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Melissa is Currently Reading

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Beautiful Ugly

by Alice Feeney (Goodreads Author)

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Theo of Golden

by Allen Levi (Goodreads Author)

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99 Ways to Die: And How to Avoid Them

by Ashely Alker (Goodreads Author)

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Melissa’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Through Gates of Garnet and Gold (Wayward Children, #11)

Through Gates of Garnet and Gold (Wayward Children, #11) by Seanan McGuire

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all life must one day end, and all flesh must one day decay.

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“The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour”
― Beryl Bainbridge

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