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libertyreads 6 months
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Attempting to read this morning.
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books-and-cookies 6 months
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anyway, yay me 馃
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books-in-a-storm 1 month
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I though I should do an update on my 2024 reading challenge.
So 226 books so far this year. I can't wait to see what other book I read this year.
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qu0t3-th1s 1 year
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Currently Reading: The Silent Patient
Author: Alex Michaelides
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tacanderson 1 year
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For my 50th birthday this last summer I didn't want my kids to feel the need to do anything crazy for my birthday so I asked them to buy me books. Specifically I asked them to buy me old used paperback versions of one of their favorite books and then to write a message in the front cover of why it was one of their favorite books.
Good Omens was the book my daughter gave me. An excerpt of her note on why this is one of her favorites is as follows:
"I like that the demon isn't 100% bad, and the angel isn't 100% good. Like Crowley and Aziraphale, I've learned that asking questions is all part of the great plan."
I completely agree. I haven't read this book in decades, so it was great fun getting to read it again especially after watching the series. The series is so close to the book that when you're reading the book the differences really jump out. It was interesting to see what Neil Gaiman added or edited to make the series work as a series and a few things that were updated just because times have changed.
But above everything else I was just amazed at how well written this book was. Even the most seemingly mundane sentence was written so well. The flow, the word choices were all just perfect. I've read interviews where Neil Gaiman says that he and Terry Pratchett were mostly just having fun and trying to impress each other. It's very obvious that was the case. They weren't trying to write a hit, they were just having fun. There's something to learn from that.
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oldschoolvillageidiot 4 months
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183 books! 140 of them by women (I try to keep my ratio high, because if I'm going to WRITE women, it makes sense to read them).
And including some of my favorite reads. I normally do a top ten, but that's so restrictive. I read 183 books, I'm not going to narrow down the field that far.
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Stories to Finish Reading Today
Doctor Who: Origin Stories
Doctor Who: The Christmas Invasion novelization
The Killing Stone
Doctor Who: The Day She Saved the Doctor: Four Stories from the TARDIS
Doctor Who: Inferno novelization
Way of the Cobra by Sean Kanan
four books yet to be decided on, so probably audiobooks or short ebooks
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booksandrandomfandoms 9 months
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JOMP day 19
By the sea
Just finished Beauty Queens and apparently my good reads challenge for the year 馃槀馃槀
*and I just realized the confetti is little books 馃摉 馃檲
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toogoodashiptowreck 2 months
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I'm once again rereading the ACOTAR series instead of starting literally any of the 40 odd tbr books I have on my bookshelves 馃槄
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suckerpunchfemale 11 months
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bookhav3n 28 days
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what鈥檚 everyone reading this week? i finished iron flame last night & started campfires & canines this morning!
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libertyreads 9 months
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Same, Murderbot, same.
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wingsofhcpe 4 months
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Here's what I read in 2023! Tbh, T3M and the Ballad of Songbirds were rereads, but still.
I am starting 2024 with a reread of Gideon & Harrow the Ninth, so I can finally read Nona the Ninth!
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books-in-a-storm 3 months
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800 books this year for now. I can't wait to read book this year.
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qu0t3-th1s 1 year
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Being forgotten, she thinks, is a bit like going mad. You begin to wonder what is real, if you are real. After all, how can a thing be real if it cannot be remembered? It鈥檚 like that Zen koan, the one about the tree falling in the woods. If no one heard it, did it happen? If a person cannot leave a mark, do they exist?
-Addie LaRue
The Invisible Life of Addie Larue
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therubberotter 4 months
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My aesthetic is to start a goodreads reading challenge, complete it in real life but never update it in the app, and start all over the following year.
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