Melanie

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Melanie’s Bookshelves

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Melanie is Currently Reading

Melanie is currently reading

A Crown of Swords (The Wheel of Time #7)

by Robert Jordan

bookshelves: currently-reading, 20th-century-fiction, fantastic-fantasy-sci-fi, saw-it-on-netflix-amazon-the-movies

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Ruin and Rising (Shadow and Bone, #3)

by Leigh Bardugo (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: 21st-century-fiction, fantastic-fantasy-sci-fi, young-adult, can-t-read-it-just-once, saw-it-on-netflix-amazon-the-movies, currently-reading, audio-books

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read in May 2021

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May 20, 2021 08:16PM

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The Rose Field (Book of Dust, #3)

by Philip Pullman

bookshelves: 21st-century-fiction, brit-lit, fantastic-fantasy-sci-fi, women-character-focused, young-adult, currently-reading

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"So far not loving this." — May 21, 2026 07:16PM

May 01, 2026 11:32AM

Melanie’s Notes & Highlights

'Salem's Lot by Stephen King

1 highlight

But spring is not the finest season in New England—it’s too short, too uncertain, too apt to turn savage on short notice.

It

by Stephen King

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Melanie’s Quotes

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: husband, marriage, opening-lines, wife

8063 likes

“I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

537 likes

“What fresh hell is this?”
― Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker

1035 likes

“If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper...”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

tags: happy, sebastian, summer, teddy-bear

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“There will come a day, I promise you, when the thought of your son, or daughter, or your wife or your husband, brings a smile to your lips before it brings a tear to your eye. It will happen. My prayer for you is that day will come sooner than later.”
― Joe Biden

tags: grief

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