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Average rating: 3.74 · 61 ratings · 20 reviews · 4 distinct works
The Touch of the Sea

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3.65 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions
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Between: New Gay Poetry

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4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions
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Eternity in an Hour (Eterni...

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His Grace, the Duke by Emily Rath
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The Mask of Medusa by Sheryl St. Germain
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Love what she's done here with mythology and the way she's tied Medusa back not only to other Greek myths but also with a lot of the symbolism of snakes in our own cultures. Powerful, frank, empowering. A great start to a great career, and the only t ...more
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I Hope You Get This Message by Farah Naz Rishi
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I really wish you could leave half stars here, because this is a solid 3.5.

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How Not to Ask a Boy to Prom by S.J. Goslee
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This Close to Happy by Daphne Merkin
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Let's see. This is not a happy book, despite the word in the title. I'd din't really expect it to be, either. I stumbled across an excerpt in one of the magazines I read -- Harper's, maybe -- from early in the book, when Merkin first addresses suicid ...more
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Tin Man by Sarah Winman
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This is the kind of book I hope to write.

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“Are you angry? Punch a pillow. Was it satisfying? Not hardly. These days people are too angry for punching. What you might try is stabbing. Take an old pillow and lay it on the front lawn. Stab it with a big pointy knife. Again and again and again. Stab hard enough for the point of the knife to go into the ground. Stab until the pillow is gone and you are just stabbing the earth again and again, as if you want to kill it for continuing to spin, as if you are getting revenge for having to live on this planet day after day, alone.”
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“He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.”
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Anitra OMG you're reading Mishima. He was one of the authors I wrote about for my senior thesis! Love him.


Anitra I am your Anitra. Welcome to goodreads! It's addictive.


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