A note on this blog's organization

Since I first started this blog, I've read over 600 books. I decided to organize them by sections, so to navigate to specific blog entries, review the sections below. To look for a specific book, you can check the list below, then use it to find the right page of the blog. Alternatively, you can try typing the book title or author's name in the search bar at the top left of this blog, but that seems to only pull from 'Conquering the Classics' and '101 and Beyond'.

Book Bingo #10 - 2022 Spooktober Scherenschnitte Book Bingo

Book Bingo #10 - Fall 2022 Spooktober Scherenschnitte Book Bingo - Another one of my own creation (27 books in total, 0 crossovers from '101 and Beyond'; stars on the bingo board indicate I really enjoyed that book)


Again, I do not lay claim to any artistic prowess, but this was fun to make. I was inspired by the traditional folk art of Scherenschnitte, or paper cutting. My dear friend Anna's husband, Dustin, entered a beautiful Scherenschnitte in the local fair in my hometown, and I thought it was so cool! Apparently the Pennsylvania Dutch brought the art form over to Pennsylvania from Germany.

As with the other bingos, I'm listing the titles below left to right, top to bottom, but moving across each area (outside, then the rows inside). Numbers have no meaning in terms of preference, they're just for ease of reference. Note: Blurbs below are either from the authors' websites or from booksellers. When possible, I've linked directly to the author's site to purchase a copy. Alternatively, feel free to use your local library, or buy local!

    • Five years after it began, a handful of scattered survivors remain, including Malorie and her two young children. Living in an abandoned house near the river, she has dreamed of fleeing to a place where they might be safe. Now, that the boy and girl are four, it is time to go. But the journey ahead will be terrifying: twenty miles downriver in a rowboat—blindfolded—with nothing to rely on but her wits and the children’s trained ears. One wrong choice and they will die. And something is following them. But is it man, animal, or monster?
    • This wide-ranging anthology brings together writers who offer perspectives that span generations and perspectives on life and Diné history. The collected works display a rich variety of and creativity in themes: home and history; contemporary concerns about identity, historical trauma, and loss of language; and economic and environmental inequalities. The Diné Reader developed as a way to demonstrate both the power of Diné literary artistry and the persistence of the Navajo people. The volume opens with a foreword by poet Sherwin Bitsui, who offers insight into the importance of writing to the Navajo people. The editors then introduce the volume by detailing the literary history of the Diné people, establishing the context for the tremendous diversity of the works that follow, which includes free verse, sestinas, limericks, haiku, prose poems, creative nonfiction, mixed genres, and oral traditions reshaped into the written word.

    • Miles Singer trades luxury, comfort, and his real name in exchange for surgical training and seven year’s service in Aeland’s Royal Army. Now home after a haunting, terrible war, Miles takes a job as a physician in Kingston’s cash-strapped veteran’s hospital, hiding the magical gift of healing that would land him in a witchcraft asylum, or worse–returned to the bosom of his power-hungry family. His quiet life is shattered when an emergency lands a poisoned witch in his caseload, brought into his hospital by the most handsome man he’s ever seen–a man who, after uncovering Miles’ powers, proposes that they investigate the murder of Miles’ patient…together. As they follow the trail of the witch’s poisoner, the sister Miles fled returns to convince him to take his place among the noble families who control the fate of Aeland–as a magical battery and a second-class citizen. As Miles resists his sister’s demands and his detective partner’s charm, Miles stumbles on the national secret that cost his patient his life…
    • In post-Arthurian Britain, the wars that once raged between the Saxons and the Britons have finally ceased. Axl and Beatrice, an elderly British couple, set off to visit their son, whom they haven’t seen in years. And, because a strange mist has caused mass amnesia throughout the land, they can scarcely remember anything about him. As they are joined on their journey by a Saxon warrior, his orphan charge, and an illustrious knight, Axl and Beatrice slowly begin to remember the dark and troubled past they all share. 
  • (5) Ash - Malinda Lo
    • In the wake of her father’s death, Ash is left at the mercy of her cruel stepmother. Consumed with grief, her only joy comes by the light of the dying hearth fire, re-reading the fairy tales her mother once told her. In her dreams, someday the fairies will steal her away, as they are said to do. When she meets the dark and dangerous fairy Sidhean, she believes that her wish may be granted. The day that Ash meets Kaisa, the King’s Huntress, her heart begins to change. Instead of chasing fairies, Ash learns to hunt with Kaisa. Though their friendship is as delicate as a new bloom, it reawakens Ash’s capacity for love—and her desire to live. But Sidhean has already claimed Ash for his own, and she must make a choice between fairy tale dreams and true love.
    • When archivist Sol meets Elsie, the larger than life widow of a moderately famous television writer who’s come to donate her wife’s papers, there’s an instant spark. But Sol has a secret: he suffers from an illness called vampirism, and hides from the sun by living in his basement office. On their way to falling in love, the two traverse grief, delve into the Internet fandom they once unknowingly shared, and navigate the realities of transphobia and the stigmas of carrying the “vampire disease.” Then, when strange things start happening at the collection, Sol must embrace even more of the unknown to save himself and his job. Dead Collections is a wry novel full of heart and empathy, that celebrates the journey, the difficulties and joys, in finding love and comfort within our own bodies.  
    • A Diné History of Navajoland brings much-needed attention to Navajo perspectives on the past and present. It is the culmination of a lifelong commitment from the authors, and it is an exemplary work of Diné history through the lens of ceremonial knowledge and oral history. Kelley and Francis present an in-depth look at how scholars apply Diné ceremonial knowledge and oral history to present-day concerns of Navajo Nation leaders and community members. All readers are invited to come along on this exploration of Diné oral traditions.
    • Eighteen-year-old Gu Miyoung has a secret–she’s a gumiho, a nine-tailed fox who must devour the energy of men in order to survive. Because so few believe in the old tales anymore, and with so many evil men no one will miss, the modern city of Seoul is the perfect place to hide and hunt. But after feeding one full moon, Miyoung crosses paths with Jihoon, a human boy, being attacked by a goblin deep in the forest. Against her better judgment, she violates the rules of survival to rescue the boy, losing her fox bead–her gumiho soul–in the process. Jihoon knows Miyoung is more than just a beautiful girl–he saw her nine tails the night she saved his life. His grandmother used to tell him stories of the gumiho, of their power and the danger they pose to men. He’s drawn to her anyway. With murderous forces lurking in the background, Miyoung and Jihoon develop a tenuous friendship that blossoms into something more. But when a young shaman tries to reunite Miyoung with her bead, the consequences are disastrous and reignite a generations-old feud . . . forcing Miyoung to choose between her immortal life and Jihoon’s.
    • Set in the deep South, Mongrels is a deeply moving, sometimes grisly, and surprisingly funny novel that follows an unnamed narrator as he comes of age under the care of his aunt and uncle — who are werewolves. They are a family living on the fringe, struggling to survive in a society that shuns them: living in cars or trailers, moving every couple of months, eating from garbage cans, taking whatever work they can scrounge. Mongrels takes us on a compelling and fascinating journey into this dark and shadowy world, moving fluidly through time to create an unforgettable portrait of a boy trying to understand his place in the world and in his close-knit family of outcasts. Never has the werewolf been so funny, so bloody, so raw and so real. 
    • Patricia has magical powers from an early age. When she tries to rescue a small bird with a broken wing, she discovers she can understand what the bird is saying—and she can talk to other creatures in the forest, as well. Once Patricia is a grown-up, she’s mastered her powers—but now she has to deal with the other witches, who worry that Patricia will break the one and only rule of magic. Laurence is an engineering, math, and computer genius, who builds a time machine when he’s still a pretty young boy. As he grows up, Laurence builds a supercomputer in his bedroom closet. And when he’s a fully grown adult, Laurence joins a secret organization and devotes himself to the problem of Saving the World. But Laurence finds that Saving the World isn’t as easy as it sounds, and he may have to be more than an engineering genius to pull it off.
    • After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemí Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. She’s not sure what she will find — her cousin’s husband, a handsome Englishman, is a stranger, and Noemí knows little about the region. Noemí is also an unlikely rescuer: She’s a glamorous debutante, and her chic gowns and perfect red lipstick are more suited for cocktail parties than amateur sleuthing. But she’s also tough, smart, and has an indomitable will, and she is not afraid: Not of her cousin’s new husband, who is both menacing and alluring; not of his father, the ancient patriarch who seems to be fascinated by Noemí; and not even of the house itself, which begins to invade Noemi’s dreams with visions of blood and doom. Her only ally in this inhospitable abode is the family’s youngest son. Shy and gentle, he seems to want to help Noemí, but might also be hiding dark knowledge of his family’s past. For there are many secrets behind the walls of High Place. The family’s once colossal wealth and faded mining empire kept them from prying eyes, but as Noemí digs deeper she unearths stories of violence and madness. And Noemí, mesmerized by the terrifying yet seductive world of High Place, may soon find it impossible to ever leave this enigmatic house behind. 
    • Ged was the greatest sorcerer in Earthsea, but in his youth he was the reckless Sparrowhawk. In his hunger for power and knowledge, he tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tumultuous tale of his testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient dragon, and crossed death's threshold to restore the balance.
    • The beautiful fairy Melusine, bewitched by an evil spell, languishes alone in her tower for centuries until she meets, falls in love with a handsome young man, and follows him as he journeys across medieval Europe.
    • This classic novel continues to enchant readers of all ages! A day with Mary Poppins is a day of magic and make-believe come to life. From the moment Mary Poppins arrives at Number Seventeen Cherry-Tree Lane, everyday life at the Banks house is forever changed. It all starts when Mary Poppins is blown by the east wind onto the doorstep of the Banks house. She becomes a most unusual nanny to Jane, Michael, and the twins. Who else but Mary Poppins can slide up banisters, pull an entire armchair out of an empty carpetbag, and make a dose of medicine taste like delicious lime-juice cordial?
    • Named one of TIME's "100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time" the novel tells the phantasmagorical story of a wealthy alcoholic who drinks 225 kegs of palm wine a day. When the man's personal tapster dies and leaves him without any remaining supply of alcohol, the man desperately follows the tapster into the nightmarish Dead's Town. Drawing on Yoruba folklore and narrated with a unique voice that mixes West African oral traditions with the Colonial British English that Tutuola learned at school, The Palm-Wine Drinkard is a seminal work of African literature from one of Nigeria's most influential writers and an important part of the global literary canon.
    • This is a tale of true love, high adventure, pirates, princesses, giants, miracles, fencing, and a frightening assortment of wild beasts. Set in 1941 and framed cleverly as an “abridged” retelling of a centuries-old tale set in the fabled country of Florin, home to “Beasts of all natures and descriptions. Pain. Death. Brave men. Coward men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passions.” William Goldman's modern fantasy classic is an exceptional story about quests—for riches, revenge, power, and, of course, true love—that's thrilling and timeless for readers of all ages.
    • Infused with Latin American tradition―the Brooklyn Brujas series follows three sisters―and witches–as they develop their powers and battle magic in their hometown and worlds beyond. Lula must let go of the ghosts of her past to face the actual living dead of her present. Lula Mortiz feels like an outsider. Her sister’s newfound Encantrix powers have wounded her in ways that Lula’s bruja healing powers can’t fix, and she longs for the comfort her family once brought her. Thank the Deos for Maks, her sweet, steady boyfriend who sees the beauty within her and brings light to her life. Then a bus crash turns Lula’s world upside down. Her classmates are all dead, including Maks. But Lula was born to heal, to fix. She can bring Maks back, even if it means seeking help from her sisters and defying Death herself. But magic that defies the laws of the deos is dangerous. Unpredictable. And when the dust settles, Maks isn’t the only one who’s been brought back…
    • Sophie has the great misfortune of being the eldest of three daughters, destined to fail miserably should she ever leave home to seek her fate. But when she unwittingly attracts the ire of the Witch of the Waste, Sophie finds herself under a horrid spell that transforms her into an old lady. Her only chance at breaking it lies in the ever-moving castle in the hills: the Wizard Howl's castle. To untangle the enchantment, Sophie must handle the heartless Howl, strike a bargain with a fire demon, and meet the Witch of the Waste head-on. Along the way, she discovers that there's far more to Howl—and herself—than first meets the eye. What will happen to Sophie Hatter when she enters Howl's castle? In this giant jigsaw puzzle of a fantasy, people and things are never quite what they seem. Destinies are intertwined, identities exchanged, lovers confused.
    • The rich and privileged have fled the city, barricaded it behind roadblocks, and left it to crumble. The inner city has had to rediscover old ways -- farming, barter, herb lore. But now the monied need a harvest of bodies, and so they prey upon the helpless of the streets. With nowhere to turn, a young woman must open herself to ancient truths, eternal powers, and the tragic mystery surrounding her mother and grandmother. She must bargain with gods, and give birth to new legends.
    • The del Cisne girls have never just been sisters; they’re also rivals, Blanca as obedient and graceful as Roja is vicious and manipulative. They know that, because of a generations-old spell, their family is bound to a bevy of swans deep in the woods. They know that, one day, the swans will pull them into a dangerous game that will leave one of them a girl, and trap the other in the body of a swan. But when two local boys become drawn into the game, the swans’ spell intertwines with the strange and unpredictable magic lacing the woods, and all four of their fates depend on facing truths that could either save or destroy them. Blanca & Roja is the captivating story of sisters, friendship, love, hatred, and the price we pay to protect our hearts.
    • The Amrithi are outcasts; nomads descended of desert spirits, they are coveted and persecuted throughout the Empire for the power in their blood. Mehr is the illegitimate daughter of an imperial governor and an exiled Amrithi mother she can barely remember, but whose face and magic she has inherited. Unbeknownst to her, she can manipulate the dreams of the gods to alter the face of the world. When Mehr’s power comes to the attention of the Emperor’s most feared mystics, she is coerced into their service, as they are determined to harness her magic for the glory of the Empire. She must use every ounce of will, subtlety, and power she possesses to resist the mystics’ cruel agenda — and should she fail, the gods themselves may awaken seeking vengeance…
    • Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: "He has a nose," people say. Engaged to track down a mysterious boy who disappeared three years earlier, Tracker breaks his own rule of always working alone when he finds himself part of a group that comes together to search for the boy. The band is a hodgepodge, full of unusual characters with secrets of their own, including a shape-shifting man-animal known as Leopard.  As Tracker follows the boy's scent--from one ancient city to another; into dense forests and across deep rivers--he and the band are set upon by creatures intent on destroying them. As he struggles to survive, Tracker starts to wonder: Who, really, is this boy? Why has he been missing for so long? Why do so many people want to keep Tracker from finding him? And perhaps the most important questions of all: Who is telling the truth, and who is lying? 
    • The Jazz Age is in full swing, but Casiopea Tun is too busy cleaning the floors of her wealthy grandfather’s house to listen to any fast tunes. Nevertheless, she dreams of a life far from her dusty, small town in southern Mexico. A life she can call her own. Yet this new life seems as distant as the stars, until the day she finds a curious wooden box in her grandfather’s room. She opens it–and accidentally frees the spirit of the Mayan God of Death, who requests her help in recovering his throne from his treacherous brother. Failure will mean Casiopea’s demise, but success could make her dreams come true. In the company of the strangely alluring god and armed with her wits, Casiopea begins an adventure that will take her on a cross-country odyssey, from the jungles of Yucatán to the bright lights of Mexico City–and deep into the darkness of the Mayan underworld.
  • (24) Elatsoe - Darcie Little Badger
    • Elatsoe—Ellie for short—lives in an alternate contemporary America shaped by the ancestral magics and knowledge of its Indigenous and immigrant groups. She can raise the spirits of dead animals—most importantly, her ghost dog Kirby. When her beloved cousin dies, all signs point to a car crash, but his ghost tells her otherwise: He was murdered. Who killed him and how did he die? With the help of her family, her best friend Jay, and the memory great, great, great, great, great, great grandmother, Elatsoe, must track down the killer and unravel the mystery of this creepy town and its dark past. But will the nefarious townsfolk and a mysterious Doctor stop her before she gets started? A breathtaking debut novel featuring an asexual, Apache teen protagonist, Elatsoe combines mystery, horror, noir, ancestral knowledge, haunting illustrations, and fantasy elements.
    • Conjure Women is a sweeping story that brings the world of the South before and after the Civil War vividly to life. Spanning eras and generations, it tells of the lives of three unforgettable women: Miss May Belle, a wise healing woman; her precocious and observant daughter Rue, who is reluctant to follow in her mother’s footsteps as a midwife; and their master’s daughter Varina. The secrets and bonds among these women and their community come to a head at the beginning of a war and at the birth of an accursed child, who sets the townspeople alight with fear and a spreading superstition that threatens their newly won, tenuous freedom. Magnificently written, brilliantly researched, richly imagined, Conjure Women moves back and forth in time to tell the haunting story of Rue, Varina, and May Belle, their passions and friendships, and the lengths they will go to save themselves and those they love.
    • Zafira is the Hunter, disguising herself as a man when she braves the cursed forest of the Arz to feed her people. Nasir is the Prince of Death, assassinating those foolish enough to defy his autocratic father, the sultan. If Zafira was exposed as a girl, all of her achievements would be rejected; if Nasir displayed his compassion, his father would punish him in the most brutal of ways. Both are legends in the kingdom of Arawiya—but neither wants to be. War is brewing, and the Arz sweeps closer with each passing day, engulfing the land in shadow. When Zafira embarks on a quest to uncover a lost artifact that can restore magic to her suffering world and stop the Arz, Nasir is sent by the sultan on a similar mission: retrieve the artifact and kill the Hunter. But an ancient evil stirs as their journey unfolds—and the prize they seek may pose a threat greater than either can imagine.
    • It’s been six weeks since angels of the apocalypse descended to demolish the modern world. Street gangs rule the day while fear and superstition rule the night. When warrior angels fly away with a helpless little girl, her seventeen-year-old sister Penryn will do anything to get her back. Anything, including making a deal with an enemy angel. Raffe is a warrior who lies broken and wingless on the street. After eons of fighting his own battles, he finds himself being rescued from a desperate situation by a half-starved teenage girl. Traveling through a dark and twisted California, they have only each other to rely on for survival. Together, they journey toward the angels’ stronghold in San Francisco where she’ll risk everything to rescue her sister and he’ll put himself at the mercy of his greatest enemies for the chance to be made whole again.

My Reflections on this Book Bingo

As with the other book bingos, I won't blog separately on each of these books, as it has been a long time since I read many of these, and I wouldn't want to give them short shrift. What I will do instead is share passages I liked and/or general reflections from this bingo board. 

I'll preface this by saying that I believe I borrowed many of these books from the library, and at least one I listened to on audiobook, so my notes are a bit more sparse than for some of the other bingos. Please don't take this as a sign of me not liking these books, it's just been a few years.

  • Bird Box
    • I believe I borrowed a friend's copy, so I don't have notes, but I really enjoyed reading this book. I think it's better than the movie, but that's pretty much par for the course.
    • The Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature
      • I have quite a few more sections underlined in my copy, but I'll let you discover the full magic yourself by getting your own ;) I got this one and the history (later) to better inform a character in my own series of novels, Felix. 
      • These stories are doorways opening inward, back into the world that is always home.
      • Time immemorial, jiní. Time immemorial is where these stories transpired - carrying constellation chill and sparkle, drama and tragedy, hope and laughter, As you read these writings, accept them as an offering, bundles of stories and songs to lighten your journey. They are an offering of reunification, like the return of a child from boarding school. They are a surviving remnant, a time capsule gently crafted together. They are a roadmap, documenting, and redefining, home.
      • Then she laugh as though the whole mountainside crushing.
      • He kindles magic mind.
      • Waken awhile from saldy nightmares ago and begin selfish souls.
      • Magic magpies ricochet.
      • I am a child of winter stories/feet bundled with warmest, driest rags/ borne into a blizzard/ named for surviving in a cradle board.
      • So thirsty we were, we drank in his stories/fortified our souls with the information./At our lunch break, he instructed us to eat some corn-based food,/he said, 'So the stories will stick better, and stay with you.'

      • Witchmark
        • I remember really enjoying this book, but I think I lent my copy to a friend, so I don't have my notes.
      • The Buried Giant
        • Look how deep runs the lust for vengeance!
        • What will you do with such wild words, sir? If it's treachery you contemplate, let's face one another with no more delay.
        • When the hour's too late for rescue, its still early enough for revenge.
      • Dead Collections
        • I prefer to remember this story between one bright moment and the next of an increasingly crowded life. It's not an old story yet, and I am still figuring out what it means.
        • That's what it's like to be a trans child and not know it. You have all the fragility of adolescence, but none of its resilience, the clever cartilage that always grows back.
        • But archives really are trash. Everything in an archives is something that somebody thought about throwing away and didn't. To play in the garbage chute, to find out about all these old traumas and dramas - that's where the glee comes in, a glee like having someone scoop up the papers behind you and let them flutter down on their head.
        • The could not substitute for the lost ones, but they could make the sounds of their ghosts.
        • A Diné History of Navajoland
          • As with the 'Reader', this was bought both to inform myself and to help inform a character in my book series. Again, my copy is riddled with underlinings and notes, and it was a super informative and incredible read. I highly suggest you check it out!
        • Wicked Fox
          • This was a spectacular read! I shared it by lending it out to both of my siblings and several of my friends, I liked it so much. I also went on to read the sequel. 
        • Mongrels
          • It feels like whispers. It sounds like smiling. It smells like teeth.
          • I'm not sure I wanted to be saved. 
          • If Darren ever opened the door and found me with an open rabbit on my bed, my hands and mouth bloody, then he'd just nod good, probably. A book, though. Every time he caught me with one of those, he'd always ask what that book could tell me that he didn't already know?
          • To wolf or not to wolf, that was the question.
        • All the Birds in the Sky
          • When the whole world turns chaotic, we must be the better part of chaos. 
          • We could not 'break' nature if we spent a million years trying. this planet is a speck, and we are specks on a speck. But our little habitat is fragile, and we cannot live without it. 
          • It's always too soon, until it's too late.
          • Jumping forward in time just underscored the basic problem: Laurence had nothing to look forward to.
        • A Wizard of Earthsea
          • There was no one to bring the child up in tenderness.
          • But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.
          • To hear, one must be silent.
          • It seemed to him that he himself was a word spoken by the sunlight.
          • To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
          • He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but to finish what he had begun.
          • The Wandering Unicorn 
            • I know I bought this, but I must have loaned it to someone, because I can't find my copy.
            • Mary Poppins
              • I loved reading Mary Poppins, and it was way creepier and wackier than the movie, which is saying something!
                • The trees themselves, turning and bending in the half light, looked as though they had gone mad and were dancing their roots out of the ground. 
                • 'Strike me pink!' said Mary Poppins.
                • 'Don't you know', she said pityingly, 'that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?'
                • 'I will thank you not to think. I can do all the thinking that is necessary here!'
                • All the afternoon the house was very quiet and still, as though it were thinking its own thoughts, or dreaming perhaps. 
                • 'Could we have imagined it?' said Michael, when they got home and told the story to their Mother.
                • 'Perhaps', said Mrs. Banks. "we imagine strange and lovely things, my darling.'
            • The Palm-wine Drinkard
              • PAY WHAT YOU OWE ME AND VOMIT WHAT YOU ATE.
            • The Princess Bride 
              • I loved reading this book! I had seen the movie a million times, as it was a favorite in our house growing up, but this was my first time reading the book, and it was a delight.
            • Howl's Moving Castle 
              • I found this to be an absolutely delightful read.
                • Sophie, to Howl: 'You don't like anything unpleasant, do you? You're a slitherer-outer, that's what you are! You slighter away from anything you don't like!'
                • I love that the chapters start with "In Which" - we used to narrate stories like this as children, we thought it was so delightful.
            • Brown Girl in the Ring
              • Secrecy was survival, oui?
              • It ain't easy, minding babies, but if you don't make the time to know you child, you and he will never live good together. I know. 
              • Don't go. Don't get vex and leave.
            • Empire of Sand
              • His evil was born from his humanity.
              • All she could hear was the roar of the storm and the steady thump of her own heart. 
              • Tonight was a step in the right direction: out of the comfort of known things nito the whirling, terrifying chaos of the light. 
              • The air shimmered. With frightening suddenness, the dreamfire poured from sky to earth like water, coils of light exploding into facets of brightness. It drenched the city in its glow. The air crackled. The dreamfire was falling. 
              • When the gods dream, they make and unmake the universe.
              • Then there's nothing ot fear, and everything to look forward to. 
              • She wore her age the way she wore her loveliness: proudly, like armor.
              • Arwa was growing agitated again, so Mehr cupped her sister's face in her hands and make a low soothing sound, like the desert winds at moonrise.
            • Gods of Jade and Shadow
              • But she was feverish with her quiet anger.
              • Elatsoe
                • Selfish men have salted the earth. Our children cannot be sustained by cruelty and poison. Each generaiton will wither until there is nobody left.
                • 'Don't rush stories,' Vivian chided. 'That's sacrilegious.
              • We Hunt the Flame
                • What treason was there in the study of history? 
                • Soon, death will be the least of our horrors.
                • The darkness was always happy to see her.
                • How could she explain the song the darkness sang? 
                • Knowledge without action is vanity, but action without knowledge is insanity.
              • Angel Fall
                • I feel adrift and clanless, lost and insignificant.
                • 'Why were the other angels attacking you?' 'It's impolite to ask the victim of violence what they did to be attacked.'


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