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Melissa is Currently Reading

Melissa Baker is currently reading

Bunny (Bunny, #1)

by Mona Awad (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: horror, odd-ducks, dark-academia, on-deck, youre-in-a-cult-call-your-dad, books-i-own, currently-reading, book-club-and-buddy-reads

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Oct 26, 2026 09:06AM

Melissa Baker is currently reading

Horror Vacui: Poems and Other Writings

by Shy Watson

bookshelves: poetry, not-at-library, books-i-own, top-tier, had-me-at-cover, currently-reading

Reading for the 2nd time

read in August 2023

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Melissa Baker said: " So grateful to Treefort / Storyfort for bringing the works of Shy Watson into my life. "

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(page 109 of 160)
— Oct 23, 2026 07:53AM

Aug 14, 2023 05:11AM · see review

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Consider Yourself Kissed

by Jessica Stanley (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: books-i-own, literary-fic, roms-brads, currently-reading

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(page 60 of 336)
— Sep 21, 2026 12:30PM

Sep 21, 2026 12:26PM

Melissa’s Notes & Highlights

The One by John Marrs

3 highlights

Let’s have a toast. To the certainty of chance.”

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Melissa’s Quotes

“Facts don’t require our personal approval for them to be facts.”
― Sharon McMahon, The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement (Spiral-Bound) [Spiral-bound] Sharon McMahon

tags: facts

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“But what I’m seeing is that the more comfortable he gets, the less he cares. As his importance compounds, his regard diminishes.”
― Sarah Wynn-Williams, Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

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“You are not what happened to you. You are what you do next.”
― Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer

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“Effort, productivity, and the sacrifice of everything else in life are valorized and fetishized.”
― Sarah Wynn-Williams, Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

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“Both of these things are true at the same time. America has been just, and it has perpetuated injustice. We have been peaceful, and we have perpetrated acts of violence. We have been—and are—good. And we have done terrible things to people who didn’t deserve them. It has been the land of the free while simultaneously sanctioning oppression.”
― Sharon McMahon, The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History

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