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Amanda’s favourite-books shelf

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

I'm Not Your Manic Pixie Dream Girl by Gretchen McNeil

The Only Pirate at the Party by Lindsey Stirling

A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas

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Amanda is Currently Reading

Amanda Thai is currently reading

You Will Get Through This Night

by Daniel Howell

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Dec 27, 2023 02:06PM

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Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)

by Marissa Meyer (Goodreads Author)

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Amanda Thai said: " 4 stars.
Warning: Brain capacity exceeded.
Initiating review process in 3…2…1…

To put it in a simple equation:
Cinderella + dystopia + cyborgs + moon people + plague + Beijing = BRAIN OVERLOAD.

Linh Cinder is a cyborg, part-machine, part-human, livi ...more "

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(page 84 of 390)
"High-tech! Part-machine cyborgs! Androids! Cinderella! Gimme more!" — Nov 28, 2012 12:12PM

Oct 14, 2021 06:31PM · see review

Amanda’s Quotes

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing

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“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing

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“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: cynicism

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“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot

tags: books, friends, reading, teachers

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