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Dainey is Currently Reading

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Project Hail Mary

by Andy Weir (Goodreads Author)

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Feb 16, 2026 01:15PM

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The Magic of Terry Pratchett

by Marc Burrows (Goodreads Author)

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Dainey’s Notes & Highlights

Dark Entries by Robert Aickman

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“You talk the most sweet nonsense, dearest Ariel,” he said. “And nonsense with a lovely strangeness about it. Lovely nonsense.”

A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

by P. Djèlí Clark

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“Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.”
― Neil Gaiman, M Is for Magic

tags: haunting, life, mind, stories, youth

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“The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens ('wise man'). In any case it's an arrogant and bigheaded thing to say, wisdom being one of our least evident features. In reality, we are Pan narrans, the storytelling chimpanzee.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Globe

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“I love reading true crime, but I’ve always been aware of the fact that, as a reader, I am actively choosing to be a consumer of someone else’s tragedy. So like any responsible consumer, I try to be careful in the choices I make. I read only the best: writers who are dogged, insightful, and humane.”
― Michelle McNamara, I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

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