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The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

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Katie is Currently Reading

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You Should Have Been Nicer to My Mom

by Vincent Tirado (Goodreads Author)

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Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes

by Tamim Ansary (Goodreads Author)

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Katie’s Quotes

“(Emotion check: Having someone else support your bad decision feels kind of good.)”
― Martha Wells, Platform Decay

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“It’s weird how meal and sleep breaks fix a lot of the annoying things about humans. Maybe that’s how you restart an organic brain?”
― Martha Wells, Platform Decay

tags: bodies, organic-brains, self-care

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“I felt HostileSecUnit1 go into shutdown mode. It wasn’t dead, it was just catastrophically damaged. (I know, who isn’t?)”
― Martha Wells, System Collapse

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“He got the vehicle started again and we proceeded down the stupid tunnel, into the stupid danger.”
― Martha Wells, System Collapse

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“It was fine. I had dealt with Combat SecUnits before. Not, like, successfully, or anything, but still.”
― Martha Wells, Platform Decay

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