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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

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Elle (ellexamines on TT & Substack) said: " - The Adventure of Silver Blaze - Found this actually fairly predictable, no especially fantastic characters.
- The Adventure of the Yellow Face - Period typical anti-racism is always an interesting time, but I did find myself oddly enjoying this
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Apr 03, 2026 10:56AM · see review

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Undoing Gender

by Judith Butler

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Elle (ellexamines on TT & Substack) said: " One of my favorite elements of this book is its argument that our current society devalues “kinship,” ties, devaluing bonds that fall outside of a marital structure, considering “their loves losses less than “true” loves and “true” losses.” This is s ...more "

Apr 02, 2026 10:23AM · see review

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Ring Shout

by P. Djèlí Clark (Goodreads Author)

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Mar 15, 2026 10:40AM · see review

Elle’s Notes & Highlights

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by E.M. Forster

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Elle’s Quotes

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing

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“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: love, romance

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“He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

tags: crises

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“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

tags: self-determination, self-responsibility, timidity

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“Name the different kinds of people,’ said Miss Lupescu. ‘Now.’

Bod thought for a moment. ‘The living,’ he said. ‘Er. The dead.’ He stopped. Then, ‘... Cats?’ he offered, uncertainly.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

tags: cats, challenge, dead, guess, humor, kinds, kinds-of-people, living, people

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