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Gemstomes is Currently Reading

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The Historian

by Elizabeth Kostova

bookshelves: academia, paranormal-fantasy, travel, currently-reading

Reading for the 2nd time

read in June 2016

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""from as early as I could remember, his hair was white."

Jonathan Harker homage?" — Sep 03, 2026 06:27AM

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Gemstomes’s Quotes

“You fucking bustard!” yelled Draco at Vampire. “I want to shit next to her!”
― Tara Gilesbie, My Immortal

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“Some speak of the savagery of beasts. I will ever prefer that to the thoughtless contempt some men have toward animals.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand

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“That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you onto another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive—all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment.”
― Annie Barrows, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

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