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Dani is Currently Reading

Dani is currently reading

Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

by Cory Doctorow (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, arc, ampersand, nonfiction, canadian

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Feb 02, 2026 12:28PM

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The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)

by J.R.R. Tolkien

bookshelves: currently-reading, audio, classics

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Feb 02, 2026 12:27PM

I swore I wouldn’t inject romance into this novel. First of all, far too many fantasies have them and they feel poorly written and unnatural, like they’re thrown in there to keep the readers happy and not the author, or the authors think it ...more

Dani’s Quotes

“Gender is a shell game. What is a man? Whatever a woman isn't. What is a woman? Whatever a man is not. Tap on it and it's hollow. Look under the shells: it's not there.”
― Naomi Alderman, The Power

tags: gender, gender-roles, gender-stereotypes

146 likes

“One of them says, 'Why did they do it?'
And the other answers, 'Because they could.'
That is the only answer there ever is.”
― Naomi Alderman, The Power

tags: power

160 likes

“I also really feel the touch of my parents when I’m in the kitchen, thanks in part to the fact that I’m often frantically texting with them while I cook.”
― Megan Mullally, The Greatest Love Story Ever Told

3 likes

“All I ever want to do is read. I only leave the house under duress.”
― Megan Mullally, The Greatest Love Story Ever Told

26 likes