This was the curse of the voracious reader, she realized. Real life never quite measured up to the heightened and precise contours of her literary worlds. A real war was never as true as a fictive one.

Reif Larsen
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The definition of the word "voracious" is something that has a very strong appetite. In this case, it refers to a person who has a very strong appetite for reading all of the books that they can get their hands on. A voracious reader can be described as someone who would read just about anything and everything they possibly could read. This is a person who truly has an insatiable hunger for books and a very strong desire to learn more about the world around them.

Source: I Am Radar

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