Lena Barsky

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Lena is Currently Reading

Lena Barsky is currently reading

Game Changer (Game Changers, #1)

by Rachel Reid

bookshelves: queer-or-trans, read-in-2022, romance, currently-reading

Reading for the 2nd time

read in October 2022

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Lena Barsky said: " This slapped — I see now why this series gets the kind of hype it does, and obviously I’ve just checked the other five out from the library. Curious if Reid is a fic author because she uses some stylistic conventions of the genre (I’m thinking about ...more "

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— Feb 05, 2026 08:45AM

Oct 27, 2024 04:33PM · see review

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The Entanglement of Rival Wizards (Magic and Romance, #1)

by Sara Raasch (Goodreads Author)

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— Nov 06, 2025 04:23PM

Nov 06, 2025 04:18PM

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Hostis

by Vale Aida (Goodreads Author)

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"That quote was at 24% I’m a fool" — Jun 23, 2025 09:04AM

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Lena’s Quotes

“I do not know if you are not interested, or protecting yourself, but you cannot guard yourself against the whole world. You only succeed in placing a barrier between yourself from the world." He hesitated. "I know that from personal experience.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, In Other Lands

tags: bravery, inspirational, philosophy

21 likes

“Life is too short and love is too long.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth

352 likes

“I am not winning any arguments because I know how to hurt someone. How does that prove that you're right? How does being stronger or more vicious prove anything, except that all this talk about honor is stupid? Where's the honor in being better at hurting somebody? Telling me I have to do this is insulting, as if I can't win any other way. As if I can't win in a better way.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, In Other Lands

54 likes

“But the law is not an instrument to find out truth. It is there to create a fiction that will help us move past atrocious act and face our future. It seems there is no mercy in this world, but a kind of haphazard justice: men pay for crimes, but not necessarily their own.”
― Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light

25 likes

“I’m sorry, Nadia,” Mim says, and she doesn’t know why, exactly, but they’re both gasping with laughter now, clutching their stomachs.
“I’m sorry, Mim,” Nadia says, all but howling.
“I’m sorry, Nadia!”
“I’m sorry, Mim!”
“You kids are really fucking weird,” Ruth yells from the living room, where she retreated with her own plate of leftover meatloaf some minutes before.
“We’re sorry!”
― Kady Morrison, Juniper Lane

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