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Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

by Heather Fawcett (Goodreads Author)

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A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking

by T. Kingfisher

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The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher

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Bongo’s nose is far more intelligent than the rest of him, and I believe it uses his brain primarily as a counterweight).

There are many such brilliant nuggets/ turns of phrase in this book, but this may have been my favorite, written of the protagonist's dog.

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“The prospect of his future life stretched before him like a sentence; not a prison sentence, but a long-winded sentence with a lot of unnecessary subordinate clauses,”
― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

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“Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking over.”
― Junot Díaz

tags: elvish, lord-of-the-rings, racism, spanish, white-people

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