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Conclave

by Robert Harris (Goodreads Author)

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Elle (ellexamines on TT & Substack) said: " I feel like I need to read this now due to a disease I’ve recently contracted where I can’t stop thinking about it "

May 11, 2025 10:49PM · see review

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A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

by Arkady Martine (Goodreads Author)

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Elle (ellexamines on TT & Substack) said: " After a ship arrives requesting the immediate presence of a new ambassador, Mahit Dzmare is sent from Lsel to the capital of Teixcalaan, the interstellar empire on their doorstep – to discover the old ambassador Yksandr is dead under suspicious circu ...more "

Sep 30, 2025 06:24PM · see review

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Provenance (Imperial Radch)

by Ann Leckie (Goodreads Author)

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Elle (ellexamines on TT & Substack) said: " I adore Ann Leckie so much

Ingray Aughskold, daughter to Netano Aughskold, purchases a thief with the false identity Garal Ket, thinking she’s purchasing Pahlad Budrakim – but gets the wrong person. But when she returns to Hwae with Garal in tow, they ...more "

Sep 30, 2025 06:24PM · see review

Elle’s Notes & Highlights

Maurice

by E.M. Forster

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Elle’s Quotes

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: love, romance

7129 likes

“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

tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing

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“He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

tags: crises

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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

484 likes

“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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