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Saša Stanišić

Kemi wird im Ferienlager Teil einer Gruppe unterschiedlichster Jugendlicher und Betreuer. Und er trifft auf Jörg, der irgendwie andersiger ist, für den sich Kemi aber sehr interessiert. Er beobachtet genau, was die anderen mit Jörg machen und wie in der Gruppe langsam alles eskaliert. Wie weit? In seinen Träumen begegnet Kemi einem Wolf, seiner eigenen Angst. Er lernt, mit dem Wolf zu leben und mutig zu sein.

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Favorite Non-Romantic Love Stories?

Happy Valentine’s Day, PB! Wishing you all a lot of love today, in whatever forms that looks like for you! 💌

In honor of the holiday, I was wondering, what are some of your favorite examples of non-romantic love in books? This can include love between family members, friends, love of community, humans and their animal companions, just anything other than romantic love! All genres are welcome too, whether nonfiction, fiction, poetry, etc.

One of my favorites is the familial love between cousins Hero and Roni in America Is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo!

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Coffin Moon

Keith Rosson

From the author of the “exciting, suspenseful, horrifying” (Stephen King) Fever House, a Vietnam veteran and his adopted niece hunt—and are hunted by—the vampire that slaughtered their family. It’s the winter of 1975, and Duane Minor, back home in Portland, Oregon, after a tour in Vietnam, is struggling to quell his anger and keep his drinking in check, keep his young marriage intact, and keep the nightmares away. Things get even more complicated when his thirteen-year-old niece, Julia, is sent across the country to live with Duane and his wife Heidi. But slowly, carefully, guided by Heidi’s love and patience, the three of them are building a family. Then Minor crosses the wrong man: John Varley, a criminal with a bloody history and a trail of bodies behind him. Varley, who sleeps during the day beneath loose drifts of earth and grows teeth in the light of the moon. In an act of brutal retaliation, Varley kills Heidi, leaving Minor broken with guilt and Julia filled with rage. The two of them are left united by only one thing: the desire for vengeance. As their quest brings them into the dark orbit of immortal, undead children, silver bullet casters, and the bevy of broken men drawn to Varley’s ferocity, Minor and Julia follow his path of destruction from the gritty alleyways of 1970s Portland to the desolate highways of the Northwest and the snow-lashed plains of North Dakota—only to have Varley turn his vicious power back on them. Who will prevail, who will survive, and what remains of our humanity when our thirst for revenge trumps everything else?

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The Bones Beneath My Skin

T.J. Klune

In the spring of 1995, Nate Cartwright has lost everything: his parents are dead, his older brother wants nothing to do with him, and he's been fired from his job as a journalist in Washington DC. With nothing left to lose, he returns to his family's summer cabin outside the small mountain town of Roseland, Oregon to try and find some sense of direction. The cabin should be empty. It's not. Inside is a man named Alex. And with him is an extraordinary little girl who calls herself Artemis Darth Vader. Artemis, who isn't exactly as she appears. Soon it becomes clear that Nate must make a choice: let himself drown in the memories of his past, or fight for a future he never thought possible. Because the girl is special. And forces are descending upon them who want nothing more than to control her.

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The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #1)

Laurie R. King

Long retired, Sherlock Holmes quietly pursues his study of honeybee behavior on the Sussex Downs. He never imagines he would encounter anyone whose intellect matched his own, much less an audacious teenage girl with a penchant for detection. Miss Mary Russell becomes Holmes's pupil and quickly hones her talent for deduction, disguises and danger. But when an elusive villain enters the picture, their partnership is put to a real test.

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A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)

Arthur Conan Doyle

Our first meeting with Sherlock Holmes. And John Watson's too! The young doctor is astonished by Holmes' many idiosyncrasies, including his talents on the violin. But it's not long before Sherlock Holmes, with Watson in tow, is working with Scotland Yard investigating the murder of two Americans whose deaths have some mysterious connection to sinister groups gathering power in both Britain and America. Here's where it all began, 'A Study in Scarlet.' Meet Sherlock Holmes, one of the world's leading consulting detectives - fictional of course!

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Is anyone gonna adopt that?

Hi Boundlings 🌱

I've been looking far and wide for books that have characters with a father and daughter dynamic who aren't actually related. I'm thinking Joel and Ellie from The Last of Us or Gustave and Maelle from Expedition 33 🥹🫶

Two characters that found one another and are sticking together as friends, as father and daughter, as found family.

It doesn't have to be the main focus of the book, just part of the characters 🫶 Unfortunately, I find litfic quite boring 😭 so I am looking for fantasy, sci-fi, mystery or horror but I would check out litfic at this point as well. If anyone has a recommendation I'd love to hear it! 🥰

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The Passage (The Passage, #1)

Justin Cronin

IT HAPPENED FAST. THIRTY-TWO MINUTES FOR ONE WORLD TO DIE, ANOTHER TO BE BORN. First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment. Then, the unspeakable: a night of chaos and carnage gives way to sunrise on a nation, and ultimately a world, forever altered. All that remains for the stunned survivors is the long fight ahead and a future ruled by fear—of darkness, of death, of a fate far worse. As civilization swiftly crumbles into a primal landscape of predators and prey, two people flee in search of sanctuary. FBI agent Brad Wolgast is a good man haunted by what he's done in the line of duty. Six-year-old orphan Amy Harper Bellafonte is a refugee from the doomed scientific project that has triggered apocalypse. Wolgast is determined to protect her from the horror set loose by her captors, but for Amy, escaping the bloody fallout is only the beginning of a much longer odyssey—spanning miles and decades—toward the time and place where she must finish what should never have begun. With The Passage, award-winning author Justin Cronin has written both a relentlessly suspenseful adventure and an epic chronicle of human endurance in the face of unprecedented catastrophe and unimaginable danger. Its inventive storytelling, masterly prose, and depth of human insight mark it as a crucial and transcendent work of modern fiction.

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Hi Boundlings 🌱

Two characters that found one another and are sticking together as friends, as father and daughter, as found family.

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Thistlefoot

GennaRose Nethercott

The Yaga siblings--Bellatine, a young woodworker, and Isaac, a wayfaring street performer and con artist--have been estranged since childhood, separated both by resentment and by wide miles of American highway. But when they learn that they are to receive a mysterious inheritance, the siblings are reunited--only to discover that their bequest isn't land or money, but something far stranger: a sentient house on chicken legs. Thistlefoot, as the house is called, has arrived from the Yagas' ancestral home in Russia--but not alone. A sinister figure known only as the Longshadow Man has tracked it to American shores, bearing with him violent secrets from the past: fiery memories that have hidden in Isaac and Bellatine's blood for generations. As the Yaga siblings embark with Thistlefoot on a final cross-country tour of their family's traveling theater show, the Longshadow Man follows in relentless pursuit, seeding destruction in his wake. Ultimately, time, magic, and legacy must collide--erupting in a powerful conflagration to determine who gets to remember the past and craft a new future. An enchanted adventure illuminated by Jewish myth and adorned with lyrical prose as tantalizing and sweet as briar berries, Thistlefoot is an immersive modern fantasy saga by a bold new talent.

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eiras

Outside of reading, what's your "thing"?

I mean the hobby/interest you spend most of your free time on that's not book-related.

I'm a boardgames girlie personally! Love a social deduction game, and Blood on the Clocktower could easily rival reading for taking up most of my leisure time in any given week. What about you folks?!

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Enjoyment: Quality: Characters: Plot: Audiobook: 4.0

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Ich habe die Buchlinge vermisst! Nach Die Stadt der träumenden Bücher kam für mich irgendwie kein anderer Moers an das Buch heran, aber der Bücherdrache hat es geschafft. Witzig, zum Nachdenken anregend und voller schöner Zitate:

"Es gibt ein Zwischenreich zwischen Schönheit und Schmerz, welches man Melancholie nennt."

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I wanted to like this book so bad because the premise is right up my alley. Now, I don't know if it's because I read it in German but it fell incredibly flat for me... I didn't particularly like any of the characters because I felt as though there could have been more exposition and backstory for the side characters and the mining crew.

Unfortunately, I also found the resolution boring. Up until then I was still kinda gripped and wanted to know how everything would turn out...

Also, new pet peeve discovered that is not the book's fault: The German cover didn't match the book at all - it has a spaceship/freighter on the cover. The story is set on an asteroid throughout if you don't count the one (1) sentence where travel to said asteroid is mentioned ???

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Jun 13, 2026

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The Butcher's Masquerade (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #5)

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I think I finally got the Dungeon Crawler Carl hype out of my system - the books get longer and longer but I am missing character interactions that aren't about planning or scheming; the characters don't really have growth other than their stats and skills. I'd love to see some great interpersonal interactions but unfortunately, a lot of the characters feel the same to me. I kept forgetting who was who because they were kinda interchangably... I really struggled with this one and don't think I'll continue with the series.

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moontea

Which of your 'my taste' books is most likely to be dethroned in the next year or two?

And which is most likely to stay put?

For me,

Probably next to be dethroned: Bunny. Most likely to stay put: Fellowship of the Ring

(I'm too tired to offer an explanation for mine but, if anyone wants to share their reasons, I think that would be fun to read!)

So curious about everyone's predictions!

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