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Queen Victoria's Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy
by Ellen Datlow (Goodreads Author)
read in May, 2013
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| A mixed bag of Victorian-era fantasy short stories. As with most anthologies, some were better than others, with Catherynne M. Valente and Jane Yolen really standing out. | |
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While the plot was nothing earth-shattering (the Federation and the Romulans vie for an alliance with a world of apparently little strategic importance... (or is it?) by taking opposite sides in that planet's revolution. However, we get another look...more |
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| This is a very, very strange book -- supposedly a Japanese dystopia story involving parallel universes? I don't know -- I had to put it down after 200 pages, as I realized that the story had gone absolutely nowhere in the past 100 or so... | |
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“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”
― C.S. Lewis
― C.S. Lewis
“Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald
― Zelda Fitzgerald
“Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte's Web
― E.B. White, Charlotte's Web
“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
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