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Emily
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“There were no more heroes. Kennedy was dead, shot by an assassin in Dallas. Batman and Robin were dead... Superman was missing...”
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“Everybody will die, of course, sooner or later. Circus performers will die, and clarinet experts will die, and you and I will die, and there might be a person who lives on your block, right now, who is not looking both ways before he crosses the street and who will die in just in a few seconds, all because of a bus. Everybody will die, but very few people want to be reminded of that fact.”
― The Austere Academy
― The Austere Academy
“Fudge Lord”
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“O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the marketplace.”
― Much Ado About Nothing
― Much Ado About Nothing
“Viola had a harrowing story about riding a bicycle west out of the burnt-out ruins of a Connecticut suburb, aged fifteen, harboring vague notions of California but set upon by passersby long before she got there, grievously harmed, joining up with other half feral teenagers in a marauding gang and then slipping away from them, walking alone for a hundred miles, whispering French to herself because all the horror in her life had transpired in English and she thought switching languages might save her, wandering into a town through which the Symphony passed five years later.”
― Station Eleven
― Station Eleven
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Emily’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Emily’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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552 books
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Favorite Genres
Art, Biography, Classics, Comics, Contemporary, Cookbooks, Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Memoir, Music, Mystery, Non-fiction, Paranormal, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Science fiction, Suspense, Thriller, Travel, War, civil-war, art-history, graffiti, gastronomy, cuisine, dark-fantasy, epic-fantasy, historical, medieval, carolingian, france, medievalism, norman, medievalesque, regency, victorian, plantagenet, stuart, georgian, the-1700s, pulp, epic, magical-realism, plays, high-fantasy, mythology, and american-revolution
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