dostoevsky put his feelings in a book. I don't have his talent."
"You didn't strike me as a reader," Bannon said
"I get by," Reacher said.
💙📚 Lee Child, Without Fail (Jack Reacher #6)
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"You didn't strike me as a reader," Bannon said
"I get by," Reacher said.
💙📚 Lee Child, Without Fail (Jack Reacher #6)
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Was Shakespeare a difficult author? she asked.
💙📚 Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
*Yes, I had difficulty reading Shakespeare. I had to read and reread his words (several times!) to understand what he means.
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💙📚 Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
*Yes, I had difficulty reading Shakespeare. I had to read and reread his words (several times!) to understand what he means.
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June 19, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Was Shakespeare a difficult author? she asked.
💙📚 Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
*Yes, I had difficulty reading Shakespeare. I had to read and reread his words (several times!) to understand what he means.
#BlueSky
💙📚 Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
*Yes, I had difficulty reading Shakespeare. I had to read and reread his words (several times!) to understand what he means.
#BlueSky
June 15, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Although novels, including detective stories, had the greatest hold over his affections, he was also fond of poetry.
💙📚 Naguib Mahfouz, Palace Walk (The Cairo Trilogy, Volume 1)
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💙📚 Naguib Mahfouz, Palace Walk (The Cairo Trilogy, Volume 1)
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May 1, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Although novels, including detective stories, had the greatest hold over his affections, he was also fond of poetry.
💙📚 Naguib Mahfouz, Palace Walk (The Cairo Trilogy, Volume 1)
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💙📚 Naguib Mahfouz, Palace Walk (The Cairo Trilogy, Volume 1)
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When you had Gideon Cross's focus, it was absolute and laser-sharp, making you feel like no one else existed for him.
— Eva Cross
💙📚 Ireland by @sylviaday.bsky.social 📚🌶️
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#Romancelandia
— Eva Cross
💙📚 Ireland by @sylviaday.bsky.social 📚🌶️
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#Romancelandia
April 26, 2025 at 1:32 AM
When you had Gideon Cross's focus, it was absolute and laser-sharp, making you feel like no one else existed for him.
— Eva Cross
💙📚 Ireland by @sylviaday.bsky.social 📚🌶️
#BookSky
#Romancelandia
— Eva Cross
💙📚 Ireland by @sylviaday.bsky.social 📚🌶️
#BookSky
#Romancelandia
Each book's as precious as a person, she says, as it preserves someone's thoughts and feelings long after they're gone.
💙📚 Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping
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💙📚 Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping
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April 22, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Each book's as precious as a person, she says, as it preserves someone's thoughts and feelings long after they're gone.
💙📚 Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping
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💙📚 Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping
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Books were a refuge from her own ineptitude in company.
"I kept so strictly to myself and my books."
💙📚 Janice P. Nimura, The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
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"I kept so strictly to myself and my books."
💙📚 Janice P. Nimura, The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
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March 30, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Books were a refuge from her own ineptitude in company.
"I kept so strictly to myself and my books."
💙📚 Janice P. Nimura, The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
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"I kept so strictly to myself and my books."
💙📚 Janice P. Nimura, The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
#BookSky
I'm a Virgo, I'm like Greta Garbo, I like to be left alone.
I have to be totally comfortable in a social situation before I step into it and that can make me seem like a very boring person.
💙📚 Freddie Mercury: A Life, In His Own Words
I have to be totally comfortable in a social situation before I step into it and that can make me seem like a very boring person.
💙📚 Freddie Mercury: A Life, In His Own Words
March 21, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I'm a Virgo, I'm like Greta Garbo, I like to be left alone.
I have to be totally comfortable in a social situation before I step into it and that can make me seem like a very boring person.
💙📚 Freddie Mercury: A Life, In His Own Words
I have to be totally comfortable in a social situation before I step into it and that can make me seem like a very boring person.
💙📚 Freddie Mercury: A Life, In His Own Words
He studies my face for several moments, like he cannot stop on the cover or the first page, like he needs to read the whole book every time.
💙📚 Ali Hazelwood, Love, Theoretically
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💙📚 Ali Hazelwood, Love, Theoretically
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February 17, 2025 at 1:28 PM
He studies my face for several moments, like he cannot stop on the cover or the first page, like he needs to read the whole book every time.
💙📚 Ali Hazelwood, Love, Theoretically
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💙📚 Ali Hazelwood, Love, Theoretically
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It's never taken effort—that’s what made me fall in love with reading: the instant floating sensation, the dissolution of real-world problems, every worry suddenly safely on the other side of some metaphysical surface.
💙📚 Emily Henry, Book Lovers
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💙📚 Emily Henry, Book Lovers
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February 15, 2025 at 6:42 PM
It's never taken effort—that’s what made me fall in love with reading: the instant floating sensation, the dissolution of real-world problems, every worry suddenly safely on the other side of some metaphysical surface.
💙📚 Emily Henry, Book Lovers
#BookSky
💙📚 Emily Henry, Book Lovers
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