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“In violence there is often the quality of yearning - the yearning for completion. For closure. For that which is absent and would if present bring to fulfillment. For the body without which the wing is a useless frozen ornament. ("A Short Guide To The City")”
― American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now
― American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now
“By March, the worst of the winter would be over. The snow would thaw, the rivers begin to run and the world would wake into itself again.
Not that year.
Winter hung in there, like an invalid refusing to die. Day after grey day the ice stayed hard; the world remained unfriendly and cold.”
― Odd and the Frost Giants
Not that year.
Winter hung in there, like an invalid refusing to die. Day after grey day the ice stayed hard; the world remained unfriendly and cold.”
― Odd and the Frost Giants
“Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader...”
― The Virginian
― The Virginian
“In March the soft rains continued, and each storm waited courteously until its predecessor sunk beneath the ground.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
Devon’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Devon’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
394 books
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35 friends
655 books
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1,677 friends
1,275 books
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223 friends
1,899 books
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46 friends
398 books
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1,592 friends
1,225 books
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4,940 friends
2,148 books
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563 friends
113 books
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594 friends
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