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eman is Currently Reading

eman is currently reading

Frankenstein

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

bookshelves: classics, own, rory-gilmore-list, gift, female-authors, fiction, gothic, horror, currently-reading

Reading for the 3rd time

read in October 2022

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eman said: " Honestly, I loved the themes of this novel and all of the motifs in it,I am still curious why she chose to mention those specific types of themes. Like for example, why is yellow a motif? and nature and also ice? and why is like vengeance and wanting ...more "

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Sep 22, 2026 08:48AM · see review

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Book cover for Notes from the Underground

Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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I did not know how to become anything; neither spiteful nor kind, neither a rascal nor an honest man, neither a hero nor an insect. Now, I am living out my life in my corner, taunting myself with the spiteful and useless consolation that an ...more

eman’s Quotes

“Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.”
― Charlotte Brontë , Villette

tags: disappointment, expectation, life

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“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading

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“It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.”
― Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

tags: beauty, mind, real, what-is-on-the-inside

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