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Steph.Titus
Cruel Winter With You | Ali Hazelwood, Vivienne LaRue
Mehso-so

#25.2024

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Cortg
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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? 1mo
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) 1mo
Cortg @ChaoticMissAdventures Yes, it‘ll give you ammunition in many of his ideas. 1mo
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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. 1mo
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! 😦 1mo
Cortg @SqueakyChu I have a physical copy on hold because I wanted to (re)read a section towards the end. 🧐 1mo
SqueakyChu @Cortg You, too!! 😂 1mo
Cortg @SqueakyChu I checked today and I‘m #25 on the hold list, which actually makes me happy because people will hopefully read it! 1mo
SqueakyChu 👍 1mo
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Gissy
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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

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DieAReader 🥳Awesome 4mo
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papascott33
Criminal (Will Trent, #6) | Karin Slaughter
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#25 of 2024! Will Trent No. 6!
Started: 8/3/24
Finished: 8/16/24
14 Days

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bookaholic1
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#25
Not as exciting as previous books, but still good

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limada
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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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Allthebookclubs
The Song of Achilles | Madeline Miller
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The tale of Achilles, as told by Patroclus. This book explores the relationship that may have been more than just leader and henchman, as suggested in Iliad. While some scholars claim their relationship was not romantic, this book explores the possibility that it may have been and it feels like MM may have drawn some of her ideas from the Shakespeare portrayal about them being nothing but sexual. Book #25 in 2024

Allthebookclubs The rest of my review: An interesting read, but full of boring characters with no real dialogue or reason for living other than, he is a god and I am a prince and so on… (edited) 9mo
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thegirlwiththelibrarybag
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Is Ashleigh not a reasonably common name?

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Brb - gonna message my sister and let her know that her name is unusual 🤭

Aimeesue 😂😂😂 10mo
julesG Maybe the spelling, but I don't think it's unusual. 10mo
thegirlwiththelibrarybag @julesG - I would say this is the classic “girl” spelling. I went to school with an Ashleigh, Ashlee and Ashlea 🤣 10mo
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marleed Haha. I recently read a book that carried on about how unusual the name Ezra was to a young generation. I really love the name but thought the author should have reviewed social security/babynames where she‘d learn it ranks #25 in popularity in the US. 10mo
julesG I've seen Ashly and Ashlie here in Germany. The worst spelling of a name I've come across so far was "Eyeline" for Eileen. The poor 15-y/o had to spell her first name for me and I had to keep a straight face. - - - - - my current ARC has an Ashleigh as well. 10mo
julesG @marleed Right?! It's so easy to check. 10mo
thegirlwiththelibrarybag @julesG, I feel for kids who have “classic” names with novelty spelling - that‘s a lifetime of having to spell your name out and having it misspelled in work emails or in the case of poor Eyeline - mispronouncing and (probably) constant commentary. 10mo
thegirlwiththelibrarybag @marleed, I would have easily believed that it was a less common name for Gen Z or Gen Alpha - but that‘s only because I don‘t know any with the name. Absolutely an easy one to gather data on. 10mo
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