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Vickie is Currently Reading

Vickie is currently reading

Reverie

by Ryan La Sala (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, audiobooks-and-audiodrama, fantasy-sci-fi, lgbt

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— Apr 16, 2026 08:04AM

Apr 08, 2026 08:09AM

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Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)

by Anne Rice

bookshelves: fantasy-sci-fi, currently-reading

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Sep 17, 2013 07:40AM

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The Turn of the Screw

by Henry James

bookshelves: currently-reading, audiobooks-and-audiodrama

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Dec 08, 2025 07:57AM

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Vickie’s Quotes

“Fair speech may hide a foul heart.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

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“You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.”
― viggo mortensen

tags: art, cool, fun, humor, inspirational, wisdom

210 likes

“In writing, you must kill all your darlings.”
― William Faulkner

tags: revision, writing

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“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: family, friends, parties, social

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“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: fantasy, literature, philosophy

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