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    I’m delighted to talk Star Trek at an event by Licking County Library on Jan. 18, 2022 at 7pm Eastern. This event is live, online, and free to everyone.
    My presentation: “Empowered Minds: How Star Trek Changed the World and Why It Still Matters”
    Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Empowered Minds: How Star Trek Changed the World and Why It Still Matters. After registering, yo

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    HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!
    October 31: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley (1818)
    Quote 1:
    My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine.
    Quote 2:
    But it is even so; the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.




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    October 30: The Mary Shelley Club by Goldy Moldavsky (2021)

    Quote 1:
    And when you’re truly scared, there’s nowhere to hide - no private school, no popularity, no trust fund. It’s just you and your most base emotion. Fear is where the truth lies.

    Quote 2:
    But there was something wrong with me. It clawed at my insides, desperate to get out.

    Quote 3:
    If you want this to be over, just make sure she screams.

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    October 28: The Gemma Doyle Trilogy (2003-2007) by Libba Bray

    Quote from A Great and Terrible Beauty (2003):
    What frightens you?
    What makes the hair on your arms rise, your palms sweat, the breath catch in your chest like a wild thing caged?
    Is it the dark? A fleeting memory of a bedtime story, ghosts and goblins and witches hiding in the shadows? Is it the way the wind picks up just before a storm, the hint of wet in the air that makes you want to scurry home to the safety of your fire?
    Or is it something deeper, something much more frightening, a monster deep inside that you’ve glimpsed only in pieces, the vast unknown of your own soul where secrets gather with a terrible power, the dark inside?

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    October 27: The Devil Makes Three by Tori Bovalino (2021)

    Quote:
    Demons. Dark magic. The devil. These were the things he searched, muttering under his breath and dead to the world around him as dawn broke; as something grappled at the door of his office and found itself forbidden.

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    October 26: The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (2005)

    Quote:
    As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching back that endangers us; sometimes history itself reaches inexorably forward for us with its shadowy claws.

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    October 24: House of Night series by P.C. & Kristin Cast (2007-2014)

    Quote from Marked (2007):
    “Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good.”
    NOTE: I contributed the essay “Reimagining ‘Magic City’: How the Casts Mythologize Tulsa” to a book about the House of Night Series, Nyx in the House of Night. You can read more of my posts about the series here.   

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    October 22: Waking the Moon by Elizabeth Hand (1994)
    Quote 1:
    They never found her. Nothing at all: no clothes, no jewelry, no bones or teeth or locks of auburn hair.
    Quote 2:
    By the door the two figures remained still. I slitted my eyes, afraid that they would see that I was awake, be moved by the reflection of starlight in my pupils to reach for me with those terrible arms. Still they said nothing, only stood there unmoving, watching, waiting. 

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    October 20: Vita Nostra by Marina Dyachenko & Sergey Dyachenko, trans. Julia Meitov Hersey (1st published 2007, in English 2018)

    Quote: 
    “‘If we get to the end of the course… we shall become just like them. And we shall speak their language. Then we’ll take revenge.’”

    Sasha shook her head.

    “If we get to the end of this course, we won’t want to take revenge anymore. We’ll become just like them.”

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    October 18: If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio (2017)

    Quote 1:
    But that is how a tragedy like ours or King Lear breaks your heart — by making you believe that the ending might still be happy, until the very last minute. 
    Quote 2:
    You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.


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    October 17: In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead (2021)

    Quote:
    It turns out the real you is a quilt, made up of the light and the dark. The life you’ve lived in sunshine and your shadow life, stretching underneath the surface of your mind like a deep underwater world, exerting invisible power. You are a living, breathing story made up of the moments in time you cherish, all strung together, and those you hide. The moments that seem lost. Until the day they’re not.

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    October 15: The Truly Devious Series by Maureen Johnson (2018-2021)
    Quote from Truly Devious (2018): 
    It was, in short, idyllic and fantastical, and may have remained as such had it not been for that foggy night in April 1936 when Truly Devious struck.
    Schools may be famous for many things: academics, graduates, sports teams.
    They are not supposed to be famous for murders.

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