Anyajulchen

Venezuelan's writer. Queer. Horror lover

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Silence Of The Lambs (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System: Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong, Vol. 2

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notbillnye

Blood Type? 🙂‍↔️ Blood Taste 😝

related to this post link from Masters of Death (@ 8%, lil to no spoilers), i must consult our vampire experts 🙂‍↕️

theories: is donated blood different than straight from the source? (i.e., temp) does blood type change the flavor? is blood taste different species to species (i.e., vanilla coke vs. vanilla dr pepper) would meds affect enhancement (i.e., blood with adhd meds)

is there canon blood/taste lore i'm missing?

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In Memoriam

Alice Winn

A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during a time of war. It's 1914, and World War I is ceaselessly churning through thousands of young men on both sides of the fight. The violence of the front feels far away to Henry Gaunt, Sidney Ellwood and the rest of their classmates, safely ensconced in their idyllic boarding school in the English countryside. News of the heroic deaths of their friends only makes the war more exciting. Gaunt, half German, is busy fighting his own private battle--an all-consuming infatuation with his best friend, the glamorous, charming Ellwood--without a clue that Ellwood is pining for him in return. When Gaunt's family asks him to enlist to forestall the anti-German sentiment they face, Gaunt does so immediately, relieved to escape his overwhelming feelings for Ellwood. To Gaunt's horror, Ellwood rushes to join him at the front, and the rest of their classmates soon follow. Now death surrounds them in all its grim reality, often inches away, and no one knows who will be next. An epic tale of both the devastating tragedies of war and the forbidden romance that blooms in its grip, In Memoriam is a breathtaking debut.

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Sixteen Souls

Rosie Talbot

Someone is stripping Europe's most haunted city of its spirits. When self-destructive, 16-year-old seer, Charlie Frith, realises that one of his own ghostly friends has gone missing, he must put aside his own safety - and reclusive existence - if he is to find them. Charlie reluctantly teams up with Sam Harrow - the new seer in town - and a rag-tag group of ghosts, to save their friends from a fate literally worse than death. But there is a dark purpose behind these disappearances - more sinister than Charlie could ever have imagined. And, as he slowly comes to terms with his romantic feelings for Sam, the stakes become even higher as time quickly runs out!

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The Bone Ships (The Tide Child, #1)

R.J. Barker

A saga of honor, glory, and warfare, The Bone Ships is the launch of a new fantasy from R.J. Barker. Two nations at war. A prize beyond compare. For generations, the Hundred Isles have built their ships from the bones of ancient dragons to fight an endless war. The dragons disappeared, but the battles for supremacy persisted. Now the first dragon in centuries has been spotted in far-off waters, and both sides see a chance to shift the balance of power in their favour. Because whoever catches it will win not only glory, but the war.

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Fireborne (The Aurelian Cycle, #1)

Rosaria Munda

Annie and Lee were just children when a brutal revolution changed their world, giving everyone--even the lowborn--a chance to test into the governing class of dragonriders. Now they are both rising stars in the new regime, despite backgrounds that couldn't be more different. Annie's lowborn family was executed by dragonfire, while Lee's aristocratic family was murdered by revolutionaries. Growing up in the same orphanage forged their friendship, and seven years of training have made them rivals for the top position in the dragonriding fleet. But everything changes when survivors from the old regime surface, bent on reclaiming the city. With war on the horizon and his relationship with Annie changing fast, Lee must choose to kill the only family he has left or to betray everything he's come to believe in. And Annie must decide whether to protect the boy she loves . . . or step up to be the champion her city needs.

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The Thirty Names of Night

Zeyn Joukhadar

Five years after a suspicious fire killed his ornithologist mother, a closeted Syrian American trans boy sheds his birth name and searches for a new one. He has been unable to paint since his mother’s ghost has begun to visit him each evening. As his grandmother’s sole caretaker, he spends his days cooped up in their apartment, avoiding his neighborhood masjid, his estranged sister, and even his best friend (who also happens to be his longtime crush). The only time he feels truly free is when he slips out at night to paint murals on buildings in the once-thriving Manhattan neighborhood known as Little Syria. One night, he enters the abandoned community house and finds the tattered journal of a Syrian American artist named Laila Z, who dedicated her career to painting the birds of North America. She famously and mysteriously disappeared more than sixty years before, but her journal contains proof that both his mother and Laila Z encountered the same rare bird before their deaths. In fact, Laila Z’s past is intimately tied to his mother’s—and his grandmother’s—in ways he never could have expected. Even more surprising, Laila Z’s story reveals the histories of queer and transgender people within his own community that he never knew. Realizing that he isn’t and has never been alone, he has the courage to officially claim a new name: Nadir, an Arabic name meaning rare. As unprecedented numbers of birds are mysteriously drawn to the New York City skies, Nadir enlists the help of his family and friends to unravel what happened to Laila Z and the rare bird his mother died trying to save. Following his mother’s ghost, he uncovers the silences kept in the name of survival by his own community, his own family, and within himself, and discovers the family that was there all along. Featuring Zeyn Joukhadar’s signature storytelling, The Thirty Names of Night is a timely exploration of how we all search for and ultimately embrace who we are.

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PuckBunnyReads

Overhyped

If this question has been done before a mod can tell me, and I will delete it

But what's 3 or 4 books yall think are overhyped , underhyped and just hyped enough? I sound like Goldilocks when I spoke that outloud

Mine would be (And very controversial in ways)

Overhyped: Heated Rivalry because I tried but the third person point of view kind of irked me at first . I will try again

Unerhyped for me would be one barely anyone has talked about : Nite Shift. It's a basketball romance , they are college aged so that's always a bonus in my books

Just hyped enough: This might also be controversial like my overhyped book but Good Spirits . Yes , you barely get alive person x ghost but I think it was just hyped enough

Again, if this has been asked, I can delete this it's not an issue . I just like asking questions to make people think

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Cee.Reads

Does the type of release affect how you review a book?

Are you kinder to indie authors? More willing to rate debuts higher? Less understanding when it comes to errors in traditionally published books?

Over the last year, I’ve heard a lot of arguments for and against treating certain releases differently, and I was wondering where other people fell on the topic.

Personally, I try to review everything the same way -- at the end of the day, if I’m paying for a book, I’m entitled to an opinion on it, regardless of how it was published and who wrote it, right? But, on the other hand, there is a part of me that somehow feels like I need to be more... positive, I guess, when it comes to debuts and indies? So, rather than feeling comfortable saying I just didn’t enjoy something, I find myself wanting to sugarcoat it when I say anything negative (even though reviews are for readers and I don’t even want authors reading my reviews).

So, yeah, how do you review different releases? Do you think it’s fair to have different standards between trad and indie publishing, or debuts and established authors? Do you think there should be a difference in how we review things?

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Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir

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Thoughts from 8% (page 31)

Won't donated blood taste bad? Like, I don't know a lot of blood, but it has something similar to preservatives, right? Would it taste like coke?

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h3xgrls

tracking essays and articles

Hi, so I just had an overall question (seeing as though it is suddenly relevant for me). As someone that works in a field in healthcare where continuing education is important, I read a lot of essays and articles. I was wondering if you guys knew of a way to track those?

Currently I'm reading an article on OAG and the role of Rjo Kinase Inhibition and I'd like to be able to also track those (not towards my reading goal but just in general).

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