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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee.
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What. A. Show.
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I was out way past my bedtime last night and it was it ever worth it.
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When TKAM came to the

And there it was again, that edgy mishmash of resentment and guilt. She was starting to recognize it as the third presence in their friendship.
Friends Like These
Meg Rosoff

Friends Like These just appeared in my @librofm ALC list for May, despite

Isn't that the subject of fiction...what other people think? It's the act of writing that infatuates me, and others books remain among my pleasures. That anticipation before opening a cover, and anything could be inside and you never quite predict

My mother has no history. She has always been there…It was her voice, together with her words, her hands, and her way of moving and laughing, which linked the woman I am to the child I once was.
Annie Ernaux
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I can’t think of a mor

Living. All mixed up. The more kinds of people you see, and the more things you do, and the more things that happen to you, the richer you are. Even if they're not pleasant things. That's living. Remember, no matter what happens, good or bad, it's ju

Maybe the true purpose of my life is for my body, my sensations and my thoughts to become writing, in other words, something intelligible and universal, causing my existence to merge into the lives and heads of other people.
Annie Ernaux
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I am

So much of getting away with things was the outward insistence of normalcy.
The Guest
Emma Cline
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The publisher's summary describes The Guest as a "spellbinding literary achievement." I will first say that is a huge leap - this is not

If you've been following my stories over the past 10 days or so you witnessed my feelings about this book go from hopeful enthusiasm for new southern fiction to absolutely let down. I do believe in posting reviews about all the books I read, not jus