Emily Jo Donovan

https://www.goodreads.com/deteriorism

Emily Jo’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (3155)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (603)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
horror‎ (184)
fantasy‎ (161)
historical-fiction‎ (156)
authors-of-color‎ (133)
mystery‎ (120)
thriller‎ (119)

literary-fiction‎ (104)
paranormal‎ (80)
2026-tbr-goals‎ (74)
contemporary‎ (72)
young-adult‎ (69)
lgbt‎ (64)
crime‎ (62)
sci-fi‎ (61)
classics‎ (59)
novella‎ (55)

feminism‎ (49)
gothic‎ (48)
asian-lit‎ (44)
non-fiction‎ (39)
african-american-lit‎ (37)
favorites‎ (35)
dystopian‎ (31)
speculative-fiction‎ (31)
indigenous-lit‎ (21)
mental-health‎ (20)

poetry‎ (20)
hispanic-lit‎ (19)
short-stories‎ (16)
want-to-reread‎ (16)
space-opera‎ (12)
western‎ (11)
dark-academia‎ (10)
reread‎ (0)

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“Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.”
― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

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“...They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

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“There are books which we read early in life, which sink into our consciousness and seem to disappear without leaving a trace. And then one day we find, in some summing-up of our life and put attitudes towards experience, that their influence has been enormous.”
― Anaïs Nin, In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays

tags: books, reading

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