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Tassara is 99% done with The Adventures of Aylmer Vance (Balck Heath Gothic, Sensation and Supernatural)
⭐⭐⭐ to "The Fear" // "So long as bricks and mortar, and the atmosphere itself, are retentive, as we know them to be, there is little, Dexter, that you or I, or anyone else, can do to be of assistance... we can only prove what has been proved hundreds of times before, that there are more things in heaven and earth than the human philosophy of present day can understand."
Jan 22, 2026 04:42PM Add a comment
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Tassara
Tassara is 88% done with The Adventures of Aylmer Vance (Balck Heath Gothic, Sensation and Supernatural)
⭐⭐⭐ to "The Indissoluble Bond" // "‘We do not know that it was really an evil thing. Is it not possible that, in our ignorance, we appraise far too highly these poor bodies of ours? What do we know of our souls and of the laws that govern spiritual existence? ... The laws of this world are not the laws of the hereafter. Some day the truth will be revealed.’"
Jan 22, 2026 04:41PM Add a comment
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Tassara
Tassara is on page 737 of 1416 of Les Misérables
Part 4: Marius 🕯️ They seemed very depraved, very corrupt, very debased — heinous, even — but rare are those who fall without sinking into vice. In any case, there is a point where the poor and the wicked become mixed up and lumped together in the one fateful word: les misérables — the wretched. Whose fault is this? And besides, should not charity be all the greater, the further into the depths the fall?
Jan 20, 2026 10:37PM Add a comment
Les Misérables

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Tassara is on page 517 of 1416 of Les Misérables
Part 2: Cosette 🕊️ "Superstitions, bigotries... prejudices, these spectres... cling to life. They must be tackled head-on, and war must be waged against them... For it is one of the fates of humanity to be doomed to eternal battle against phantoms... In ordinary times, all it takes to disperse and dispel an anachronism is to make it spell out the date. But these are not ordinary times. Let us fight."
Jan 20, 2026 10:31PM Add a comment
Les Misérables

Tassara
Tassara is 74% done with The Adventures of Aylmer Vance (Balck Heath Gothic, Sensation and Supernatural)
⭐⭐⭐ to "The Boy of Blackstock" // "She was free to do as she liked, so she declared, and her husband had long ago forfeited, by his brutality, all right to her love.’"
Jan 20, 2026 10:28PM Add a comment
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Tassara
Tassara is 61% done with The Adventures of Aylmer Vance (Balck Heath Gothic, Sensation and Supernatural)
⭐⭐⭐⭐ to "The Vampire" // "The wood seemed full of dreadful sounds — moaning and wailing and hideous laughter. The wind of course, and the screaming of night birds — once I felt the fluttering of wings in close proximity to my face. But I could not rid myself of the thought that I, in my turn, was being pursued, that the forces of hell were combined against me."
Jan 20, 2026 09:33PM Add a comment
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Tassara
Tassara is 14% done with Batman, Volume 1: The Court of Owls
Issue #1: Knife Trick 🗡️ "When It comes to Gotham, you don't know it, brother. It knows /you/. And the moment you think otherwise, the moment you get too comfortable, that's when it stabs you right in the back. Because above everything, Gotham is… a mystery."
Jan 19, 2026 11:32AM Add a comment
Batman, Volume 1: The Court of Owls

Tassara
Tassara is 47% done with The Adventures of Aylmer Vance (Balck Heath Gothic, Sensation and Supernatural)
⭐⭐⭐⭐ to "The Fire Unquenchable" // "Who can say that the fire of inspiration dies with the death of the body? Who can say that, released from fleshly bonds, it does not continue to burn with a zest and ardour that we poor humans are totally unable to appreciate?"
Jan 06, 2026 11:06PM Add a comment
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Tassara
Tassara is on page 47 of 437 of Fairy Tales
they really do make fairy tales differently up there in Denmark huh
Jan 05, 2026 10:52PM Add a comment
Fairy Tales

Tassara
Tassara is 31% done with The Adventures of Aylmer Vance (Balck Heath Gothic, Sensation and Supernatural)
⭐⭐⭐✨ to "Lady Green Sleeves" // "This world lacks reality, and the men and women who inhabit it are but as changing shadows; here today, they will be gone tomorrow. There is nothing in this world that endures except — except love."
Jan 04, 2026 11:13PM Add a comment
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Tassara
Tassara is 24% done with The Adventures of Aylmer Vance (Balck Heath Gothic, Sensation and Supernatural)
⭐⭐⭐⭐ to "The Stranger" // "Do you think this world only belongs to the living, or do you believe that the past still has some hold on it — some claim? And have we lived before, or are we just ourselves?"
Dec 28, 2025 10:35PM Add a comment
The Adventures of Aylmer Vance (Balck Heath Gothic, Sensation and Supernatural)

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Tassara is 11% done with The Adventures of Aylmer Vance (Balck Heath Gothic, Sensation and Supernatural)
⭐⭐⭐⭐ to "The Invader" // "Tonight is just the night for a ghost story. There's a white, witching moon in the heavens-the pine trees look weird in the distance and hark how the wind is sighing amongst their branches!"
Dec 28, 2025 11:25AM Add a comment
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Tassara
Tassara is on page 275 of 1416 of Les Misérables
Part 1: Fantine 🥀 "‘Alas! the work wasn't finished, I admit: we destroyed the old order in its deeds, we were not able entirely to abolish it in its thoughts. To put an end to abuses is not enough, attitudes must change. The mill has gone, the wind is still there.’"
Dec 21, 2025 11:46PM Add a comment
Les Misérables

Tassara
Tassara is starting Revenger (Revenger #1)
no one look at me, i need some space opera popcorn if i want to have any hope of hitting my reading goal this year
Nov 23, 2025 10:52PM Add a comment
Revenger (Revenger #1)

Tassara
Tassara is on page 147 of 1416 of Les Misérables
💚 This is a buddy read with Emily. Trying to get better at updating my gr now that I can see the light at the end of this months-long reading slump. And who woulda thunk that a 1300+ page chonker of French lit would be the thing to do it? Ah well, best not to look a gift horse in the mouth. Wholeheartedly loving this so far and wouldn't abridge it for the world. 🇫🇷
Nov 15, 2025 10:24PM Add a comment
Les Misérables

Tassara
Tassara is on page 250 of 496 of Far from the Madding Crowd
alright !!! now we're cooking with gas !!!
Jul 22, 2025 11:31PM Add a comment
Far from the Madding Crowd

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Tassara is on page 198 of 496 of Far from the Madding Crowd
I kind of hate everyone* but also never want this book to end... Hardy makes me want to move to the English countryside so bad. (*everyone except the old maltser, for whom I would die)
Jul 20, 2025 10:32PM Add a comment
Far from the Madding Crowd

Tassara
Tassara is on page 212 of 240 of Call Us What We Carry
I really wish this resonated with me more than it did... I feel like I read a completely different collection than some of y'all in these reviews
Jul 19, 2025 10:31PM Add a comment
Call Us What We Carry

Tassara
Tassara is 30% done with Confessions of an English Opium Eater
dang I'm really regretting that I paused on Paradise Lost earlier this year... I could be reading this so much faster instead of having to read every footnote every time de Quincey makes a Milton reference 🥲
Jun 09, 2025 11:04PM Add a comment
Confessions of an English Opium Eater

Tassara
Tassara is on page 30 of 317 of Paradise Lost
”He called so loud, that all the hollow deep / Of hell resounded. […] Awake, arise, or be forever fallen." 📌 This is shaping up to be one of the most challenging books of classic poetry I've read.... And it's the only one originally written in English (my first language)!
Mar 18, 2025 10:56PM Add a comment
Paradise Lost

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Tassara is on page 408 of 417 of Vita Nostra (Vita Nostra, #1)
I finally finished this!! Gonna need to simmer a bit before I decide on a rating, but Part 3 was the strongest and most intriguing (besides the very beginning) by far. It's because of the final act that I'm not saying no to trying the sequel eventually 👀
Feb 19, 2025 10:51PM Add a comment
Vita Nostra (Vita Nostra, #1)

Tassara
Tassara is on page 32 of 204 of Picnic at Hanging Rock (Hanging Rock, #1)
i have been trying to read this for like 3 weeks and just can. not. so i'm going to put this on pause until i can be bothered.
Feb 16, 2025 09:39PM Add a comment
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Hanging Rock, #1)

Tassara
Tassara is 99% done with The Fire Next Time
"in our time, as in every time, the impossible is the least that one can demand — and one is, after all, emboldened by the spectacle of human history in general, and American Negro history in particular, for it testifies to nothing less than the perpetual achievement of the impossible."
Jan 25, 2025 11:31PM Add a comment
The Fire Next Time

Tassara
Tassara is 91% done with The Fire Next Time
"Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."
Jan 25, 2025 11:30PM Add a comment
The Fire Next Time

Tassara
Tassara is 82% done with The Fire Next Time
"Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be."
Jan 25, 2025 11:30PM Add a comment
The Fire Next Time

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Tassara is 79% done with The Fire Next Time
A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.
Jan 24, 2025 11:20PM Add a comment
The Fire Next Time

Tassara
Tassara is 50% done with The Fire Next Time
"If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him."
Jan 23, 2025 10:49PM Add a comment
The Fire Next Time

Tassara
Tassara is 36% done with The Fire Next Time
"The universe, which is not merely the stars and the moon and the planets, flowers, grass, and trees, but other people, has evolved no terms for your existence, has made no room for you, and if love will not swing wide the gates, no other power will or can."
Jan 23, 2025 10:37PM Add a comment
The Fire Next Time

Tassara
Tassara is 15% done with The Fire Next Time
"I know how black it looks today, for you. It looked bad that day, too, yes, we were trembling. We have not stopped trembling yet, but if we had not loved each other none of us would have survived."
Jan 22, 2025 10:06PM Add a comment
The Fire Next Time

Tassara
Tassara is starting The Fire Next Time
Not sure I'm ready for Uncle James to wreck my shit... But I'm diving in anyway.
Jan 22, 2025 09:36PM Add a comment
The Fire Next Time

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