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Allison’s 2020 Year in Books
Take a look at Allison’s Year in Books. The long, the short—it’s all here.
177 books
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4,807 books
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Allison Hurd
Goodreads Author
Born
July 31
Website
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Genre
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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"Hmm. I’m not the target audience I don’t think. It was an uphill battle to begin with as I listened to it, instead of eye reading, and I am not a fan of audiobooks. I was relatively engaged and entertained for about the first 80%. Then it took a turn"
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"Claudia Rankine has taken the discussion of race up a notch with her book Just Us: An American Conversation. This was not an instruction manual, but real life conversations and the stream of consciousness and thoughts that occur during such conversat"
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We're trying Divinity 2. There's a lot to like here--I really like the character stats, how magic works, the story and the world. But I haaaate the UI
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Stormlight would be so rad.
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Allison Hurd
is on page 60 of 252 of The Gilda Stories: Not sure I'll quite finish by Thursday at this rate lol
First cycle done. I'm enjoying it but it feels like interview with a vampire but sapphic so far? 
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“She doesn't make speeches anymore. She has become speechless. She stays in her home, but it doesn't seem to agree with her. How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word.”
― The Handmaid's Tale
― The Handmaid's Tale
“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
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