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Allison’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Allison’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Allison Hurd’s Followers (940)
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Allison Hurd
Goodreads Author
Born
July 31
Website
Twitter
Genre
Influences
Member Since
November 2012
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Feeding Frenzy (The Summoner Sisters, #1)
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2016
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2 editions
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Sacrifice (The Summoner Sisters, #2)
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2016
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2 editions
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The First One's Free (The Summoner Sisters, #0.1)
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Thicker Than Water (The Summoner Sisters, #3)
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2024
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* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.
Be Punk AF
In my first year of law school, one professor paced the front of class, waiting for news about whether there was a stay of execution for a man sentenced to death.
“Let this be a lesson,” he said as the tension left his body upon hearing that the stay had been granted, “that what we do here has very real consequences.”
That same term, in another course, we discussed a real event where people’s loved
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Allison’s Recent Updates
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Allison Hurd
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The Strength of the Few (Hierarchy, #2)
by James Islington (Goodreads Author) Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee in Readers' Favorite Fantasy |
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Here are the dates!
I will note, we've discussed Kaigen, but we can again if you'd all prefer. https://doodle.com/group-poll/partici... ...more " |
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"Meh. Why should the recipient of a house full of collected things be responsible for returning them? The person who picked them up and knew where they were should have tried to return them to their rightful owners. This book just did not jive with me"
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Allison Hurd
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SciFi and Fantasy Book Club
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"The Buffalo Hunter Hunter" Discuss Everything *Spoilers*
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We'll be discussing it over at VBC on Sunday! Come join us!
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Allison Hurd
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2025 TBR Cleanup Challenge
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Yay Chessie! And great picks, Meredith!
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2½ hr return journey, daily. Chronic insomnia. Blown past every single reading deadline. I'll try to catch up. And survive. Meanwhile and always, worldwide intifada. |
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Allison Hurd
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| SciFi and Fantasy...: Kaa's 2024 casual reading challenges - comments okay | 19 | 289 | Dec 08, 2020 12:24PM | |
| SciFi and Fantasy...: Ryan doesn't like being challenged | 13 | 79 | Jan 11, 2022 06:06AM | |
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| SciFi and Fantasy...: Books by not so famous authors | 22 | 146 | Nov 06, 2023 08:07AM | |
| Crazy Challenge C...: Board Game Fun | 116 | 82 | Jun 05, 2024 09:10PM | |
| Crazy Challenge C...: 2023-2024 Shrink That TBR! | 136 | 105 | Aug 11, 2024 12:36PM | |
| Crazy Challenge C...: Fall 2023 Scavenger - Fun Facts About...BOOKS! | 121 | 79 | Aug 18, 2024 04:52PM |
“He felt in his heart cruelty and cowardice, the things which made him brave and kind.”
― The Once and Future King
― The Once and Future King
“...the future is closed to us; were it not, life would be insupportable, as only uncertainty admits of hope”
― The Way Home
― The Way Home
“Their mother is Athene, the goddess of wisdom, and, although they are often ready to play the buffoon to amuse you, such conduct is the prerogative of the truly wise.”
― The Once and Future King
― The Once and Future King
“Anyone can love a thing because. That’s as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.”
― The Wise Man's Fear
― The Wise Man's Fear
“But there was a time when each of us stood naked before the world, confronting life as a serious problem with which we were intimately and passionately concerned... There was a time when Free Love versus Catholic Morality was a question of as much importance to our hot bodies as if a pistol had been clapped to our heads.
Further back, there were times when we wondered with all our souls, what the world was, what love was, what we were ourselves.”
― The Once and Future King
Further back, there were times when we wondered with all our souls, what the world was, what love was, what we were ourselves.”
― The Once and Future King
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Hi Allison, came by to check which Stephenson you've read. Sometimes I like approaching a living author with their most recent work rather than the old stuff that made their name; but perhaps not in his case... But I'm looking forward to the The Diamond Age re-read; looks like we'll have our fill of cyberpunk this semester.
