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The Unmaking of June Farrow | Adrienne Young

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An enchanting book about time travel and the consequences that could come. Every time I put the book down I couldn‘t stop thinking about June. This was so beautifully written and sure to be one of my tops books of the year. Book #25 in 2025

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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

The Serpent and the Wings of Night | Carissa Broadbent

Ok these books and this author are my #GuiltyPleasure 🖤 🩸 🗡️ #25 Alive

If you have read these you definitely should! Run don‘t walk!!

These books have it all, but be sure to check the trigger warnings!

Vampire Hunger Games is the best way to describe this series!

1/27/2025

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Texreader Is this book 1? 2mo

Leftcoastzen Nice photo! 2mo

Eggs Agree with @Leftcoastzen 2mo

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DGRachel Hunger Games with Vampires is exactly how my indie booksellers sold this book to me! 🤣🤣 I have never been so happy that I bought a book on impulse. This series… happy sigh. 2mo

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @DGRachel it is phenomenal!! I just finished ashes and I deliberately took my time! I never want it to end! 2mo

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Texreader yes! If you‘re interested I‘ll email you the recommended reading order. There are 2 novellas that fit right in! 2mo

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Leftcoastzen thank you 😊 2mo

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs thank you! ☺️ 2mo

Texreader @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks That‘d be awesome yes thank you!! 2mo

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Steph.Titus

Cruel Winter With You | Ali Hazelwood, Vivienne LaRue

so-so

#25.2024

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Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI | Yuval Noah Harari

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Not exactly “brief” at 17+ hours, I felt like I was taking a college class on AI and the history of communications. YNH shares ideas about how humans network, how information travels and how terrifying our online world currently is and where we go from here. If you have an interest in AI and its future, internet bots, how our online information is taken and used, this book gives you a lot to think about. I enjoyed the ideas I leaned about.

ChaoticMissAdventures What if you have a deep seeded hatred for AI to the point that your firms IT director will not let anyone in the firm mention AI to you any longer? Will this help give me ammunition to fight "progress"? ? Or maybe make me less angry about how much water these programs are using? 4mo

Cortg @ChaoticMissAdventures Ha! Where I work we actually have an AI teams page where everyone bitches about it and how we can do our job while minimally using it and it‘s where I came across this title. Unfortunately, AI‘s not going away. My thought is to stay informed and understand it. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer kind of thing. It has so much potential to be dangerous in so many ways. (edited) 4mo

Cortg @ChaoticMissAdventures Yes, it‘ll give you ammunition in many of his ideas. 4mo

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ChaoticMissAdventures @Cortg for sure on enemies closer! I have figured out searching Google by putting -noAI gives you responses with out the AI crap which has helped so much. 4mo

SqueakyChu I‘m reading this book now and only finished three chapters before it was due back at the library. Now I‘m back on the waiting list for me to get it again! 😦 4mo

Cortg @SqueakyChu I have a physical copy on hold because I wanted to (re)read a section towards the end. 🧐 4mo

SqueakyChu @Cortg You, too!! 😂 4mo

Cortg @SqueakyChu I checked today and I‘m #25 on the hold list, which actually makes me happy because people will hopefully read it! 4mo

SqueakyChu 👍 4mo

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En plena noche (Trilog�a de Illumbe 2) | Mikel Santiago

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Second book in the Illumbe trilogy. Story is with different characters but same place. For the trilogy doesn‘t have to read in order but it will make more sense since some characters from first book are mentioned in this story. A singer‘s friend died in a suspicious circumstances and he is receiving notes from an eccentric fan. He and some friends from his former band will try to investigate what really happened to this friend. (Cont) ⬇️

Gissy (Cont.) Some parts are predictable and the person who was behind this death and how everything was committed made the story too unrealistic. But it in general it was entertaining. 3/3.5⭐️

June 2024 Book #9

#ReadAway2024 @DieAReader @Andrew65 @Ghabi4Roses
#BookSpinBingo (#25 free space book in Spanish) @TheAromaOfBooks
#ChunksterMini (661 pages) @Amiable 7mo

DieAReader 🥳Awesome 7mo

Amiable 👍🏼👍🏼 7mo

TheAromaofBooks Yay!!! 7mo

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vivastory

Untitled | Unknown

This post is inspired by the one that @billypar posted in response to the NY Times' 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Like @billypar I will be posting 25 selections & they will be novels only. No short story collections, no graphic novels, no non-fiction & in no order whatsoever. I found this parameter very useful as there are quite a few novels published this century that I still intend on reading! But IMO you can do worse than these:

vivastory 1) House of Leaves: Mark Z. Danielewski
2) An Unnecessary Woman: Rabih Alameddine
3) The Likeness: Tana French
4) The Cartel: Don Winslow
5) The Slynx: Tatyana Tolstaya
6) Storm of Swords: George RR Martin
7) Underground Railroad: Colson Whitehead
8) The Historian: Elizabeth Kostova
9) True History of the Kelly Gang: Peter Carey
10) Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead: Olga Tokarczuk
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vivastory 11) The Trees: Percival Everett
12) Brief History of Seven Killings: Marlon James
13) The Sympathizer: Viet Thanh Nguyen
14) NOS4A2: Joe Hill
15) The Three-Body Problem: Cixin Liu
16) American War: Omar El Akkad
17) White Is For Witching: Helen Oyeyemi
18) Big Machine: Victor Lavalle
19) The Animators: Kayla Whitaker
20) Stephen Florida: Gabe Habash
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vivastory 21) The Blazing World: Siri Hustvedt
22) At NIght All Blood Is Black: David Diop
23) The Outsider: Stephen King
24) The Orphan Master's Son: Adam Johnson
25) Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow: Gabrielle Zevin 7mo

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Aimeesue Great list! I read American War when it first came out and I think about it often. 7mo

vivastory @Aimeesue Thanks, Aimee! read it last year & have thought about it quite a bit ever since. 7mo

BarbaraBB Wow 🤩 I enjoyed @Billypar ‘s selection too and you encourage me to make mine too. Also, I still need to read American War and am glad it‘s one of your favorites 7mo

vivastory @BarbaraBB I'd love to see your list! 🙌 💙 7mo

Billypar Great list! I have vivid memories of reading House of Leaves on vacation in Florida during a thunderstorm and being freaked out. I'm really interested in #2, #18, and #22 which were already on my TBR (and #25 is on my shelf - should be coming up soon). I'm also intrigued by Stephen Florida, which I never heard of, and Roxane Gay has a gushing review of it on GR. I loved Slynx, Kelly Gang, and White/Witching as well. 7mo

vivastory @Billypar HoL def is an experience that sticks with you! I think that you will like all of the ones that you named. but I'm not sure how you will mesh with the Zevin, but I thought it was a beautiful story of friendship which is strangely under represented in contemporary lit. Everyone I have talked to who has read it has loved it. 7mo

sarahbarnes I loved White is for Witching and want to read more Oyeyemi 7mo

vivastory @sarahbarnes I also loved What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours. I tried Peaces a couple of years ago but had pandemic brain. I want to tackle it again because I have heard that it is really influenced by Barbara Comyns who I love 7mo

Billypar Yeah, I've heard such great things about the Zevin - I'm really curious, and it's true that friendship gets short shrift in novels. My goal was to pair it with the tagged anthology that I started on writers playing video games, but I ran out of time reading it, so I'm back to waiting for my hold to come in.

Critical Hits: Writers Playing Video Games

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vivastory @Billypar That is an impressive group of contributors! J. Robert Lennon & Hanif Abdurraqib alone make it very intriguing. 7mo

merelybookish This is a great list and makes me see where our tastes converge and also how they differ! (The Slynx would not make the cut for me. 😂) But I loved Plow your Bones and Stephan Florida! Fun! Now off to peruse @Billypar list. 7mo

Reggie 14 and 17 🖤🖤🖤 7mo

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Criminal (Will Trent, #6) | Karin Slaughter

#25 of 2024! Will Trent No. 6!
Started: 8/3/24
Finished: 8/16/24
14 Days

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Listen To Me: The new Rizzoli & Isles thriller | Tess Gerritsen

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#25
Not as exciting as previous books, but still good

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Munsch-A-thon (Combined Volume): A Robert Munsch Collection | Robert Munsch

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Finishing up my own Munsch-a-thon with a Robert Munsch Collection including: Ready, Set, Go, So Much Snow!, The Enormous Suitcase, Bear for Breakfast, Moving Day! and Get Me Another One. #25-2024

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