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Tomorrow is National Poem-In-Your-Pocket Day!
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Tomorrow is National Poem-In-Your-Pocket Day!

So much goes downhill: jointswearing out with every mile,the delicate folds of the eardrumexhausted from years of listening.I'm grateful for...
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Setting and Time
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Setting and Time

Setting can be its own character, and the Gare du Nord presents itself that way through Kostova's space-defying descriptions.
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On Beautiful Sentences
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On Beautiful Sentences

I'm making 2022 the year of beautiful sentences—the year of noticing beautiful sentences.
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Book Review: The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
Book Reviews

Book Review: The Rose Code by Kate Quinn

The year is 1939, and three girls who would’ve never met one another normally become friends at Bletchley Park, where Great Britain’s top minds work to decipher secret codes that will help the Allies to win the war.
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Book Reviews

Book Review: The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss

When you first open the pages of Rothfuss’s novella The Slow Regard of Silent Things, there is a warning: “You...
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