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Clare Snow

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Clare is Currently Reading

Clare Snow is currently reading

A Murder of Rogues

by Joe Heap

bookshelves: published-2025, historical-fiction, murder, mystery, oxford, medicine, feminism, lgbtqia, regency, 1800s, england, library-book, audio-book, borrowbox, 2026-challenge-a-z-author, 2026-challenge-a-z-character, 2026-challenge-a-z-different, 2026-challenge-a-z-location, 2026-challenge-a-z-title, 2026-challenge-cards, currently-reading

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Apr 28, 2026 05:30AM

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Why Do Birds Sing?

by Gráinne Cleary

bookshelves: published-2025, aust-2025-pub, australian-author, australia, non-fiction, science, biology, birds, neuroscience, currently-reading, 2026-challenge-all-aussie, 2026-challenge-aus-readers

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Clare Snow said: " The 12 year old told me I have to read this (translation: immediately, preferrably before I see him again) so now I have to read it, immediately and uninterruptedly. "

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(page 25 of 336)
"I've known emus are as dumb as chickens, since that time I was walking the dingoes, and the emu ran towards us, not to scare us away but because Mr Emu was scared and meant to run away from us. (Don't worry, our dingoes were leashed.)

It's because emus are ratites and split off from the Neoaves clade: all modern birds except Palaeognathae (ratites) and Galloanserae (chickens, turkeys, other brainless birds)" — Apr 26, 2026 06:18AM

Apr 26, 2026 08:48PM · see review

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Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley

by Charlotte Gordon (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: published-2015, non-fiction, biography, mary-shelley, mary-wollstonecraft, feminism, history, writers, 1700s, 1800s, england, motherhood, currently-reading

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""Her father had taught her that writing was her legacy, that she was the daughter of Wollstonecraft and Godwin, the child of philosophers."" — Apr 20, 2026 11:42PM

Apr 20, 2026 11:37PM

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Clare’s Quotes

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

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“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: breath, existence

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“The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: emancipation, empowerment, feminism, gender, men, misogyny, women

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“I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: farenheit-451

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