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Metro 2033 (Metro, #1)

by Dmitry Glukhovsky (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: book-club, 2026-shortlist-ideas, currently-reading, audio-books, dystopia, horror, sci-fi

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Castle Shade (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes #17)

by Laurie R. King (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: unfinished-series-remaining-books, 2026-shortlist-ideas, currently-reading, audio-books, crime, detective, historical, mystery

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A Memory of Light (Wheel of Time, #14; A Memory of Light, #3)

by Robert Jordan

bookshelves: fantasy, 2026-shortlist-ideas, currently-reading

Reading for the 2nd time

read in January 2013

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“I want to take him down, down, to the cold archives beneath the temple, to the tunnles where we keep the past, to show him selfies and pictures of food, jokes and terrible puns in dead, archaic scripts, tell him, look, look - look at people living. Look how beautiful it is to be alive.”
― Claire North, Notes from the Burning Age

tags: life, meaning-of-life

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“The apocalypse didn't happen overnight. The world didn't end in a satisfying climax of explosive special effects. It was slow. It was boring. It was one little thing at a time. One moral compromise, one abandoned ideal, one more justified injustice. No dramatic wave of destruction sweeping across the world, just scattered spots of rot forming throughout the decades, seemingly isolated incidents until the moment they all merged.”
― Isaac Marion, The Burning World

tags: apathy, apocalypse, end-of-the-world, immorality, injustice

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“We don't do time-travel. That's for amateurs. We're not time-travellers - we're historians. We 'investigate major historical events in contemporary time'. so much more classy.”
― Jodi Taylor, A Symphony of Echoes

tags: historians, time-travel

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“If this was one of those books, there would now be three pages of head-banging sex. The reality was that he pulled me close, whispered, ‘Mfhbnnntx,’ and I pulled his arm over me like a cover and muttered, ‘Trout,’ and that was pretty much it.”
― Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another

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“An hour later, we’d indulged in the traditional St Mary’s ritual for dealing with any sort of crisis, which is to imbibe vast reservoirs of tea. People laugh, but it works. By the time the kettle has boiled, the tea made, the amount of sugar added has been silently criticised, the tea blown on and finally drunk … all this takes time, and if you’re a member of St Mary’s with the attention-span of a privet hedge, then you’ve forgotten what you were arguing about in the first place.”
― Jodi Taylor, A Trail Through Time

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