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Marie’s 2025 Year in Books
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Marie Aitchison
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Stephen King, A24 movies, Edgar Allan Poe, Neil Gaiman, Thomas Harris,
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| This was such a fun read! The MCs actually hate eachother from the start and it's interesting to see them have to navigate a forced marriage with so many strong conflicting feelings. Lust vs. loathing. I also liked the forbidden romance storyline, to ...more | |
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| Oh boy, I'm glad this couple didn't have children. This was a darkly delicious page turner and fun popcorn thriller for the summer. A shallow couple living above their means and in over their heads in debt find the husband's brother and his snotty de ...more | |
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| This was such a fun read! The MCs actually hate eachother from the start and it's interesting to see them have to navigate a forced marriage with so many strong conflicting feelings. Lust vs. loathing. I also liked the forbidden romance storyline, to ...more | |
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Thriller fans, rejoice! Riley Sager is back. The Unknown is a fun novel that includes a present timeline where a struggling actress is cast in her dream role, but has to stay on a secluded island where a group of women vanished in the 20s. It also ha ...more |
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| I absolutely loved the supernatural storyline as well as the Monterey location (I live a few hours away and am very familiar with the area). Monterey is one of my favorite places ever and it felt like a full character in the novel, which was awesome. ...more | |
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| This was a fine thriller. I liked the Ireland setting and the suspense/mystery level. I was hoping for a little more punch, and don't think it will be one I remember long-term, though. It was a bit redundant at times and also not super unique. I did ...more | |
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| If you're a fan of historical fiction and love a great supernatural twist and feminine rage/ well-deserved revenge then this one you should have on your radar. It has the atrocious Henry Vlll and all his wives but it also has plot twists, witchcraft, ...more | |
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"Truly pains me to give this a bad review bc I love Ann but found this lacking. "
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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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