Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all)

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children‎ (574)
1920s-1930s‎ (359)
good-summer-read‎ (346)
for-the-easily-entertained‎ (317)
stonking-great-disappointment‎ (274)
not-up-to-standard‎ (245)
whodunit-howdunit-whydunit‎ (215)
mental-popcorn‎ (198)
totally-forgettable‎ (192)

rather-heavy-going‎ (168)
run-save-yourselves‎ (156)
memoirs‎ (153)
couldn-t-put-it-down‎ (150)
life-affirming-cosy‎ (143)
life-s-too-short‎ (118)
mostly-harmless‎ (115)
don-t-bother‎ (113)
don-t-know-where-to-shelve-this‎ (100)
light-as-air‎ (92)
social-realism‎ (87)
thinking-people-s-books‎ (78)

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roman-policier‎ (74)
d-is-for-dysfunctional‎ (67)
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nmsot‎ (59)
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internet-archive‎ (45)
short-stories‎ (45)

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showbiz‎ (39)
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christian‎ (28)
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china-is-not-japan‎ (22)
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Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all)’s Quotes

“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
― Shel Silverstein

tags: anything-can-be, hope, impossible, inspirational, musn-t, possibilities, shouldn-t, won-t

22568 likes

“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: age, books, re-reading, reading

6104 likes

“When I was growing up I always wanted to be someone. Now I realize I should have been more specific.”
― Lily Tomlin

tags: funny, goals-in-life, humor, inspirational, wish

818 likes

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading

25476 likes

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor

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Each day there will be a new book-related prompt to discuss your favorite (and least favorite) books with Goodreads friends! I was recently part of an ...more

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Readers, writers or poets, dreamers or definitely down to earth but hey, also food lovers...So, if you are a foodie, you love to cook or eat or both, ...more