Among my #FridayReads? This riveting "re-read."
marleed Love this book - it began my obsession with those who -and why - make this climb. 15h
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Among my #FridayReads? This riveting "re-read."
Reading and loving THE HUNTER by Tana French. #FridayReads
Reading and loving and, alas, about to finish Alice McDermott‘s ABSOLUTION. #fridayreads
IN MARCH 1912 a strange accident occurred in Naples harbour during the unloading of a large ocean-going liner which was reported at length by the newspapers, although in extremely fanciful terms.
-- Stefan Zweig, _Amok_
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“It was heaven on earth--and, some whispered, the devil's garden.“
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“Probably the strangest way anyone celebrated the accession of King James I of England was when a gentlewoman in the far north of Lancashire organised a mock wedding in a country church, between two male servants.“
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“Once, more than half a century ago, he was the handsomest man in the world.“
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“I see you. I see all those who men call monsters.
“And I see the men who call them that. Call themselves heroes, of course.
“I only see them for an instant. Then they're gone.“
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“That morning‘s ice, no more than a brittle film, had cracked and was now floating in segments. These tapped together or, parting, left channels of dark water, down which swans in slow indignation swam.“
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