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Lauredhel
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“Fish“ was in my current read, hooray. Don't know where I'm gonna find “Portugese“, though. Cruising Libby now...

#WickedWords @AsYouWish

Read4life My thoughts exactly! #Portuguese 20h
Lauredhel @Read4life I think I've found a graphic novel on Hoopla that might work... 20h
Read4life Awesome!! 😎 20h
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#foodandlit I love Keegan‘s writing. Her stories are short and quiet but pack a lot of punch. This one is about a man named Furlong who grapples with his identity not knowing who his biological father is. It also weaves a storyline about the Magdalen laundries. Food wise I‘ve enjoyed a lot of Guinness and Jamison throughout the month and celebrated St Paddy‘s on vacay at the local pub in Estes Park with a reuben burger and chips. @Catsandbooks

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Murder by Memory | Olivia Waite
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Dorothy retired from being detective of a generational ship 2 years ago. So she‘s quite surprised to suddenly awaken in someone else‘s body to find the shipmind drunk and someone dead. This sci-fi mystery novella is fun and seems to be setting up lots of possibilities for future books while also resolving the mystery.

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Miriam8
Twelve: The Naturals E-novella | Jennifer Lynn Barnes
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Miriam8
Believe Me | Tahereh Mafi
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Miriam8
Find Me | Tahereh Mafi
Mehso-so

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HeyT
All Systems Red | Martha Wells
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Ten days ago I started a binge listen of the entire Murderbot Series which was cathartic after being depressed from doomscrolling. Today I am starting a binge listen of the entire Murderbot Series because work is making me incandescent with rage. Hoopla is probably sitting there thinking, “Bitch, we just did this!“

HeyT Someone on Bluesky once said, “Murderbot is [their] Sanctuary Moon.“ and like I am so in agreement with that sentiment. 5d
julesG @HeyT it wasn't me, but I read it and fully agree. 5d
julesG The GraphicAudio version is on loop in my car. Definitely less road rage. 5d
HeyT @julesG I'm a little nervous about trying the graphic audio version. The other series I tried in graphic audio kind of grated on my nerves. 5d
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Okay, did anybody else feel like they read half a book?
I'm used to a fairly handy feature of this series of novels/novellas being time jumps, but there was something that felt particularly rote about this entry's skipping along the plot beats. There were certainly aspects of the world hinted at that I'd like to know a lot more of, there seems to be the regular hint of something sinister that might lead to discontent with the formerly 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? promising fantasy world, but the character didn't even get to learn any of it before getting tossed back to 'the real world'. I know this series has had characters who end up aging in ways they didn't plan, but dropped back from new adult to child feels particularly cruel. Maybe I'm not remembering a previous book in the series well enough to be assured of Nadya's happy ending elsewhere, but in the moment of reading this particular book, it's (edited) 6d
Robotswithpersonality 3/? an incredibly unsatisfying ending.
I've suspected that I was falling out of love with these books for a while, I think this one sealed the deal. There's something about going into a series knowing you'll read about the mistreatment of a child, that that child won't be able to articulate why they are being made to feel bad, but they'll feel it, that they won't have the agency to advocate for themselves,
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Robotswithpersonality 4/? to make their own choices and determine their own identity, that the journey of the book will mirror life, adolescence, in figuring out who you are, who you want your family to be, in recognizing that you shouldn't have to change to be accepted. Those are all great messages, and even if the books are regularly darkly fantastical, they often have satisfying moments of self-realization. 6d
Robotswithpersonality 5/5 I just think that the ratio of emotional toll to engaging storytelling and comforting messaging is off, for me personally. I would continue to recommend most books in the series, especially to teenagers, but maybe not this one. I think I'll have to hear very good things from afar before I pick up another. Will still be on the lookout for McGuire's pseudonym Mira Grant horror though, as I've loved a couple under that name.
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