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Mabel
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Reading. Dreaming. Living. One page at a time.
My 72 books of 2025.

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January 1, 2026 at 11:58 PM
Enjoy reading, keep writing.
January 1, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Book 72 of 2025

💙📚 Letters From Father Christmas by J.R.R. Tolkien

The snow is very thick at the North Pole tonight...
Now I must go; it is a lovely fine night and I have got hundreds of miles to go be before morning — there is such a lot to do.

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December 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
💙📚 My Friends by Fredrik Backman

"I love you and I believe in you."

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December 19, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Book 70 of 2025

💙📚 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

"I don't think I'd love you so deeply if you had nothing to complain of and nothing to regret. I don't like the righteous ones, who never fell, never stumbled. The beauty of life has not been revealed to them."

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71/
December 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM
💙📚 The Late Show by Michael Connelly

"You have a job that takes you into the bleakest side of the human soul... If you go into darkness, the darkness goes into you. You then have to decide what to do with it. How to keep yourself safe from it. How to keep it from hollowing you out."

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70/
December 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
💙📚 Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

He found himself asking was there any point in being alive without helping one another?

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69/
December 4, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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December 3, 2025 at 3:26 AM
💙📚 The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters

Time quickens the older you get, as if the universe is trying to push you toward the finish line, to make room for the younger, the stronger, to mark your brief place in history and move on.

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December 3, 2025 at 3:19 AM
💙📚 Rage by Richard Bachman [Stephen King]

Lunacy is when you can't see the seams where they stiched the world together anymore.

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November 30, 2025 at 7:53 AM
💙📚 Parker Pyne Investigates by Agatha Christie

"But, my dear lady, you must remember I am not a detective. Theft and crime are not in my line at all. The human heart is my province."

#BlueSky
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November 28, 2025 at 2:22 PM
💙📚 Educated by Tara Westover

It's strange how you give the people you love so much power over you.

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November 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
💙📚 El Filibusterismo by Jose Rizal

"There are no despots where there are no slaves."

"Why independence if today's slaves will be tomorrow's tyrants?"

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October 30, 2025 at 3:17 PM
💙📚 Noli Me Tangere by Jose Rizal

"I die without seeing dawn's light shining on my country... You, who will see it, welcome it for me... don't forget those who fell during the nighttime."

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October 27, 2025 at 1:05 PM
💙📚 Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

"Use the laws of chemistry and change the status quo."

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October 15, 2025 at 5:41 PM
This happens to me, too, every time I'm reading a good book, I become unaware of what's happening around me.
October 13, 2025 at 8:40 AM
That was a direct quote from the book... I, too, forget about everything else when I'm transported into the book I'm reading.
October 13, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Book 60 of 2025

💙📚 Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

"At the end of the day, whether one returns to the past or travels to the future, the present does not change."

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October 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
📚💙 I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid

"Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can’t fake a thought."

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60/
October 4, 2025 at 8:53 AM