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A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)

by Arkady Martine (Goodreads Author)

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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

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: women

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“Name the different kinds of people,’ said Miss Lupescu. ‘Now.’

Bod thought for a moment. ‘The living,’ he said. ‘Er. The dead.’ He stopped. Then, ‘... Cats?’ he offered, uncertainly.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

tags: cats, challenge, dead, guess, humor, kinds, kinds-of-people, living, people

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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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“Are you badly hurt?"
"Hideously," said the king, without sounding injured at all. "I am disemboweled. My insides may in an instant become my outsides as I stand here before you.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, The King of Attolia

tags: attolia

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“When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

tags: katsa, monster

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