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Alice is Currently Reading

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The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul

by Eleanor Herman (Goodreads Author)

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Ice

by Anna Kavan

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by Carys Davies (Goodreads Author)

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Alice’s Notes & Highlights

The Cybernetic Tea Shop by Meredith Katz

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Her wanderlust was hard to explain to anyone who didn't feel likewise. Too many people were rooted to a concept of home, wanted to have the same place to return to every day, to walk the same paths between home and work and back, to see the ...more

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Alice’s Quotes

“I was empty, exposed, I was so light I was adrift, I was lint in the air.”
― Victoria Finlay, Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World

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“However, I’ve come to understand that under some circumstances a mourning period is liberating. You don’t have to act in normal ways while your heart is grieving. You can wear black and later grey or mauve and people will understand that you are in a liminal place, and can’t be fully counted on. There’s freedom in mourning time too.”
― Victoria Finlay, Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World

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“I will be haunted – I am still haunted –”
― Victoria Finlay, Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World

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“They thought it was pure, but it wasn’t. Not really.”
― Victoria Finlay, Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World

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“So this is, on occasion, a ghost story. Or a book written while grieving, and emerging from grieving, which is also a ghost story in its own way.”
― Victoria Finlay, Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World

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