Poetry of Reading

“I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn't already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race-that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her...

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“Perhaps the most important lesson I have learned is to embrace the small pleasures and turn them into lasting memories.”Like the other two in the series (The Summer Queen and The Winter Crown), The Autumn Throne takes you back in time to medieval England, France, Normandy, Germany, and even the road to Jerusalem....

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“You always said time was precious, and we should never be afraid to show our feelings, that there’s no place for pride in love.”Ayse Kulin writes about the flight of German Jewish people from Hitler’s growing terror on Germany and the Jewish people. Doctors, teachers, and scientists had to flee for their lives...

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 Romancing the Countess by Ashley March (✬✬✬✬)Romancing the Countess was an emotional read: don’t expect to read it and not to be moved and unsettled, it will shake you up and stir you, but at the end, you’ll close the book with a happy sigh. It is quite an unusual but well executed...

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