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If You See Her

by Ania Ahlborn (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: books-i-own, horror, currently-reading

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read in May 2025

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Rae said: " 4/5 stars

This kind of reminds of Anlborn’s previous novel The Bird Eater. While I thought that the ghost’s backstory was interesting, what kept this from potentially getting five stars was that I didn’t like Jesse as a protagonist. Also, I felt that ...more "

May 22, 2025 05:29PM · see review

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Expensive People

by Joyce Carol Oates

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read in September 2022

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Rae said: " 3.5/5 stars

I thought that was a good novel and I liked how it was told in the form of a memoir by the main character Richard Everett. However, I wasn’t fully attached to the characters compared to Oates’ previous novels and I kind of guessed where th ...more "

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Jul 27, 2025 06:35PM · see review

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The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail

by Óscar Martínez

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Rae ’s Quotes

“Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.”
― Brent Weeks, The Black Prism

tags: beauty, general-danavis, lightbringer-trilogy

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“The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: dune

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“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

tags: dark-tower, horror

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“Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

tags: description, language, power-of-words, words

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