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perfectsinner

Joined March 2019

Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/anorexorcist
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The Hourglass Factory | Lucy Ribchester
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Mehso-so

This was an interesting read that took a lot of twists. I think this might be the first book I've ever read about the suffragette movement. I liked it. Overall, it was good. It was really the cover and title that had initially caught my eye, which turned out to not really be a very big part of the real story.

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The Hourglass Factory | Lucy Ribchester
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Pg 300 something.... the title of the book just made sense and the mystery deepens. This is quite the unusual book thus far.

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The Hourglass Factory | Lucy Ribchester
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It's people who won't open their minds that are dangerous

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The Hourglass Factory | Lucy Ribchester
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First book of 2025

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Well, dang! What a ride that was. I'm not sure why it's taken me so long to read that book, but what a ride it was. It took a while to really start understanding what was going on, but once I did, I figured it was really only the beginning & started waiting for more twists & turns. Excellent read.

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The Last Runaway | Tracy Chevalier

This was a great book! It's been a long time since I started a book in the morning and finished it the same night.

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The Aviator's Wife: A Novel | Melanie Benjamin
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Mehso-so

Anne is a resilient saint, and Charles is a dirty, famous scumbag

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The Aviator's Wife: A Novel | Melanie Benjamin
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Happy Thanksgiving, litsy peeps
Starting some historical fiction, which I haven't read in quite some time.

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Scar Tissue | Anthony Kiedis, Larry Sloman
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I've been wanting to read this for a good while now, and I guess tonight is the night. It was available on Libby, so I said, let's go
Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers

BarbaraBB 😍🥰😍🥰 2mo
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Rebecca | Daphne D Maurier
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It wasn't nearly as enjoyable the second time around.

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Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier | Daphne Du Maurier
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Ahh, sweet summer child... 😅 you've no idea what you're in for

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The Accursed | Joyce Carol Oates
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Bailed after 200 pages. The book desperately needed a better editor, and after reading some Goodreads reviews, helped make up my mind to just forget about this convoluted story that needed condensing and a better ending. Life's too short for bad books.
I'll go ahead and start a reread of Rebecca.

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The Accursed | Joyce Carol Oates

I thought this sounded good and kinda spooky.. we're only a few days into November, so it's still not too late for spooky season, right? 🙂 hoping it's a good pick.

BookmarkTavern It‘s never too late for spooky! 👻 3mo
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Stonehenge: A Novel | Bernard Cornwell
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This was my first of Bernard Cornwell. It wasn't the greatest book, so I'm told, so I'll look for some others of his to enjoy. I was expecting more historical fiction rather than fantasy, and it took a while to really get into it because of all the dealings in war & with the gods. It, overall, was good but kind of so-so. I'll donate this to my little free library.

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I love astronomy 🤩

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David Copperfield | Charles Dickens
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Pulling out this gorgeous edition for a read today! I've read some Dickens before, but not this one 🥰

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The Voided Man | Anthony Dean
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I won this in a Goodreads giveaway, and it was a pretty darn good book! Definitely gives you Project Hail Mary vibes. I will probably try and read the rest of the series sometime.

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The Voided Man | Anthony Dean
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Won this Goodreads giveaway a while ago, and now that I'm finally finished with Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov it's time to dive in

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Count of Monte Cristo, the (Movie Tie-In) | Alexandre Dumas, Alexandre Dumas Pere
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I picked this up on a whim, and am pleasantly surprised to see how much I'm enjoying it so far. Unfortunately, it seems I've an abridged version, as it's only 500 something pages. I guess if I really end up enjoying it I will look for the unabridged version in the future

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Because your hands tremble and your heart is full of holes

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This book is pretty great, and the view isn't bad, either 😏
The Eighth Life by Nino Hararischvili
It's an epic 900+ page tome that I'm trying to read very, very carefully so as not to break the spine. I picked it up at a used book sale, and it doesn't look like it's ever been opened or read.

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Mehso-so

I love astrophysics/cosmology stuff, so I thought this would be a decent read, and it is. Sometimes, my eyes glazed over with some of the technical stuff, and it was published in 1997, so it's quite dated, but still a good read. I would enjoy a more modern version better now that we've got the JWST & a bit more understanding of some things we've since found thru that.

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The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexander Dumas
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Yesterday my friends and i went to Detroit and visited the John K. King Rare & Used bookstore, and this was my haul. I took a lot of photos... wish I could share them here. It's the largest bookstore in Michigan and second largest in the country

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Random used book sale haul #2
14 📚🤓 for $22

marleed Loved Molokai! 7mo
perfectsinner Yay, that was a last minute grab! 7mo
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The Accursed | Joyce Carol Oates
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Random used book sale haul #1
14 📚🤓 for $22

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London | Edward Rutherfurd
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Went to a used book sale spur of the moment today and got quite a haul. This is one of them

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Code to Zero | Ken Follett
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The Weight of Ink | Rachel Kadish
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I've seen a lot about this book in some of my fb book groups 👀

jlhammar Read it with my book club a few years back. Really enjoyed it! 8mo
perfectsinner Nice! It's kinda slow but not bad so far. I'm 200 pages in 8mo
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Notes From Underground | Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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A Beautiful Mind | Sylvia Nasar
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Enjoying some outside reading on this lovely spring day

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The Covenant of Water | Abraham Verghese
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Despite being 467th in line for this book, it's somehow become available. The cover is kinda cut off for the ebook so I'll use this photo instead.
I had Cutting for Stone in my pile for years before I just read it and actually really liked it much more than I thought I would. So, I've decided to try this one out also

Cuilin Enjoy, I loved both Water and Stone 9mo
Bookwormjillk They both are some of my favorites 9mo
perfectsinner I'm excited to be reading it. I made it to chapter 3 last night. 9mo
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A Beautiful Mind | Sylvia Nasar
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115 pgs in
Setting aside for now to start a book I was on hold 6 months for (Down the Rabbit Hole by Holly Madison)

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I waited on hold for this book for 6 months. Time to dive in. Putting aside my other read (A Beautiful Mind-- 115 pages into that.) for now

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Lily and the Octopus | Steven Rowley
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Everyone told me to get the tissues handy for this book, and they weren't wrong. I sobbed hard the last couple chapters. I needed a good cry, anyway, though, tbh.

marleed It‘s a beautiful love story even through 😭😭 9mo
perfectsinner @marleed yes it was. We do love our animals 9mo
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Lily and the Octopus | Steven Rowley
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks This has been on my shelf forever! 9mo
perfectsinner It's been on mine for quite a while also! 9mo
marleed I love this book. It is a tearjerker (MC loves his dog) and not easy to read if you currently have an ailing long-loved pet. 9mo
perfectsinner I was warned I would need tissues. 9mo
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Found a way to borrow from more libraries on Libby from my library today and already put it to the test. I went from 3 small libraries to 12. I hope I picked a good one.

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Giving this a reread

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Finally starting my Christmas present

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Two non fiction books back-to-back? Guess I'm in that kind of mood.
Anyway, I'm gonna start this tonight. I saw the film and thought it was great. I hope the book is good, I've seen some reviews saying it's a bit dry.

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks My husband is reading this. We also saw the movie! 11mo
perfectsinner I loved the movie and I actually love physics. I don't understand it, but I've been obsessed with astrophysics, quantum mechanics, theoretical physics, etc. For several yrs now. I watch a lot of science YouTube, lol. I'm only 9% in, but so far not finding it to be a dry read at all 11mo
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This is pretty good so far. Heartbreaking, of course

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Station Eleven: A novel | Emily St. John Mandel
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Have wanted to read this for quite a while. I'm sick currently so can't concentrate on a physical book-- giving an audiobook a try.

BookmarkTavern Hope you feel better soon! 12mo
Graciouswarriorprincess Hope that you feel better soon! Hugs! 12mo
perfectsinner Thanks, me too! Hope this is a good choice. 12mo
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Pickpick

I couldn't figure how to link my Goodreads review of this, so here's a screenshot of what I wrote there. I really dislike Litsy's limiting review length, which is why I don't usually write one 😶😬

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670/776
Almost there! 😅

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I'm surprised how quickly I've been going thru this 700+ page book. Currently 594/776 pages
Hoping I can finish it this weekend, and it'll be the first book down of 2024... started it out with a banger, and a biggin.

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2023 wrap up. My lowest total since 2019. Most years I manage at least 50 books... I guess not 23... it was a struggle, in more ways than one...

SarahBookInterrupted I did 44 too this year and my goal was 52. I felt the same 2023 was a challenging year. Hopefully 2024 will be better for us both. Happy reading. 13mo
perfectsinner @SarahBookInterrupted thanks! I don't actually do the challenges-- haven't in many years, since I realized I got caught up in the #s game and ended up with a *bunch* of 2 star reads, books I didn't enjoy but felt compelled to finish... so now I just read to read, but still feel a little bummed about the final number 13mo
SarahBookInterrupted @perfectsinner I can see that. For the first time this year I looked up short book list to read at the end of the year, but thankfully I can‘t bring myself to read a book that I don‘t want to read when my TBR pile is so big. So, I discovered some really good short reads, but any larger books that I‘ve really wanted to read weren‘t even considered. I‘ll remember what you said this year and let my “goal” be really low for a desired book. 13mo
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Hear the Wind Sing | Haruki Murakami

"Lies are terrible things. One could say that the greatest sins afflicting modern society are the proliferation of lies and silence. We lie through our teeth, then swallow our tongues."---Haruki Murakami Hear The Wind Sing

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Used my gift card and bought PHM for my collection. I've already read it but didn't own it, so now I do ☺🤓 I will give it a reread in 2024

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The Librarianist: A Novel | Patrick DeWitt
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The truth was that people made him tired.