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The town to which we migrated was not a refuge but another place of imperial violence, where the rescued must continuously pay a psychic price for their purported salvation. The town in which she became American was the same place in which
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“When you can't bear something but it goes on anyway, the person who survives isn't you anymore; you've changed and become someone else, a new person, the one who did bear it after all.”
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“There are any number of magical creatures, mostly female, whose singing can bring about horror and death. Sirens, undines, banshees, Bananarama tribute bands...”
― Nightingale's Lament
― Nightingale's Lament
“Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.”
― The Mummy Case
― The Mummy Case
“Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.”
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“It was like discovering that your innermost fires and terrors, the things you believed no one else could fathom, were in fact the basis of a recognized philosophy. Some part of you felt intimately invaded, threatened; some other part fell to its knees and sobbed in gratitude that it was no longer alone.”
― Exquisite Corpse
― Exquisite Corpse
Supernatural Freakshow
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Like to read about haunted houses, haunted swamps and non-romantic, subversive paranormals and eco-gothics in the Shirley Jackson/Michael McDowell vei ...more
Weird Westerns
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— last activity Nov 14, 2025 06:04AM
The western is a time-honored genre in the literature world, but it wasn't until lately that we've started adding the surreal to the mix and it's been ...more
Goodreads Librarians Group
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Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more
Vitalibavegamin
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— last activity Mar 28, 2015 03:41PM
A book discussion group for Vermont Vita-Learn and Vermont School Library Association members. With a tip of our hats to Lucille Ball! Image attribut ...more
Food in Fiction
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— last activity Nov 12, 2018 04:52AM
Do you love fiction in which food and/or drink plays a major part? Books like Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman, Sideways, Chocolat, Secrets of the T ...more
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