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Nov 19, 2023 2 years ago

I'm going to read some of these suggestions!

Nov 23, 2023 2 years ago

is bright-eyed and bushy-tailed

Blacksad was fantastic! So much so that I even tracked down the next two installments at the library and read them, too. It's incredibly emotional, and has a fair bit of action. The characters were clearly created with care, and every panel is so beautifully wrought. If you think you'd enjoy an action detective story in the style of old noir films, I would definitely recommend Blacksad.

Read The Color of Always after that, an anthology of short LGBTQIA+ love stories as comics. It was beautiful, and made me cry, and I am truly glad I decided to pick it up on a whim, I feel like I needed to read some of the messages in it.

And now I'm reading the comic adaptation of Neil Gaiman's American Gods. I didn't even know a comic adaptation had been made until I found it at the library, and I am SO excited to read it!

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Nov 24, 2023 2 years ago

has seen too much

20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill, it contains Pop Art, which is one of my favourite short stories.

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Nov 28, 2023 2 years ago

is bright-eyed and bushy-tailed

American Gods was a lovely read~ It followed the book very closely, and the artists did a fantastic job keeping the characters true to the book's descriptions. The characters also had so much life, and everything just flowed well.

Current read is Phasma by Delilah S. Dawson. I'm excited about this one. I'm looking forward to learning more about Phasma since we didn't get much of her in the movies.

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xe/they/she

Nov 28, 2023 2 years ago

is dancing till the world ends

Harry potter and the goblet of fire by JK Rowling ....again

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Dec 2, 2023 2 years ago

is bright-eyed and bushy-tailed

Phasma was wonderful! I didn't want to have too much hope since I didn't know the author at all, but it was well written, and incredibly interesting. Gives pretty much all of Phasma's backstory before she joined the First Order, so if you've ever wanted to know how Phasma came to be where she was, I can happily recommend this book!

Thrawn Ascendancy: Greater Good by Timothy Zahn is my next book. The first one was so good, of course I went straight back for the second.

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Dec 9, 2023 2 years ago

The Plushie Collector

Crescent City 2 (Sarah J maas). Just finished Iron Flame

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Dec 9, 2023 2 years ago

is bright-eyed and bushy-tailed

Thrawn Ascendancy: Greater Good was just as good as the first Ascendancy novel. I got through it fairly quickly, it was a page turner for me, for sure. Now I have to wait until my library can order in the last book to finish the trilogy, though. ;w;

So next is Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo. I've been after this book for over a month, had almost given up hope on ever seeing the physical copy and resigned to reading the digital version, but I got lucky at the library today and was able to find it on the shelves!

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xe/they/she

Dec 23, 2023 2 years ago

The Royal

Currently reading Shadow Baron by Davinia Evans, which is the sequel to Notorious Sorcerer.

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Dec 24, 2023 2 years ago

is bright-eyed and bushy-tailed

Six of Crows was actually better than I expected, and I already had pretty high expectations for it! I love how every single one of the main characters has growth and unique backgrounds and histories, and they each have their own major parts to play in the plot. Plus, every single one of them is beautifully flawed; they feel like real people.

I am now reading Dark Force Rising by Timothy Zahn, which is the sequel to Heir to the Empire. Now that I have some more backstory on Thrawn, I'm hoping he'll be more tolerable in this book.

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Dec 24, 2023 2 years ago

The Royal

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Six of Crows was actually better than I expected, and I already had pretty high expectations for it!
I love how every single one of the main characters has growth and unique backgrounds and histories, and they each have their own major parts to play in the plot. Plus, every single one of them is beautifully flawed; they feel like real people.

I've seen a lot of people say that Six of Crows "works" better if you age up the characters a few years because the plot is fairly unbelievable with the characters' canon ages but makes a lot more sense if they're in their early 20s. Would you agree with that? Just curious. I have read it, but it was many years ago and I've never read the sequel. I'm thinking of reading both next year.

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Dec 24, 2023 2 years ago

is bright-eyed and bushy-tailed

I suppose it would seem more realistic, or at least 'feel' better, if they were aged up, especially considering all the activities they get up to, even the legal ones, are things that are generally age blocked from anyone who isn't considered a legal adult. But then, it's a world with what is basically magic, and a country with an entire army that was mostly made up of people who were hardly more than children, and in that light, it doesn't seem so far-fetched even at their canon ages. I haven't read the sequel yet, though, and maybe that that will change my opinion!

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Dec 25, 2023 2 years ago

Going to try to get back into reading for the remainder of this and next year. I got the ebook of the complete edition HP Lovecraft's works since I find eldritch and cosmic horror interesting, a few non-fiction works related to history, Journey to the West, Crime and Punishment, 30 Days of Worldbuilding: An Author’s Step-by-Step Guide to Building Fictional Worlds (Author Guides Book 1).

I've read the The Alexander Inheritance (Ring of Fire - Assiti Shards Book 2) and The Macedonian Hazard (Ring of Fire - Assiti Shards Book 3).

My hope is to have a dedicated bookshelf so I can get physical books. Two book series I want to get more of is the 1632 series and the rest of the Dinotopia books.

Dec 29, 2023 2 years ago

is bright-eyed and bushy-tailed

Dark Force Rising was an entertaining read. Thrawn was more tolerable, but he also didn't really make any lengthy appearances, so I'm not sure it's so much me getting irrationally upset over him less so much as it is I had less time to work myself up to that point, haha. Lando and Mara Jade had more screentime, so to speak, though, which was thoroughly enjoyable.

Started Thrawn Ascendancy: Lesser Evil by Timothy Zahn today. It's the third and final installment of the Thrawn Ascendancy trilogy, and I'm enjoying it so far!

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Jan 1, 2024 2 years ago

The Royal

I was lucky enough to snag the first spot in line for my library's ebook copy of The Atlas Complex when it releases on Jan 9, so I'm reading The Atlas Six and then The Atlas Paradox.

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Jan 2, 2024 2 years ago

got lucky

First book of the year is The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave. It seems interesting so far, it's about Vardø's witch trials in 1620, but told in prose.

"After a storm has killed off all the island's men, two women in a 1600s Norwegian coastal village struggle to survive against both natural forces and the men who have been sent to rid the community of alleged witchcraft."

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Jan 3, 2024 2 years ago

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The Witches of New York by Ami McKay. This is the sort of thing I enjoy, but it's been going slowly for me.

Jan 5, 2024 2 years ago

is unlucky

Lord of the Rings!!!! I'm a few chapters into The Two Towers. Couple weeks ago I read The Hobbit first.

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Jan 10, 2024 2 years ago

is bright-eyed and bushy-tailed

Thrawn Ascendancy: Lesser Evil was fantastic! I was reluctant to finish the series, so I kind of took forever reading it because I knew I'd be sad once I was done. And I was INCREDIBLY sad, but not just because I finished it, the ending literally made me cry. I like Thrawn a great deal more now that I know his backstory; he's just an incredibly smart, misunderstood individual that will do anything (ANYTHING) to ensure the survival of his home and people. (This doesn't really make him any less of an ass in many of the things he does in the name of the Empire, so he still frustrates me to no end in other media, but knowing he has Reasons helps.)

Yesterday I read The Lamp from the Warlock's Tomb by John Bellairs. It's a children's novel, so it only took a few hours to get through. I have loved Bellairs's books since I first found them in primary school, though, so I was quite excited to find a handful of them at the library. And as it turned out, I hadn't read this one yet! Surprising, since I very clearly remember reading every single one of his books I could find at my primary school's library.

And now I'm reading Where the Cryptids Fled by Mo Drammeh. It just sort of happened to catch my interest while I was scanning the titles in the new arrivals section, so I don't know much about it other than it's about a couple of reporters finding evidence of cryptids, per the back-of-book blurb. And there's a warning about graphic violence at the start, so I think I can logically conclude it's going to have some pretty serious horror involved. But, well, it's about cryptids, so it can't totally suck, right?

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Jan 10, 2024 2 years ago

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Crescent City 2 (Sarah J maas).
Just finished Iron Flame

What did you think of Iron Flame? I just finished Fourth Wing and really enjoyed it.

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