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i-heard-you-like-footnotes,
race-and-race-relations,
non-white-mc,
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witchcraft-and-wizardry,
mixed-race,
nebula-awards-2023,
behold-the-fruits-of-empire,
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Reading for the 2nd time
read in December 2022
Julie said:
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FIRST REVIEW / DEC 23, 2022That’s just what translation is, I think. That’s all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they’re trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else u...more "
When people heard that she had a twin, they were always quick to say how nice that had to be, having a best friend from birth. She had never been able to figure out how to tell them how wrong they were. Having a twin meant always having
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“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.”
― The Last Continent
― The Last Continent
“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
― The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
― The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”
― The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”
― The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“You live and learn. At any rate, you live.”
― Mostly Harmless
― Mostly Harmless
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Julie’s 2025 Year in Books
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