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2025 Reading List

In progress

 - House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

 - Angry White Men by Michael Kimmel 

Finished

 - The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman 

 - The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman

 - The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman

 - The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

 - A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold

 - I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

 - How to Keep House While Drowning by K.C. Davis

 - A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas

 - Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

 - The Ends of the World by Peter Brannen

 - Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab

 - Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins

 - Blackouts by Justin Torres

 - She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

 - The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

 - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

 - Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu (reread)

 

2024

 - The Secret History by Donna Tart

 - The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

 - Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

 - The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu

 - The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu

 - Death's End by Cixin Liu

 - The Redemption of Time by Baoshu

 - Doppelganger by Naomi Klein

 - My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir

 - Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

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"Tori, can you recommend a book?"

Yes, you should read the Three Body Problem Trilogy! The last 2 books are phenomenal

Some nice photos from 2024 taken on 35mm film

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Spring 2025 is my eighth semester playing violin in the USC Student Symphony Orchestra. We play 2 concerts per year, one in fall and one in spring. 

Program: Dances for Harp and Strings by Claude Debussy, La Forza del Destino Overture by Verdi, winning piece from call for scores, Themes from How to Train your Dragon, Poet and Peasant overture by Franz von Suppe, Symphony No. 9 "New World Symphony" Mvt 4 by Anton Dvorak. 

Fall program: Octopath Traveler video game soundtrack, condensed movie score from Les Mis, Vlatva by Bedrich Smetana, mvts II and IV from Tchaikovsky's 5th symphony, and the winning piece from our call for scores competition. 

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Contact me -

I am not active on social media. My USC email is the best way to reach me. 

Tori Cassady

University of Southern California

Earth Sciences Department

Natural History Museum of 

Los Angeles County

Mineral Sciences Department

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