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Nicholas’s 2025 Year in Books
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Nicholas Woode-Smith
Goodreads Author
Born
in Cape Town, South Africa
October 03, 1995
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Member Since
May 2013
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/zaggeta
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The 10 Most Chaotically Funny Characters in the Katverse, Ranked
Hope City is filled with monsters, magic and impending disasters. Somehow, these ten characters still manage to make everything considerably stranger. A note for new readers: This ranking avoids major plot twists, character fates, romantic developments and late-series revelations. It discusses personalities, running jokes and largely self-contained moments of chaos. There are minor references to …
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| Not nearly as groundbreaking as The President's Keepers. The book mostly rehashes his findings from his earlier book, as well as an anthology of corruption stories which are public knowledge. The book even gets quite repetitive, with the same stateme ...more | |
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“Everyone deserved to be remembered. To have their name said over and over. To be loved, even after they were gone.”
― Shadow Realm
― Shadow Realm
“The darkness is like a scar on my brain. I can’t remove it. I can’t forget the words. Ever. They are always there. Burning, cindering, screaming. Like a choir of dead men branded on my skull.”
― Shadow Realm
― Shadow Realm
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“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”
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“The farther you go...the harder it is to return. The world has many edges and it's easy to fall off.”
― Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival
― Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival
“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
― A Game of Thrones
― A Game of Thrones
“Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.”
― A Game of Thrones
'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.”
― A Game of Thrones
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