Jim's Bookshelf

Description
Industriously (if incorrectly) alphabetized by first sentence, by a certain amnesiac archangel in A.Z. Fell's Soho antiquarian bookstore, as seen in Good Omens season 2.
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10,119 members
322 reviews
4.1
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alexa_d
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alexa_d: I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.
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130 members
4.1
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alexa_d
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alexa_d: I was an ambitious girl child.
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41,902 members
492 reviews
3.9
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alexa_d
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alexa_d: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times....
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3,417 members
63 reviews
4
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alexa_d
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alexa_d: It was the day my grandmother exploded.
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47,840 members
1,394 reviews
3.9
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alexa_d
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alexa_d: It was 7 minutes after midnight.
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44,244 members
578 reviews
4.1
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alexa_d
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alexa_d: It was love at first sight.
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30,857 members
444 reviews
3.9
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alexa_d
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alexa_d: It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.
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32,614 members
558 reviews
4
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alexa_d
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alexa_d: It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.
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93,980 members
1,449 reviews
4.2
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alexa_d
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alexa_d: It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
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11,472 members
314 reviews
4
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alexa_d
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alexa_d: It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid-October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills.
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82,665 members
1,301 reviews
3.8
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alexa_d
Explanations
alexa_d: In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
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76,979 members
1,195 reviews
3.8
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alexa_d
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alexa_d: If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like…
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25,159 members
526 reviews
½ 3.7
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alexa_d
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alexa_d: If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book.
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5,693 members
68 reviews
½ 3.7
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alexa_d
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alexa_d: If I am out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.
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93,686 members
1,508 reviews
½ 4.4
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alexa_d
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alexa_d: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
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38,947 members
872 reviews
4.2
Member
alexa_d
Explanations
alexa_d: It was a nice day.