Emily

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Emily’s Bookshelves

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Emily is Currently Reading

Emily is currently reading

Libraries that Learn: Keys to Managing Organizational Knowledge

by Jennifer A. Bartlett

bookshelves: currently-reading, 2026-reads, career, library, non-fiction

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"Libraries struggle with change management, and with change in general. We need to get better about writing down and externalizing our cognitive processes so that they don't get lost as life changes happen." — Apr 02, 2026 06:23AM

Apr 02, 2026 06:22AM

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Arena (Magic: The Gathering)

by William R. Forstchen

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"I have recently become hyperfixated on Magic, on playing, on the lore, on the community, on the gathering - and I am HOOKED. I read one of the War of the Sparks books, but figured I'd go back and see some of the lore this way." — Mar 30, 2026 08:45AM

Mar 30, 2026 08:44AM

Emily’s Quotes

“Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

tags: instinct

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“Because time is cruel to all, and crueler still to artists. Because visions weakens, and voices wither, and talent fades.... Because happiness is brief, and history is lasting, and in the end... everyone wants to be remembered”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

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“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

tags: circe, constellations, daedalus, greek-mythology, love, stars

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“Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you — and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal — as we are!”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: chapter-xxiii

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