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Black Man in a White Coat – Damon Tweedy
Blue Lily, Lily Blue – Maggie Stiefvater
i can’t let myself forget that. two is for rivalry and fighting and murder. terrifying and thrilling, willing to do whatever she asked. i think the frightening is a side effect, not the intention. i just want to pretend. i want to pretend that i could. the most lasting wound was invisible but persistent. never […]
Read more "Blue Lily, Lily Blue – Maggie Stiefvater"The Black Witch – Laurie Forest
“Don’t thank me,” he says, all amusement gone. “Real education doesn’t make your life easy. It complicates things and makes everything messy and disturbing. But the alternative, Elloren Gardner, is to live your life based on injustice and lies.” This book is well timed, a piece of fantasy that rings of truth in all the […]
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Waer – Meg Caddy
it was the nature of life to devour the living. time eats all bones. one of the great secrets of storytelling, lad, is knowing when a tale isna yours to tell we can never restore what was taken from us, but we can remember it, and pay honour to those we lost. after that, we […]
Read more "Waer – Meg Caddy"Think Like A Freak – Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
change the frame of the relationship never, ever think that people will do something just because it is the “right” thing to do offer anonymity people respond to incentives when failure is demonized, people will try to avoid it at all costs ultracrepidarianism: the habit of giving opinions and advice on matters outside of one’s […]
Read more "Think Like A Freak – Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner"Waking Gods – Sylvain Neuvel
this is the second book of a series (the first is called “sleeping giants”) but what i like most about this science fiction series is that if you accept the idea that we are not alone in the universe [so, aliens exist] then the series is almost completely plausible. it is written in an interesting format consisting […]
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mortal, you know nothing about the power of wishes — what the old laws giveth, they taketh in return. i thought of the careless wishes I had thrown around, and a whisper of foreboding touched me. all must be in balance. my funeral? i thought it was my wedding — there is no difference here. i […]
Read more "Wintersong – S. Jae-Jones"The Beginning of Everything – Robyn Schneider
everyone gets a tragedy. that everyone’s life, no matter how unremarkable, has a moment when it will become extraordinary – a single encounter after which everything that really matters will happen. tell me, what it is you plan to do with your one wild and precious life. we have all been fooled into believing in […]
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