An interesting story about generational divide and expectations

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📚Currently reading:

📕A Feast for Crows
📕The Goblin Emperor
📙The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

Progress:

Finished Dr. Moreau and a short story this week. Made some progress with the tagged book. Hoping to get through it faster this upcoming week. Hoping to hop back into TGE and the rest this upcoming week as well.

This is such a captivating and profound short story. in truth I saw a TikTok talking about it and had to seek it out for myself, I was not disappointed.

There are a lot of themes in this book but they are not explored thoroughly. Some authors hammer the point in, but this doesn't feel like it hammers the point enough. MC waffled back and forth between liking and hating the beast folk. The plot meanders through most of the book. The book itself is written well but the thinly veiled racism and antisemitism do great harm to the whole book.

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📚Currently reading:

📕A Feast for Crows
📕The Goblin Emperor
📙The Island of Dr. Moreau

Progress:

Finished 2 books last week which was nice. Also made some progress with The Goblin Emperor (finally) (things are getting very intense) I alsomst read more of Lord of the Necropolis when I was making pizza on Thursday but alas. Hoping ot finish Dr. Moreau this week but we shall see. Originally it was my palette cleanser.

Started this a few hours ago, digging the eerie vibes, not sure if racism plays a big part in this or not, though 😬

It was fine in terms of writing style but all the adults aside from Angus felt dumbed down which felt like a disservice. It felt odd to read about existential subjects aimed at 10-year-olds (gotta start them early on philosophy I guess)

The age gaps feel a bit awkward, even if the adults feel very childlike. It was all over the place and messy in other aspects.

It's almost May so it's time to post my #2024bookbracket These picks surprise nobody. (GRRM is a phenomenal writer) I was having trouble deciding between the two ASOIAF books, but ultimately, I love them equally.

I also had my first bonus pick of the year!

(the template is by @/CSeydel)

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I was excited to hear about Silvia Moreno-Garcia releasing a Fantasy story as it's my favorite genre.

This was a very ambitious novella. I'm not sure if my copy was a bit mangled and the typos weren't on purpose but this read like something a beginner author would write.

The dialogue felt awkward at times and the novella would have benefitted from a larger page count to develop the world. I enjoyed it well enough but it felt flawed.

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📚Currently reading:

📕A Feast for Crows
📕The Goblin Emperor
📙The Return of the Sorceress

Progress:

I haven't finished anything this week but I will this following week. I was very tired and distracted most of last week and as a result, my reading suffered. On Tuesday I will probably finish the tagged book, but on Monday I have other things to do first.

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📚Currently reading:

📕A Feast for Crows
📕The Goblin Emperor
📙The Return of the Sorceress

Progress:

Productive reading week, finished 2 novels. I am hoping to finish The Return of the Sorceress in the upcoming week and jump back into The Goblin Emperor proper.

Although the premise was interesting the writing style of this novel was too erratic and jumped from idea to idea without any transition. I shouldn't have been surprised by the racism but that was another very unpleasant experience reading this.

The author's life experience was a huge inspiration for this, considering that she is of mixed race. (As an immigrant who moved a lot I can completely relate to all of that)

I wanted to read something Gothic and this satisfied that craving. A beautifully written novel but it also had plenty of shortcomings. There were many racist comments, the too-convenient plot resolutions. I found a lot of the story beats too overdramatic, even for a gothic novel. Jane, although sweet and relatable also comes off as an “I'm not like other girls“ type character because although she is not described as pretty men still desire her.

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📚Currently reading:

📕A Feast for Crows
📕The Goblin Emperor
🎧Jane Eyre

Progress:

Good reading week aside from Friday. I Finished A Storm of Swords with the buddy reads group, which was really good. I am still making steady progress with Jane Eyre, I hope to finish it this upcoming week.

Can't wait to jump into these

I became absorbed in the audiobook and finished it. Oops. I loved it to bits, just like the other books in the series. These are a solid 5 stars for me.

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📚Currently reading:

📕A Storm of Swords
🎧Jane Eyre

Progress:

Taking out a lot of books that I am not really focusing on atm. Finished Emma this week and it was really fun and clever but I also expected more out of it. Picked up Jane Eyre after it, and I have been making steady progress with it. I'm pretty sure I will be finishing ASOS this week, so looking forward to that.

Doing some late night reading

Mr. Martin always has a way with words

A fun read, but I was hoping to like it more than I did. I can't say I'm entirely disappointed but I was hoping for more substance out of it and more fun matchmaking shenanigans instead of the gossip which took the majority of the book.

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📚Currently reading:

📕The Goblin Emperor
📕A Storm of Swords
📙Lord of The Necropolis
🎧Emma
🎧Night of the Hunter

Progress:

I keep forgetting to post these. I finished Gods of Jade and Shadow and it was amazing, it was a pretty good reading week last week. This week I plan to finish Emma (I only have 5 chapters left) and hopefully jump back into The Goblin Emperor.

It was a fun ride through and through. MC was relatable. For a time, I was worried that the romance would turn out a certain way, but thankfully it didn't. This book totally didn't make me cry (a lot) definitely a 5-star read. I highly recommend it if one enjoys mythology and magical realism.

Hoping I can finish this later today. I have about 18% left of it. So far it's been a fun ride.

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📚Currently reading:

📕The Goblin Emperor
📕A Storm of Swords
📙Lord of The Necropolis
🎧Emma
🎧Night of the Hunter
🎧 Gods of Jade and Shadow

Progress:

I haven't finished anything this week, but I made steady progress in Emma and Gods of Jade and Shadow, I hope to do better next week.

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📚Currently reading:

📕The Goblin Emperor
📕A Storm of Swords
📙Lord of The Necropolis
🎧Emma
🎧Night of the Hunter
🎧 Gods of Jade and Shadow

Progress:

Overall a slow week reading, even if I stayed on track for daily readings. I finished The Martian! That was pretty great. I started another Silvia Moreno-Garcia novel and am already loving it.

I can't wait for my hand to heal so I can read in bed again.

I loved this novel. I haven't read a Man vs Nature story in a long time and this was a very interesting spin on it. I do think some characters lacked characterization but they all felt unique in their own right. I love how everyone came together in the end and different parties working towards the same goal. It really made me feel hope for humanity. Great read.

Half way done with this book already and it does not cease to make me laugh every time.

I knew it was eventually coming but nothing could have prepared me for The Red Wedding. Time to be emotionally compromised for the rest of the day.

“The red will run, and we'll put some wrongs aright“

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📚Currently reading:

📕The Goblin Emperor
📕A Storm of Swords - A chapter a day
📙Lord of The Necropolis
🎧Emma
🎧Night of the Hunter
🎧The Martian

Progress:

I am officially caught up with Murderbot ✌🏻 keeping with the Sci-Fi theme I started The Martian this past Friday and am loving it. I have wanted to read it for a while and I am glad I came around to it, finally. Looking forward to another week of good reading.

well, this isn't something I thought I'd see in a Sci-fi book.

I am actually enjoying this book a lot.

This one felt a bit more to the point and it continues the general plot of the last book.

It still feels like the author's general understanding of non-hetero relationships is minimal at best and half the time feels like a joke.

At least ART is back and I'm glad for it.

This had a strong start but after a few hours, everything felt padded to oblivion. Despite having clear goals the book meanders to them. We got a bit more world-building and the characters felt a bit more fleshed out, but not enough to make a lot of them distinguishable from one another still.

There was also a bit with a pedo that felt unnecessary and out of left field and I was not a fan. Just to put it out there.

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📚Currently reading:

📕The Goblin Emperor
📕A Storm of Swords - A chapter a day
📙Lord of The Necropolis
🎧Emma
🎧Night of the Hunter
🎧Network Effect

Progress:

Extremely productive reading week, last week. Hoping to finish Network Effect this week.

Doesn't add much to the world-building and nothing we already don't know, but the human perspective was refreshing.

Short and to the point.

It's almost the end of February so it's time to post this #2024bookbracket (the template is made by @/CSeydel, it's only fair to credit them)

I will be posting these every 2 months 👀

This series is slowly but surely improving. There's a tiny fraction of character development on the human part, but on Murderbot's part as well, which is a pleasant surprise.

It's nice knocking these out when I'm questing in MMOs

This continues to have a very interesting plot but still lacks any distinguishable human characters. I am very aware this is deliberately done but it's hard to be interested in the characters when they are cardboard cutouts compared to Murderbot.

At least the author stopped beating us over the head with “Murderbot just wants to watch their soaps and has social anxiety“

I'm not getting through this book as quickly as I'd like but I am enjoying it immensely.

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📚Currently reading:

📕The Goblin Emperor - A chapter a day.
📕A Storm of Swords - A chapter a day
📙Lord of The Necropolis - Reading before bed.
🎧Emma
🎧Night of the Hunter

Progress:

This felt like a very slow reading week, even though I finished all my due chapters of ASOS. I hope next week I'll dive back into Murderbot (I'm a little bit behind on my reading challenge)

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📚Currently reading:

📕The Goblin Emperor - A chapter a day.
📕A Storm of Swords - A chapter a day
📙Lord of The Necropolis - Reading before bed.
🎧Emma
🎧Night of the Hunter

Progress:

Made progress with a lot of my readings, and I am happy I finished 2 novellas and a novel. Will continue to make good progress in this following week.

This was a lot better than the first one. The lack of worldbuilding is a bit of a bummer but I hope the more Murderbot interacts with the world the more we find out.

The plot was intriguing but aside from Murderbot, everyone else had a paper-thin personality.

This book was so atmospheric and chilling. It didn't feel much like a Gothic novel of yore but it was a unique spin on the subject.

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📚Currently reading:

📕The Goblin Emperor - A chapter a day.
📕A Storm of Swords - A chapter a day
📙Lord of The Necropolis - Reading before bed.
🎧Mexican Gothic - Evenings
🎧Night of the Hunter - From time to time.

Progress:

I got food poisoning over the weekend so I didn't read or finish anything, though I had a really productive week reading. I'm either finishing Mexican Gothic today or tomorrow.

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📚Currently reading:

📕The Goblin Emperor - A chapter a day.
📕A Storm of Swords - A chapter a day
📙Lord of The Necropolis - Reading before bed.
🎧Mexican Gothic - Evenings
🎧Night of the Hunter - From time to time.

Progress:

I've finished 2 books this past week! Liked Piranesi a lot more than Thornhedge. Looking forward to continuing MG and finishing it this week as well.

The story lacked any depth and it was a struggle to get through.

I don't really know how to rate this. This was definitely a very unique experience and I have to give the author credit for composing such a dream-like novel, but I also feel a bit cheated because this was advertised as a fantasy novel, but it comes off more sci-fi.

It's very fascinating but also an enigma.