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Aristaeus

she/her :) working hard to stay out of a reading slump chronic five star reviewer 🏳️‍🌈 also trying to read more sapphic books p.s. big fan of bugs

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Classic Literature from the United States
Classics Starter Pack Vol I
Dark Academia
My Taste
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
Demon Copperhead
Orlando
Nicked
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The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, #2)
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Postcolonial Love Poem
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Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
33%
A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic, #1)
32%

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  • eiras
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    How much do you spend on books a month?

    I try to be as frugal as I can with my reading. I get most of my books from the library, I borrow books from friends/family, I buy second hand both from physical stores and sites like vinted/awesomebooks etc, and I recently got an ebook subscription service too.

    That said, I still think I spend between ÂŁ50-ÂŁ100 on books each month. I do read quite a lot and would consider it my main 'hobby', but even so that's prolly a lil much.

    How much would you estimate you spend on average? (pls make me feel better about myself)

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    A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic, #1)

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    It's always the men with a "J" in their names...

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  • Spoilers or no spoilers?

    I'm very against spoilers. If I ever get spoiled for anything, I will either never read or wait until I forget what was spoiled. I want to be surprised as much as possible. Most of the time, I can guess the ending, but it's not the same as someone confirming something happens.

    However, my little brother looks up the endings to everything. Books, movies, shows. I'm like what is the point in watching/reading something if you already know what's going to happen? It would be one thing if he was checking for triggers or something, but that's not what he's doing. He just wants to know what's going to happen beforehand.

    Is this a common thing? I'd honestly never heard of this until he told me he did it, but I recently found out my cousin does the same thing as well.

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  • Reread the whole series, or jump into the next book?

    Hey guys! When you pick up a sequel to a series you haven't touched in a while, do you reread the first books, or just start the next one?

    Im conflicted, haha.

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    The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, #2)

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  • Book question you’re afraid to ask

    What’s a book question you’ve never asked and you feel it’s too late to ask?

    I don’t know what a space opera is (exposing myself here instead of just googling like a normal person 🧍🏻‍♀️)

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    Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

    Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

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  • The Blood of Olympus (The Heroes of Olympus, #5)
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    Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)

    Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)

    Leigh Bardugo

    Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. By age twenty, in fact, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she’s thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of the world’s most elite universities on a full ride. What’s the catch, and why her? Still searching for answers to this herself, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale’s secret societies. These eight windowless “tombs” are well-known to be haunts of the future rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Street and Hollywood’s biggest players. But their occult activities are revealed to be more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive.

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