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She was too tired to feel anything more, she wanted a book to do to her what books did: take away the world, slide it aside for a little bit, and let her please, please just be somewhere and somebody else
She was too tired to feel anything more, she wanted a book to do to her what books did: take away the world, slide it aside for a little bit, and let her please, please just be somewhere and somebody else
Approximate author period: c. 1969 AD · modern
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- Lev Grossman
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- Approximate author period: c. 1969 AD · modern
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