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Marie’s 2024 Year in Books
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Marie Aitchison
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in Sacramento, The United States
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Stephen King, A24 movies, Edgar Allan Poe, Neil Gaiman, Thomas Harris,
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April 2018
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All I Want : A Holiday Horror Story (Last Christmas Book 1)
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Dyer Lane
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All I Want: A Holiday Horror Story
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I'll Be Home: A Holiday Horror Story II
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This story starts off with such a wildly WTF moment that I knew I was in for a twisty ride. In the usual Feeney fashion, this book had my mind whirling with possibilities trying to grasp onto what was actually going on. I liked that there was a gothi ...more |
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| The characters in this book really like to wink. I lost count of the number of winks I read about. Drove my a little crazy, made my eye twitch by the end, which is sort of like a wink in its own way...fuuuuck. 😉 Anyway, I think May Cobb's talents rea ...more | |
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| The characters in this book really like to wink. I lost count of the number of winks I read about. Drove my a little crazy, made my eye twitch by the end, which is sort of like a wink in its own way...fuuuuck. 😉 Anyway, I think May Cobb's talents rea ...more | |
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Marie Aitchison
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King of Ashes
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Readers' Favorite Audiobook
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Opening Round
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2025 Goodreads Choice Awards.
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I always love a shadow daddy who is death incarnate and the gothic vibes were delicious. It lulled a bit at times and was on the slower side, but I still loved the vibes. 3.5 rounded up to 4! |
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“I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.”
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"2.5
Something to be said about a book you read 450 pages of in one day! Unfortunately the ending got bogged down in its own characters AND I cannot get over the fact that this book is basically: "guys what if we got high and summoned a dragon to kill " Read more of this review » |
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“Before sitting down, I light a pumpkin candle, because ‘tis the season, and all that. It isn’t lost on me that I’m delving into a mystery involving murderous witches a mere week before Halloween.”
― Dyer Lane
― Dyer Lane
“I think we don’t matter anymore unless there’re people alive who still value our memories. Our entire existence just seems meaningless if not for the imprints we leave behind.” I shrug, “I guess I’m in a nihilist mood tonight.”
― Dyer Lane
― Dyer Lane
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“Oh you cut your hair! What happened? Are you going through a breakup or something?"
"My favorite character died.”
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"My favorite character died.”
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“The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than real ... for a moment at least ... that long magic moment before we wake.
Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Reality is plywood and plastic, done up in mud brown and olive drab. Fantasy tastes of habaneros and honey, cinnamon and cloves, rare red meat and wines as sweet as summer. Reality is beans and tofu, and ashes at the end. Reality is the strip malls of Burbank, the smokestacks of Cleveland, a parking garage in Newark. Fantasy is the towers of Minas Tirith, the ancient stones of Gormenghast, the halls of Camelot. Fantasy flies on the wings of Icarus, reality on Southwest Airlines. Why do our dreams become so much smaller when they finally come true?
We read fantasy to find the colors again, I think. To taste strong spices and hear the songs the sirens sang. There is something old and true in fantasy that speaks to something deep within us, to the child who dreamt that one day he would hunt the forests of the night, and feast beneath the hollow hills, and find a love to last forever somewhere south of Oz and north of Shangri-La.
They can keep their heaven. When I die, I'd sooner go to middle Earth.”
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Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Reality is plywood and plastic, done up in mud brown and olive drab. Fantasy tastes of habaneros and honey, cinnamon and cloves, rare red meat and wines as sweet as summer. Reality is beans and tofu, and ashes at the end. Reality is the strip malls of Burbank, the smokestacks of Cleveland, a parking garage in Newark. Fantasy is the towers of Minas Tirith, the ancient stones of Gormenghast, the halls of Camelot. Fantasy flies on the wings of Icarus, reality on Southwest Airlines. Why do our dreams become so much smaller when they finally come true?
We read fantasy to find the colors again, I think. To taste strong spices and hear the songs the sirens sang. There is something old and true in fantasy that speaks to something deep within us, to the child who dreamt that one day he would hunt the forests of the night, and feast beneath the hollow hills, and find a love to last forever somewhere south of Oz and north of Shangri-La.
They can keep their heaven. When I die, I'd sooner go to middle Earth.”
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“When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.”
― A Game of Thrones
― A Game of Thrones
“Oh, my sweet summer child," Old Nan said quietly, "what do you know of fear?
Fear is for the winter, my little lord, when the snows fall a hundred feet
deep and the ice wind comes howling out of the north. Fear is for the long
night, when the sun hides its face for years at a time, and little children
are born and live and die all in darkness while the direwolves grow gaunt and
hungry, and the white walkers move through the woods”
― A Game of Thrones
Fear is for the winter, my little lord, when the snows fall a hundred feet
deep and the ice wind comes howling out of the north. Fear is for the long
night, when the sun hides its face for years at a time, and little children
are born and live and die all in darkness while the direwolves grow gaunt and
hungry, and the white walkers move through the woods”
― A Game of Thrones
“LOSS COMES IN every moment. Second by second our lives are stolen from us. What is past will never come again.”
― This Tender Land
― This Tender Land
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