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Jan 21, 2023 3 years ago
QueenSpazzy
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An I-Novel was pretty much exactly what the blurb said it would be. It was interesting to read about the experiences of a Japanese family living in the States around the 60s and 70s, though. Started Noor by Nnedi Okorafor. I loved another book by this author (Akata Witch), so I was quite excited to find my library had some of her other works. This one is some sort of sci-fi set in Africa.

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Jan 21, 2023 3 years ago
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MerlinT

Just bought home "When the corn is waist high" from the library. Hoping its good

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Jan 25, 2023 3 years ago
QueenSpazzy
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Noor was fantastic~ A strong, independent woman who is unapologetically herself and will literally fight anyone that has a problem with that? Yes, please. And all in an interesting sci-fi setting. Now I'm kind of reading two books at once. One is a collection of little one page comics; You're All Just Jealous of My Jetpack by Tom Gauld. I picked it up on a whim because of the title, but it is HILARIOUS. The other is a romance novel, The Weight of Living by M.A. Hinkle. Not something I'd normally pick up, I really only grabbed it to fill a book bingo square, but it has lesbians, so hopefully it won't suck.

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Jan 25, 2023 3 years ago
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Riley

Fright Night: Origins

I never realized I needed, or wanted to know so much more about Charlie Brewster and Jerry Dandrige, but my heart and mind are hooked haha.

Jan 26, 2023 3 years ago
Cassiopaea
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Ulrike

A Court of Thorns and Roses, read that one first and I am currently on the 4th book in the series.

I just saw your post that you read the series. Did you hear they are going to make a movie for Hulu. The director of Outlander is going to produce it.

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Jan 26, 2023 3 years ago
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MacLachlan

I did! I'm nervous and excited for it because book adaptations tend to either be really good (Lord of the Rings) or really crap (Eragon.)

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Jan 27, 2023 3 years ago
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Beau Alex

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (reading it for the 435th time)

Jan 27, 2023 3 years ago
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Ulrike

I truly love these books, it's the casting I'm wondering about! It will be interesting to see who they pick for Tamlin and how will they do that eye for Lucien? I won't say anything else in case anyone else is thinking of reading the books. Love LOTR books and movie, I did read Eragon but never saw the movie.

I'm also reading The Inheritance Games trilogy by Jennifer Lynn Barnes. Waiting for book 3 to come in the mail. :)

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Jan 27, 2023 3 years ago
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Finished up You're All Just Jealous of My Jetpack a couple days back. Being tiny comics, I wasn't expecting it to last long, but it was entertaining! It literally had me laughing out loud. Finished up The Weight of Living last night and I actually wound up loving it. It was more plot than romance, SUPER queer, and featured a weeby photographer and Hispanic chef as the main characters. Apparently, this is what I need to finally enjoy a novel in the romance genre. Next on the docket is Oksana, Behave! by Maria Kuznetsova. I'm not sure what made me pull it from the shelf, to be honest (a decent number of great reads for me have been books I was inexplicably drawn toward, so I don't fight it when I have the urge to pull a book at random), but after seeing the cover art and reading the inner flap blurb, I knew I had to give this one a try.

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Jan 28, 2023 3 years ago
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Nein

Checked Out from Library ( Fiction) Master of Poisons- Andrea Hairston (Fantasy) The Unwilling( haven't started reading it yet though)-Kelly Braffet

Owned: Non-Fiction

A Bookshop in Berlin- Francoise Frenkel.

copied from the book blurb: In 1921, Francoise Frenkel--a Jewish woman from Poland--fulfills a dream. She opens House of Books( translated from the French title because the bookshops name is in French), Berlin's first French bookshop, attracting artists and diplomats, celebrities and poets. As Nazi ideology begins to poison the culturally rich city, Francoise's dream eventually shatters, and she is secreted away from one safe house to the next, surviving at the heroic hands of strangers risking their lives to protect her.

Jan 30, 2023 3 years ago
QueenSpazzy
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Oksana, Behave! was an interesting read. It follows the main character from childhood to adulthood, and I far preferred first half to the latter half (children being far less likely to get up to bedroom shenanigans or drinking than a college student/adult). I also found the ending to be lackluster. It just kind of... drops off, there's no real closure. Plus I'd never have picked the book up in a million years if I'd had any kind of warning about the infidelity bullshit that would occur in it. Which isn't to say it was a BAD book, but, well, it wasn't for me around the point the main character hit the age of sixteen. Finally going to start the random novel I pulled from my personal collection MONTHS ago - Eternal by V.K. Forrest. I keep putting it off for library books because the cover art definitely makes me feel like this is going to be a novel that strays from my comfort zone. Plus having the phrase "forbidden love affair" appear in the summary blurb never bodes well for me.

EDIT (2/3): Eternal was exactly as terrible as I was expecting it to be. And it ticks the weirdest genre boxes... So if you've ever wanted to read a vampire FBI mystery novel with a healthy dose of "forbidden love affair," have I got a recommendation for you. I probably could have managed to find it to be an at least mediocre novel without all the time spent in the sheets, but since it only took fifty pages to reach those scenes and they just kept coming after that, well... It's not going back on my shelf, that's for certain, so it's getting the dubious honor of being the first book in my new donation box. The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun is my palate cleanser. This is actually a rereading for me, I started reading The Cat Who series way back in primary school, and I still love it. I mean, a classic mystery novel with a cat as a main character? Of course I was sold right away.

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Feb 5, 2023 3 years ago
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Tierna

I picked up a reading challenge this year, and finished off January with ten reads. For February, I'm currently reading Pachinko by Lee Minjin. It's an interesting read, spanning an entire Korean family generation living in Japan. I'm also reading Kjell Westö's Kangastus 38 (mirage 38), about life in Helsinki in the 1930s.

My next book will be Nnedi Okorafor's Who Fears Death, set in post-apocalyptic Africa

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Feb 5, 2023 3 years ago
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The Cat Who Could Read Backwards was as fantastic as I remembered it being. Though I did notice there were several jokes and implications that I DEFINITELY didn't understand the first time I read it. Have to clear some more room on my bookshelf before I try to read more of the series, though; I'm fairly sure I have the second book kicking around SOMEWHERE, but I have so many boxes of books that I just can't fit on my shelf... Now I'm reading The Stowaway by R.A. and Geno Salvatore. I've had it for YEARS, but just never got 'round to reading it - partly because I wasn't certain where it fell in the timeline of the books related to the universe of the Drizzt series, since Drizzt makes an appearance. The story features the Sea Sprite, so it almost has to be during the time Drizzt spent on Deudermont's ship, which should set it somewhere around Sea of Swords in the timeline, I think.

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Feb 7, 2023 3 years ago
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Cecilia

I haven't read a lot in a long time, but I picked up The Witcher Omnibus and I've been enjoying it a lot. Other than graphic novels, I did finish Dracula yet again last month.

Feb 7, 2023 3 years ago
QueenSpazzy
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The downfalls of children's books, they read so quickly. The Stowaway was good, though! A bit angry that I don't have the rest of the series. ;w; And I figured out where it fits in the timeline! Just before Drizzt and friends have a Calimport adventure. Made my latest library trip a "just for me" visit and picked up something I've had my eye on for a while, Lost in the Moment and Found by Seanan McGuire. It's a recent addition to the Wayward Children series, I'm excited to read it.

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Feb 8, 2023 3 years ago
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This afternoon I finished Lyrebird by Cecelia Ahern. It was incredible! Also the first of her books I've read this year but it won't be my last ;)

I will start another Discworld book next.

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Feb 9, 2023 3 years ago
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Lost in the Moment and Found was so different from the other Wayward Children novels, but I still loved it! REALLY glad I finally found the first Wayward Children novel a while back, it helps add a lot of context to this book. Next is Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor. It's the sequel to Akata Witch, and I didn't expect my library to have it, so I was SO excited when I was wandering the YA section and happened to spot it. I knew immediately that it would be coming home with me, no matter what other books I decided to pick up.

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Feb 12, 2023 3 years ago
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Tierna

Just finished reading Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, I loved the world it painted, super inspiring. I would love to craft a TC based on the atmosphere tbh.

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Feb 12, 2023 3 years ago
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Currently reading Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. I picked it up because I was surprised to notice it was labelled Crime. It was published in 1862 and it's very different from what I usually expect in a crime novel but that makes it an interesting experience. It's also wildly sexist... Kind of have to take it with a grain of salt. o.o;;

Lined up next I have Philip Reeve's latest, the second Utterly Dark book! Excited to read that.

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Feb 16, 2023 3 years ago
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Akata Warrior was soooo good!! I'll have to recommend that my beau's mum find it to read, she also liked Akata Witch and would definitely love the sequel.

After digging through one of my book boxes to find it, I've started Dracula by Bram Stoker. I have a square for my book bingo for an "epistolary novel," and in my research to dredge up a possible list of reads for the square, I found that Dracula would fulfill the requirement. My copy is fairly old, copyrighted in the mid-60s, and strangely enough seems to have never been read before; I had to go through the whole ritual of properly opening a new book.

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