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Maggie is Currently Reading

Maggie Nelson is currently reading

The Killer Isn't Alice: The 46,600 Suspect Murder Mystery Puzzle

by Iris Starling

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Apr 14, 2026 07:22PM

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Redemption: Three Extraordinary Irish Families on an Epic Odyssey of Love and Freedom in WWI

by Leon Uris

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The Secret History

by Donna Tartt

bookshelves: botm, currently-reading

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“What is a game?" Marx said. "It's tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. It's the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption. The idea that if you keep playing, you could win. No loss is permanent, because nothing is permanent, ever.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

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“I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else's muse.
I am not a muse.
I am the somebody.
End of fucking story.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

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“What is a person, if not the marks they leave behind?”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

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“I’ve always had a fear of being small and ordinary. “How can I just have this one life?”
― Meg Wolitzer, The Wife

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“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”
― emily bronte

tags: classics, romance

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