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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

Spindle's End by Robin McKinley

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THE MAGIC IN that country was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over floors and shelves like slightly sticky plaster-dust. (Housecleaners in that country earned unusually good wages.)

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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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“Later I will cry and cry in great hollow howls. Later I will understand what it is to keen, to feel a crazed, dark sound emerging from the deep, hard, rock fields inside my body.”
― Victoria Finlay, Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World

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“And whatever the name, it felt like something heavy at the end of a book that otherwise felt full of lightness.”
― 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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“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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