Leia's Updates en-US Sat, 29 Mar 2025 15:11:00 -0700 60 Leia's Updates 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Review5835398080 Sat, 29 Mar 2025 15:11:00 -0700 <![CDATA[Leia added 'Blood Meridian']]> /review/show/5835398080 Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy Leia gave 5 stars to Blood Meridian (Paperback) by Cormac McCarthy
bookshelves: mccarthy, read-for-class, favorite-books
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]]> Review4813107888 Fri, 28 Feb 2025 12:19:14 -0800 <![CDATA[Leia added 'Macbeth']]> /review/show/4813107888 Macbeth by William Shakespeare Leia gave 5 stars to Macbeth (Paperback) by William Shakespeare
bookshelves: shakespeare
]]> Review5588658955 Fri, 28 Feb 2025 00:58:00 -0800 <![CDATA[Leia added 'Hamlet']]> /review/show/5588658955 Hamlet by William Shakespeare Leia gave 5 stars to Hamlet (Paperback) by William Shakespeare
bookshelves: shakespeare
]]> Review5041022225 Wed, 26 Feb 2025 06:31:03 -0800 <![CDATA[Leia added 'Snow White']]> /review/show/5041022225 Snow White by Jacob Grimm Leia gave 3 stars to Snow White (ebook) by Jacob Grimm
bookshelves: brothers-grimm
]]> Review4937556083 Wed, 26 Feb 2025 00:47:49 -0800 <![CDATA[Leia added 'Egil's Saga']]> /review/show/4937556083 Egil's Saga by Anonymous Leia gave 4 stars to Egil's Saga (Paperback) by Anonymous
bookshelves: non-fiction
"'Just avoid aiming too high or contending with stronger men than yourself, but never give way to them either.'"

"'You're not going,' said Skallagrim, 'because you don't know how to behave when there's heavy drinking. You're enough trouble when you're sober.'"

"'Tomorrow when it is light we will comb the whole island and kill that man.'"

"They talked about what to do with the prisoners. The farmer advocated killing them one after the other, but his son said that since the night was falling, they would not be able to enjoy torturing them, and asked him to wait until morning."

"'This is a poor and cowardly raid. We have stolen all the farmer's wealth without his knowing. Such a shame will never befall us. Let's go back to the farm and let people know what has happened.'"

"Let polished hilt-wands clash,
strike shields with brands,
test our swords' shine on shields,
redden them with blood."

"'Don't blame me for following the master of the house's example. He's spewing his guts up just as much as I am.'"

"The sea has robbed
me of much,
my kinsmen's deaths
are harsh to tell,
after the shield
of my family
retreated down
the god's joyful road."

"Now my course is tough:
Death, close sister
of Odin's enemy,
stands on the ness:
with resolution
and without remorse
I will gladly
await my own."

"Swedish: Sweden often features as the home of troublemakers of almost superhuman strength." ]]> Review5168837085 Thu, 20 Feb 2025 10:04:35 -0800 <![CDATA[Leia added 'Wuthering Heights']]> /review/show/5168837085 Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë Leia gave 4 stars to Wuthering Heights (Paperback) by Emily Brontë
"Terror made me cruel; [...]"

"'It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world!'"

"'Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.'"

"'It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.'"

"'My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning: my great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: [...]'"

"'I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free... and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them! Why am I so changed? Why does my blood rush into a hell of tumult at a few words?'"

"'But Heathcliff, if I dare you now, will you venture? If you do, I'll keep you. I'll not lie there by myself: they may bury me twelve feet deep, and throw the church down over me, but I won't rest till you are with me. I never will!'"

"'I have no pity! I have no pity! The more the worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething; and I grind with greater energy, in proportion to the increase of pain.'"

"'You talk of her mind being unsettled. How the devil could it be otherwise in her frightful isolation?'"

"'I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it.'"

"'And I pray one prayer--I repeat it till my tongue stiffens--Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living! You said I killed you--haunt me then! The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe--I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!'"

"'[...] take my books away, and I should be desperate!''

"'You must learn to avoid putting me in a passion, or I shall really murder you, some time!'"

"'Mr. Heathcliff! master!' I cried. 'Don't for God's sake, stare as if you saw an unearthly vision.'
'Don't, for God's sake, shout so loud,' he replied."

"'My soul's bliss kills my body, but does not satisfy itself.'" ]]> Review6586502090 Sun, 16 Feb 2025 08:16:55 -0800 <![CDATA[Leia added 'City of Thieves']]> /review/show/6586502090 City of Thieves by David Benioff Leia gave 5 stars to City of Thieves (Paperback) by David Benioff
Funny how the author of this masterpiece is the very same guy who messed up the ending for Game of Thrones. ]]> Review4640837326 Tue, 11 Feb 2025 10:12:13 -0800 <![CDATA[Leia added 'Misery']]> /review/show/4640837326 Misery by Stephen King Leia gave 4 stars to Misery (Paperback) by Stephen King
bookshelves: king-and-bachman
]]> Review5560809494 Sat, 01 Feb 2025 10:42:34 -0800 <![CDATA[Leia added 'Metamorphosis']]> /review/show/5560809494 Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka Leia gave 4 stars to Metamorphosis (Hardcover) by Franz Kafka
bookshelves: kafka
]]> Review5256913621 Sat, 01 Feb 2025 10:42:21 -0800 <![CDATA[Leia added 'The Invisible Man']]> /review/show/5256913621 The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells Leia gave 3 stars to The Invisible Man (Paperback) by H.G. Wells
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