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A Harvest of Hearts
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2025
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14 editions
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Lights Out
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The Ladie Upstairs
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2025
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4 editions
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Lament: A mother’s curse, a town’s ruin
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I’m usually a quick reader, but this book took me months to finish — not because it was bad, but because I deliberately drip fed myself it so I could just keep reading it forever. Reading David Sedaris always provides an instant mood boost imo, his v ...more |
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Recently I’ve become fixated on books where the reading experience feels like drifting in and out of consciousness, and so the Vladisvostok Circus made for a perfect first read of August. It follows Nathalie a designer commissioned to create costumes ...more |
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“I should like to tug very hard at my ear, Ann thought, so it becomes loose, and at once all my body will unravel into nothingness so that little slice of soul left could catch on the wind and twist away from here.”
― The Ladie Upstairs
― The Ladie Upstairs
“Rumours and fables and vicious twisted little fairytales grow best in the dark; they're nourished with ignorance and a grotesque case of belief triumphing fact, and the mystery that enshrouded the ladies of Ropner was the blackest kind of dark: optimal conditions for tales to sprout like mould; to fix themselves to crumbs of fact before blooming and crackling to monstrous proportions.”
― The Ladie Upstairs
― The Ladie Upstairs
“Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?”
― A Hora da Estrela
― A Hora da Estrela
“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― The Lathe of Heaven
― The Lathe of Heaven

















































