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Oliveana

INFJ 🧚‍♀️ will probably read it if there's yearning (extra points if it's gay)

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BrideThe Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

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  • Bride
    Thoughts from 68% (page 270)

    'maybe it's a were thing' Lowe says when asked why he wants to go down on his wife after she's come

    Ali Hazelwood is once again reminding us that fictional men are not real men and we should not get our hopes up

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  • Tender Is the Flesh
    Thoughts from 49% (page 103)

    Marcos loves to talk about his sisters words lmaoo

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  • Bride
    Thoughts from 52% (page 205)

    Lowe needing little head scratches to fall asleep is honestly adorable

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  • Den of Vipers
    r4ch43l0_0
    Oct 23, 2025
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    Enjoyment: 0.5Quality: 1.0Characters: 0.5Plot: 2.5

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  • Bride
    Thoughts from 49% (page 193)
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  • Bride
    Thoughts from 2% (audiobook)

    Um is this YA? Because that’s how it’s reading 😳I’d like to fault the female voice actor but imma keep going..

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  • Karate Chop
    Oliveana
    Oct 20, 2025
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    The Buddhist was my favourite story from this collection. Everything else was quite forgettable.

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  • Grave of the Fireflies
    Oliveana
    Oct 17, 2025
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    Temporal orientation influences, and is influenced by, one's position in war. Those few in power who determine a conflict are so detrimentally encouraged by a past-curated pride that they recklessly navigate the present with a mind gunning for the future. Resultantly, time is distorted for everyone involved; the narrative becomes confused.

    This story is not told linearly: we begin with our main character's death. What follows is a stream of moments, disjointed through Nosaka's literary style, but always, unfailingly, time-stamped. It's as though a universal categorisation of time can perhaps make a collective sense of what happens to an individual's temporality during extreme suffering.

    There's is so much more to be said about this short book

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  • Tender Is the Flesh
    Thoughts from 54% (page 112)

    Not to be prudish but the most disturbing thing for me so far is whatever the hell is going on between Spanel and Marcos

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  • Big Swiss
    Oliveana
    Oct 17, 2025
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    Enjoyment: 2.0Quality: 3.0Characters: 2.5Plot: 2.5

    Generational trauma is funny until it goes on for 300+ pages

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  • Tender Is the Flesh
    Oliveana
    Oct 13, 2025
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    I think this would have been more horrific if told from the pov/focus of the father

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    Thoughts from 54% (page 112)

    Not to be prudish but the most disturbing thing for me so far is whatever the hell is going on between Spanel and Marcos

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  • The Dutch House
    Oliveana
    Oct 07, 2025
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    this book had so much promise until about 40% of the way in

    I persevered because I loved Tom Lake (first Patchett novel I read) so much!!!

    this is no Tom Lake. idk what this was but I'm gonna have to forgive and forget otherwise I'll die apparently (which seemed to be the overarching message of the book)

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  • The Dutch House
    Thoughts from 90%

    Forgive thy neighbour and all but to the extent that there's not a single consequence for people doing horrible things?

    Praying someone decides to hold a grudge soon (it'll be me. Against this book. Which I have been reading for 5 months).

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  • Big Swiss
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