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Sheila is 25% done with Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games)
Young Haymitch and Katniss are so much alike. But what surprised me is that young Haymitch is more emotionally mature and self-reflective than Katniss is in the first book. He's still very defensive and grumpy —and deservedly so, given all the things that went wrong and being sent to fight to the death— but at least he's more emotionally literate.
Oct 18, 2025 03:35AM Add a comment
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games)

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Sheila is on page 213 of 460 of Life of Pi
When my English teacher gave me this book in 12th grade, l did not expect to read 2 paragraphs of an Indian boy catching tiger feces in a cup and trying to eat it.
Sep 19, 2025 10:18AM Add a comment
Life of Pi

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Sheila is on page 213 of 460 of Life of Pi
When my English teacher gave me this book in 12th grade, I'd expected to read 2 paragraphs of an Indian boy catching tiger feces in a cup and trying to eat it.
Sep 19, 2025 07:12AM Add a comment
Life of Pi

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Sheila is on page 177 of 460 of Life of Pi
"Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness — how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view I have a things? This peephole is all I've got!"
Sep 17, 2025 08:44AM Add a comment
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Sheila is on page 176 of 460 of Life of Pi
"if you want to see wildlife it is on foot, and quietly, that you must explore a forest. It is the same with the sea. You must stoll though the Pacific at a walking pace, so to speak, to see the wealth and abundance that it holds."

Also the paragraph that describes the ocean as if it is a city in rush hour is so beautiful.
Sep 17, 2025 08:37AM Add a comment
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Sheila is 60% done with Conversations with Friends
Sally Rooney why do u hate Yeats?
(For real tho, I didn't know he was a fascist before this book.)
Sep 16, 2025 08:12PM Add a comment
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Sheila is 50% done with Conversations with Friends
比較喜歡Normal People。這本是第一人稱敘事,加上主角是個習慣內耗、壓抑情感的人(原生家庭影響),我覺得她算是個unreliable narrator,而且因為第一人稱的關係,會不自覺代入自己然後跟著一起內耗,讀起來好累。還有這本在講的事情對我來說實在太瑣碎了,所以有好幾頁我都是大概掃過去、跳著看。

話說這本出現的Marianne跟Normal People裡的是同一個嗎🤔
Sep 14, 2025 06:15AM Add a comment
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Sheila is on page 148 of 460 of Life of Pi
"Still others—and I am one of those—never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end. It's not a question of courage. It's something constitutional, an inability to let go."
Sep 03, 2025 09:25AM Add a comment
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Sheila is on page 98 of 460 of Life of Pi
"Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net if there's so little fish to catch?"
Aug 18, 2025 08:09AM Add a comment
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Sheila is on page 98 of 460 of Life of Pi
"And what of my extended family—birds, beasts, and reptiles? They too have drowned. Every single thing I value in life has been destroyed. And I am allowed no explanation? I am to suffer hell without any account from heaven? In that case, what is the purpose of reason, Richard Parker? Is it no more than to shine at practicalities—the getting of food, clothing, and shelter?"
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Sheila is on page 91 of 460 of Life of Pi
“Things didn't turn out the way they were supposed to, but what can you do? You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.”
Aug 18, 2025 07:56AM Add a comment
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Sheila is on page 71 of 460 of Life of Pi
"To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity."
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Life of Pi

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Sheila is on page 71 of 460 of Life of Pi
"These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. They should direct their anger at themselves. For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but a small clearing of each heart."
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Sheila is on page 68 of 460 of Life of Pi
Hilarious banter among a priest, a pandit, and a imam.
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Sheila is on page 19 of 460 of Life of Pi
"I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both."
Aug 19, 2024 01:51AM Add a comment
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Sheila is on page 376 of 652 of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)
Oh hi, Peeta's grandma, probably
Aug 06, 2024 09:48AM Add a comment
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)

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Sheila is on page 292 of 652 of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)
The Plinths symbolize immigrants and the Snows symbolize lower class white people/high class who have come down in the world
Jul 30, 2024 04:36AM Add a comment
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)

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Sheila is on page 282 of 652 of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)
1) The plot is finally picking up the pace, but I still prefer the trilogy for now.

2) Don't know what the Academy's syllabus looks like but at least give Coryo some books on Hobbs, Locke, and Rousseau if you want him to write a whole paper on social contracts. Otherwise it's pretty unfair. The kid is like 17 or 18 Dr. Gaul.
Jul 28, 2024 02:28AM Add a comment
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Sheila is on page 75 of 652 of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)
Not young Snow also denying his feelings like Katness💀. "It's all for the games and to get back at Sejanus," pfff yeah sure
Jul 15, 2024 01:08AM Add a comment
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)

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Sheila is on page 370 of 390 of Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
I don't buy it that Katniss would agree to another Hunger Game with people directly related to those in power in the Capitol, or that Haymitch would go along with it. I know Katniss is still grieving Prim and unsure which side killed her, and that Haymitch has a soft spot for Katniss, but it just doesn't make sense for their characters imo.
Jan 07, 2024 08:27AM Add a comment
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)

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Sheila is on page 318 of 390 of Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
Tigris??? As in President Snow's sister Tigris Snow????
Jan 06, 2024 08:13AM Add a comment
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)

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Sheila is on page 258 of 390 of Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
“Next time we see each other, we'll be free of *him," says Prim firmly. (*Snow)
DON'T THINK ABOUT THE PRIMROSES PEETA PLANTS FOR KATNISS. DON'T THINK ABOUT THE PRIMROSES PEETA PLANTS FOR KATNISS. DON'T THINK —
Jan 04, 2024 09:43AM Add a comment
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)

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Sheila is on page 203 of 390 of Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
Linda Hamilton would be perfect for the role of Lyme
Jan 02, 2024 11:32PM Add a comment
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)

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Sheila is on page 114 of 390 of Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
"We didn't see Peeta. Only the propo on Eight. Then we turn the set off because the images upset you. Got it?"
This is why Finnick is one if the best character in THG.
Dec 31, 2023 02:10AM Add a comment
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)

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Sheila is on page 450 of 488 of Dracula
5 November.

Everytime Bram Stoker needs a word to describe female vampires: vuLOptuOUs
Nov 07, 2023 08:09AM Add a comment
Dracula

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Sheila is on page 244 of 488 of Dracula
I'm reading via Dracula Daily and Re: Dracula, so I have no idea what page I'm on.
The Harkers are my sweet little babies who can do no wrong. (不過Mina有點太聖母+damsel in distress)
Oct 05, 2023 07:37AM Add a comment
Dracula

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Sheila is on page 133 of 240 of Matilda
What kind of evil person would ruin chocolate cake for a little boy?
Jun 19, 2023 08:57AM Add a comment
Matilda

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Sheila is on page 66 of 240 of Matilda
I keep imagining Saul Goodman as Mr. Wormwood.
Jun 10, 2023 09:20AM Add a comment
Matilda

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Sheila is on page 696 of 734 of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
Back after googling "the triumphant look," it's because Dumbledore knows that Harry can be spared.
Nov 05, 2022 11:03AM Add a comment
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)

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