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Thoughts from 26%| there are two wolves

In me there are two wolves. Unfortunately it’s the Din wolf that controls speaking to people and the Ana wolf that provides critiques afterwards.

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unforth

WWW Wednesday

tbh I can hardly believe it's Wednesday again, the last week just flew by for me!! As we circle back to hump day, I'm here again with my three weekly "w" questions:

What are you currently reading?
What have you recently finished reading?
What will you read next?

Sound off, and read what others have said about their reads, too - you may find some new friends with similar taste to yours!

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juliebun222

Hunger Games Series (picturing the districts)

I am so curious as to how the other districts look like. We know that district 12 is the poorest and we sort of know what 12 looks like, although I wish they showed more of the places mentioned in the books, but we have no idea what other districts look like in the movies. I'm particularly interested in the career districts, especially district 1 because they are the most privileged out of all the districts, but, it's STILL a district. If you have a specific place you picture when you think of the districts, please comment them below so I can picture them too (would be better if it's places in the Philippines HAHAHA)😭 I have a really hard time imagining and I'm also curious how different people's interpretations are. THANK YOUU

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hansel

Aug 05, 2026

Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

4.0

Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.5Characters: Plot:

a thorough history of fort mcmurray: why it's located where it is, how it grew as a city, and what life typically looks like there. the account of the fire starting and spreading, down to the minute, and the harrowing experiences the firefighters and townsfolk experienced was really well done. i thought the author connected the history of oil/gas industry and climate change clearly, including a scathing look at how these corporations purposefully obfuscated the truth and made climate change a political issue for short-term monetary gain. the prose style was a little dry at times but it didn't take away from the message of the book. pretty much all weather is fire weather now!

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Serafel

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The Fifth Season

N.K. Jemisin

This is the way the world ends. Again. Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, a woman living an ordinary life in a small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter. Meanwhile, mighty Sanze -- the world-spanning empire whose innovations have been civilization's bedrock for a thousand years -- collapses as most of its citizens are murdered to serve a madman's vengeance. And worst of all, across the heart of the vast continent known as the Stillness, a great red rift has been torn into the heart of the earth, spewing ash enough to darken the sky for years. Or centuries. Now Essun must pursue the wreckage of her family through a deadly, dying land. Without sunlight, clean water, or arable land, and with limited stockpiles of supplies, there will be war all across the Stillness: a battle royale of nations not for power or territory, but simply for the basic resources necessary to get through the long dark night. Essun does not care if the world falls apart around her. She'll break it herself, if she must, to save her daughter.

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lydia_b_b_lydia

Bookish pet peeves that don’t really make sense

I need to know if anyone else has any like basically irrational pet peeves when it comes to books. Yesterday I read the first couple pages of The Empress of Salt and Fortune (one of the readalong books) and I immediately put it down because there’s a talking horse on the first page. I absolutely cannot stand talking animals in books unless it makes sense in the universe, but I was just so unprepared for that I couldn’t go on lol 🥲. I’m sure it’s a good book I just can’t. I was wondering if anyone else has any pet peeves like that, or if I’m just insane lol.

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Binti

Nnedi Okorafor

Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among strangers who do not share her ways or respect her customs. Knowledge comes at a cost, one that Binti is willing to pay, but her journey will not be easy. The world she seeks to enter has long warred with the Meduse, an alien race that has become the stuff of nightmares. Oomza University has wronged the Meduse, and Binti's stellar travel will bring her within their deadly reach. If Binti hopes to survive the legacy of a war not of her making, she will need both the the gifts of her people and the wisdom enshrined within the University, itself -- but first she has to make it there, alive.

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Venomous Lumpsucker

Ned Beauman

A dark and witty story of environmental collapse and runaway capitalism from the Booker-listed author of The Teleportation Accident. The near future. Tens of thousands of species are going extinct every year. And a whole industry has sprung up around their extinctions, to help us preserve the remnants, or perhaps just assuage our guilt. For instance, the biobanks: secure archives of DNA samples, from which lost organisms might someday be resurrected . . . But then, one day, it’s all gone. A mysterious cyber-attack hits every biobank simultaneously, wiping out the last traces of the perished species. Now we’re never getting them back. Karin Resaint and Mark Halyard are concerned with one species in particular: the venomous lumpsucker, a small, ugly bottom-feeder that happens to be the most intelligent fish on the planet. Resaint is an animal cognition scientist consumed with existential grief over what humans have done to nature. Halyard is an exec from the extinction industry, complicit in the mining operation that destroyed the lumpsucker’s last-known habitat. Across the dystopian landscapes of the 2030s—a nature reserve full of toxic waste; a floating city on the ocean; the hinterlands of a totalitarian state—Resaint and Halyard hunt for a surviving lumpsucker. And the further they go, the deeper they’re drawn into the mystery of the attack on the biobanks. Who was really behind it? And why would anyone do such a thing?

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madoka

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Dovaogedys completed their yearly reading goal of 30 books!

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Dovaogedys's 2026 Reading Challenge

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Le Sabre de neige (Les Sabres sacrés, #1)

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feu_6

Spooky season books!

Hi! I know is still summer but I have a question! Which spooky/halloween/scary books you will read at October? Except books from readalong! 👻

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Aug 06, 2026

The Hollow Places

4.5

Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 4.0Audiobook: 5.0

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Summary: You know that feeling you get when alone walking in the woods. The one that makes your shoulders tense and skin prickle. This book is that feeling made into a plot (in a good way)

scare factor: definitely more on the eerie/creepy side than nightmare fuel. There is some gore if that’s an issue.

if you like: The author (consistently good work in different genres), fan fic / artist community, taxidermy, antique shops, otherworldly happenings

avoid if: You want super scary, you don’t like concrete structures, you can’t stand figuring out the plot device before the characters

audiobook: This narrator is amazing, I’m am going and getting her other kingfisher read (twisted ones). She voices the characters well and distinctly. Her pacing is tremendous. Very happy with this.

other thoughts What a funny and eerie read. I had a lot of fun figuring out what was happening then watching the characters try to figure it out. Stratifyingly the mechanics didn’t work like guessed so that was fun.

There are not many characters but any that are given time are extremely well done. I think this is kingfisher’s strongest aspect. I lot forward to meeting more of her creations as I read.

The plot is semi predictable in the way the a lot of horror is to build tension. Meaning you know they have to do an unsafe/scary thing for the book to work but you don’t know how that will happen. I’m fine suspending disbelief in horror, and this book twists that enough that it feels earned.

I’m trying to avoid spoilers in my reviews so they are more generally useful. I need to figure out how to do the blocks again.

This passes the pet survival test

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A Trade of Blood

Robert Jackson Bennett

An Ana and Din Mystery Brilliant detective Ana Dolabra must prove a man's innocence to stop a civil war in the third book of the series that began with The Tainted Cup, named an Edgar, Hugo, and World Fantasy Award Finalist and one of the best books of the year (New York Times Book Review, NPR, Elle)—from the bestselling author of The Founders Trilogy. In the canton of Sapirdad, two of the Empire’s most powerful families are moments away from going to war with each other, their hundreds of retainers gathered with swords drawn. If blood is spilt, the whole of the empire may be plunged into starvation and chaos. To de-escalate matters, someone must do the impossible: prove that one family’s eldest son is innocent of a gruesome and unforgivable murder, despite the incontrovertible evidence against him. It is with this undertaking that the great detective Ana Dolabra is tasked, her assistant Din at her side—and the two find themselves racing with great speed and little dignity to the scene. As ever, the impossible proves little obstacle for the deadly combination of Ana’s intellect and Din’s keen eye, and mere hours after riding into the dusty town, Ana glimpses the greater pattern behind the crime. A deeper, subtler web of death is being woven in plain sight, by a mastermind with an ancient magical technology at his disposal. But even Ana's uncanny insight is of little use when each new suspect she uncovers ends up dead--with each new killing calculated to bring tensions between the two rival clans past the boiling point. And as Din pursues their adversary through the canton's wild ranges, sprawling ranches, and reeking slaughterhouses, he finds his loyalties divided in unexpected ways.

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