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Book Quote #95
Quote: “Words have no meaning unless there is someone present who can understand them.” – Professor Jerome Playfair from the book ‘Babel: An Arcane History’ by R.F. Kuang Continue reading
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Book Quote #94
Quote: “Strikers in this country never won broad public support, for the public merely wanted all the conveniences of modern life without the guilt of knowing how those conveniences were produced.” – Robin Swift from the book ‘Babel: An Arcane History’ by R.F. Kuang Continue reading
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Book Catalogue Card #24: Babel
Personal Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (5 out of 5 stars) To me, Babel is a masterpiece . I’d like to think that I don’t say that very lightly. To be able to combine so many intellectually stimulating conversations and make the power of words as the heart of a fictional world’s magic and execute it flawlessly is… Continue reading
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Book Quote #93
Quote: “I feel like my life keeps happening to me, rather than me living in it.” – Evangelina Celia Sage from the book ‘Assistant to the Villain’ by Hannah Nicole Maehrer Continue reading
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Book Quote #92
Quote: “Loyalty was easy to acquire when the only other option was death.” – Trystan Arthur Maverine from the book ‘Assistant to the Villain’ by Hannah Nicole Maehrer Continue reading
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Book Quote #91
Quote: “When you spend most of your life trying to see the sun, you being to wish for rain.” – Evangelina Celia Sage from the book ‘Assistant to the Villain’ by Hannah Nicole Maehrer Continue reading
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Book Quote #90
Quote: “When it comes to the thing one loves most, it is always better to be trapped than free and apart.” – Trystan Arthur Maverine from the book ‘Assistant to the Villain’ by Hannah Nicole Maehrer Continue reading
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Book Quote #89
Quote: “It was a hard lesson to learn that sometimes it was better to remain lonely than to waste companionship and energy on someone undeserving.” – Evangelina Celia Sage from the book ‘Assistant to the Villain’ by Hannah Nicole Maehrer Continue reading
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Book Quote #88
Quote: “A good book often felt like the same comfort as the heat of sunlight brushing your cheeks.” – Evangelina Celia Sage from the book ‘Assistant to the Villain’ by Hannah Nicole Maehrer Continue reading
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Book Catalogue Card #23: Assistant to the Villain
Personal Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4 out of 5 stars) A vanilla villain surrounded by characters as sweet as the caramel on my iced latte. But like any good, iced caramel latte, the bitterness of the espresso hints an edge and darkness that elevates each character’s personalities and bind them all together creating something exciting yet comforting… Continue reading
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Book Catalogue Card #22: Blender Babies
Personal Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4 out of 5 stars) Excellently gives the same tension as a zombie apocalypse movie in the most personal gruesome circumstances. There’s so much graphic violence excellently described that they ran like movie scenes in my head. Continue reading
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Book Quote #87
Eva goes to a therapist to try and fix herself and become a better wife, but what she unravels is her shattered view of her childhood and everything that led up to this point. Could the father she loved all her life really implanted a twisted perception of all the abuse she suffered through her Continue reading
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