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“Spider venom comes in many forms. It can often take a long while to discover the full effects of the bite. Naturalists have pondered this for years: there are spiders whose bite can cause the place bitten to rot and to die, sometimes more than a year after it was bitten. As to why spiders do this, the answer is simple. It's because spiders think this is funny, and they don't want you ever to forget them.”
― Anansi Boys
― Anansi Boys
“Running a close second [as a writing lesson] was the realization that stopping a piece of work just because it's hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when it feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position.”
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“It was not that he was feckless, more that he had simply not been around the day they handed out feck.”
― Anansi Boys
― Anansi Boys
“A great deal; you are good to those who are good to you. It is all I ever desire to be. If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way; they would never feel afraid, and so they would never alter, but would grow worse and worse. When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
Rhoda Floyd’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Rhoda Floyd’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
718 books
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47 friends
158 books
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50 friends
1,544 books
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100 friends
389 books
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140 friends
201 books
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68 friends
315 books
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70 friends
704 books
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32 friends
6 books
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110 friends
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