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Bethany is Currently Reading

Bethany is currently reading

The Unicorn Hunters

by Katherine Arden (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: fantasy-and-sci-fi, summer, owned, currently-reading

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Jun 19, 2026 09:05AM

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The Forgotten Garden

by Kate Morton (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: historical-fiction, summer, currently-reading

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Jun 17, 2026 04:59PM

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Sublimation

by Isabel J. Kim (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: autumn, owned, currently-reading, science-fiction

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“When it's over, I don't want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.

I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.”
― Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

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“She did not shut it properly because she knew that it is very silly to shut oneself into a wardrobe, even if it is not a magic one.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

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“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

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“He hated going back to himself as he would have hated putting on a shabby suit of clothes, a grease-spotted, unpressed suit of clothes that had not been very good even when it was new.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr. Ripley

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“I cannot get him to write or speak in real, solid earnest. I don't much mind it now, but if it be always so, what shall I do with the serious part of myself?”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

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