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	Shattering the Glass Slipper by Crystal Sarakas (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Rhondi Salsitz (Editor), Marie Brennan (Goodreads Author) 4.06 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fight Like a Girl: A Short Story Anthology by April Steenburgh (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Christy Lennox (Editor), Freya Marske (Goodreads Author) 3.69 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Battery Is Low and It Is Getting Dark by Crystal Sarakas (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Joshua Palmatier (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Alethea Kontis (Goodreads Author) 4.24 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Modern Deity's Guide to Surviving Humanity by Patricia Bray (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Tanya Huff, Juliet E. McKenna (Goodreads Author) 4.06 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	ZNB Presents: Year One by Joshua Palmatier (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Marie Brennan (Goodreads Author), Desmond Astaire (Goodreads Author) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Follows by April Steenburgh (Goodreads Author) (Editor), C. Lennox (Editor), Sarah Lyn Eaton (Goodreads Author) 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What The Fans Think: Torchwood (What The Fans Think #2) by Bob Furnell (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Richard Peevers (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Martin Hearn 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	LampLight - Volume 8 Issue 1 by Fiona Maeve Geist, Meghan Cruickshank, Katherine Givens (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Midnight Train (The Midnight World, #2)

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Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

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“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”
― Neil Gaiman

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“For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.”
― Kahlil Gibran

tags: death

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“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

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“Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
― E.L. Doctorow, Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews, 2nd Series

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“I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rainer Maria Rilke's The Book of Hours: A New Translation with Commentary (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)

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