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Valerie’s favorite-all-time shelf

Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White

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Valerie is Currently Reading

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These Violent Delights (These Violent Delights, #1)

by Chloe Gong (Goodreads Author)

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Little Dorrit

by Charles Dickens

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The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories

by Alan Ryan

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Valerie’s Notes & Highlights

Squeak by Vera Valentine

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One night, we weren’t careful enough and lost track of time, waking up entangled to a furiously shrieking Zina. In a rage, she’d forced us out of our human forms and locked us in separate plastic boxes, the sides and tops studded with ...more

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Valerie’s Quotes

“It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

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“The rules of reason build towers that reach past the treetops. The rules of trust build towers that reach past the stars.”
― Mary E. Pearson, The Heart of Betrayal

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“Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and ruin.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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“Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be his world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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“There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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