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You see it's quite simple: if they call the earth Gaia, it's fantasy. If they call it Terra, that's sci-fi

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Rand so desperately wants to just be a sword-based protagonist. Please let him hit people with sword. He loves sword.

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“He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”

— Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte (b. 30 July 1818)

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What do you mean I can’t read every book ever

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This bookstore was just as cute as their sign 💕

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“The whole world opened up to me when I learned to read” - Mary McCleod Bethune

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Song of Achilles By Madeline Miller

Rating: 5/5

Review:

I loved everything about ‘The Song of Achilles’. I have read this book six or seven times at this point, and I got my own copy to annotate (something I rarely ever do). 

The writing of Achilles and Patroclus is just something else, something beyond what I thought possible to write. The whole book reads as if you're actually there watching everything unfold. 

The blooming romance between Achilles and Patroclus is handled in a mature, cutesy, and appropriate manner that I found tasteful even as a younger reader in my early teens. I love every single one of their interactions, how wrapped up they seem in everything they do together. 

The whole story is so captivating that I completely forgot that I was reading a new take on the Iliad. I was blindsided by the ending I knew was coming because I was so caught up in the beauty and enchantment the writing wove around me. 

Amazing book, especially for a first read of queer literature. Will, have, and would recommend.

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Everyone’s Book - Brattleboro, Vermont

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“Everyone has their own troubles; some lay them bare while others hide them better.”

Sue Lynn Tan, Daughter of the Moon Goddess

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“Livira hadn’t so much disdained the library’s rules as wholly failed to acknowledge their existence.”

Mark Lawrence, The Book That Broke the World

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“We should appreciate the flower, regardless of its roots.”

Sue Lynn Tan, Daughter of the Moon Goddess

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“I hated him now because I had loved him then.”

Sue Lynn Tan, Daughter of the Moon Goddess

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“All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others.”

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion

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“They would still be scars on their memory, but scars were meant to be lived with.”

Mark Lawrence, The Book That Broke the World