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bookgeekgrrl · 1 year

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My media this week (11-17 Dec 2022)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

🥰 The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club #3) (Richard Osman, author; Fiona Shaw, narrator) - just a joy to spend some more time with Joyce, Ron, Elizabeth, Ibrahim and the rest of the gang for another adventure

😊 Love of a Particular Kind (Laura Kaye (laurakaye)) - 59K, Clint/Coulson, BIRD-BASED omegaverse, excellently detailed worldbuilding, absolutely fascinating

😍 The Moon's Gonna Follow Me Home (turningterrific) - 82K, canon-divergent Sterek - love this story of Derek finally leaving BH, finding safety & healing and the slow burn development of his relationship with Stiles

😊 Charged (cydonic) - 47K, no-powers AU with rich single dad Steve and accidental nanny Bucky

💖💖 +176K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

the world throws its light underneath your hair (greatunironic) - Stranger Things: steddie, 6.5K - this series is incredible and every new entry a delight

Quench (AidaRonan) - MCU: stucky, 9.4K - because the brilliant phrase 'body like a Mack truck made of ribeye' popped into my head and I had to reread this forever fave

Bring Us Some Figgy Spankings and a Happy New Year (Kellyscams) - MCU: stucky, 7.3K - some fun porny holiday goodness

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Mamma Mia!

One Day At A Time - s2, e13; s3, e13

How To Build A Sex Room - s1, e1

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

Leverage: Redemption - s2, e6

The Old Guard

The Sandman - s1, e11

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Off Menu - Ep 143: Siobhán McSweeney

The Sporkful - Rick Martínez Hates The Word ‘Authentic’

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Luciadagen

You're Dead To Me - Medieval Christmas

On the Media - Re-Sorting the Shelves: A Look at Bias In the Dewey Decimal System

Switched on Pop - How Bad Bunny won 2022

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - The Sponge Capital of the World

Decoder Ring Plus - Cellino & Barnes, Injury Attorneys, 800-888-8888

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society - Trash

Artifactual - Live From Pearl Harbor

Artifactual - Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps

Artifactual - The We Three Trio: Music from the Space Race

Artifactual - Finding James Bond's Vehicles

99% Invisible #518 - Mini-Stories: Volume 15

Vibe Check - The Holiday Hottie Survival Guide

ICYMI Plus - Why Did NBC’s Internet Culture Reporter Spend So Much Time on Reddit?

Twenty Thousand Hertz+ - Endless Hertz

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Duke Riley and the poly S. Tyrene Maritime Museum

Ologies with Alie Ward - Meteorology (WEATHER & CLIMATE) with Marshall Shepherd

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Getting Lost

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society - Rochester: The Restoration's Filthiest Poet with Neil Gaiman

Off Menu - Ep 4: Nish Kumar (Christmas Special)

You're Dead To Me - The Victorian Christmas

You're Dead To Me - Christmas with Charles Dickens

Strong Songs - The Music of Star Wars: Andor

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

"Godzilla" [Blue Öyster Cult] radio

Eagles

Presenting Bad Bunny

Foundations of Metal

Multi Cello Retro TV/Video Game

The Clash [The Clash]

Give 'Em Enough Rope [The Clash]

London Calling [The Clash]

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Kylie Christmas (Snow Queen Edition) [Kylie Minogue]

Christmas Through Your Eyes [Gloria Estefan]

If On A Winter's Night [Sting]

Christmas Island [Jimmy Buffett]

'Tis The SeaSon [Jimmy Buffett]

Quality Street: A Seasonal Selection for All the Family [Nick Lowe]

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causeimanartist · 3 months

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What is your favorite Thursday Murder Club member? Im particularly attached to Ron and Elizabeth.

Oooooooooh tough question because I honestly love them all but if I had to pick - it's between Ibrahim and Joyce!

#the thursday murder club #ask #spoilers for book two:#Ron jumped up high on my list of favs after Ibrahim was attacked #because he was just so soft and caring for his friend #outside of the main four I love Bogdan and Stephen #spoilers for book four:#I cried like a baby multiple times reading the fourth book because of Stephen #not just like a few tears - full on crying #my best friend can attest because I sent them a Snapchat of me just a mess #Joyce I love because she's just so sweet without being naive #and I was so happy when she adopted Alan #I love Ibrahim with Alan too #I just love this book series so much #(I don't own the fourth one yet because I own the other three in paperback so I'm waiting)#(I don't like having some books in a series as paperback and some as hardcover - I need it to be consistent)#(that's why I'm currently on the book hunt for the first two Percy Jackson books and Pandora gets jealous)

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lifeimitatesart1998 · 6 months

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The Thursday Murder Club

#books #bookworm #book #booklr #books and libraries #the thursday murder club #richard Osman books #thursday murder club #Thursday Murder club series #book account #book recommendations

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shoesallinaline · 7 months

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Thursday Murder Club series, I read you for the cozy mystery of it all and the humor, not to cry and feel a sense of my own mortality 🥺

#it’s a good series #it just really hits my heart sometimes #I think in part because i look after my elderly mother in law #who lives with us and has cognitive decline issues #books #thursday murder club

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wellesleybooks · 15 days

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A brand new series. An iconic new detective duo. And a puzzling new murder to solve...

Coming Tuesday, September 17th from bestselling author Richard Osman- a new mystery series.

We Solve Murders pre-order your copy today.

#mystery #richard osman #thursday murder club #new mystery series #pamela dorman books

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apesoformythoughts · 5 months

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‘"Can I ask you a question, Donna?" Bogdan suddenly sounds very serious.

Uh-oh.

"Of course," says Donna. "Anything." Anything within reason.

"If you had to murder someone, how would you do it?"

"Hypothetically?" asks Donna.

"No, for real," says Bogdan. "We are not children. You're a police officer. How would you do it? To get away with it?"’

#hahaha #this series is the gift that keeps on giving #the bullet that missed #the thursday murder club

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spifflocated · 1 year

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Just finished The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club #2 by Richard Osman) and now I have ALL the emotions.

But I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to notice the incredible Granny Weatherwax / Nanny Ogg energy that Elizabeth and Joyce have between them. I love them all, but I really do love those two. I think I’d like to be like Joyce when I grow up.

#thursday murder club #discworld #the man who died twice #Spifflocated reads #if you’ve not read this series I can’t recommend it highly enough

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a-skirmish-of-wit-and-lit · 2 years

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Book Review: The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club #2)

My favorite group of eclectic crime-solving septuagenarians are back in this better-than-I-could-have-imagined sequel! This time, the Thursday Murder Club is up to their gray hairs in stolen diamonds, ex-husbands, druglords, the MI5, and the New York mafia - and let me tell you - it's a hoot and a holler from start to finish.

You can't help but root for this crew to get the better of their much younger enemies anymore than you can get swept up in the bittersweet poignancy, which catches you at surprising moments. (The poppy tattoo really got me. So did the progression with Stephen.) Also, I dare you not to laugh your ass off when Joyce joins Instagram with a catchy URL and receives a flurry of DM's she doesn't know how to answer, or when Ibrahim sympathizes with the villain on You, or when Ron dresses up like a plumber to stick it to a criminal, or when they do any number of slightly illegal things in order to both find the killer and locate that twenty million pounds worth of diamonds.

Talk about the coziest of cozy mysteries!

Seriously, though. I would roam Coopers Chase and catch bad guys with The Thursday Murder Club forever if I could.

4/5 stars

**Follow me on Goodreads

#ashlee bree's book reviews #the man who died twice #thursday murder club series #richard osman #mystery #murder mystery #crime #cozy mystery #recs: ashlee approved!#read august 2022 #bookblr #book reviews

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hibernationsuit · 11 days

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damn they really made ibrahim gay huh

#honestly i guessed that he's probably gay since the first book but. damn! congrats on getting a new bf i guess <3 #this is abt the thursday murder club book series. yes i read these every now and then

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tudorblogger · 9 months

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‘The Man Who Died Twice’ by Richard Osman

Check out my review of 'The Man Who Died Twice', second in The Thursday Murder Club series by Richard Osman.

Genre: Adult Fiction – Crime / Mystery Published: 2021 Format: Paperback Rating: ★★★★ The first thing to say is that I absolutely adore the characters in Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series. Elizabeth and Joyce together are just the best pairing! And adding Ron and Ibrahim into the mix is comedy gold at times. The characters are just the heart and soul of the book, and if the four…

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#Book #Book Review #book series #Crime #diamonds #drugs #Fiction #mafia #Murder #Murder Mystery #Mystery #Novel #Review #richard osman #series #the thursday murder club #thursday murder club

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sheilajsn · 11 months

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Serie Thursday Murder Club de Richard Osman

De todas las series que estoy leyendo actualmente, una de mis favoritas es Thursday Murder Club de Richard Osman. Esta serie llevaba tiempito en mi TBR, pero, este año la empecé porque el segundo libro es el que íbamos a discutir en mayo en el Mystery Book Club de la Biblioteca Pública de Mansfield. La serie tiene tres libros publicados hasta ahora, The Thursday Murder Club, The Man Who Died…

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#MPL Book Club #Richard Osman #The Man Who Died Twice #The Thursday Murder Club #Thursday Murder Club series

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bookgeekgrrl · 3 months

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My media this week (28 Jan-3 Feb 2024)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

🥰 The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club #4) (Richard Osman, author; Fiona Shaw, narrator) - still loving the characters, love to hang out with them & Osman's plots move along nicely so you don't get bored at all. Fiona Shaw's narration is great & as a little treat she & Osman have a nice little chat at the end.

🥰 Four Letter Word For Intercourse (bendingsignpost) - 194K, destiel AU - adult college student Dean & professor (and phone sex worker) Cas - LOVE this fic so much & had kind of forgotten about it until it came up as a rec in one of my romance discord servers. Just, so good.

😊 Mrs Sidhu Investigates (Suk Pannu, author; full voice cast) - 2 episodes of the BBC Radio 4 program: #1 Murder with Masala; #2 Mrs Sidhu's Dangerous Highland Game - I prefer the slight changes made for the TV show's characterizations but still eminently enjoyable. (Meera Syal still absolutely rules!)

🥰 Lucky Bounce (Cait Nary) - extremely delightful hockey romance. Low/no angst, charming, cutie MCs. Definitely in the 'no plot, just vibes' category which honestly I love when done skillfully.

💖💖 +102K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

Ye Olde YouTube Love Story (Aria_Lerendeair) - The Sandman: Dreamling, 7K - love dreamling human AUs

Any Givens Sundae (dancinbutterfly) - Justified: Boyd/Raylan, 25K - excellently written 'what-if' pinging off a random line of dialogue: what IF Raylan had retired & decided to sell ice cream?

A Warning from Henry the Eighth (Writer_at_the_Table) - "I'm Henry VIII I Am" - Herman's Hermits: , 152 - a villianelle about I'm 'Enry The Eighth by Herman's Hermits - the creativity & cleverness of fan makers truly is boundless

master of a nothing place (strzyga) - Star Trek: Spirk, 6K - short, great fic about Spock going feral when they're trapped on a planet

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Austin City Limits - Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo (s49, e9)

Austin City Limits - Duran Duran (s47, e11)

Murdoch Mysteries - s16, e7

Dirty Laundry - s3, e11

D20: Fantasy High: Junior Year - "Under Pressure" (s21, e4)

D20: Adventuring Party - "A Sea of Effluvia" (s16, e4)

Hazbin Hotel - s1, e1

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

What Next: TBD - Why Is Everybody Sick?

Under the Influence with Terry O'Reilly - Cannabis Marketing

⭐ The Sporkful - Why Hibachi Gets Complicated

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - The Guerrero

How To! - How To Be Free Of Body Shame

⭐ The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Hello From The Otter Side

The Allusionist - 188. Lipread

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week - Nature's Weirdest Sleepers, Iron Maiden Myths, Parking Psychology

⭐ Today, Explained - Living in Zyn

It's Been a Minute - Ayesha Rascoe on 'HBCU Made' — and some good old college memories

⭐ Switched on Pop - The b*tch of loving musical theater (with Bridger Winegar)

99% Invisible #568 - Don't Forget to Remember

⭐ Vibe Check - You’ve Got Mouth Bangs, Girl

I Said No Gifts! - Lou Wilson Disobeys Bridger

Well, Now - How ER Taught Thousands Of Viewers About Cervical Cancer

Off Menu - Ep 220: Peter Capaldi

Films To Be Buried With - Kyle MacLachlan

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Seeking The (Minnesota-shaped) Forest Through The Trees - Part 1 & 2

Welcome to Night Vale #241 - He Is Still Holding a Knife

I Said No Gifts! - Zac Oyama Disobeys Bridger

Dear Prudence - Am I a Bigot If I Don’t Want to Date Foreigners? Help!

What Next: TBD - The Taylor Swift Deepfake Saga

It's Been a Minute - Charlamagne tha Pundit?; plus, was Tony Soprano white?

⭐ All Songs Considered - Why we still love Green Day

Under the Influence with Terry O'Reilly - The Marketing of Taylor Swift: (Taylor's Version)

Consider This from NPR - Masturbation Abstinence Is Popular, And Doctors Are Worried

⭐ You're Dead to Me - Madam C.J. Walker

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

Pop Radio • Romance

'80s Metal

The Cars Radio • Pump-up

Psychobilly Swing

Rock Mix • Party

Presenting Iron Maiden

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youcouldmakealife · 4 months

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Books of 2023

I missed a year, but I’m back with my books of the year. This year there was a pretty big dip in reading from me (75% of my reading in 2022, and only 60% compared to 2021), partly because, well, eye recovery, but also, you know. Life.

I’m just going to do a top 10 this year — unfortunately I hit a bit of a slump in how many standouts I read as well as how much I read, but I do heartily recommend everything in that top 10. They’re in no real order, except for the first, which is a cheat in the form of a series.

The Thursday Murder Club, Richard Osman

So this is a weird thing where I rated the first 3 stars, but figured it was good enough to read the second, which got 4 stars, as did the third. Finally the fourth, which was my only 5 star novel of the year, and made me weep like a baby. So if you read the first and didn’t bother with the rest — this gets so much better as it goes.

The Trees - Percival Everett

This is actually the first book I finished in 2023, and it set a tone that the rest of the year sadly did not match. I mean, other than the tone of the book, which is razor sharp, over the top satire, which this year did, in fact, live up to. I just discovered Everett in 2022 with Telephone, which I also enjoyed, and am looking forward to going through his many works.

Time Shelter - Georgi Gospodinov

Really enjoyable literary fiction that reminds me of a lot of my favourite works to come out of Eastern Europe in the 70s and 80s.

How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes - Cody Cassidy

This is the kind of highly specific and irrelevant barring time travel information I need (not sarcasm).

Middlemarch - George Eliot

It took me like 5 months to read this monster and I enjoyed every minute of it. Eliot is so fucking good at characterisation. Absolute masterpiece of a book. Only thing that kept it from being 5 stars was, well, see; five months.

Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World - Naomi Klein.

As surreal as it is fascinating.

Giovanni’s Room - James Baldwin

A reread. Still absolutely devastating. Still has some of the sharpest lines I’ve ever read.

Ultra-Processed People - Chris Van Tulleken

Should have changed my eating habits. Did not change my eating habits.

Strong Female Character - Fern Brady

Not much of a memoir gal, but this was an exception.

Gentle Writing Advice - Chuck Wendig

My favourite book of writing advice from a horror author. Genuinely a lot of shit that I needed to hear.

Speaking of advice, I read a whack ton of self-help adjacent books for various reasons this year, and these are a few standouts:

How to Keep House While Drowning, The Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity, Unbroken: The Trauma Response is Never Wrong.

#taylor recs

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guardian-angle22 · 15 hours

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Shoutouts to @tailoredshirt for recommending Station Eleven. @beautifulhigh for recommending the Thursday Murder Club (It was a 3.75 but I can’t figure out how to do partial stars on this photo thing yet lol. I do plan to continue in the series!). @mikibwrites for recommending Inverse Cowgirl by Alicia Roth Weigal - I didn’t end up finishing that one but it led me to finding Nobody Needs to Know so I still consider you responsible for a 5 star read! and finally to @orchidscript for writing Demimonde! Y’all should go buy it here or here!

#books #2024 reads #recent reads #guardian reads (sometimes)#monthly reading wrap up #book recs #book recommendations #that one book with all the ??? tho… truly no idea #I almost picked that one for a book club with some friends and oh BOY am I glad I did not #what even was that book #I'm reading so much this year guys!! what is happening

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wellesleybooks · 1 year

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This just in from @richardosman over on Twitter:

“Delighted to announce the title of the new Thursday Murder Club novel is...

'THE LAST DEVIL TO DIE'

Out on Sept 14th, and it's a cracker!"

You can pre-order with us now The Last Devil to Die

#richard osman #thursday murder club #series #new book

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spaceorphan18 · 4 months

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Which book should I read next?

Inspired by @ckerouac - I picked out one book from each of my eight bookshelves** - one that I haven't read and that's been on my TBR list for a while. I'm letting you guys decide which one to read! Let me know what you think! And I'll read the one you pick next....

**- one of the bookshelves is dedicated to Young Reader books, and sitting on top of it are a couple of books that my bother loaned me, so I've included that instead of an actual YR title.

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From the Fiction/Classics bookshelf: Less by Andrew Sean Greer

You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years now engaged to someone else. You can’t say yes--it would all be too awkward--and you can’t say no--it would look like defeat. On your desk are a series of half-baked literary invitations you’ve received from around the world. How do you arrange to skip town? You accept them all.

From the Graphic Novels bookshelf: Sandman by Neil Gaiman (Vol. 1)

In PRELUDES & NOCTURNES, an occultist attempting to capture Death to bargain for eternal life traps her younger brother Dream instead. After his 70 year imprisonment and eventual escape, Dream, also known as Morpheus, goes on a quest for his lost objects of power. On his arduous journey, Morpheus encounters Lucifer, John Constantine, and an all-powerful madman.

From the Sci-fi/Fantasy bookshelf: The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

It has been centuries since the fall of the ten consecrated orders known as the Knights Radiant, but their Shardblades and Shardplate remain: mystical swords and suits of armor that transform ordinary men into near-invincible warriors. Men trade kingdoms for Shardblades. Wars were fought for them, and won by them. One such war rages on a ruined landscape called the Shattered Plains. There, Kaladin, who traded his medical apprenticeship for a spear to protect his little brother, has been reduced to slavery. In a war that makes no sense, where ten armies fight separately against a single foe, he struggles to save his men and to fathom the leaders who consider them expendable.

From the Mystery bookshelf: The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders. But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be pushing eighty but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves. Can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer before it's too late?

From the Non-Fiction bookshelf: The Great Green Room by Amy Gary

The extraordinary life of the woman behind the beloved children’s classics Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny comes alive in this fascinating biography of Margaret Wise Brown. Margaret’s books have sold millions of copies all over the world, but few people know that she was at the center of a children’s book publishing revolution. Her whimsy and imagination fueled a steady stream of stories, book ideas, songs, and poems and she was renowned for her prolific writing and business savvy, as well as her stunning beauty and endless thirst for adventure.

From the Agatha Christie bookshelf: The Science of Murder by Carla Valentine

Agatha Christie is the bestselling novelist of all time, and nearly every story she ever wrote involves one―or, more commonly, several―dead bodies. And the cause of death, the motives behind violent crimes, the clues that inevitably are left behind, and the people who put the pieces together to solve the mystery invite the reader to analyze the evidence and race to find the answer before the detective does. Nearly every step of the way, Christie outlines the nuts and bolts of early 20th-century crime detection, relying on physical evidence to tell the real story behind the facades humans erect to escape detection.

From the Young Adult bookshelf: Scythe by Neal Shusterman

A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery. Humanity has conquered all those things, and has even conquered death. Now scythes are the only ones who can end life—and they are commanded to do so, in order to keep the size of the population under control. Citra and Rowan are chosen to apprentice to a scythe—a role that neither wants. These teens must master the “art” of taking life, knowing that the consequence of failure could mean losing their own.

From (on top of the) Young Readers bookshelf: What If It's Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

Arthur is only in New York for the summer, but if Broadway has taught him anything, it’s that the universe can deliver a showstopping romance when you least expect it. Ben thinks the universe needs to mind its business. If the universe had his back, he wouldn’t be on his way to the post office carrying a box of his ex-boyfriend’s things. But when Arthur and Ben meet-cute at the post office, what exactly does the universe have in store for them?

#books #i actually do want to read all of these so it's win win for me #this is fun RB I should try it once a month or something #i'm going to keep reblogging this until you all vote...

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