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Chella is Currently Reading

Chella is currently reading

A Horse Walks into a Bar

by David Grossman

bookshelves: currently-reading, 2026, fiction, contemporary, translated

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Book cover for The Wife, and Other Stories

The Wife, and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov

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She began crying and laughing. This conflict of tears and laughter always reminds me of the flickering and spluttering of a brightly burning candle when one sprinkles it with water.

Chella’s Quotes

“On a scale from one to ‘invade Russia in winter,’ how stupid is this plan?”
― Andy Weir, Artemis

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“This is best illustrated by looking up into the night sky at stars whose brilliance took fifty light-years to reach our eyes. Or five hundred. Or five billion. We’re not just looking into space, we’re looking back through time.”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

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“Until everything topples, we have no idea what we actually have, how precariously and perfectly it all hangs together.”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

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“We were guilty of the great transgression of preference!”
― Ayn Rand, Anthem

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“There’s a theory in the field of aesthetics called the uncanny valley. It holds that when something looks almost like a human being—a mannequin or humanlike robot—it creates revulsion in the observer, because the appearance is so close to human, yet just off enough to evoke a feeling of uncanniness, of something that is both familiar and alien.”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

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