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Ashley is Currently Reading

Ashley (semi-ia, exam szn) is currently reading

Conversations on Love

by Natasha Lunn

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Ashley (semi-ia, exam szn) said: " genuinely forgot that you can listen to audiobooks if you have spotify premium so i'm gonna listen to this!! gonna place some excerpts here as i go :

"Our story existed in ambiguity, and in all the things we would never say. My imaginary narrative for ...more "

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"bar after bar" — 18 hours, 28 min ago

18 hours, 30 min ago · see review

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A Little Life

by Hanya Yanagihara (Goodreads Author)

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Ashley (semi-ia, exam szn) said: " WE'RE BACK!! gonna tackle this mammoth for real but with NAT to kick off our 2026 rebrand project!! with lots of tears!!

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brief dnf—will revisit next year (maybe with someone else??)

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I'M SORRY I'M PUTTING EVERYTHING ON MY CURRENTLY READING CAUSE I NEE ...more "

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"i haven’t cried yet" — Sep 03, 2025 04:30PM

Jan 09, 2026 07:46PM · see review

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Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West

by Virginia Woolf

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Ashley (semi-ia, exam szn) said: " AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH i’m so fucking excited to read this. i don’t care about the ridiculous number of books on my currently reading!!

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added to my tbr because it’s virginia woolf and cause of this quote i read in a substack post from this book: “I alway ...more "

Dec 24, 2025 04:13PM · see review

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Ashley’s Quotes

“Good night. I'm Cinderella without her prince. Do you know where to find me in Tokyo? You won't see me again.”
― Osamu Dazai, Schoolgirl

tags: cinderella, cryptic, mysterious

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“Marianne had the sense that her real life was happening somewhere very far away, happening without her, and she didn't know if she would ever find out where it was or become part of it.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

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“I’m a miserable cynic (a newer development) and a dreamy romantic (always have been), and it’s such a terrible combination that I don’t know how to tolerate myself.”
― Sarah Hogle, You Deserve Each Other

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“I was always an unusual girl.
My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean.”
― Lana Del Rey