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Allison’s 2022 Year in Books
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Allison Hurd
Goodreads Author
Born
July 31
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Influences
Member Since
November 2012
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Feeding Frenzy (The Summoner Sisters, #1)
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Sacrifice (The Summoner Sisters, #2)
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The First One's Free (The Summoner Sisters, #0.1)
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Be Punk AF
In my first year of law school, one professor paced the front of class, waiting for news about whether there was a stay of execution for a man sentenced to death.
“Let this be a lesson,” he said as the tension left his body upon hearing that the stay had been granted, “that what we do here has very real consequences.”
That same term, in another course, we discussed a real event where people’s loved
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"Mahit’s small nation receives an abrupt notification from the neighboring empire,Teixcalaan: “We need another of your ambassadors.” She has only a month, instead of the recommended year, to integrate with her new imago-memory, a device that provides "
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A sad, contemplative, pain-ridden story of living under a totalitarian regime in the early days of that regime. This is only scifi because it is a dystopia that hasn't happened in this exact way, and there's a torture scene that I don't know how that ...more |
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This book is delicious mainly for 2 reasons: the whimsy of the narrator, and the juicy information we get about the cosmere. The story itself was cute, but certainly not his best work. CONTENT WARNING: (view spoiler) ...more |
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This is a prime example of why I don't read series back to back. You can see the authorial handprint so much starker, I feel, and I can judge the motivations of characters much more minutely. To the detriment of the series, in this instance. CONTENT W ...more |
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What can I say? If you like urban fantasy a la Dresden Files, and just wish there were more of the sort of bad guy of the week take down type books, this is a series for you! This one has some creep factor to it, both in the sense of the things going ...more |
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An urban fantasy centered on the diné mythology, which, in this instance, makes the fantastical elements harder. CONTENT WARNING: (view spoiler) ...more |
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Hi Pradeep!
We're already doing that! you can just join in here, if you like scifi and fantasy books! ...more " |
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“He felt in his heart cruelty and cowardice, the things which made him brave and kind.”
― The Once and Future King
― The Once and Future King
“...the future is closed to us; were it not, life would be insupportable, as only uncertainty admits of hope”
― The Way Home
― The Way Home
“Their mother is Athene, the goddess of wisdom, and, although they are often ready to play the buffoon to amuse you, such conduct is the prerogative of the truly wise.”
― The Once and Future King
― The Once and Future King
“Anyone can love a thing because. That’s as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.”
― The Wise Man's Fear
― The Wise Man's Fear
“But there was a time when each of us stood naked before the world, confronting life as a serious problem with which we were intimately and passionately concerned... There was a time when Free Love versus Catholic Morality was a question of as much importance to our hot bodies as if a pistol had been clapped to our heads.
Further back, there were times when we wondered with all our souls, what the world was, what love was, what we were ourselves.”
― The Once and Future King
Further back, there were times when we wondered with all our souls, what the world was, what love was, what we were ourselves.”
― The Once and Future King
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