Maya Joelle

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Maya is Currently Reading

Maya Joelle is currently reading

The Iliad

by Homer

bookshelves: currently-reading, in-translation, owned, poetry, ralston

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""among them Thetis led out the threnody"

Whoa guys I think Homer just made a cosmere reference" — Nov 01, 2025 08:14PM

Nov 05, 2025 05:13PM

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The Problem of Pain

by C.S. Lewis

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Maya Joelle said: " This was not particularly useful for my thesis and as I appear to have marked it as "owned", I must have a copy at home. So I will not check out a library copy but will read it sometime when I am home. ...more "

Mar 03, 2025 08:49PM · see review

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Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek Book I

by Maurice Balme

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Maya’s Quotes

“We all forget from time to time, and so we need one another to tell us our stories. Sometimes a story is the only way back from the darkness.”
― Andrew Peterson, The Warden and the Wolf King

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“It will,” Wit said, “but then it will get better. Then it will get worse again. Then better. This is life, and I will not lie by saying every day will be sunshine. But there will be sunshine again, and that is a very different thing to say. That is truth. I promise you, Kaladin: You will be warm again.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Rhythm of War

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“This is the life I’ve made for myself, and I want it in a way I haven’t wanted anything else I can remember. It is a wanting that is quiet, and steady, and deep as the beat of my heart.”
― Intisar Khanani, Thorn

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