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Books Read in 2021

Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling

“I want to come with you, but first you’ve got to give me a few straight answers.” 

“It’s against my nature, but I’ll try.”

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Books Read in 2021

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carré

“The more identities a man has, 

the more they express the person they conceal.”

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Books Read in 2021

Hex by Rebecca Dinerstein Knight

“How undercutting, how generous of the world, to provide each thing with its inverse, to test each version of life we choose with a version of its opposite. How preverse, and unpeaceful.

I want more than anything to love the choice I make. Love it with abandon, proudly, building a temple upon it.”

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Books Read in 2021

Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner

Snow was falling on Riverside, great white faether-puffs that veiled the cracks in the facades of its ruined houses; slowly softening the harsh contours of jagged roof and fallen beam. Let the fairy tale begin on a winter's morning, then, with one drop of blood new-fallen on the ivory snow

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the cult of excess: drink and drugs, sex and love, pride and envy and revenge. nothing in moderation

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I'm counting the mornings

I wait to feel well

I might not feel as bad

But I can't really tell

And I know that I'll be okay

But it's pretty far from a breeze

And I hear he's doing just fine

It's breaking me he isn't mine

But at least he's doing just fine

Without me

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“... when it came to crimes against his own person Andrew couldn’t care less. He held his life in less regard than he did anything else.” 

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M.L. Rio