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Brenda is Currently Reading

Brenda is currently reading

So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men

by Claire Keegan

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Midnight, at the War

by Devi S. Laskar (Goodreads Author)

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Brenda’s Notes & Highlights

Women Without Men by Shahrnush Parsipur

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Women Without Men has a powerful and paradoxical arc that traverses various notions of opposites: magic/realism, nature/culture, local/universal, men/women, mystical/political.

Savage Conversations

by LeAnne Howe

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The Wax Child

by Olga Ravn

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Brenda’s Quotes

“Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you like. It was only ever yours to break anyway.”
― Kiera Cass, The One

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“I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

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