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Each word was dark as an axe-head, heavy and unrelenting, and my blood drained at every blow.
Madeline Miller • Circe: The International No. 1 Bestseller - Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019
her sorrow remained lodged in her body for the next fifty-six years.
Erling Kagge • Walking: One Step at a Time
Life is a battle between the Maker and His creation. Hoel grows expert at the fight.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
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Leo Tolstoy • Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)
War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman
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You, holy fathers, are sucking the people’s blood!”
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
These folk are not like her and not like her mother; some are differently shaped, their voices rough and deep as a lowing cow. She stalks two as they walk beyond their thorn hedge to a stand of alders by the stream near their house. They are noisy; their untidy feet snap twigs and kick stones without heed for what might hear. They talk but the thin
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I can’t remember where I heard this — I have a vague feeling it was mentioned in a YouTube video in passing — apparently, in an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, Tamora eats a little more of the infamous pie after the big reveal. I haven’t been able to find any details on this, so it may have been an artistic flourish in the moment. But
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