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

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Equally I was crushed by Toni Morrison’s Beloved in April and tortured by Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life in November. These two books will stay with me forever. https://t.co/EBhtBnS84N

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Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker

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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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"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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The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson

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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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Whenever you feel like criticizing any one, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had. —F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. The book was published in January 1963. A month later, the author committed suicide. The semi-autobiographical novel is about mental health. https://t.co/Mo1elAQ8LX

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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.