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The Hazel Wood
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by Melissa Albert (Goodreads Author)
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"Thankfully, a vast improvement to the book I DNFed before picking this up. Thus far contains the mix of horror and fantasy I’m craving, as appropriate for fairy tales now I type it out. Thank fuck" — Oct 12, 2026 07:42PM

 
Frankenstein: The...
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Amanda Amanda said: " Originally read this in 2008 in college with the 1831 edition (I preferred the later edition). Rereading in 2026 for fun. Not the best fan of this particular edition since it's so heavy with footnotes and appedixes and forwards and the like; but I li ...more "

 
The Body Keeps th...
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Amanda Amanda said: " I can’t give this a rating as I can’t get through it. DNF "

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Book cover for Becoming
Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result. It’s vulnerability that breeds with self-doubt and then is escalated, often deliberately, by fear.
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“Living was struggling to do something impossible - to succeed, or die, knowing you had tried!”
― Anne McCaffrey, Dragonflight

Tracy Hickman
“... there is no pain you or anyone could inflict on me worse than the pain I bear within myself.”
― Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman

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