Robert Jackson Bennett
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Foundryside (The Founders Trilogy, #1)
37 editions
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2018
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The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan, #1)
13 editions
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2024
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City of Stairs (The Divine Cities, #1)
33 editions
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2014
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Shorefall (The Founders Trilogy, #2)
30 editions
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2020
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City of Blades (The Divine Cities, #2)
25 editions
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2016
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City of Miracles (The Divine Cities, #3)
20 editions
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2017
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Locklands (The Founders Trilogy, #3)
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2022
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American Elsewhere
18 editions
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2013
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The Troupe
17 editions
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2012
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Mr. Shivers
31 editions
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2009
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“And Olvos said to them: “Why have you done this, my children? Why is the sky wreathed with smoke? Why have you made war in far places, and shed blood in strange lands?
And they said to Her: “You blessed us as Your people, and we rejoiced, and were happy. But we found those who were not Your people, and they would not become Your people, and they were willful and ignorant of You. They would not open their ears to Your songs, or lay Your words upon their tongues. So we dashed them upon the rocks and threw down their houses and shed their blood and scattered them to the winds, and we were right to do so. For we are Your people. We carry Your blessings. We are Yours, and so we are right. Is this not what You said?”
And Olvos was silent.”
― City of Stairs
And they said to Her: “You blessed us as Your people, and we rejoiced, and were happy. But we found those who were not Your people, and they would not become Your people, and they were willful and ignorant of You. They would not open their ears to Your songs, or lay Your words upon their tongues. So we dashed them upon the rocks and threw down their houses and shed their blood and scattered them to the winds, and we were right to do so. For we are Your people. We carry Your blessings. We are Yours, and so we are right. Is this not what You said?”
And Olvos was silent.”
― City of Stairs
“Forgetting... is a beautiful thing. When you forget, you remake yourself... For a caterpillar to become a butterfly, it must forget it was a caterpillar at all. Then it will be as if the caterpillar never was & there was only ever a butterfly.”
― City of Stairs
― City of Stairs
“My definition of an adult is someone who lives their life aware they are sharing the world with others. My definition of an adult is someone who knows the world was here before they showed up and that it'll be here well after they walk away from it.
My definition of an adult, in other words, is someone who lives their life with a little fucking perspective.”
― City of Miracles
My definition of an adult, in other words, is someone who lives their life with a little fucking perspective.”
― City of Miracles
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November 2017 - Fantasy
Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory, 416p
Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson, 688p
Inda by Sherwood Smith, 576p
The Troupe by Robert Jackson Bennett, 500p
The Thief of Always by Clive Barker, 225p
Heap House by Edward Carey, 410p
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Place for random group side reads (i.e. we don't read a monthly pick, just stuff scheduled at a time when people can all read together). Often times t ...more
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