Christine Smith

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Christine’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (750)
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read‎ (502)
owned-books‎ (749)
fantasy‎ (249)
favorites‎ (152)
owned-ebooks‎ (141)
fairy-tales‎ (129)
retellings‎ (121)
christian-fantasy‎ (103)
dragons‎ (85)
classics‎ (64)

historical-fiction‎ (60)
2019-reads‎ (50)
2020-reads‎ (50)
2021-reads‎ (43)
2013-reads‎ (42)
2016-reads‎ (35)
2018-reads‎ (35)
mysteries‎ (31)
2017-reads‎ (30)
2014-reads‎ (28)
2022-reads‎ (28)
to-hopefully-acquire-soon‎ (28)

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science-fiction‎ (25)
childrens‎ (21)
christian-historical-fiction‎ (18)
dystopian‎ (18)
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christian-living‎ (13)
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christian-contemporaries‎ (11)
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to-read-soon‎ (10)

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cinderella-retellings‎ (9)
snow-white-retellings‎ (9)
writing-helps‎ (9)
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christian-dystopian‎ (7)
the-goose-girl-retellings‎ (7)
christian-sci-fi‎ (6)
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sleeping-beauty-retellings‎ (6)
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Christine’s Quotes

“There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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“I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God's thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest and most precious thing in all thinking.”
― George MacDonald

tags: creation, identity, individuality

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“If I give you a hint and tell you it's a hint, it will be information.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

tags: calcifer

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“The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: road

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“Wear pink. It confuses the enemy.”
― Donita K. Paul, DragonFire

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Christine’s Groups

Purple Elephants of Epic Proportions — 13 members — last activity Dec 03, 2015 07:58AM
We are the PE's from Nano, or at least the bookworms from PE from Nano. You get the point. ...more

NaNoWriMo — 813 members — last activity May 08, 2024 02:39AM
NaNoWriMo. National Novel Writing Month. The month where you write 50,000 words in thirty days. A whole novel. The month were you put blood, sweat, te ...more

The Blood Of Kings Fan Group — 21 members — last activity Sep 08, 2017 08:44AM
For anyone who loves The Blood Of Kings trilogy by Jill Williamson!

Songkeeper Chronicles — 36 members — last activity Dec 13, 2017 04:02PM
Cast aside your cloak, pull up a chair, and kick off your muddy boots. Welcome to the Underground where readers of the Songkeeper Chronicles gather ar ...more

★Polls About Life★ — 948 members — last activity Jul 11, 2025 11:59AM
⁕⁂⁑⁕ POLLS ABOUT LIFE ⁕⁑⁂⁕ Polls, polls, and more polls! Anyone can create! Share your thoughts and have fun! :D There are new polls all the time, s ...more

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