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Elle (ellexamines on TT & Substack) is currently reading

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

by Patrick Radden Keefe

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Elle (ellexamines on TT & Substack) said: "

It’s not the drugs that are bad; it’s the people who abuse them.

One of the stories from this book that I found the most terrifying and notable was the story of a secretary the author refers to as Martha West, who herself became addicted to oxy – ...more "

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The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)

by N.K. Jemisin (Goodreads Author)

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Elle (ellexamines on TT & Substack) said: " | releases: 26 Mar 2020 |
okay so. I love creepy city aesthetics, and this book is about a city with an actual living soul. which sounds so so amazing. I'm here for this!!!! ...more "

Aug 31, 2019 08:10AM · see review

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Authority: Essays

by Andrea Long Chu

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Elle (ellexamines on TT & Substack) said: " I recognize the irony of writing a book review of a book critic whose work is of such a high caliber, but I loved this book and wanted to mark my favorites.

Hanya’s Boys – This is one of my favorite essays of all time, and is I believe how I first ...more "

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Elle’s Notes & Highlights

Maurice

by E.M. Forster

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Elle’s Quotes

“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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“When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

tags: katsa, monster

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“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: women

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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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