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Julia | Sandra Newman
Bailedbailed

I don't know what it is, but this is just not capturing my attention.
#Unpopularopinion #HailTheBail

dabbe YES! #betterbooksahead 🙌🏻 3d
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451Degrees
Julia | Sandra Newman
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Mehso-so

A retelling of the original 1984 told from Julia‘s POV. I wish I would have reread the original before getting into this one just to see the character‘s lives intertwining as the story goes along. Definitely was similar to 1984 in its mind twisting and often conflicting stories with the characters. Although I‘m happy to have read it, it certainly wasn‘t a favorite as the story ran in circles and I find it to not need to be almost 400 pages long.

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GatheringBooks
We: New Edition | Yevgeny Zamyatin
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#AboutABook Day 19: #Pub100YearsAgo - yet it still resonates.

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Gorgeous 😋 3mo
Eggs Mmmmm 3mo
sarahbarnes I remember reading this for a class in college - it definitely left an impression. 3mo
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Born.A.Reader
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#pub100yearsago #aboutabook
My newest hire on my team at work recommended this one to me. Originally published in 1924.
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

Eggs Awesome ❤️💜❤️ 4mo
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Twainy
Past Crimes | Jason Pinter
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Pickpick

I love books like this … and B movies … it‘s like WestWorld had a baby with a VR video game with grampa Jurassic Park overseeing it. It takes place hundreds of years in our future.

A crime drama, mystery, amateur women sleuths, sci-fi thriller, with a side of creepy AI.

Murder Land … where everyone dresses up and interacts with famous (serial) killers! Need I say more?

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2

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ChaoticMissAdventures
Julia | Sandra Newman
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Pickpick

Having a bit of an Orwell moment, I read Wifedom, in prep for reading 1984, in prep for reading this. I really liked how the character of Julia is reimagined - she is a fully flushed out person in this story. Not always a person you like, but realistically drawn. I appreciate that Newman keeps the dark tone of 1984, though the ending is a bit more optimistic which might be just the time we live in. I found her life in the dorms 👇

ChaoticMissAdventures And her relationships with the women there to be the most interesting part of this story. It is good to think about women in more detail in these environments -periods, contraception, pregnancy, and how inner party men abuse their positions. I thought Julia was a complex and often terrible person and it was interesting to see how far she would go and how she could justify her own actions. 5mo
Hooked_on_books That‘s a good trio! I read all three of those this year as well. 5mo
ChaoticMissAdventures @Hooked_on_books I thought it gave so much deeper context to everything. 5mo
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Look to the Sun | Emmie Mears
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Good morning my #JuneOfARC littens, and thank you for coming along with me on this journey to work on our NetGalley backlogs!

We‘ve finished the month, and so I‘m wondering if there‘s any old ARC you read that you really want to recommend!

I was actually surprised by how much I enjoyed the tagged book! It ended up being much more hopeful than I had thought!

eskoch28 I spent the whole month fighting with my netgalley app 😭😭😭 but I got an audiobook and a digital book read! I'll make a post afterwhile 5mo
Booksblanketsandahotbeverage I really enjoyed my non-fiction read and it wasn‘t old, but the next Flavia book by Alan Bradley was entertaining 😄 5mo
julesG I managed five ARCs 🎉 - my favourite was the tagged. About to be published. 5mo
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julesG Can't count, it was six. Just 152 more to read. 😉 5mo
MonicaLoves2Read I loved Paul Dorian's Pitch Dark. Of course, I love the series. Loved Linda Castillo's next one in the Kate Burkholder Series, Burning, also 5mo
BookmarkTavern @eskoch28 Good on you for persevering! @Booksblanketsandahotbeverage Wonderful! @julesG Wow! Congrats! @Monica5 Sounds great! 5mo
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BookmarkTavern
Look to the Sun | Emmie Mears
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Pickpick

Strangers Rose & Beo come together as their city seethes w/ violence when the National Peoples‘ Voice ramps up their propaganda against the “unnatural degenerates” threatening the city.

Wow! A very powerful read about the encroachment of facism, the strength of community coming together against hate. A sweet poly romance & the power of stories! Everything resolved more easily than I anticipated, but that‘s an allure of fiction right?🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗

BookmarkTavern #JuneOfARC CW 👇🏻 (edited) 6mo
BookmarkTavern General warning throughout for the rise of facism, domestic (emotional and physical) abuse, and references to past suicide 6mo
AnnCrystal I spy the cute, bushy tail of a little cat 💕😻💝. 6mo
BookmarkTavern @AnnCrystal She‘s rolling a new toy around that lets out treats when she rolls it just the right way. 😄 5mo
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Dilara
Blackout Island | Sigrur Hagaln Bjrnsdttir
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After a busy start to the day (farmer's market, lots of cooking, Eid lunch, IT troubleshooting for the elderly, and an hour's work) it's time to relax with a cup of lemon verbena tea, leftover cheesecake & some lovely raspberries . And the tagged book.

TheBookHippie It all looks so lovely!!! 6mo
Graywacke Yum! 6mo
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Dilara
Blackout Island | Sigrur Hagaln Bjrnsdttir
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The political situation being what it is in France right now, I find it hard to concentrate on books, but I did finish Epilogue of the Raindrops (although I probably was too distracted to really take it all in) and a small collection of poems by Sigurbjörg Þrastardóttir. I am starting Blackout Island.
#FoodandLit #Iceland
@Catsandbooks @Texreader

Catsandbooks Hope you can find some peace ❤️ 6mo
Bookwomble Feeling it here in the UK, too. I'm hoping calmer, more peaceful and inclusive politics arise from the current reactionary turbulence 🕊️ 5mo
Dilara @Bookwomble Fingers crossed! But the current climate is vicious right now. 5mo
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