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"The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along."

—Marjan Kamali, The Stationery Shop

#marjan kamali #the stationery shop #i am in shambles #i am wrecked #booklr #book review #a reviews

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How do i tell people to read THE STATIONERY SHOP by MARJAN KAMALI calmly without SCREAMING AND SCREECHING BECAUSE I CANT STOP SCREAMING AND SCREECHING AND PUNCHING AIR EVER SINCE I STARTED THIS BOOK HOLY!!!!

—A

#book #the stationery shop #marjan kamali #the stationary shop #I HAVENT EVEN FINISHED READINH THIS BOOK?!!! #BUT ALL THE FEELS OMG #a reviews

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I'M SCREAMINGGGHHHHH

—A

#book #the monster of elendhaven #johann #florian #im sCREAMING!!!!)) #JOHANN YOURE FUCKING WHIPPED #a reviews

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What a refreshing read!

Like, holy shit?? I'm so in love with this book! As if the cover wasn't enough to woo me; then the story took me by surprise with its simplicity and its typical fairytale storyline. Which is not a bad thing, mind you—or at least for me.

If you're expecting a heavy themed fairytale, this ain't it. This one is very straightforward. A fae and a human fall in love—very forbidden, you see—and fighting for their love and I just... awwwwwwwwww!

Romantic and fluffy and very refreshing to read a new kinda fairytale story.

5/5 from my very romantic and sappy heart!!!

#book review #booklr #an enchantment of ravens #margaret rogerson #rook #isobel #ya books #a reviews #book #i really love this! #its so fluffy!!!!

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“Men tell stories,” I say. It is the truest, simplest answer to his question. “Women get on with it."

—Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

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“Men tell stories,” I say. It is the truest, simplest answer to his question. “Women get on with it."

If you're looking for an in depth ww2 book, this ain't it. As much as I enjoyed reading this, thoroughly, I gotta admit this is a simple book. An easy read by the way of its writing and story flow.

Sure it did portray the ugliness of war; but I can't help to group this book more as a YA genre. It just- it doesn't have that heaviness of ww in it, you get what I mean? It feels... tame? In comparison to other ww book.

Perhaps because its focused more on the characters? The forced-fed idea of "love wins" made it sound so cliche.

And yet, I'm giving this 4 stars. Why? Because I loved it. I loved the easy read, the flow of the story, the headstrong Isabelle, the strongwilled Vianne. Maybe I'm biased because this book showed the strength of women and their roles during ww2 and I don't mind being biased!!!! Okay??!!! Women were there too!

And the ending? Oh my god.

“He limped toward her and took her in his arms.

She brought her shaking hands up and put her arms around him. For the first time in days, weeks, a year, her heart was a reliable thing, pumping with life. When he drew back, he stared down at her and the love in his eyes burned away everything bad; it was just them again, Gaëtan and Isabelle, somehow falling in love in a world at war.

"You’re as beautiful as I remember,” he said, and she actually laughed, and then she cried."

It wrapped up beautifully. I cried. I fucking bawled. In front of my family!! And I'm not ashamed of it!!!!!

If you love to read a heavy themed book but easy to read (I didn't even realised I finished reading this in one day) and you love some cute love story despite the hardship, the war, the struggle; and if you just simply love reading strong female characters; PICK THIS BOOK UP!!!!!!

Solid 4 from me. A fucking 4!!!!

—A

#book review #a reviews #book #booklr #the nightingale #kristin hannah #i cried #i fucking did

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GUESS WHO REMEMBERED HER PASSWORD

ANYWAY this is the second latest Matthew Scudder novel and by that I mean 2011. That’s like a lifetime ago when I still had access to tumblr without having to do some unspeakable things first. What’s life and all that jazz. This one starts with Matthew and Mick sitting in a bar talking about old stories, when Matthew mentioned one of his childhood friends. Then the story cuts to the past, when Matthew only just stopped drinking, approaching his one year anniversary of sober. He met Jack, a childhood friend and a former criminal, who’s also trying to stay away from alcohol. He’s taking that 12-step procedure and apologizing left and right for his past sins, be that sleeping with someone else’s girlfriend, stealing from a pal, robbing a shop, or committing murder.

Jack’s killed afterwards. Someone wants him to stop. It’s gotta be related to his past crimes, and Matthew is hired to rule out suspects.

This book is a long lost friend for me after 16 books about Matthew’s life. I know he’s old and okay right now, still got his wife and Mick after that massacre  in Everybody Dies, so it’s safe to take a look at a story happened in his earlier life. I know nothing major will happen because I already know the ups and downs and ends of all the main characters, so this is just about Matthew struggling with alcohol and walking around and making calls to find out what happened. It’s familiar enough to rest my mind even when the real story has suspense.

The end is unexpected. Not the identity of the murderer. The way Matthew handled things. It’s smooth, so smooth that I almost think this is the older Matthew Scudder making peace with the world. I love Lawrence Block. Not only because of his talent, but also his gentleness towards us readers.

“In fact,” he said, “all the physical evidence supports a verdict of suicide. Strangulation’s the cause of death. There ought to be a law.”

“Against suicide? I think there already is.”

“Against belt,” he said. “Where do they get off making them strong enough to support a man’s weight? You might as well be putting a loaded gun in the hands of a child.”

—C

#a drop of the hard stuff #lawrence block #detective novels #I'm back

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3.5/5

God I hate that I had to give this book anything below 5. This is one of the most anticipated 2019 book for me and frankly, after the Six of Crows duology, I expected so much—especially after seeing Nikolai, Zoya, and Genya's small appearance in Crooked Kingdom. I'm so fucking pissed at myself!!!!! GAHH!!

Review time!

And mind you, I'm trying my best to give non-spoiler review (my 2019 resolution) so, if there's a spoiler-ish bit in it, I'M SORRY OKAY?! I'M STILL LEARNING!!!

First part of the book:

Is more to reintroduce the grisha trilogy characters. Could be boring for those who has already read TGT—I can tell—but for new readers or for those who had only read SoC duology (your bitch right here) first part is very helpful.

We get to learn the dynamic of these characters, of the King and his team. We learn bout the politics, what nation on which side, it's a broader world compare to SoC.

And as a person who loves politics and world building—in this case, also who'd love to learn more bout these characters—I enjoyed, and very much thankful, for the first part.

But this also equal to: a vomit of information.

To be honest, I expected this book to be thicker. I didn't check pages of the book that I read. So from the compactness of the first part, I thought it would be... more. Longer! Yknow?

Couldn't help but feel like the storyline is rushed? I hated that I felt that! I wanted to enjoy this book so bad!!!!

Character wise: no complain! I FUCKING LOVE THEM!!!! I LOVE THIER DYNAMICS!! I LOVE EVERYONE!!!! ESPECIALLY ISAAK!!!!!!!

ISAAAAAAAAAAKKKK!!!!!!!!

Bruh I even love THAT Shu girl!!!! Yall know who she is right?! Yeah!! That girl!! I LOVE HER OKAY!!!! PLS!!!!!!

—A

#king of scars #kos #soc #grishaverse #booklr #leigh bardugo #book review #help!!! #i wanna love this book so bad!!!!!! #a reviews

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—Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

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Choo choo! All aboard the feels train!

—A

#nina zenik #king of scars #kos #grishaverse #booklr #kos quote #my heart #leigh bardugo #my bb matthias!!!! #book review #a reviews

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it’s women’s duty to endure them

—C

“How men liked to recount their deeds.”

—Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

#yeah i'm back and i'm a bitch right now

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“How men liked to recount their deeds.”

—Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

#book quote #kos #king of scars #kos quote #zoya nazyalensky #leigh bardugo

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some of you haven’t been so wrecked by a book that it’s all you can think about for days and days and your book hangover feels unending and it shows

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Let the reading begin!

—A

#king of scars #leigh bardugo #nikolai lantsov #book #booklr

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—Anonymus, Indian Love Poems

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Oh my god I cried I cried I FUCKING CRIED!!!!

Should've read this before Circe but it's better than not reading it at all because fuck! That ending just ripped my heart off, rolled it in fragments of glasses, then dipped it in alcohol so I could feel all the cuts!! The pain!!! THE AGONY!!!!!!!!

Honestly what else did I expect? We all know the ending of Achilles and Patroclus. We all know what's gonna happen to them. Yet we love torturing our mortal hearts and sanity because deep inside we are all sad bitches!

I'm a sucker for mythology, fairytales, and classics retelling. I could read thousands of retelling and will still be amazed. It's the execution of the story that I after. How each of author executes one same story that could capture the reader's attention. And Madeline Miller, bless her soul, I've said this before when I reviewed Circe and I'll say it again: She could write all myths out there and I'll read them all.

There's really nothing much to say bout this book except that it's beautifully told. It's Patroclus' POV and you follow his inner battles since day 1 till the day he dies.

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I conjure the boy I knew. Achilles, grinning as the figs blur in his hands. His green eyes laughing into mine. Catch, he says. Achilles, outlined against the sky, hanging from a branch over the river. The thick warmth of his sleepy breath against my ear. If you have to go, I will go with you. My fears forgotten in the golden harbor of his arms.

The memories come, and come. She listens, staring into the grain of the stone. We are all there, goddess and mortal and the boy who was both.

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My tears are pooling again!! Gah! I've reread the ending more than twice and I have no regrets!!!

—A, the bitch that has no regrets.

#tsoa #the song of achilles #madeline miller #no ragrets #not even a letter!!!! #book review #booklr #tsoa review #a reviews #book

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His eyes opened. “Name one hero who was happy.”

I considered. Heracles went mad and killed his family; Theseus lost his bride and father; Jason’s children and new wife were murdered by his old; Bellerophon killed the Chimera but was crippled by the fall from Pegasus’ back.

“You can’t.” He was sitting up now, leaning forward.

“I can’t.”

“I know. They never let you be famous and happy.” He lifted an eyebrow. “I’ll tell you a secret.”

“Tell me.” I loved it when he was like this.

“I’m going to be the first.” He took my palm and held it to his. “Swear it.”

“Why me?”

“Because you’re the reason. Swear it.”

“I swear it,” I said, lost in the high color of his cheeks, the flame in his eyes.

“I swear it,” he echoed.

—Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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You know what pain me the most? We all knew the story of Achilles and Patrolus no matter how many retelling of it we've read.

And here, this pure, beautifully written excerpt right here, had me bawling.

—A

#tsoa #the song of achilles #madeline miller #book #book review #booklr #a reviews #and a is also crying

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This is a very fun book to read! It's short and very light-hearted read and I highly recommend it for everyone, married or not!

He just put perspective in hardships and even small issues that you never thought of in marriage.

I gave this 3/5. Not because I didn't enjoy it. But because it's short and has no plot. It's more like a collection of random daily routine as a married couple in an very entertaining way. Humorous!

—A

#book review #a reviews #couplehood #paul reiser #book #this so short! #this is like a coffe table book #booklr