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L.P.’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at L.P.’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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L.P. Cowling
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D.M Cornish, Mark Lawrence, RR Martin, Brandon Sanderson, Joe Abercrom
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March 2022
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This one is tricky to rate. I didn’t dislike it, in fact, I kept reading without issue, but I can’t say it’s particularly original. Let’s start with the elephant in the room. The book is deeply derivative of A Court of Mist and Fury. Taking inspiratio ...more |
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“Do not trust their words.
Challenge them to a staring contest, at the sun.
That is the true measure of a man.
The willingness to ruin oneself to prove.”
― Infinite
Challenge them to a staring contest, at the sun.
That is the true measure of a man.
The willingness to ruin oneself to prove.”
― Infinite
“Loneliness is a storm.
Not something relaxing, the pitter patter and distant rumble.
But the annoying pre-storm, wherein lives are boring, and not satisfying.
Hello?
Oh, the car crashed.
It’s sad, that’s so abrasive.
There are no voices in my head anymore,
But I’d welcome the company, you know.
Good thing I have nothing to hide,
So I’ll wait for you, and them.
~”
― PFI: Poetry Collection
Not something relaxing, the pitter patter and distant rumble.
But the annoying pre-storm, wherein lives are boring, and not satisfying.
Hello?
Oh, the car crashed.
It’s sad, that’s so abrasive.
There are no voices in my head anymore,
But I’d welcome the company, you know.
Good thing I have nothing to hide,
So I’ll wait for you, and them.
~”
― PFI: Poetry Collection
“don’t suck your thumb, i’m near.
lean forward, suck in the gut.
scraped knees don’t hurt,
i can see through any walls.
no, this is the purveyance always.
transcends sight and follows you.
you’re a man, or not, now.
but i can still see through walls.
so, don’t suck your thumb, boy.
~”
― PFI: Poetry Collection
lean forward, suck in the gut.
scraped knees don’t hurt,
i can see through any walls.
no, this is the purveyance always.
transcends sight and follows you.
you’re a man, or not, now.
but i can still see through walls.
so, don’t suck your thumb, boy.
~”
― PFI: Poetry Collection
“You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm.
It's really funny.”
― Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians
It's really funny.”
― Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians
“Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it.”
― Prince of Thorns
― Prince of Thorns
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
― The Fellowship of the Ring
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― A Dance with Dragons
― A Dance with Dragons
“Do not trust their words.
Challenge them to a staring contest, at the sun.
That is the true measure of a man.
The willingness to ruin oneself to prove.”
― Infinite
Challenge them to a staring contest, at the sun.
That is the true measure of a man.
The willingness to ruin oneself to prove.”
― Infinite
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