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Fabian {Councillor}

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Fabian is Currently Reading

Fabian {Councillor} is currently reading

The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom

by Shari Franke

bookshelves: audiobook, true-crime, social-media, family, dysfunctional-families, childhood, year-2025, mental-health, nonfiction, autobiographies-and-memoirs, biography, us-utah, religion, currently-reading

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Jun 28, 2025 08:35AM

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The Vegetarian

by Han Kang

bookshelves: year-2007, contemporary-fiction, horror, mental-health, literary-fiction, nyt-best-of-21st-century, south-korea, feminism, prime-reading, asian-american, nobel-prize-for-literature, currently-reading

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Jun 17, 2025 10:54AM

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Skeleton Crew

by Stephen King (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: onleihe, year-1985, writer-stephen-king, short-story-collections, horror, currently-reading

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Fabian {Councillor} said: " I have been reading this book on and off for a really long time by now, but I am slowly getting attached to King's short stories, and on average, he grabs me by the throat more intensely in this collection than he did in Night Shift. That doesn't mea I have been reading this book on and off for a really long time by now, but I am slowly getting attached to King's short stories, and on average, he grabs me by the throat more intensely in this collection than he did in Night Shift. That doesn't mean that Night Shift didn't have some intense, scary and horrifying stories (just read Quitters, Inc., The Ledge or Sometimes They Come Back to see what I'm talking about), but in Skeleton Crew, there are fewer missteps and more stories twist your stomach into knots and won't let go of your mind even after you have put down the book.

Beyond the spoiler tags, a few thoughts on each story I have read so far are hidden. Proceed at your own risk.

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Jun 15, 2025 11:43AM · see review

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Fabian’s Quotes

“...And the way they are now, I don't see's there's much difference between the Fromes up at the farm and the Fromes down in the graveyard; 'cept that down there they're all quiet, and the women have got to hold their tongues.”
― Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome

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“She wants to find the good in others, and sometimes her way of finding that is to trust them, hoping she’ll not be disappointed, but she sometimes is.”
― Claire Keegan, Foster

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“Like shit, change happens.”
― Stephen King, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

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“But I'm tired of coming out. All I ever do is come out. I try not to change, but I keep changing, in all these tiny ways. I get a girlfriend. I have a beer. And every freaking time, I have to reintroduce myself to the universe all over again.”
― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

tags: coming-out, glbt, simon-spier

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