10beforetheend

ChaoticMissAdventures

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8 weeks.

8 WEEKS!!!

#10BeforeTheEnd

Soubhiville Just 8!? How is that possible?! 3h

Ruthiella Nooooooo! 😱😂 2h

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kspenmoll

The Unquiet Dead: A Novel | Ausma Zehanat Khan

Home with a UTI - a relief after my work day yesterday. Body/mind connection?!
Starting this morning. #10BeforetheEnd

ChaoticMissAdventures

TheBookHippie Oh that sucks. Hope it heals quickly. 11h

AmyG Feel better! 11h

Aims42 Hope you feel better ❤️‍🩹 Love your mug, that is excellent advice 11h

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Ruthiella Hope you feel better soon. ❤️ 10h

PurpleyPumpkin Good for you for listening to your body! Sounds like you needed a break, although I‘m sure it would have been preferable to NOT get it by way of a UTI. Hope you‘re better soon. 💜 (edited) 10h

IriDas Feel better soon. 💐 ☕️ 10h

Librarybelle Hope you feel better soon 9h

dabbe Hope you heal quickly and glad you're at home relaxing. 🧡🍁🤎 6h

AnnCrystal 💝💝💝 May you feel better soon 💝💝💝. now

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ChaoticMissAdventures

The Message | Ta-Nehisi Coates

Coffee break

#10BeforeTheEnd

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shanaqui

The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy | Brigitte Knightley

so-so

This feels like reading fanfic, for the very good reason that it was. The serial numbers have been filed off, but the overall feel is very much still there. That's not a criticism per se, just a fact.

There is some fun dialogue, some fun scenes, but oh my goodness they're both unbearable and the romantic scenes are pure (and awful) purple prose. I enjoyed myself but also had SO many objections.

But hey, this was my #BookSpin.

shanaqui I've also made an excellent start on #BookSpinBingo, as you can see.

Anyway, I need to cogitate on what rating I want to give this. I sometimes struggle with balancing “did I have fun“ vs “did I think it was good quality?“.

I do wish people would stop assuming that everyone can identify Harry Potter fanfic at a hundred paces, though. I read the first couple of books, saw the first... three movies, maybe, and never read HP fanfic. 2d

shanaqui Oh, hey, this was also on my #10BeforeTheEnd list! 2d

Faranae Oh is THAT what it is fanfic of? I already dislike being “tricked“ into reading fanfic as it is (I don't care if other people enjoy fanfic, I simply don't myself!), but being tricked into HP fanfic feels... violating. There's a phrase for this, when you are tricked or coerced into violating your moral principles. 1d

PuddleJumper It's weird how some advertise that it's fanfic and others don't. A lot of the recent Dramoine ones have been pushing that hard. I didn't even know that was a popular ship! Love your set up, so pretty 1d

shanaqui @Faranae Yeah, I don't entirely know how I feel about published-fanfic in general, but this one... I could see the fingerprints (both of HP and of fanfic in general).

@Puddlejumper I knew Dramione was a thing, but you'd have to work hard to get me to see it, y'know? Which might be part of why this didn't work for me. 1d

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BarbaraBB

Immaculate Conception: A Novel | Ling Ling Huang

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Narrator Enka has befriended Mathilda in art school. Mathilda is everything Enka ever wanted to be. When a cutting-edge technology allows her to inhabit Mathilde‘s mind and access her memories and artistic inspirations, Enka can‘t refuse. What follows is intense and bizarre and somehow very believable. The book does a great job exploring themes like greed, envy, deceit and corruption in the context of amazing art and technology

#10BeforeTheEnd #4

ChaoticMissAdventures

ChaoticMissAdventures I really liked this one. I thought she spoke about all my AI art fears. ✔️✔️ 2d

BarbaraBB @ChaoticMissAdventures Yes mine too! 2d

squirrelbrain Sounds great - stacking! 2d

BarbaraBB @squirrelbrain It can very well end up on the ToB longlist. 2d

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Read4life

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Just realized I never posted my #10BeforeTheEnd list. But I have read two of them so far.

ChaoticMissAdventures

ChaoticMissAdventures ✔️✔️ right on target! 3d

CoverToCoverGirl No Exit is quite the heart pounding ride. 3d

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GinaKButler

Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting: A Novel | Clare Pooley

Up next on audio 🎧

#bookspinbingo
#10beforetheend
@ChaoticMissAdventures

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Sace

Zia | Scott O'Dell

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Low pick. It‘s billed as a sequel to The Island of the Blue Dolphins, but it‘s not exactly that. I‘d say it‘s adjacent. I found the ending a little sad.

One more for #10BeforeTheEnd @ChaoticMissAdventures

#LitsyAtoZ #Z @Texreader

ChaoticMissAdventures I was obsessed with Island of the Blue Dolphins as a kid! Didn't know there was a companion. ✔️✔️ 3d

Sace @ChaoticMissAdventures I think companion is a good word choice. There was very little of Karana in this book. 3d

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BarbaraBB

The River is Waiting: A Novel | Wally Lamb

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That ending…. 💔 This book is so sad. And somehow hopeful. Corny struggles to come to terms with life in prison after caused a tragedy that tore his family apart. He will spend three years of his life there and is determined to come out a better man. This is the story of a complex man, who has grown on me while I couldn‘t stop reading. Recommended!

#10BeforeTheEnd #3

ChaoticMissAdventures

squirrelbrain Great review! I have this on audio - must get to it soon. 4d

Lesliereadsalot Keep meaning to read this one! 4d

TrishB On kindle offer today so your review has made me buy! 4d

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Bookwormjillk I bailed after the first scene. I just couldn‘t. 4d

boozybookworm I'm reading this one right now as well💔 4d

BarbaraBB @squirrelbrain @Lesliereadsalot @TrishB I think you‘ll feel the same about it. 4d

BarbaraBB @Bookwormjillk I can imagine. It‘s so graphic and hard to forget. The sadness. 4d

BarbaraBB @boozybookworm I am interested in your thoughts! 4d

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TheEllieMo

Blood on the Siberian Snow: A charming murder mystery set in a village full of secrets | C J Farrington

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First finish of #10BeforeTheEnd for me is this, the second in the Olga Pushkin Mysteries series. I like Olga as a character, and enjoyed this gentlest unfolding murder mystery, but, oh, the cliffhanger ending 😱

@ChaoticMissAdventures

Book 94 #Read2025 @DieAReader
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ChaoticMissAdventures ✔️✔️ great job! 4d

DieAReader 🥳Excellent 3d

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