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Krysta’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Krysta’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Krysta MacDonald
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January 2011
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The Girl with the Empty Suitcase
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2017
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2 editions
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To Air the Laundry
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2019
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The First Time I Died
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The First Time I Died: Stories
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* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.
Krysta’s Recent Updates
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April Short Story/Novella Poll
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April 2026 New School Classics Poll
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The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima, 1963, 181 pages
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Wild Dark Shore
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“The memories are lodged in my throat, and a part of me wonders if you can choke on something that isn’t physically there. Can you choke on hurt?”
― The Girl with the Empty Suitcase
― The Girl with the Empty Suitcase
“What is it about suitcases, lying there empty? Before a trip, they are full of uneasy anticipation. After, they are almost regretful, longing to go back to those unfamiliar hotel rooms, those airport carousels. If items can be discontent, the one that is the most must be an empty suitcase. Or perhaps an undeveloped roll of film.”
― The Girl with the Empty Suitcase
― The Girl with the Empty Suitcase
“Who decides those things? And why don’t I know about them? Is there some sort of meeting, or maybe an assembly, like the ones we used to have in elementary school, where all the little finite details of all the little things in life get decided? And why didn’t I get an invitation to that meeting?”
― The Girl with the Empty Suitcase
― The Girl with the Empty Suitcase
“Sonnet XVII
I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way than this:
where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep. ”
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I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way than this:
where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep. ”
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“Jessie rummaged through her purse for the necessary equipment. If there were one thing, Baley had once said solemnly, that had resisted mechanical improvement since medieval times, it was a woman's purse.”
― The Caves of Steel
― The Caves of Steel
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