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The Dying of the Light (Skulduggery Pleasant, #9)

by Derek Landy

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Hollow City (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children, #2)

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The Bestseller Code: Anatomy of the Blockbuster Novel by Jodie Archer

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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest—

Still need to read this!

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Suzanne

Weirdly enough, the first book in the series is one of the most abandoned books on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/4...

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Lisa Jablonsky

Not weird, the first part of the book was dreadful, about a courtroom or case. I abandoned it but so many people said to just get through it, it will be worth it, that I powered through holding my nos…

Tamsyn’s Quotes

“If you don’t have anything nice to say, take a big bite and chew slow.”
― Matthew FitzSimmons, The Short Drop

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“You're always the person you were when you were born," she says impatiently. "You just keep finding new ways to express it.”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

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“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
― Confucius

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“I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.”
― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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