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Trudi is currently reading:

The Last Bastion of the Living: A Futuristic Zombie Novel

by Rhiannon Frater (Goodreads Author)

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Dustjacket Flowers (2005)

by Pablo D'Stair (Goodreads Author)

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Trudi made a comment on Dan Schwent's review of The Double "How very Soprano's! Are you sure he's not a hit man in his spare time? "
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“Once upon a time, the sky knew the weight of angel armies on the move, and the wind blew infernal with the fire of their wings.”
― Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight

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“Like art, love, and pornography, noir is hard to define, but you know it when you see it. For the purposes of the book and my longtime working understanding and definition of it, noir stories are bleak, existential, alienated, pessimistic tales about losers--people who are so morally challenged that they cannot help but bring about their own ruin.”
― Otto Penzler, The Best American Noir of the Century

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“She tried to pray, but she had only ever prayed at night, and it seemed to her that the moons made poor protectors when angels chose to hunt by day.”
― Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight

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“Once upon a time, an angel and a devil held a wishbone between them.

And its snap split the world in two.”
― Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight

94 people liked it