SarahQueen
29 🇺🇸🇰🇷| Mom of two littles & two retrievers | pro dog trainer | wanting to escape and heal my inner child through books I actually enjoy
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An introduction to the Romantasy genre, these books are part of the cultural zeitgeist or the 'canon' that many would recognize. Look for more niche titles in later Starter Pack volumes.
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Champion: Finished 5 Side Quest books.
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we get it… he/she is your mate… 😂 using this word every other sentence of dialogue is really taking me out of it
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Can we talk about their insane acting skills? lol I must be an open book or something, I would not be able to hide my own feelings, let alone have a complete different persona. Takes some serious skills! Hahaha😂🎭
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Does anyone struggle to tune out noises around you when you read? I feel like I get overwhelmed and cannot concentrate what I am reading. Noises include: TV, music on speakers, kids’s Yoto, kids playing, outside conversations and etc. I always ended up having to wear something that cancels out noise (ie. earplugs, headphones and etc). I have tried background music, but even that is too much for me. Also the kicker is, I don’t like the idea of blocking out too much noise because I want to be able to hear the kids if anything happens. Do you struggle with this too? Any advice and tips?
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SarahQueen commented on seema's review of The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
Let me first say that this is a very very violent book, and vividly so. That is not to say the violence is without purpose in the text, nor is it exaggerated as unfortunately it has direct historical basis. However - the *point* of large parts of this book (if not the entire latter two thirds) is to deeply disturb and upset the reader in order to communicate the message, and if you do not want this, do not read this book. I just want to be explicitly clear that the violence is not just part of this book but what this book is ABOUT. Now to my review, unfortunately, I didn't realize the above in advance and this just simply wasn't the book for me. It wasn't necessarily that the violence was a problem, in fact I appreciate that I read it and then went ahead and learned more about the historical context, but rather that I didn't feel there was enough going on besides it for the latter 2/3 of the book. I really enjoyed the beginning and thought the characters were interesting and compelling and I was really invested in the Academy setting. I feel like in Part 1 the book just did a great job balancing plot and characters with the underlying messaging about colonialism and racism and classism and so on. Really, part 1 almost felt like one book and then we snapped into a different one for parts 2 and 3. For me, it lost a lot of that balance the further the book went on past part 1, and I just no longer felt invested in the main character in particular, who seemed to me to have extremely fickle characterization with rapid and tremendous shifts that were not well justified. The story also wasn't keeping me invested because I don't feel myself "rooting" for anything because I can't see any potential for a good outcome that I'd enjoy. By the end I just found myself completely emotionally exhausted, but without any attachment to the characters or the story to compel me to pick up the sequel (despite already having it in hand).
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Does anyone struggle to tune out noises around you when you read? I feel like I get overwhelmed and cannot concentrate what I am reading. Noises include: TV, music on speakers, kids’s Yoto, kids playing, outside conversations and etc. I always ended up having to wear something that cancels out noise (ie. earplugs, headphones and etc). I have tried background music, but even that is too much for me. Also the kicker is, I don’t like the idea of blocking out too much noise because I want to be able to hear the kids if anything happens. Do you struggle with this too? Any advice and tips?
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I was just wondering how long yall have been reading? And what got you into it? I can't remember fully but I'm pretty sure I've been reading all my life. It's just been one of those comforts in my life that's always been there <33
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An Inkling of Flame: A Song of the Damned novella
Z.B. Steele
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Does anyone struggle to tune out noises around you when you read? I feel like I get overwhelmed and cannot concentrate what I am reading. Noises include: TV, music on speakers, kids’s Yoto, kids playing, outside conversations and etc. I always ended up having to wear something that cancels out noise (ie. earplugs, headphones and etc). I have tried background music, but even that is too much for me. Also the kicker is, I don’t like the idea of blocking out too much noise because I want to be able to hear the kids if anything happens. Do you struggle with this too? Any advice and tips?
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Does anyone struggle to tune out noises around you when you read? I feel like I get overwhelmed and cannot concentrate what I am reading. Noises include: TV, music on speakers, kids’s Yoto, kids playing, outside conversations and etc. I always ended up having to wear something that cancels out noise (ie. earplugs, headphones and etc). I have tried background music, but even that is too much for me. Also the kicker is, I don’t like the idea of blocking out too much noise because I want to be able to hear the kids if anything happens. Do you struggle with this too? Any advice and tips?
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The Apothecary Diaries (Light Novel): Volume 5
Natsu Hyuuga
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