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Monique is Currently Reading

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Helm

by Sarah Hall

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The Dark Is Rising (The Dark is Rising, #2)

by Susan Cooper (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: childrens, england, fantasy, historical-fiction, magic, movie, mythology, time-travel, currently-reading

read in January 2008

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Monique said: " I love this book, although it reads sometimes a little slow. The story is brilliantly written and I love the links to the Old English tales with persons like Merriman Lyon, John Weyland Smith and Herne the Hunter. A pity that the movie made from this ...more "

Mar 15, 2015 02:22PM · see review

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The Winter Warriors

by Olivier Norek

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Monique’s Quotes

“Ik probeerde bomen te redden, zij maakte er boeken van.”
― Peter Zantingh, Tussentijds

tags: boeken, bomen, books, dutch, reading, trees

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“The only rules he wanted to remember were "never kiss a girl whose brothers have knife scars" and "never gamble without knowning a back way out”
― Robert Jordan

tags: fantasy, mat-cauthon, robert-jordan, the-fires-of-heaven, wheel-of-time

28 likes

“Lezen hielp - de papieren wereld bood houvast die ik in de echte niet had. Boeken leerden me dat er een werkelijkheid was voorbij deze, wat troost bood. Perspectief. Ze lieten me zien wie ik was.”
― Auke Hulst

tags: books, reading

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“To the ones who don’t run with the popular crowd, the ones who get caught reading under their desks, the ones who feel like they never get invited, included, or represented. Get your leathers. We have dragons to ride.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Onyx Storm

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“In een ziekenhuis woonde de dood en kwam je hem overal tegen, zelfs als je alleen maar tafeltjes schoonmaakte.”
― Janke Reitsma, Niets ontgaat ons

tags: death, dood, hospital, ziekenhuis

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