Pentimenti

Pen, she/her. ✍️ 📚 Tolkienthusiast. Member of Donut's Princess Posse. Riding sandworms on Arrakis with Chani.

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My Brilliant Friend (The Neapolitan Novels, #1)

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Master of Middle-Earth: The Fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien

The Last Rhee Witch (The Last Rhee Witch #1)

Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life

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OneMoreChapterLiar

Thoughts from 25%

….i might have to DNF this one…fear I’ve been duped by Booktok. Do I keep going? 😭

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zoe.the.lesbian.

Are my mutuals okay?!?😭/ns

Sometimes I go and check to see what my mutuals are reading and then get worried for them when I see they're reading 4+ books. Like twin HOW are you doing that are you okay💔

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kindagabs

Villains POV

I've been dying to read something with the villain POV! any recs?

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The Toll (Arc of a Scythe, #3)

Neal Shusterman

It’s been three years since Rowan and Citra disappeared; since Scythe Goddard came into power; since the Thunderhead closed itself off to everyone but Grayson Tolliver. In this pulse-pounding conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman’s Arc of a Scythe trilogy, constitutions are tested and old friends are brought back from the dead.

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The Toll (Arc of a Scythe, #3)

Neal Shusterman

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KittyFeathers

Interested vs TBR

What’s the difference between the interested shelf and the tbr shelf? I don’t use the interested shelf so I’d like to know what y’all put in there

Pentimenti completed their yearly reading goal of 100 books!

Pentimenti's 2025 Reading Challenge

103 of 100 read

Durarara!!, Vol. 4 (Durarara!! light novel, #4)

Spring, Summer, Asteroid, Bird: The Art of Eastern Storytelling

Durarara!!, Vol. 1 (Durarara!! light novel, #1)

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

The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

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8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster

Mirinae Lee

Joining the acclaimed ranks of Pachinko and A Woman is No Man, a riveting and genre-bending debut of love and survival, set in the demilitarized zone separating North and South Korea. Life near the North Korean border is a zero-sum game, an ongoing battle in which you either win or you lose. This dangerous, shadowed netherworld is home to an unforgettable woman known only as the “trickster.” Inspired by the story of Lee’s great aunt, one of the oldest women to escape alone from North Korea, 8 Lives of a Century Old Trickster consists of eight dark and spellbinding chapters that follow this remarkable character and her family as they struggle to survive during the most turbulent times of modern Korean history. Mirinae Lee’s trickster is a shapeshifter—throughout the course of these interconnected chapters she is a slave, an escape artist, a murderer, a terrorist, a spy, a lover, and a mother—a woman who must often choose the unthinkable to survive war and conquest in Korea. Her story is a beguiling, complex tale of love and survival that will keep you riveted—and speculating—until the very end thanks to Lee’s brilliant talent for sleight of hand. A fascinating look at survival, trauma, and family, 8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster is an incredible literary debut from a bright new talent.

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The Director

Daniel Kehlmann

An artist's life, a pact with the devil, a novel about the dangerous illusions of the silver screen.G.W. Pabst, one of cinema's greatest, perhaps the greatest director of his when the Nazis seized power he was filming in France, to escape the horrors of the new Germany he flees to Hollywood. But under the blinding California sun, the world-famous director suddenly looks like a nobody. Not even Greta Garbo, who he made famous, can help him. And thus, almost through no fault of his own, he finds himself back in his homeland of Austria, which is now called Ostmark. The returning family is confronted with the barbaric nature of the regime. But Goebbels, the minister of propaganda in Berlin, wants the film genius, he won't take no for an answer and makes big promises. While Pabst still believes that he will be able to resist these advances, that he will not submit to any dictatorship other than art, he has already taken the first steps into a hopeless entanglement.Daniel Kehlmann's novel about art and power, beauty and barbarism is a triumph. The Director shows what literature is capable of.

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Playground

Richard Powers

A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory and Bewilderment. Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the world’s first aqualungs. Ina Aroita grows up on naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home. Two polar opposites at an elite Chicago high school bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game; Rafi Young will get lost in literature, while Todd Keane’s work will lead to a startling AI breakthrough. They meet on the history-scarred island of Makatea in French Polynesia, whose deposits of phosphorus once helped to feed the world. Now the tiny atoll has been chosen for humanity’s next adventure: a plan to send floating, autonomous cities out onto the open sea. But first, the island’s residents must vote to greenlight the project or turn the seasteaders away. Set in the world’s largest ocean, this awe-filled book explores that last wild place we have yet to colonize in a still-unfolding oceanic game, and interweaves beautiful writing, rich characterization, profound themes of technology and the environment, and a deep exploration of our shared humanity in a way only Richard Powers can.

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Master of Middle-Earth: The Fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien

Paul H. Kocher

Analyzes Tolkien's fiction, focusing on his creativity, themes, and images of a fantasy world

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The Eye of the Bedlam Bride (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #6)

Matt Dinniman

A pantheon of forgotten gods. An old grudge between a talk show host, an heiress, and the man they shattered along the way. A rapidly deteriorating AI system. An inconvenient tiara upon the head of a friend. It is bedlam on the eighth floor. As management reels from the unexpected conclusion of the seventh level, the surviving crawlers stumble onto the eighth and find themselves scattered. It’s a map based on Earth’s final days before the collapse, where ethereal, intangible ghosts of humanity go about their lives, oblivious of the impending doom. Living amongst these ghosts are monsters based in Earth lore. “Legendary” creatures tied to the geographical location they inhabit. Each team of crawlers is given a task: find and capture six of these beasts. The captured monsters will be turned into cards. Cards that can be summoned into battle again and again. The stronger, the deadlier, the better. At the end of the floor, the bad guys will also have decks, and they will have some of the most powerful cards available. So it’s crucial to assemble the toughest squad possible. But, like always, there is a catch. There’s always a catch. As Carl and Donut know all too well, just because someone is captured, it doesn’t mean they have been tamed. Her name is Shi Maria. She’s easily the most powerful monster in their area. If they want to survive, they must capture her. But she is no ordinary beast. She’s intelligent. She was once married to a god, a god who is now missing. Her special attack is known to drive one insane. They call her the Bedlam Bride. “Beware, beware. Beware the Eye of the Bedlam Bride”

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The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)

Hisashi Kashiwai

The Kamogawa Food Detectives is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese series for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold. What’s the one dish you’d do anything to taste just one more time? Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a very special restaurant. Run by Koishi Kamogawa and her father Nagare, the Kamogawa Diner serves up deliciously extravagant meals. But that’s not the main reason customers stop by . . . The father-daughter duo are ‘food detectives’. Through ingenious investigations, they are able to recreate dishes from a person’s treasured memories – dishes that may well hold the keys to their forgotten past and future happiness. The restaurant of lost recipes provides a link to vanished moments, creating a present full of possibility. A bestseller in Japan, The Kamogawa Food Detectives is a celebration of good company and the power of a delicious meal.

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Scarlet Morning

ND Stevenson

From the powerhouse creator of Nimona comes a breathtaking illustrated novel following two orphans who leave the only home they’ve ever known to sail with an eccentric crew of pirates. Viola and Wilmur have been waiting for their parents for fifteen boring years in the colorless town of Caveat. Their lives are a drudge of salt, trash, pirate stories, and what-ifs . . . until one very stormy night, when Captain Cadence Chase breaks down their door. They cut a deal with the Chase can take their most prized possession, a mysterious book, but only if she takes them, too. After all, if their parents aren’t coming, Viola and Wilmur might as well have a grand adventure to find them. Setting sail into the treacherous and beautiful world beyond Caveat, the two inseparable friends must uncover the facts behind legend—and the key to saving all of Dickerson’s Sea from obliteration—before the truth tears them apart. Wickedly funny, deeply emotional, and sharply incisive, Scarlet Morning is a tale of love, betrayal, and the extraordinary lengths we’d go to save a world broken beyond repair.

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Scarlet Morning

ND Stevenson

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voidsalign

Your go-to author

Tell me the author(s) that you automatically read whenever they release a new book please I wanna know 🥹🫶🏻

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aliceinthelibrary

What’s your favourite read of 2025 (so far)?

I was thinking about this earlier in terms of my own reading and realised my favourite fiction and non-fiction this year were both genres I don’t usually gravitate towards. My favourite fiction - Lonesome Dove - is the first western I’ve ever read, and I distinctly remember hating the westerns my dad would watch when I was a kid. My favourite fiction - Free by Lea Ypi - is a memoir and I almost never like memoirs!

So what’s your favourite read or reads of the year, and were they books you expected to love?

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Lady_of_the_Library

Thoughts on special editions, hardcovers, sprayed edges

What are your thoughts on sprayed edges, special editions, hardcover versions or any sort of special twist on a title you want to purchase?

Do you like it? Indifferent? Curious to know what people think.

My thoughts:

I don't care about sprayed edges. They are nice, but I don't display my books that way. I also won't pay more for it.

Special editions I don't buy. I think they are nice but I like what is in the book, and unless the book is as stunning as the Locked Library version of The Princess Knight by Cait Jacobs (look it up, I swear, it's the prettiest), I don't see the added value personally.

Also I would rather a softcover BC more books and less money 🤣

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Lizzyfoureyes

Reading While at a Bachelorette Party: A Bold Experiment 🍹📖

Currently surrounded by glitter, tequila, and bridal sashes... and yes, I still brought my Kindle. Everyone’s taking shots, and I’m over here trying to sneak in a few chapters between events. Priorities? Questionable. Regrets? None.

Also wondering how many margaritas it’ll take before I can pitch a group buddy-read of something filthy but with heart. 🌶️💍

What’s the most unhinged place you’ve ever read a book? 😅

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