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“We don’t eat animals,” he said negligently. “We consider murder barbaric, whether it’s for food or not.”
“Every time I teach the Parable series the world seems to be on fire.”
― Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler
― Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler
“Do try to focus.” “Well, I do try. I simply fail.”
― Rhythm of War
― Rhythm of War
“I stepped into those woods and my life began.”
― Circe
― Circe
“A journey will have pain and failure. It is not only the steps forward that we must accept. It is the stumbles. The trials. The knowledge that we will fail. That we will hurt those around us.
But if we stop, if we accept the person we are when we fail, the journey ends. That failure becomes our destination.”
― Oathbringer
But if we stop, if we accept the person we are when we fail, the journey ends. That failure becomes our destination.”
― Oathbringer
“Black women’s genius is so rarely recognized, much less understood. And when it is recognized and celebrated, it is often too late.”
― Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler
― Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler
SciFi and Fantasy Book Club
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Hi there! SFFBC is a welcoming place for readers to share their love of speculative fiction through group reads, buddy reads, challenges, ...more
Shine & Shadow
— 800 members
— last activity 18 hours, 31 min ago
Welcome to Shine & Shadow. We are a group focused on monthly group reads and discussions. We have 3 group reads per month: 1 'Dark' read, 1 'Light' re ...more
The Feminist Readers' Network
— 1001 members
— last activity Feb 05, 2023 06:50AM
A space for people interested in and supportive of feminism, feminist literature, and feminist theory.
Our Shared Shelf
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— last activity May 18, 2026 10:32AM
OUR SHARED SHELF IS CURRENTLY DORMANT AND NOT MANAGED BY EMMA AND HER TEAM. Dear Readers, As part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading ...more
Prideathon
— 119 members
— last activity Apr 10, 2019 01:27PM
Prideathon is a biannual readathon where we focus on promoting intersectional LGBTQIAP+ literature, primarily young adult.
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