Max Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. Books are exchanged as Christmas presents in the March family. https://t.co/mEWU3rDowk

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Finishing: Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker Starting: The Art of War by Sun Tzu

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@goodreads The Metamorphosis (Die Verwandlung in German) by Franz Kafka. Published in 1915, it is one of the best novellas ever written! https://t.co/bGTdDBl4or

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@Jen_Tan1234 @goodreads Is it a good book about writing for beginners? I read and liked The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr.

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"He now felt glad at having suffered sorrow and trouble, because it enabled him to enjoy so much better all the pleasure and happiness around him." —Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling

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A friend may be nature’s most magnificent creation. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

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William Shakespeare is the best-selling poet in English of all time. The author wrote 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems and a handful of others. Shakespeare has been generating sales for the past 400 years.

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Bookish Fact: A Christmas Carol was Charles Dickens’s first Christmas book, but he went on to write four more in the 1840s. 📖 A Christmas Carol (1843) 📖 The Chimes (1844) 📖 The Cricket on the Hearth (1845) 📖 The Battle of Life (1846) 📖 The Haunted Man (1848)

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I finished To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf! Nearly drowned in her characters’ endless streams of thoughts throughout the book, I persisted and survived. The book is not about plot(almost none) but the writing style: Indirect Interior Monologue, Introspection, and observation.

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When Victor Hugo was writing The Hunchback of Notre Dame, he would give his clothes to his servants and swathed himself in “a huge grey knitted shawl”, so that he would not be tempted to go out, thus focusing on writing only.