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“Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.”
― Medea and Other Plays
― Medea and Other Plays
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― All's Well That Ends Well
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― All's Well That Ends Well
“What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.”
― The Magician’s Nephew
― The Magician’s Nephew
“this is a book about something”
― The Magician’s Nephew
― The Magician’s Nephew
Our Shared Shelf
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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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