Stephanie P (Because My Mother Read)

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Stephanie is Currently Reading

Stephanie P (Because My Mother Read) is currently reading

Every Bend in the River

by Emerson Ford (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: 2025-releases, gifted-for-review, historical-fiction, currently-reading

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Oct 01, 2025 04:45PM

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One More Made Up Love Song (Midnight Rush Romance, #2)

by Jenny Proctor (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, 2025-releases, gifted-for-review, romcom

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Sep 27, 2025 04:14PM

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Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)

by Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: fantasy, favorites, audio, adapted-for-film, want-to-reread, currently-reading

Reading for the 3rd time

read in June 2013

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Stephanie P (Because My Mother Read) said: " 6/1/19
Reread partially as a physical book and partially as audiobook. This story was still engrossing, well-crafted, clever, and intriguing! I had forgot several things and was excited to experience them anew. I still love Vin as the strong, but vuln ...more "

Jun 01, 2019 06:30AM · see review

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Stephanie’s Quotes

“For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

tags: hope, inspirational

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“Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

tags: a-little-princess, frances-hodgson-burnett, inspirational, princess

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“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

tags: inspirational-ship-storms

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“Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

tags: ambition

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