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A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)

by Arkady Martine (Goodreads Author)

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Dec 27, 2025 02:25PM · see review

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Undoing Gender

by Judith Butler

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Elle (ellexamines on TT & Substack) said: "

The human, it seems, must become strange to itself, even monstrous, to reachieve the human on another plane.

One of my favorite elements of this book is its argument that our current society devalues “kinship,” ties, devaluing bonds that f ...more "

Apr 15, 2026 02:27PM · see review

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Ring Shout

by P. Djèlí Clark (Goodreads Author)

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Elle’s Quotes

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

tags: self-determination, self-responsibility, timidity

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“Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.”
― Doug Wright, Quills

tags: communication, conversation, diplomacy

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“Love conquers all," Aphrodite promised. "Look at Helen and Paris. Did they let anything come between them?"
"Didn't they start the Trojan War and get thousands of people killed?"
"Pfft. That's not the point. Follow your heart.”
― Rick Riordan, The Titan’s Curse

tags: humor, true-love

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“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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