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Elle is Currently Reading

Elle (ellexamines on TT & Substack) is currently reading

Hell Bent (Ninth House Trilogy, #2)

by Leigh Bardugo (Goodreads Author)

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Angels in America

by Tony Kushner

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Elle (ellexamines on TT & Substack) said: "

History is about to crack wide open. Millennium approaches.

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The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)

by N.K. Jemisin (Goodreads Author)

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Elle (ellexamines on TT & Substack) said: " | releases: 26 Mar 2020 |
okay so. I love creepy city aesthetics, and this book is about a city with an actual living soul. which sounds so so amazing. I'm here for this!!!! ...more "

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Elle’s Notes & Highlights

Maurice

by E.M. Forster

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Elle’s Quotes

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: love, romance

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“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing

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“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

tags: self-determination, self-responsibility, timidity

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“Are you badly hurt?"
"Hideously," said the king, without sounding injured at all. "I am disemboweled. My insides may in an instant become my outsides as I stand here before you.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, The King of Attolia

tags: attolia

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