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Angela DeMott said:
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This may be my favorite book of the series, and it's definitely the one that I've read the most. There's this very intense, propulsive quality that the other books don't necessarily have, and from the O.W.L. chapter on, the plot feels inescapable, fo
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“Order is indeed the dream of man, but chaos, which is only another word for dumb, blind, witless chance, is still the law of nature.”
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― Crossing to Safety
“Henry James says somewhere that if you have to make notes on how a thing has struck you, it probably hasn’t struck you.”
― Crossing to Safety
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“Drama demands the reversal of expectation, but in such a way that the first surprise is followed by an immediate recognition of inevitability. And inevitability takes careful pin-setting.”
― Crossing to Safety
― Crossing to Safety
“Drama demands the reversal of expectation, but in such a way that the first surprise is followed by an immediate recognition of inevitability.”
― Crossing to Safety
― Crossing to Safety
“Anyone who reads, even one from the remote Southwest at the far end of an attenuated tradition, is to some extent a citizen of the world, and I had been a hungry reader all my life.”
― Crossing to Safety
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Angela’s 2025 Year in Books
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