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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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“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.”
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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.”
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“Hard writing makes easy reading.”
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“I have heard of people's lives being changed by a dramatic or traumatic event--a death, a divorce, a winning lottery ticket, a failed exam. I never heard of anybody's life but ours being changed by a dinner party.”
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“The wicked and the unhappy always stole the show because sin and suffering were the most universal human experiences.”
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Angela’s 2025 Year in Books
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