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currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (637)
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audio‎ (200)
ampersand‎ (160)
bought‎ (103)
graphic-novels‎ (86)

nonfiction‎ (79)
authors-of-colour‎ (72)
canadian‎ (71)
romance‎ (68)
arc‎ (54)
ya‎ (50)
lgbtq‎ (49)
middle-grade‎ (35)

fairytales‎ (32)
favorites‎ (31)
bookclub‎ (20)
childhood-favourites‎ (17)
classics‎ (16)
re-reads‎ (13)
orca‎ (8)
picture-books‎ (6)

gift‎ (4)
poetry‎ (4)
university‎ (3)
ku‎ (2)
on-loan‎ (1)

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I swore I wouldn’t inject romance into this novel. First of all, far too many fantasies have them and they feel poorly written and unnatural, like they’re thrown in there to keep the readers happy and not the author, or the authors think it ...more

Dani’s Quotes

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

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“What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

tags: books, bookstore, towns

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“Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.”
― Angela Carter

tags: books, reading

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“Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.”
― Neil Gaiman

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“She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening.”
― Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

tags: the-lady-of-the-haunted-house

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