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RamsFan1963
Hotel Andromeda | Jack L. Chalker
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Pickpick

23/100 First of all, ignore Litsy's description of this book, it's totally wrong. I've given them the correct one but they have never changed it. Anyway, what this book is about is the Hotel Andromeda, a space station located in the hub between many alien and human civilizations. A collection of short stories, mostly humorous, about the employees and the visitors to the station. 3 ⭐⭐⭐💫 #Read2025

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Robotswithpersonality
Beautyland: A Novel | Marie-Helene Bertino
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Today's 'scratched my brain just right' sentence.

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Deblovestoread
Beautyland: A Novel | Marie-Helene Bertino
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Pickpick

#WeeklyFavorite

Beautyland hit my February sweet spot. Audiobook where life happens but there is a lightness in tone that keeps anxiety at bay. Glad to have read this #TOBshortlist book. 4 🌟

@Read4life

AmyG Ah, Beautyland! 🙌🏻 6d
Read4life Excellent!! 💙🩷💙 6d
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fredthemoose
Beautyland: A Novel | Marie-Helene Bertino
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Pickpick

⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 Coming of age story of a woman who‘s ostensibly an alien sent to report about humans and Earth back to her home. It took awhile for me to connect either this—if it weren‘t for #ToB25 I probably would have bailed, but I found it much more interesting once she reached adulthood. I found many of her observations to be quite true and sweet.

BarbaraBB I am glad it worked for you. I didn‘t really connect to it 1w
fredthemoose @BarbaraBB yeah, it could have gone either way. I really didn‘t connect at all to the first half but found my cold, black heart softening a bit during the second… 7d
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thegirlwiththelibrarybag
Andalite's Gift | Katherine A Applegate
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I don‘t even know where to begin to start with this book - there is unhinged and then one really big step up the ladder is this book.

Listened to most of this book like 😦🤭🫢

Loved it. No notes.

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vonnie862
Beautyland: A Novel | Marie-Helene Bertino
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Mehso-so

This is a coming of age story of a girl who is supposed to be an alien. The coming of age aspect was good but it kind of lost me with the alien thing. Was she really an alien, though? Or was she just a girl who felt like an outsider? 3 ⭐️

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AnneCecilie
Beautyland: A Novel | Marie-Helene Bertino
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Bailedbailed

I read the first part of this novel and decided to bail. Started another book, and started to think about this and what happened to Adina. So I gave it another chance and read another 60 p, before the final DNF.

I can‘t really explain it, but something wasn‘t working for me.

#tob25

BarbaraBB It didn‘t work for me either 3w
AmyG Ha… I am loving it. 3w
kwmg40 I managed to finish this one but didn't find it all that engaging. 3w
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