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  1. Public Bookmark 39

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    After Akasha's death, no one seems to know what to do next, least of all Armand. Marius wants to pretend the last few centuries never happened, Louis and Gabrielle are fighting, Daniel is just happy to be alive and in the company of vampires and Lestat has locked himself away from the rest to write all the things he won't say to anyone out loud.

    Well, if Louis and Gabrielle can't help Lestat, maybe Armand can.

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    07 Oct 2025

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    “Should I do like your Coven of the Articulate? Tell my life story from the very beginning?”

    Amadeo didn’t match the smile. “I already know the story of your life.”

    “No.” Riccardo knew it sounded harsh. He didn’t mean for it to, but perhaps it needed to be. There had been pain. There would be more pain. They had to acknowledge it to heal it. “No, you don’t. I read your book. And I don’t blame you in the least, ‘Deo, but it’s plain as day that you never knew a fraction of my life. There was one being in your life back then who attracted your gaze, and you were blind to everything else.”

    A short flash of the wounded animal. Riccardo didn’t want that. He pulled his chair forwards, obscuring the burn on the carpet.

    “If you’ll listen, I’d like to tell you the things you never knew. The things you never understood. I’d like to share my life with you. And then I’d like to share everything that came afterwards.”

     

    OR: Riccardo's first meeting with Armand as a ghost (as in Prince Lestat).

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    11 Sep 2025

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    What Sasuke Uchiha wants is an indeterminate EC-02 Step 2 position with the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation that offers a decent salary, health benefits, paid vacation, and a manager who won't break all his Excel spreadsheets. What he gets is Naruto Uzumaki, an improbably attractive and unbearably annoying co-op student who eats way too much instant ramen and doesn't understand that "casual Friday" doesn't mean varsity sweatpants.

    Official CBC Canada Reads Selection 2019, made possible by the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ottawa Tourism Board.

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  4. Public Bookmark 17

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    Lestat’s lips formed the words: good to embrace and good to love. Armand’s history was a tapestry of grasping hands and greedy mouths.

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    18 Jun 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 58

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    Armand wants to play a game. He neglects to explain the rules to Daniel beforehand. Discomfort and tenderness ensue.

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    07 Apr 2025