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The Dreamblood Duology (Dreamblood #1-2)

by N.K. Jemisin (Goodreads Author)

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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

by Susanna Clarke

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Fighting for the Future: Essays on Star Trek: Discovery

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Amanda’s Notes & Highlights

The Deep by Rivers Solomon

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When you’re everyone in the past, and when you’re for everyone in the present, you’re no one. Nobody. You don’t exist.

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“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”
― Ursula K. LeGuin

tags: books, reading

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“In the beginning the Creator told a great lie. For there was nothing at all, but the Creator spoke, saying, It exists. And behold, in order that the lie of God might be God’s truth, the universe at once began to exist.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, City of Illusions

tags: creation, lies, science-fiction, truth

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“Fine,” Navani said. “I hope when you die—knowing your homeland is doomed, your families enslaved, your queen executed—you feel satisfied knowing that at least you maintained a slight market advantage.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Rhythm of War

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“How does one hate a country, or love one? Tibe talks about it; I lack the trick of it. I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good thing, but one mustn't make a virtue of it, or a profession... Insofar as I love life, I love the hills of the Domain of Estre, but that sort of love does not have a boundary-line of hate. And beyond that, I am ignorant, I hope.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

tags: nationalism, patriotism, politics

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