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Mary is Currently Reading

Mary is currently reading

The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)

by R.F. Kuang (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, high-fantasy, epic-fantasy, fantasy

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Oct 08, 2026 09:39AM

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Richard III

by William Shakespeare

bookshelves: currently-reading, historical-fiction, tudor-fiction, shakespeare, play

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Aug 23, 2026 10:59AM

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The Human Archaeology of Space: Lunar, Planetary and Interstellar Relics of Exploration

by P.J. Capelotti

bookshelves: currently-reading, archaeology, space

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“War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

tags: lotr, war

4553 likes

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

tags: abilities

50611 likes

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander

21996 likes

“Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth, the Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.”
― George Gordon Byron, Manfred

tags: knowledge, sorrow, tree-of-knowledge, tree-of-life, truth, wisdom

63 likes

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: husband, marriage, opening-lines, wife

8089 likes

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