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Outlander (Outlander, #1)

by Diana Gabaldon (Goodreads Author)

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"I suppose now we're in relationship building stuff. I'm not even half way. Can something plot based happen, please?" — Jan 05, 2018 11:55AM

Sep 05, 2016 01:00PM

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The Queen of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #1)

by Erika Johansen (Goodreads Author)

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Reader-ramble said: " Miss my status updates? You can catch up on my chapter by chapter deconstruction here.

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Okay, I'm not even done with the book yet, but I can still see it's a cliche riddled, sorry excuse for a fantasy. It has an evil church, an evil uncle ...more "

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"I finally post another chapter section." — Mar 26, 2016 02:32AM

Sep 03, 2015 01:24PM · see review

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Red Queen (Red Queen, #1)

by Victoria Aveyard (Goodreads Author)

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"Our hero visits her family. I don't hate it. http://reader-ramble.tumblr.com/post/..." — Feb 27, 2018 07:24AM

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Reader-ramble’s Quotes

“She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”
― Flannery O'Connor

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“I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an architect building a house. They know how many rooms are going to be in the house, what kind of roof they're going to have, where the wires are going to run, what kind of plumbing there's going to be. They have the whole thing designed and blueprinted out before they even nail the first board up. The gardeners dig a hole, drop in a seed and water it. They kind of know what seed it is, they know if planted a fantasy seed or mystery seed or whatever. But as the plant comes up and they water it, they don't know how many branches it's going to have, they find out as it grows. And I'm much more a gardener than an architect.”
― George R.R. Martin

tags: architect, craft, gardener, writers, writers-on-writing, writing, writing-craft, writing-process

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“Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

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“People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are.”
― Max Barry, Lexicon

tags: identity, stupidity, truth

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“It starts so young, and I'm angry about that. The garbage we're taught. About love, about what's "romantic." Look at so many of the so-called romantic figures in books and movies. Do we ever stop and think how many of them would cause serious and drastic unhappiness after The End? Why are sick and dangerous personality types so often shown a passionate and tragic and something to be longed for when those are the very ones you should run for your life from? Think about it. Heathcliff. Romeo. Don Juan. Jay Gatsby. Rochester. Mr. Darcy. From the rigid control freak in The Sound of Music to all the bad boys some woman goes running to the airport to catch in the last minute of every romantic comedy. She should let him leave. Your time is so valuable, and look at these guys--depressive and moody and violent and immature and self-centered. And what about the big daddy of them all, Prince Charming? What was his secret life? We dont know anything about him, other then he looks good and comes to the rescue.”
― Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming