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Melissa’s 2024 Year in Books
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"Actually, I would give this book 2.5 stars, but that option isn't available. There was just something about this book I didn't like. I didn't really feel much for the characters and I didn't like the ending. It left too much unanswered. It was a fast"
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"What I liked about this book: This book and the content within are so important. I have never read a book that unearths the derogatory words used toward anyone declared “different,” and I was especially horrified to learn it closed in 2014!!! I wante"
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"I love the cover and that's about it.
Another one of my TBR-cleaning books, this one intrigued me mostly due to the picture of the girls on the cover. All of the little details are very impressive! Rose's stick, Alice and Maxine's subtle hand holding" Read more of this review » |
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| The best thing about this book is learning something new. Unfortunately, the book reads like someone wanting to teach you something new and not an engaging plot. Characters don't develop, the shifting between characters makes it hard to connect to an ...more | |
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| This is the "sweetest" romance in the series (pun intended), but don't let that fool you. Theo and Esther spend most of the middle of this book in bed, if you catch my drift. 😉 It's also my favorite suspense plot of the series so far. You won't want ...more | |
“Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.”
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“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.”
― The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
― The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
“Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.”
― Winnie-the-Pooh
― Winnie-the-Pooh
“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.”
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“There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.”
― Wives and Daughters
― Wives and Daughters
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