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Sarah’s 2024 Year in Books
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Why I Read This: People are always recommending Iain M. Banks and after having a mixed experience with Consider Phlebas, (and disliking The Wasp Factory), I thought I’d try The Algebraist. My Impression: At the level of style, this book really impressed ...more |
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Why I Read This: I have gone off dystopian fiction in recent years but saw this novel frequently recommended on BookTube. It is a short book and, at the end of the year, when life gets busy, a short book is a good book. My Impression: This story pulled ...more |
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“I think," Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, "that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live. I can give back to the world all that I didn't do. All that I might have been and couldn't be. All the choices I didn't make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world. To the lives that haven't been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I loved, the breath I breathed.”
― The Other Wind
― The Other Wind
“I knew what she meant, and in that moment felt as though I had shaken off some of the dust and grit of ten dry years; then and always, however she spoke to me, in half sentences, single words, stock phrases of contemporary jargon, in scarcely perceptible movements of eyes or lips or hands, however inexpressible her thought, however quick and far it had glanced from the matter in hand, however deep it had plunged, as it often did, straight from the surface to the depths, I knew; even that day when I still stood on the extreme verge of love, I knew what she meant.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
“There are encounters that change nothing. Urth turns her aged face to the sun and he beams upon her snows; they scintillate and coruscate until each little point of ice hanging from the swelling sides of the towers seems the Claw of the Conciliator, the most precious of gems. Then everyone except the wisest believes that the snow must melt and give way to a protracted summer beyond summer.”
― The Complete Book of the New Sun
― The Complete Book of the New Sun
“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
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