Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar
"It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York. I’m stupid about executions. The idea of being electrocuted makes me sick..."
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The Bell Jar
"It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York. I’m stupid about executions. The idea of being electrocuted makes me sick..."
#HowBooksBegin
November 2, 2023 at 4:09 PM
Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar
"It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York. I’m stupid about executions. The idea of being electrocuted makes me sick..."
#HowBooksBegin
The Bell Jar
"It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York. I’m stupid about executions. The idea of being electrocuted makes me sick..."
#HowBooksBegin
Milan Kundera
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
"The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that
the recurrence itself recurs ad infinitum..."
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
"The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that
the recurrence itself recurs ad infinitum..."
#HowBooksBegin
March 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Milan Kundera
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
"The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that
the recurrence itself recurs ad infinitum..."
#HowBooksBegin
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
"The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that
the recurrence itself recurs ad infinitum..."
#HowBooksBegin
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Breakfast of Champions
"This is a tale of a meeting of two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast..."
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Breakfast of Champions
"This is a tale of a meeting of two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast..."
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November 3, 2023 at 3:23 PM
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Breakfast of Champions
"This is a tale of a meeting of two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast..."
#HowBooksBegin
Breakfast of Champions
"This is a tale of a meeting of two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast..."
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The Yearling
A column of smoke rose thin and straight from the cabin chimney. The smoke was blue where it left the red of the clay. It trailed into the April sky and was no longer blue but gray. The boy Jody watched it, speculating.
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The Yearling
A column of smoke rose thin and straight from the cabin chimney. The smoke was blue where it left the red of the clay. It trailed into the April sky and was no longer blue but gray. The boy Jody watched it, speculating.
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Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid’s Tale
We slept in what had once been the gymnasium. The floor was of varnished wood, with stripes and circles painted on it, for the games that were formerly played there; the hoops for the basketball nets were still in place, though the nets were gone.
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The Handmaid’s Tale
We slept in what had once been the gymnasium. The floor was of varnished wood, with stripes and circles painted on it, for the games that were formerly played there; the hoops for the basketball nets were still in place, though the nets were gone.
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September 29, 2024 at 10:13 PM
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The Yearling
A column of smoke rose thin and straight from the cabin chimney. The smoke was blue where it left the red of the clay. It trailed into the April sky and was no longer blue but gray. The boy Jody watched it, speculating.
#HowBooksBegin
The Yearling
A column of smoke rose thin and straight from the cabin chimney. The smoke was blue where it left the red of the clay. It trailed into the April sky and was no longer blue but gray. The boy Jody watched it, speculating.
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THERE’S A NIGHT—I THINK THIS IS THE MIDDLE OF June—when we lock you in the house.
Nonfiction: A Novel
by Julie Myerson
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Nonfiction: A Novel
by Julie Myerson
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February 14, 2024 at 11:00 PM
THERE’S A NIGHT—I THINK THIS IS THE MIDDLE OF June—when we lock you in the house.
Nonfiction: A Novel
by Julie Myerson
#HowBooksBegin
Nonfiction: A Novel
by Julie Myerson
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Mark Z. Danielewski
House of Leaves
"While enthusiasts and detractors will continue to empty entire dictionaries attempting to describe or deride it, 'authenticity' still remains the word most likely to stir a debate..."
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House of Leaves
"While enthusiasts and detractors will continue to empty entire dictionaries attempting to describe or deride it, 'authenticity' still remains the word most likely to stir a debate..."
#HowBooksBegin
November 4, 2023 at 11:32 PM
Mark Z. Danielewski
House of Leaves
"While enthusiasts and detractors will continue to empty entire dictionaries attempting to describe or deride it, 'authenticity' still remains the word most likely to stir a debate..."
#HowBooksBegin
House of Leaves
"While enthusiasts and detractors will continue to empty entire dictionaries attempting to describe or deride it, 'authenticity' still remains the word most likely to stir a debate..."
#HowBooksBegin
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Sign of The Four
"Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantelpiece and his hypodermic syringe from its neat Morocco case. With long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle, and rolled back his left shirt-cuff..."
#HowBooksBegin
The Sign of The Four
"Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantelpiece and his hypodermic syringe from its neat Morocco case. With long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle, and rolled back his left shirt-cuff..."
#HowBooksBegin
April 16, 2024 at 10:47 PM
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Sign of The Four
"Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantelpiece and his hypodermic syringe from its neat Morocco case. With long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle, and rolled back his left shirt-cuff..."
#HowBooksBegin
The Sign of The Four
"Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantelpiece and his hypodermic syringe from its neat Morocco case. With long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle, and rolled back his left shirt-cuff..."
#HowBooksBegin
Before the others are up,dawn,she walks to the lake,listening to Bach,the first clavichord exercise,which she plans to have played at her funeral someday,has had this plan since she first heard the music,and thinking of it she weeps lightly.
#WrongNorma
#AnneCarson
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#WrongNorma
#AnneCarson
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May 20, 2024 at 11:25 AM
Before the others are up,dawn,she walks to the lake,listening to Bach,the first clavichord exercise,which she plans to have played at her funeral someday,has had this plan since she first heard the music,and thinking of it she weeps lightly.
#WrongNorma
#AnneCarson
#HowBooksBegin
#WrongNorma
#AnneCarson
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The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventyfirst birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in
Hobbiton.
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When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventyfirst birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in
Hobbiton.
#HowBooksBegin
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The Yearling
A column of smoke rose thin and straight from the cabin chimney. The smoke was blue where it left the red of the clay. It trailed into the April sky and was no longer blue but gray. The boy Jody watched it, speculating.
#HowBooksBegin
The Yearling
A column of smoke rose thin and straight from the cabin chimney. The smoke was blue where it left the red of the clay. It trailed into the April sky and was no longer blue but gray. The boy Jody watched it, speculating.
#HowBooksBegin
Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid’s Tale
We slept in what had once been the gymnasium. The floor was of varnished wood, with stripes and circles painted on it, for the games that were formerly played there; the hoops for the basketball nets were still in place, though the nets were gone.
#HowBooksBegin
The Handmaid’s Tale
We slept in what had once been the gymnasium. The floor was of varnished wood, with stripes and circles painted on it, for the games that were formerly played there; the hoops for the basketball nets were still in place, though the nets were gone.
#HowBooksBegin
September 29, 2024 at 10:19 PM
The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventyfirst birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in
Hobbiton.
#HowBooksBegin
bsky.app/profile/tonn...
When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventyfirst birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in
Hobbiton.
#HowBooksBegin
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Hunter S. Thompson
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
"We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like "I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive..."
#HowBooksBegin
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
"We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like "I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive..."
#HowBooksBegin
November 8, 2023 at 3:24 PM
Hunter S. Thompson
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
"We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like "I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive..."
#HowBooksBegin
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
"We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like "I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive..."
#HowBooksBegin
J.D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, an what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap"
#HowBooksBegin
The Catcher in the Rye
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, an what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap"
#HowBooksBegin
February 15, 2024 at 3:10 PM
J.D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, an what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap"
#HowBooksBegin
The Catcher in the Rye
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, an what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap"
#HowBooksBegin
Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451
"IT WAS A PLEASURE TO BURN.
It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world..."
#HowBooksBegin
Fahrenheit 451
"IT WAS A PLEASURE TO BURN.
It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world..."
#HowBooksBegin
May 12, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451
"IT WAS A PLEASURE TO BURN.
It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world..."
#HowBooksBegin
Fahrenheit 451
"IT WAS A PLEASURE TO BURN.
It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world..."
#HowBooksBegin
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Human Work
"The most familiar facts are often hardest to understand. This is described by Ward as “the illusion of the near.” Because of nearness we get no perspective; because of continual presence we become used to one view and fail to perceive others."
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Human Work
"The most familiar facts are often hardest to understand. This is described by Ward as “the illusion of the near.” Because of nearness we get no perspective; because of continual presence we become used to one view and fail to perceive others."
#HowBooksBegin
May 16, 2024 at 10:41 PM
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Human Work
"The most familiar facts are often hardest to understand. This is described by Ward as “the illusion of the near.” Because of nearness we get no perspective; because of continual presence we become used to one view and fail to perceive others."
#HowBooksBegin
Human Work
"The most familiar facts are often hardest to understand. This is described by Ward as “the illusion of the near.” Because of nearness we get no perspective; because of continual presence we become used to one view and fail to perceive others."
#HowBooksBegin
William S. Burroughs
Naked Lunch
"I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making their moves, setting up their devil doll stool pigeons, crooning over my spoon and dropper..."
#HowBooksBegin
Naked Lunch
"I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making their moves, setting up their devil doll stool pigeons, crooning over my spoon and dropper..."
#HowBooksBegin
March 26, 2024 at 8:16 PM
William S. Burroughs
Naked Lunch
"I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making their moves, setting up their devil doll stool pigeons, crooning over my spoon and dropper..."
#HowBooksBegin
Naked Lunch
"I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making their moves, setting up their devil doll stool pigeons, crooning over my spoon and dropper..."
#HowBooksBegin
April 24, 2024 at 5:05 PM
Chuck Palahniuk
Fight Club
"Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die. For a long time though, Tyler and I were best friends..."
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Fight Club
"Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die. For a long time though, Tyler and I were best friends..."
#HowBooksBegin
November 17, 2023 at 4:33 PM
Chuck Palahniuk
Fight Club
"Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die. For a long time though, Tyler and I were best friends..."
#HowBooksBegin
Fight Club
"Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die. For a long time though, Tyler and I were best friends..."
#HowBooksBegin
Stephen King
The Body
"The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them--words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were In your head..."
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The Body
"The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them--words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were In your head..."
#HowBooksBegin
September 2, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Stephen King
The Body
"The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them--words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were In your head..."
#HowBooksBegin
The Body
"The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them--words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were In your head..."
#HowBooksBegin
John Barth
Lost in the Funhouse
"For whom is the funhouse fun? Perhaps for lovers. For Ambrose it is a place of fear and confusion..."
#HowBooksBegin
Lost in the Funhouse
"For whom is the funhouse fun? Perhaps for lovers. For Ambrose it is a place of fear and confusion..."
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June 24, 2024 at 10:06 PM
John Barth
Lost in the Funhouse
"For whom is the funhouse fun? Perhaps for lovers. For Ambrose it is a place of fear and confusion..."
#HowBooksBegin
Lost in the Funhouse
"For whom is the funhouse fun? Perhaps for lovers. For Ambrose it is a place of fear and confusion..."
#HowBooksBegin
Joyce Carol Oates
Jack of Spades
"Out of the air, the ax. Somehow there was an ax and it rose and fell in a wild swath aimed at my head..."
#HowBooksBegin
Jack of Spades
"Out of the air, the ax. Somehow there was an ax and it rose and fell in a wild swath aimed at my head..."
#HowBooksBegin
April 30, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Joyce Carol Oates
Jack of Spades
"Out of the air, the ax. Somehow there was an ax and it rose and fell in a wild swath aimed at my head..."
#HowBooksBegin
Jack of Spades
"Out of the air, the ax. Somehow there was an ax and it rose and fell in a wild swath aimed at my head..."
#HowBooksBegin
Cormac McCarthy
No Country For Old Men
"I sent one boy to the gaschamber at Huntsville. One and only one. My arrest and my testimony. I went up there and visited with him two or three times. Three times. The last time was the day of his execution..."
#HowBooksBegin
No Country For Old Men
"I sent one boy to the gaschamber at Huntsville. One and only one. My arrest and my testimony. I went up there and visited with him two or three times. Three times. The last time was the day of his execution..."
#HowBooksBegin
January 8, 2024 at 3:48 PM
Cormac McCarthy
No Country For Old Men
"I sent one boy to the gaschamber at Huntsville. One and only one. My arrest and my testimony. I went up there and visited with him two or three times. Three times. The last time was the day of his execution..."
#HowBooksBegin
No Country For Old Men
"I sent one boy to the gaschamber at Huntsville. One and only one. My arrest and my testimony. I went up there and visited with him two or three times. Three times. The last time was the day of his execution..."
#HowBooksBegin
Haruki Murakami
After Dark
"Eyes mark the shape of the city.
Through the eyes of a high-flying night bird, we take in
the scene from midair. In our broad sweep, the city looks
like a single gigantic creature..."
#HowBooksBegin
After Dark
"Eyes mark the shape of the city.
Through the eyes of a high-flying night bird, we take in
the scene from midair. In our broad sweep, the city looks
like a single gigantic creature..."
#HowBooksBegin
February 29, 2024 at 12:19 AM
Haruki Murakami
After Dark
"Eyes mark the shape of the city.
Through the eyes of a high-flying night bird, we take in
the scene from midair. In our broad sweep, the city looks
like a single gigantic creature..."
#HowBooksBegin
After Dark
"Eyes mark the shape of the city.
Through the eyes of a high-flying night bird, we take in
the scene from midair. In our broad sweep, the city looks
like a single gigantic creature..."
#HowBooksBegin
Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God
"Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing..."
#HowBooksBegin
Their Eyes Were Watching God
"Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing..."
#HowBooksBegin
December 4, 2023 at 1:16 AM
Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God
"Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing..."
#HowBooksBegin
Their Eyes Were Watching God
"Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing..."
#HowBooksBegin
#HighRise
#JGBallard
“LATER, AS HE sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr. Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building.…”
Came across this and thought of you.
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#JGBallard
“LATER, AS HE sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr. Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building.…”
Came across this and thought of you.
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August 29, 2025 at 10:19 AM
#HighRise
#JGBallard
“LATER, AS HE sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr. Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building.…”
Came across this and thought of you.
#HowBooksBegin
#JGBallard
“LATER, AS HE sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr. Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building.…”
Came across this and thought of you.
#HowBooksBegin
E. B. White
Charlotte’s Web
Where's Papa going with that ax?” said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast.
“Out to the hoghouse,” replied Mrs. Arable. “Some pigs were born last night.”
“I don’t see why he needs an ax,” continued Fern, who was only eight...
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Charlotte’s Web
Where's Papa going with that ax?” said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast.
“Out to the hoghouse,” replied Mrs. Arable. “Some pigs were born last night.”
“I don’t see why he needs an ax,” continued Fern, who was only eight...
#HowBooksBegin
July 19, 2024 at 3:31 PM
E. B. White
Charlotte’s Web
Where's Papa going with that ax?” said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast.
“Out to the hoghouse,” replied Mrs. Arable. “Some pigs were born last night.”
“I don’t see why he needs an ax,” continued Fern, who was only eight...
#HowBooksBegin
Charlotte’s Web
Where's Papa going with that ax?” said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast.
“Out to the hoghouse,” replied Mrs. Arable. “Some pigs were born last night.”
“I don’t see why he needs an ax,” continued Fern, who was only eight...
#HowBooksBegin
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude
Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.
#HowBooksBegin
Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.
#HowBooksBegin
Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar
"It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York. I’m stupid about executions. The idea of being electrocuted makes me sick..."
#HowBooksBegin
The Bell Jar
"It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York. I’m stupid about executions. The idea of being electrocuted makes me sick..."
#HowBooksBegin
November 2, 2023 at 11:33 PM
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude
Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.
#HowBooksBegin
Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.
#HowBooksBegin