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Sage is Currently Reading

Sage Summers is currently reading

Glass, Irony and God

by Anne Carson

bookshelves: favorites, women-i-love, poetry, currently-reading

Reading for the 2nd time

read in February 2020

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Sage Summers said: " Anne Carson makes me absolutely FERAL "

Feb 16, 2020 05:10PM · see review

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Don't Let the Forest In (Don't Let The Forest In, #1)

by C.G. Drews (Goodreads Author)

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Dec 25, 2025 01:20PM

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The Haunting of Hill House

by Shirley Jackson

bookshelves: favorites, horror, weird-girls, cover-love, cozy-horror, currently-reading

Reading for the 5th time

read in December 2022

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Sage Summers said: " the absolute fucking book of all time

re-read 9.29.23: YEAH IT'S STILL THE BEST FUCKING BOOK OF ALL TIME MY GOD

re-read 11.4.24: I don't even have words for how much I love The Haunting of Hill House and how much Hill House means to me.

re-read 1.10.25: ...more "

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(page 1 of 235)
"Tis the season for another re-read" — Dec 20, 2025 04:03PM

Jan 10, 2025 10:13AM · see review

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Sage’s Notes & Highlights

True Crime by Samantha Kolesnik

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Perhaps the part of my brain meant for talking with God was broken or deformed. Maybe when God created me, he disliked his creation and turned off the part connecting me to him, like an artist who didn’t want to sign a bad painting.

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Sage’s Quotes

“I was not then guilt-ridden about spending afternoons that way, because I still had all the afternoons in the world.”
― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

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“Was anyone ever so young? I am here to tell you that someone was.”
― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

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“I could taste the peach and feel the soft air blowing from a subway grating on my legs and I could smell lilac and garbage and expensive perfume and I knew that it would cost something sooner or later - because I did not belong there, did not come from there - but when you are twenty-two or twenty-three, you figure that later you will have a high emotional balance, and be able to pay whatever it costs.”
― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

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“It resembles nothing you’ve seen or known of. Its shape appears unnatural, as if it disobeys understood proportions. It isn’t covered in fur, feathers, scales, or skin. Instead, a shimmering kaleidoscope of colors teases where its surface might be.”
― Calvin Demmer, Her Heart Beats for Ancient Beasts

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“Some years passed, but I still did not lose that sense of wonder about New York. I began to cherish the loneliness of it, the sense that at any given time no one need know where I was or what I was doing.”
― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

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