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“He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.”
― Circe
― Circe
“The character for ‘mob’ is formed from the character for ‘nobility’ on one side and the character for ‘sheep’ on the other. So that’s what a mob is, a herd of sheep that turns into a pack of wolves because they believe themselves to be serving a noble cause.”
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
“No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.”
― The Magician’s Nephew
― The Magician’s Nephew
“But the world I wanted wasn't the world I lived in, and if I would do nothing until I could repair every terrible thing at once, I would do nothing forever.”
― Spinning Silver
― Spinning Silver
“King and Gandhi had found a way to use aggressive impulses to resist injustice without hurting others. Where did the aggression go? The answer, as King would later tell Poussaint, was this: into the courage needed to resist without fighting back physically...”
― A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness
― A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness
Our Shared Shelf
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OUR SHARED SHELF IS CURRENTLY DORMANT AND NOT MANAGED BY EMMA AND HER TEAM. Dear Readers, As part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading ...more
Nerdette Book Club
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A place to get together and chat as you read books chosen for the Nerdette Book Club.
Olivia’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Olivia’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Favorite Genres
Fantasy, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, History, Politics, Romance, Science, Science fiction, Travel, Young-adult, New Adult, fairies, magic, witches, art-history, ableism, mental-health, adventure, alternate-history, alternate-universe, ancient-history, archaeology, classical-studies, cultural-heritage, fae, fairy-tale-retellings, fairy-tales, fantasy-romance, feminism, greek-mythology, futurism, history-and-politics, historical-fantasy, journalism, law, magical-realism, museums, palaeontology, personal-finance, political-science, science-fiction-fantasy, time-travel-romance, witchcraft, and wizards
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