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JeniReadABook
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🌟🌟🌟 This story was interesting but I found it a little adhd for me. Since I am adhd I have a hard time with stories that jump here and there and don‘t seem to have a point. I‘m still not sure what the purpose or moral or plot there was...#thingsthatmakeyougohmmm

DrSabrinaMoldenReads Did you read the first book? 5y
JeniReadABook Actually I didn‘t even know it was a series. LOL. 5y
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cathysaid
The Far Field | Madhuri Vijay
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Enjoying this on audiobook, but I haven‘t seen much on Litsy or in the press about it. 🤔 Such a shame since it‘s beautifully written. I‘ll post more about it once finished. #thingsthatmakeyougohmmm

*Updated* Once I bothered to look at the publication date (1/15/19) I kinda solved my own mystery. 😬 It‘s only been out for three weeks.

Samplergal I have in my ever growing pile. I‘ll be interested to see what your final take is. 6y
Rachel_nyc This is my add-on for BOTM this month. Can‘t wait to receive it! (edited) 6y
BarbaraBB Sounds real good. Looking forward to your review! 6y
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Lizpixie
The Stars Are Legion | Kameron Hurley
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Well.That has got to be the most strange,disgusting, weird,compelling,bananapants SciFi novel I have EVER read! In a reality far from ours,humanity is clinging to life on the rim of the galaxy in a series of organic ships called The Legion. I say humanity but it's only women. And instead of giving birth to babies, they give birth to parts of the ship. And there's cannibalism. And mutants. Plus womb swapping. Oh, don't forget the 2headed witches.🤔

LeeRHarry Sounds like it would be right in @Liberty 's wheelhouse - if it hasn't been read already! 😏 7y
Lizpixie @LeeRHarry where do you think I heard about it!😋 7y
minkyb That is certainly a unique concept! 7y
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BookishTrish
It | Stephen King
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Went to bed two and a half hours ago and am nowhere close to sleeping #thingsthatmakeyougohmmm

Literaryunicorn I love Stephen King but I'm not a fan of scary things... I know that makes zero sense. I just love his writing so much. Do you find this to be scary, or just makes you think about it long after you put it down? 8y
BookishTrish @Literaryunicorn Both. It's terrifying from the first scene and it makes you think. A man gets killed for being gay in the 1980s and a police officer tells the responsible party that he understands where they're coming from.... 8y
Literaryunicorn @BookishTrish Oh wow. Yeah. That's like, layers of awful. 8y
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Lmstraubie
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I almost feel like Kreacher is a form of comic relief in this chapter which focuses on the importance of #purity to some wizarding families. It always amazed me how someone who wasn't a pureblood himself was able to gain such a following from wizards who thought being a pureblood was more important than anything else. #hpchapteraday @Redjewel_7734 #thingsthatmakeyougohmmm

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Yossarian
The Queen of the Night | Alexander Chee
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Every few pages this books makes me stop and squint.

"If so, this novel was either a sign or a signal. And, sign or signal, it was a threat."

What's the difference between a sign and a signal? Isn't a sign a kind of signal? Aren't they synonyms in most uses?

lilycobalt I think of signals as more active than signs: the blaring alarm versus the posted speed limit. But there's not much of a difference. 8y
Zelma It seems like a bit of overwriting. Sometimes, simpler can be more effective. 8y
DreesReads Curious to see how you like this book. I keep seeing it on lists, but don't "know" anyone that has liked it. 8y
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mcctrish @AudreyMorris I keep seeing it on lists too but not as a "read" book just "must read" #thingsthatmakeyougohmmm 8y
GinaAnderson I ultimately liked it but it was slow going. I was determined not to stall out on it (looking at you, Mirror Thief) so I forced myself to pick it up when my inclination was to grab something lighter. 8y
Marchpane Agree with @lilycobalt that a signal requires someone doing the signalling. Like the light from a lighthouse or a flag at half mast. But as a metaphor in this context, sign/signal is fairly redundant. 8y
Sydsavvy I didn't love it, didn't hate it. The writing could have been much tighter. I think people wanted to love a big book like that, so that is why it's showing up everywhere. Hope publishers will keep that in mind. 8y
thebookhooker This book made me miss quotation marks. 8y
Yossarian It is enjoyable, but I agree with "overwritten." In a new chapter, our hero just met a character who asked what her job was. She answers with a job I didn't think she had. Then, we flash back to when she got a new job. Then we flash forward to the aftermath of the conversation. There was nothing WRONG with it, but there just didn't seem to be a good reason to break chronology. Well written, but overwritten. 8y
Yossarian @thebookhooker Oddly, that is one part I didn't mind, although it is an odd choice. 8y
kammartinez I think the style of the narration is because our narrator has thoroughly convinced herself that her entire life story is some kind of opera, and is attempting to tell it with the appropriate level of drama, but without the music to accompany it because this is prose. At least that's how I approached this ^^;. 8y
Grimlock Yikes! 8y
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