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Lysander’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (441)
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horror‎ (49)
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Lysander is Currently Reading

Lysander Grey is currently reading

The House Where Death Lives

by Alex Brown (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, horror, queer

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Jun 19, 2026 05:46PM

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Babel

by R.F. Kuang (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: dark-academia, depressing, important, rent-free, queer, i-own, currently-reading

Reading for the 3rd time

read in November 2023

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Lysander Grey said: " If anyone tries to tell me one more time that The Secret History is the pinnacle of dark academia I very well might chuck this novel at their face.

Babel has all the features of a good DA story, but also brings an awareness of the flaws of the genre. ...more "

Jun 10, 2026 12:44PM · see review

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The Black Unicorn: Poems (Norton Paperback)

by Audre Lorde

bookshelves: adult, queer, reread, poetry, 2024-goals, currently-reading

Reading for the 2nd time

read in October 2022

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Lysander Grey said: " Absolutely brilliant. Bloody and sexy and pulls no punches. "

Feb 18, 2025 10:15PM · see review

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Lysander’s Quotes

“It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

tags: identity, self-image, sense-of-self, stories, storytelling

5368 likes

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
― Joan Didion, The White Album

933 likes

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: art, life

8231 likes

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail

60474 likes

“It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

4189 likes

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