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Elyse is Currently Reading

Elyse is currently reading

Hard Road West: History and Geology along the Gold Rush Trail

by Keith Heyer Meldahl

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Jun 14, 2026 01:02PM

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Book cover for Sorcery of Thorns (Sorcery of Thorns, #1)

Sorcery of Thorns (Sorcery of Thorns, #1) by Margaret Rogerson

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For these were not ordinary books the libraries kept. They were knowledge, given life. Wisdom, given voice. They sang when starlight streamed through the library’s windows. They felt pain and suffered heartbreak. Sometimes they were ...more

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“Commit to being a highly unusual human being instead of one of those timid souls who behave like everyone else, living a sloppy life instead of a magnificent one, a derivative life instead of an original one.”
― Robin S. Sharma, The 5AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life.

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“She has a newness,” he said. “Everything is for the first time. See how she moves, how she walks, how she turns her head—all for the first time, the first time anyone has ever done these things. See how she draws her breath and lets it go again, as though no one else in the world knew that air was good. It is all for her. If I learned that she had been born this very morning, I would only be surprised that she was so old.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

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