100 Books

  • In all honesty, I’m not wearing black right now; I merely wanted to get AC/DC stuck in your head. You’re welcome. ”      Suddenly, he cut himself off. He wanted to say more. He wanted to express how little he thought of destiny if this was the life destiny had chosen for him. He wanted to…

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  • “‘…Never underrate the power of intellectual curiosity, Domaris! It leads to more trouble than any other human motive! If Riveda were malicious, or deliberately cruel, he would be less dangerous! But he only serves one motive: the driving force of a powerful mind which has never really been challenged…’” “The Fall of Atlantis” by Marion…

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  • ”     ‘You deceptive little minx,’ he said, grinning as he leaned into her, not for the illusion of their secrecy, but merely to be closer.      ‘I know,’ she whispered back, her dark eyes lingering on him for a moment before they set themselves steadily forward. ‘I’m already fitting in.’” It’s Wednesday, which means I…

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  • “Pretty much, you’re screwed. Patting yourself on the back is kind of like giving an aspirin to a dead guy; pointless.“ “Resident Evil 4: Underworld” by S.D. Perry When I embarked on the challenge to read through all six of the Resident Evil novelizations that I had, I knew I was going to be in…

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  • “‘You met crass fools in that Kassirian shop yesterday,’ Locke said, ‘but you hired professionals. Whatever happened there has passed. When you talked to Jaxson, I assume you talked to him about hiring capable hands for your cause. Well, you’ve got something better than that. You’ve hired Battaracks.’” Making the decision to finish Serpent in…

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  • “Dreams, Grimm exhaled, such a burden of the human soul.” “Dream Thieves” by Steven Lee Climer I’m not sure exactly how Dream Thieves came into my life, probably at a used book shop, because it’s a pretty indie book (before indie was even cool!) and I don’t think I’d have picked it up otherwise. Or…

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  • “‘Your pouch of coins may be as large and hefty as my nutsack, and it still wouldn’t be enough to pay me to work for you.’” Yup, we’re back on Serpent in a Cage excerpts to start out my check-ins. Gilferen really does get all the best lines. It’s been an interesting few days for…

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  • “‘I know,’ he said, and his acceptance earned him a kiss. She swooped in like a fresh breeze, the curtain of her dark hair falling over his as her lips touch his. It was a slow, meaningful kiss, all pressure and longing and hunger, and Silver slid his arm around her slender waist because it…

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  • “Time is truly a strange thing. The Ana’aek believe it to be a completely unless thing (more or less), a complete construction of Human minds to make their lives more stressful. Most people believe that time in linear, that it moves forward, marches on, steady to the tick of a clock, but the Ana’aek claim…

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  • “And she wondered, staring into the mirror at the woman she had become: How would her life had changed–how would the world’s life had changed–had she let Wayne fuck her brains out on the boat on the lake that day?” “Firestar” by Michael Flynn Reading a book that takes place in “the near future” is…

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