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onceuponarachel

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Reading...The Mask Falling (The Bone Season, #4)
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Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)
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The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
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All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
  • The Mask Falling (The Bone Season, #4)
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    3 books of torment for a few chapters of domestic bliss let's goooooo (samantha please don't kill everyone I love by the end of this series)

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  • The Song Rising: Author's Preferred Text (The Bone Season)
    onceuponarachel
    Jul 08, 2025
    4.5
    Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 4.5Characters: 4.5Plot: 4.5

    samantha shannon let me count the ways!! this one felt more like line edits - she's 3 books in, she's a way better writer. still so fun to see the things she changed. something she mentioned in her essay on her website on why she wanted to do the revisions, is one of the things she changed was the inherent misogyny presented both to and by Paige; that Shannon had this idea all dystopias had to also hate women. and then when she did the re-writes she was basically like,,,, that's dumb. and removed all those instances. OBSESSED. love the idea she was like "society is allowed to hate you because you have magic. it's NOT allowed to hate you for being a girl."

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  • The Familiar Stranger: (Re)Introducing the Holy Spirit to Those in Search of an Experiential Spirituality
    onceuponarachel
    Jul 07, 2025
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    The Familiar Stranger: (Re)Introducing the Holy Spirit to Those in Search of an Experiential Spirituality

    The Familiar Stranger: (Re)Introducing the Holy Spirit to Those in Search of an Experiential Spirituality

    Tyler Staton

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    onceuponarachel's 2025 Reading Challenge

    33 of 50 read
    The Song Rising: Author's Preferred Text (The Bone Season)
    The Mime Order (The Bone Season, #2)
    How to Age Disgracefully
    The Summer War
    Familiar Stranger
    Murder by Memory (Dorothy Gentleman, 1)
    Back After This
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