Ceriise

She | her, France, in love with hiking, learning about feminism and ecology (and also coffee 😁) ✊🏻⛰️🥾☕

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A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

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The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)

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La conque de Ramor (La Quête de l'oiseau du temps, #1)

Serge Le Tendre

Le légendaire chevalier Bragon pense en avoir fini avec sa vie aventureuse dont les exploits ont fait les heures les plus riches des conteurs d'Akbar. À présent qu'il est vieux, il n'aspire plus qu'au repos, retiré qu'il est dans sa ferme des hauts plateaux du Médir. Mais la tranquillité n'est pas de mise pour les héros. Un jour vient à lui Pélisse, jeune vierge sauvage et rousse aux formes généreuses, accompagnée de son Fourreux, animal étrange aux mystérieux pouvoirs. Elle lui apporte un message de sa mère, la princesse-sorcière Mara, elle même ancienne maîtresse de Bragon. La situation est grave : Ramor, le dieu maudit, va bientôt sortir de la conque où les dieux l'avaient enfermé pour contenir sa soif de pouvoir. La destruction et la mort s'étendraient alors sur Akbar sans que quiconque puisse s'y opposer. Il ne reste que huit jours avant la " nuit de la saison changeante " où s'achèvera l'enchantement qui retient Ramor prisonnier. Mara a besoin de l'Oiseau du Temps, car il est le seul capable d'arrêter le temps, ce qui lui permettrait d'achever, avant la fin des huit jours, la trop longue incantation qui lie Ramor à la conque. Mais la première épreuve de la quête sera d'aller récupérer la Conque de Ramor, jalousement gardée par Shan-Thung, le prince-sorcier de la Marche des Terres Éclatées. Sollicité par son ancien amour, agacé par la fougue et l'insolence de Pélisse qui prétend être sa fille, Bragon sort sa fidèle faucheuse de son étui et s'embarque sans plus d'hésitation dans ce qui sera la plus hasardeuse des entreprises jamais vues sur Akbar : La Quête de l'Oiseau du Temps ! ...

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L'Omégon (Avant la Quête, #8)

Ceriise

Apr 03, 2026

3.5

Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 3.0Plot: 3.0

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L'Omégon (Avant la Quête, #8)

Serge Le Tendre

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The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)

T.J. Klune

Linus Baker is a by-the-book case worker in the Department in Charge of Magical Youth. He's tasked with determining whether six dangerous magical children are likely to bring about the end of the world. Arthur Parnassus is the master of the orphanage. He would do anything to keep the children safe, even if it means the world will burn. And his secrets will come to light. The House in the Cerulean Sea is an enchanting love story, masterfully told, about the profound experience of discovering an unlikely family in an unexpected place—and realizing that family is yours.

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rialovesbooks

Thoughts from 3% (page 10)

I’m liking this already but my short attention span was hoping for short chapters…oh well

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Memorial

Bryan Washington

A funny, sexy, profound dramedy about two young people at a crossroads in their relationship and the limits of love. Benson and Mike are two young guys who live together in Houston. Mike is a Japanese American chef at a Mexican restaurant and Benson's a Black day care teacher, and they've been together for a few years -- good years -- but now they're not sure why they're still a couple. There's the sex, sure, and the meals Mike cooks for Benson, and, well, they love each other. But when Mike finds out his estranged father is dying in Osaka just as his acerbic Japanese mother, Mitsuko, arrives in Texas for a visit, Mike picks up and flies across the world to say goodbye. In Japan he undergoes an extraordinary transformation, discovering the truth about his family and his past. Back home, Mitsuko and Benson are stuck living together as unconventional roommates, an absurd domestic situation that ends up meaning more to each of them than they ever could have predicted. Without Mike's immediate pull, Benson begins to push outwards, realizing he might just know what he wants out of life and have the goods to get it. Both men will change in ways that will either make them stronger together, or fracture everything they've ever known. And just maybe they'll all be okay in the end. Memorial is a funny and profound story about family in all its strange forms, joyful and hard-won vulnerability, becoming who you're supposed to be, and the limits of love.

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Little Fires Everywhere

Celeste Ng

Everyone in Shaker Heights was talking about it that summer: how Isabelle, the last of the Richardson children, had finally gone around the bend and burned the house down. In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is meticulously planned – from the layout of the winding roads, to the colours of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. Enter Mia Warren – an enigmatic artist and single mother – who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenage daughter Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons. Soon Mia and Pearl become more than just tenants: all four Richardson children are drawn to the mother–daughter pair. But Mia carries with her a mysterious past, and a disregard for the rules that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community. When old family friends attempt to adopt a Chinese-American baby, a custody battle erupts that dramatically divides the town – and puts Mia and Elena on opposing sides. Suspicious of Mia and her motives, Elena is determined to uncover the secrets in Mia's past. But her obsession will come at an unexpected and devastating cost . . .

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For all my fellow hardcore shelf organizers!

Taking inspiration from another post (I don't remember the user I'm sorry T-T) and many discussions with my mom, I realize how sacred maintaining my bookshelf is, like an at home retreat. My bookshelf is my pride and joy. Placed where it's the pinnacle of my home upon entering, rearranged and cleaned at least once a month. Always looking at it and planning how I want to design it next on the next arrangement. How do you guys like your shelves to look? Is there a specific categorization? A specific vibe or aesthetic? Do you like it neat and uniform or more eclectic and wilder? Display books? Nic-knacks and trinkets? Pictures are welcome (I may take inspiration on my next scheduled date with my shelves).

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Still Life

Sarah Winman

Tuscany, 1944: As Allied troops advance and bombs fall around deserted villages, a young English soldier, Ulysses Temper, finds himself in the wine cellar of a deserted villa. There, he has a chance encounter with Evelyn Skinner, a middle-aged art historian who has come to Italy to salvage paintings from the ruins and recall long-forgotten memories of her own youth. In each other, Ulysses and Evelyn find a kindred spirit amongst the rubble of war-torn Italy, and set off on a course of events that will shape Ulysses's life for the next four decades. As Ulysses returns home to London, reimmersing himself in his crew at The Stoat and Parrot -- a motley mix of pub crawlers and eccentrics -- he carries his time in Italy with him. And when an unexpected inheritance brings him back to where it all began, Ulysses knows better than to tempt fate, and returns to the Tuscan hills. With beautiful prose, extraordinary tenderness, and bursts of humor and light, Still Life is a sweeping portrait of unforgettable individuals who come together to make a family, and a richly drawn celebration of beauty and love in all its forms.

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The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)

Margaret Atwood

When the van door slammed on Offred's future at the end of The Handmaid's Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead for her--freedom, prison or death. With The Testaments, the wait is over. Margaret Atwood's sequel picks up the story more than fifteen years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead. In this brilliant sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, acclaimed author Margaret Atwood answers the questions that have tantalized readers for decades. "Dear Readers: Everything you've ever asked me about Gilead and its inner workings is the inspiration for this book. Well, almost everything! The other inspiration is the world we've been living in." --Margaret Atwood An alternate cover edition of ISBN 978-0385543781 can be found here.

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Invisiblelifeofkait

Favourite Words📖

Do yall have a favourite word and get really excited when you see it written in a book because most of my kindle highlights are either the word petrichor or iridescent? Petrichor is also my favourite smell in the world 🌧️☀️and iridescent is just a fabulous word 💜💙🩷

What are everyone’s favourite words (in any language) and do feel free to leave the definitions too because we can all learn some new words today ✨

Have a lovely Sunday whatever you’re doing ✨

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Ambition Monster: A Memoir

Jennifer Romolini

A deeply personal memoir about workaholism, the addictive nature of ambition, and the humbling process of picking yourself up when the world lets you down—an anti-girlboss tale for our times for readers of A Love Story and Uncanny Valley . After years of relentlessly racing up the professional ladder, Jennifer Romolini reached the kind of success many a high-profile, C-suite dream job, a book well-received enough that reporters wanted to know the secrets to her success, and a gig traveling around the country giving speeches on “making it.” She had a handsome and clever husband, a precocious child, and a home in a desirable Los Angeles neighborhood. But beneath this shiny surface, Romolini was falling apart. Written with self-deprecation and wit, Ambition Monster is a gutsy and powerful look at workaholism and the addictive nature of achievement, the lingering effect of childhood trauma, and the failures of our modern rat race. This is a Cinderella story of success and a brutal appraisal of the cost of capitalism—perfect for people pleasers, overachievers, and those whose traumas have driven them to strike for “goodness,” no matter the cost. With its timely and resonant deconstructing of the American Dream, Ambition Monster is a singular excavation of selfhood, an essential interrogation about the way we work, and an inspiring and affirming call to always bet on yourself.

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La promesse de l'aube

Romain Gary

Librarian's note: Older cover of ISBN 2070363732. – Tu seras un héros, tu seras général, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Ambassadeur de France – tous ces voyous ne savent pas qui tu es ! Je crois que jamais un fils n'a haï sa mère autant que moi, à ce moment-là. Mais, alors que j'essayais de lui expliquer dans un murmure rageur qu'elle me compromettait irrémédiablement aux yeux de l'Armée de l'Air, et que je faisais un nouvel effort pour la pousser derrière le taxi, son visage prit une expression désemparée, ses lèvres se mirent à trembler, et j'entendis une fois de plus la formule intolérable, devenue depuis longtemps classique dans nos rapports : – Alors, tu as honte de ta vieille mère?

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Ceriise

Reading Anniversary ! 🥹

Bonjour dear Boudlings ! I am keeping a diary where I write all the books I have read and overline the one that I liked and wish I could have in my physical bookshelves the day I will move in my true home (you know the student life where you can move for your studies at any moment and books are wheighting waaaay too much for a moving day)... I am keeping this habit since 2016 ! It means I wrote all the books I have read since 10 years ! I would loved to have started this habit way back and this way I could have the titles of all the books I read when little and frustrated because I could only take 10 books per week at my local library, a true reading danger 😆 Do you have a physical place where you keep track of all your readings ? You know in case some mysterious day goodreads or pagebound crash and you can't access these informations anymore ? (yah I have a little fear of forgetting things so multiplying the sources is great and the dopamine high when updating all these sources ahah) Since when are you keeping this habit ? If you just started reading or keeping track of your reading please please keep going ! One day you will look at your little notebook and thanks your 10 year younger self !! Happy reading to you all 🌞

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Reading Anniversary ! 🥹

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Ceriise

Sick of SMUT and searching relatable romance

I am sick of reading romance stories of teenagers falling in love in unatural ways and always the same dynamics in the relationship between a white "powerful" man and the "in need for help desperate" white girl.. Do you have any recommandations of books where we can follow a couple and maybe be bored by their life because love is not alwyas butterflies and fireworks, I love Sally Rooney for that but already devoured all her books :(

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Ceriise

Mar 31, 2026

3.0

Enjoyment: 2.5Quality: 4.0Characters: 2.0Plot: 2.0

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A book I wish I had the time to read in one sitting because I think it would have helped my understanding of the story, I am always too naive to understand that I am not reading a trustful narrator, I don't think I liked it but the analyses of human behavior is interesting

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Trust Exercise

Susan Choi

In an American suburb in the early 1980s, students at a highly competitive performing arts high school struggle and thrive in a rarified bubble, ambitiously pursuing music, movement, Shakespeare, and, particularly, their acting classes. When within this striving "Brotherhood of the Arts," two freshmen, David and Sarah, fall headlong into love, their passion does not go unnoticed--or untoyed with--by anyone, especially not by their charismatic acting teacher, Mr. Kingsley. The outside world of family life and economic status, of academic pressure and of their future adult lives, fails to penetrate this school's walls--until it does, in a shocking spiral of events that catapults the action forward in time and flips the premise upside-down. What the reader believes to have happened to David and Sarah and their friends is not entirely true--though it's not false, either. It takes until the book's stunning coda for the final piece of the puzzle to fall into place--revealing truths that will resonate long after the final sentence. As captivating and tender as it is surprising, Susan Choi's Trust Exercise will incite heated conversations about fiction and truth, and about friendships and loyalties, and will leave readers with wiser understandings of the true capacities of adolescents and of the powers and responsibilities of adults.

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Ceriise

Thoughts from 89% - Play rehearsal

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AuthorKristenArgyres

Thoughts from 42% - Audiobook, End of Chapter 6: Manifestation