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Post by angelashly on Sept 24, 2024 7:15:45 GMT -6
My library doesn’t have allegedly 😭😭 Oh bummer, it’s a really powerful read. Have you read anything else by her? I also read Mondays Not Coming and The Weight of Blood and they were equally good. I’ve read both of those! |
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Post by DGM on Sept 24, 2024 7:24:47 GMT -6
I finished Twenty Years Later. Wow. 5 stars. Just put a hold on it It's intense but such an intriguing story. I started Lily Chu's The Stand-in. I didn't realize it was 400 pages when I downloaded it LOL but like the premise of it. It also gives me hope how Asians can be movie stars nowadays. My mom told me as a kid an Asian like me couldn't ever be famous...sigh. Negative talk like that is why I love hearing about you and your DD. |
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Post by bearfootzcontinued on Sept 25, 2024 9:13:35 GMT -6
I finished Pretty Girls. Not bad writing, but that was tough to read. As in, gave me nightmares.
My hold for The Briar Club just came through so started that this morning.
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Post by cakewench on Sept 25, 2024 10:49:56 GMT -6
I finished Pretty Girls. Not bad writing, but that was tough to read. As in, gave me nightmares. My hold for The Briar Club just came through so started that this morning. Yeah Pretty Girls was difficult to listen to. The mystery was really good but the graphic descriptions of violence... it was a lot. |
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Post by sudsy on Sept 25, 2024 10:53:14 GMT -6
I just read Paradise Problem and it was meh for me. I’ll give it ⭐️⭐️⭐️. Has anyone ever read Night Watch? My hold just came up for it.
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Post by angelashly on Sept 26, 2024 6:42:22 GMT -6
I finished Keep Your Friends close it was meh and there was way to much going on and none of it made sense really
Everyone recommends Lucinda Berry as a great author so I decided to try her. I’ll give her another shot but meh
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Post by cnf on Sept 26, 2024 7:19:03 GMT -6
I finished Resist Me by Lauren Connelly. It's was the last in the series, but there are more side characters so I'll be curious to see if she adds more to it.
I'm still picking my way through Dawn Of The Cursed Queen. I'm only at 41%. Damn job really cuts into my daytime reading.
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Post by Bookshelves on Sept 26, 2024 8:04:41 GMT -6
Libro.fm is having a promo where you can get Malala Yousafzai’s audiobook of I Am Malala free for the next couple days. (Libro.fm is like the audiobook version of Bookshop.org, so purchases can be assigned to support local, independent bookstores. It’s employee owned. I didn’t have an account because I have always just used the public library apps for my audiobooks, but this finally got me to sign up! I love using Bookshop.org and am happy for something similar for audiobooks.)
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Post by byjove on Sept 26, 2024 8:25:54 GMT -6
Bookshelves, thanks for the heads up! I hadn't heard of libro before.
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Post by melohdy on Sept 26, 2024 9:52:38 GMT -6
Bookshops and Bonedust was just as cute as Legends and Lattes. I'd highly recommend both for a cozy fantasy read.
I just started Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books on audio and I am very excited (I am the President of our school board and not banning books is absolutely a hill I will die on). I'm 20 minutes in and I have already laughed out loud a few times. It is by the same author who wrote The Change - Kirsten Miller
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Post by CestLaVie on Sept 26, 2024 10:28:02 GMT -6
I am about 30% into A Discovery of Witches and it is such a great fall read, I'm really enjoying it.
I finished Bad Blood and Twelve and I'm sad that I finished The Naturals series, it was fun.
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Post by melohdy on Sept 26, 2024 14:44:54 GMT -6
I am about 30% into A Discovery of Witches and it is such a great fall read, I'm really enjoying it. I finished Bad Blood and Twelve and I'm sad that I finished The Naturals series, it was fun. The first is my least favorite of the original trilogy (and still amazing). I like the 2nd best, keep with it! |
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Post by angelashly on Sept 27, 2024 6:12:58 GMT -6
I picked up Here One Minute last night and ended up reading 150 pages. It’s weird but I like it also
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Post by abs on Sept 27, 2024 7:05:46 GMT -6
I picked up Here One Minute last night and ended up reading 150 pages. It’s weird but I like it also I’m reading this, too, and yes. Totally weird but also interesting enough. |
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Post by angelashly on Sept 27, 2024 7:44:24 GMT -6
I picked up Here One Minute last night and ended up reading 150 pages. It’s weird but I like it also I’m reading this, too, and yes. Totally weird but also interesting enough. I was surprised by how I got into it because at first I was not and then all of a sudden it was 11pm and I hadn’t moved |
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Post by cakewench on Sept 27, 2024 8:13:02 GMT -6
I am still trying to finish Project Hail Mary - it's interesting but I just havent been in the mood to read much lately. I need to finish it by Monday because it's due back to the library and I can't renew.
I'm listening to And Then There Were None and I have to say Dan Stevens is a delightful audiobook narrator. Looks like he's also done the narration for Murder on the Orient Express, I will definitely give that a listen.
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Post by bearfootzcontinued on Sept 27, 2024 9:23:55 GMT -6
I am about 30% into A Discovery of Witches and it is such a great fall read, I'm really enjoying it. I finished Bad Blood and Twelve and I'm sad that I finished The Naturals series, it was fun. I either need to find some stronger reading glasses or get this on Kindle because the copy I have has very small print. |
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Post by cdnfroggy on Sept 27, 2024 9:41:40 GMT -6
I finished The Hike by Lucy Clarke and it was a fun thriller - kept me hooked from page 1. 4.5 star read for sure.
I started Dinner on Monster Island by Tania de Rozario, a memoir written in various essays that weaves the authors experience of "growing up as a queer, brown fat girl in Signapore" (author description) with her love of horror and pop culture and two essays in and I am loving it. If the rest are as a good it will be a top 3 read of this year hands down. Her writing and style just hooked me. It's also a short read (less than 200 pages).
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Post by cnf on Sept 29, 2024 8:40:07 GMT -6
I read Spookily Yours by Jennifer Chipman and it was just ok. It really needed to be like a 100 pages longer so it didn't feel so rushed and smashed together. The second book is much long, so I'll start that tonight and hopefully it's better paced.
I'm only 52% into Dawn Of the Cursed Queen. Ugh, it's taking me forever! Stupid job.
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Post by DGM on Sept 29, 2024 14:09:03 GMT -6
I finished The Stand-in and enjoyed it. I don't want to immediately binge her books but will definitely read her again at some point.
I also read Following the Trail by Lynette Eason. It's one of their Love Inspired Suspense (Harlequin's "faith" books). Cute, predictable read by one of my favorite mystery writers.
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Post by Rusty Red on Sept 30, 2024 7:15:32 GMT -6
Just finished Good for a Girl by Lauren Fleshman. Excellent book if you are a runner.
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Post by cakewench on Sept 30, 2024 7:17:47 GMT -6
I finished two books over the weekend! Finally finished Project Hail Mary - I thought it was really good, just took me a while because I wasn't motivated to read (maybe burnt out from cramming three books in a week earlier in the month? Library deadlines, man  ). Also finished The Treasured One by Hannah Levin. I saw it when my county library posted about an event Levin was doing at a branch, because she's a local author. I couldn't attend but I love me a romantasy so I reserved it. I enjoyed it, I think the pacing was a little off and some things could have been delved into better, but it was good. Basic premise is a rift appears in our modern world that leads to a fae dimension, and after that some kids are born with the ability to use magic. The FMC developed healing powers as a girl, and has been a public servant ever since. Then her powers start to kill her, so the government arranges for her to go to the fae world to help figure out what's wrong. Next up is Carissa Broadbent's Daughter of No Worlds. A new coworker has leant me her copy of Fourth Wing, too. |
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Post by angelashly on Sept 30, 2024 7:46:36 GMT -6
I finished Here One Moment
It was a good character driven book
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Post by angelashly on Sept 30, 2024 8:00:04 GMT -6
BOTM books are up and people are mad Frieda’s newest is on there
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Post by bearfootzcontinued on Sept 30, 2024 9:11:39 GMT -6
BOTM books are up and people are mad Frieda’s newest is on there Why? I'm missing something. |
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Post by angelashly on Sept 30, 2024 9:29:32 GMT -6
BOTM books are up and people are mad Frieda’s newest is on there Why? I'm missing something. Because her books aren’t literary I guess 🤷♀️ There has been a lot of people asking that question in the Facebook groups |
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Post by marygracerich on Sept 30, 2024 9:55:29 GMT -6
I am 1/3 of the way through The Ashes and The Star Cursed King. I like it a lot but I haven’t had much time to read.
My next read is either going to be Gild or When the Moon Hatched.
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Post by emma on Sept 30, 2024 10:07:32 GMT -6
Why? I'm missing something. Because her books aren’t literary I guess 🤷♀️ There has been a lot of people asking that question in the Facebook groups ah so a lot of people exposing themselves as book snobs and assholes! |
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Post by angelashly on Sept 30, 2024 10:16:53 GMT -6
Because her books aren’t literary I guess 🤷♀️ There has been a lot of people asking that question in the Facebook groups ah so a lot of people exposing themselves as book snobs and assholes! Pretty much |
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Post by angelashly on Sept 30, 2024 10:17:50 GMT -6
I get a lot of my thrillers or romance from BOTM
None of them are winning literary awards
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