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PaperbackPirate
Winter | Marissa Meyer
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I‘m joining all the fun things late!
#10BeforetheEnd
#BookspinBingo (I‘m going to use every book in the picture 2x, my Jolabokaflod gift & books in progress for the last row. ☺️)
I think I signed up for #MidWinterSolace too!

Just trying to finish all the challenges before the end of the year! Last year I read 7 books in December. 🤞🏼

Thank you
@ChaoticMissAdventures
@TheAromaofBooks
@AllDebooks
@TheBookHippie
@Chrissyreadit

Ruthiella You can do it! 👍 13h
AllDebooks You got this with such an interesting selection. ❤️ 12h
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LiseWorks Nice selection! 9h
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! Never too late to BookSpin!! 😁 8h
TheBookHippie 🩵🩶🤍❄️🩵🩶🤍 7h
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vivastory
Rendezvous With Rama | Arthur C. Clarke
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Clarke's 2001 is one of my favorite SF books of all time. I think it's even better than the movie, which is saying a lot bc I love Kubrick. This is my second Clarke read & a word that keeps popping up is perihelion: the point of a planet, asteroid, or comet at which it is closest to the sun
#weirdwordswednesday @cbee
Side note: Villeneuve hinted at an adaptation, but typing the definition, I'm reminded of the excellent D. Boyle movie “Sunshine“

Texreader Oh my goodness! I haven‘t thought about this book in decades. I read it as a kid. Other than the title I have zero recollection about it! What fun to see it again! 18h
CBee Amazing word - I love it 😊 18h
rwmg And for bonus points aphelion, the furthest point from the sun in its orbit 13h
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AshleyHoss820
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Pickpick

Holy crap on a cracker. I did not expect to adore this book. It‘s a cozy, low-stakes sci-fi that is more character-driven than plot-driven. It focuses on identity and found family. I genuinely, truly loved this. I sat up late into the night reading because I didn‘t want to leave. Becky Chambers shared Zoë van Dijk‘s artwork for the folio edition, and it is everything. So many green flags. It‘s thoughtful and thought-provoking. Beautiful.

TheKidUpstairs I love this book so much. Chambers' Monk and Robot books are also fabulous, if you haven't read them yet! 21h
AshleyHoss820 @TheKidUpstairs I haven‘t yet and I am so excited to begin! Thank you for the rec! I read this to fulfill one of GoodReads‘ seasonal challenges and I am SO glad I did! Such a pleasant surprise! 21h
ChaoticMissAdventures I LOVE this series!! It has been the closest I could find in book form to my love of Firefly. Just incredibly cool characters you want to hang out with forever! 20h
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AshleyHoss820 @ChaoticMissAdventures FIREFLY, YES! What a great comparison! My daughter is named Zoey after that beautiful autumn flower, Zoe Washburn. 😂 I agree, I absolutely did not want the story to end. I wanted them to be real so badly! :) 20h
Ruthiella I also love this series. Cozy SciFi. I‘m here for it. ❤️🚀 20h
AshleyHoss820 @Ruthiella I‘m used to more action-packed sci-fi, so at first this felt like I was going to hate it, but I met the book where it was at and I just fell in love. 😍☺️ 20h
ChaoticMissAdventures @AshleyHoss820 amazing 😍 Zoe is such a badass in the show, and played by Gina Torres means she is also gorgeous! 20h
BookmarkTavern I love this whole series! 💖💖💖 17h
AshleyHoss820 @ChaoticMissAdventures I adore Gina Torres! Every time I see her in something, I tell my husband, “I love her.” 😂 He‘s gotta be sick of me! 😂 I loved her in Angel (Buffy spin-off) too! 15h
AshleyHoss820 @BookmarkTavern I love to hear it! I‘m going to buy physical copies of the series since I loved it so much. I read these first one on Kindle Unlimited because I was unaware of what a gem it was! ☺️ 15h
BookmarkTavern If you like audiobooks, I highly recommend giving them a try for this series. They‘re all amazing, although I have a particular fondness for the first and the most recent ones. 15h
BookmarkTavern Also! If you haven‘t, definitely give her Monk and Robot series a try! 15h
AshleyHoss820 @BookmarkTavern I do love audiobooks so this is a great suggestion! I always find sci-fi and fantasy tend to do so well as audios! I‘ve listened to Dune at *least* six times! I haven‘t read the Monk and Robot series but I am stacking it immediately! ☺️🧡 14h
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Hooked_on_books
Automatic Noodle | Annalee Newitz
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Four robots reactivate and find themselves in a restaurant, abandoned by the owner, and with lots to still pay on their contracts. So, they work together to create a noodle place. It‘s 2064 California and we get to see where society is and why it‘s transformed. I liked this, especially how clearly it is a metaphor for transness.

dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 23h
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thelorelei
Always Coming Home | Ursula K. Le Guin, Todd Barton, Margaret Chodos-Irvine, George Hersh
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My god, how to describe it? LeGuin spent 5 years creating and bringing to life the post-environmental-apocalypse fictional culture of the Kesh. She invented their language and their sacred customs and their poetry and their music (with the help of a composer). Then she put it all into a 600 page tome. It's her Silmarillion. I didn't read this all in one go but came and went. By the end I knew everything about these people. Not for the casual.

Bookwomble This sounds amazing! 1d
thelorelei @Bookwomble It really is. Kind of mind-melting. It took me many months to finish but was so worth it. 22h
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Awk_Word_Smith
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Holy Hell(diver)! That was an intense finale to the Red Rising Trilogy. Even the plot twists had plot twists. Crisp, intentional writing with not a single wasted word. Darrow enters the third installment more broken than he ever had been in the previous two books. An amazing finale that sated my hunger for revenge and justice.

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LitsyEvents
The Fifth Season | N. K. Jemisin
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repost for @Riveted_Reader_Melissa

Updated schedule for #SheSaid!

We had 1 book with 5 votes (Wild Swans) and 4 with 4 votes. I added them all to our schedule for 2026 along with our 2 fiction reads. I did bump Wild Swans back to March, so we could read it and the follow-up book by the author after (and hopefully 🤞 when the hold lines at the library are not so long 😬). Then there were about 12 books tied after that…so new vote this summer.

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ChaoticMissAdventures
System Collapse | Martha Wells
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While this was still enjoyable, it felt like maybe my least favorite Murderbot book. We are getting to where there are just too many characters for me to lightly keep track of which is bogging me down a bit.

I am still excited to read the next in the series, because I just adore Murderbot, but hoping for less side characters and more humor.

willaful It was my least favorite as well. Hoping for better from the next book. 2d
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RamsFan1963
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Bailedbailed

While I really enjoyed Mickey 7, I just couldn't get into this book. The humor felt very forced, and I found the lead character dull and too given to just letting things happen instead of taking charge.

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