Sinfullpanda
Mostly a Fantasy and romance girlie. Trying to branch out more though and add some horror and mystery into the mix
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Morally grey or straight up baddies? A collection of books written from a villainous/morally grey POV. Only the first book from a series is included.
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Embracing the body and reclaiming otherness, these books use horror to redefine notions of womanhood and monstrosity.
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The Unmagical Life of Briar Jones
Lex Croucher
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Platform Decay (The Murderbot Diaries, #8)
Martha Wells
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So I really love golden age detective novels. I love a good whodunit and I love how you get to the end and realise all the clues where there and you can try and guess(I never guess correctly). Very fair play or puzzle mystery. Are modern cozy mysteries similiar and if so does anyone have recs? The Ernest Cunningham series is the only modern equivalent I know of
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So I really love golden age detective novels. I love a good whodunit and I love how you get to the end and realise all the clues where there and you can try and guess(I never guess correctly). Very fair play or puzzle mystery. Are modern cozy mysteries similiar and if so does anyone have recs? The Ernest Cunningham series is the only modern equivalent I know of
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I’m strongly considering creating a new reading challenge. I have enjoyed using the 52 book challenge the past couple of years but lately it feels like the original goal of helping people reignite their passion for reading or added a little pizzazz to their choices has gotten bogged down by an excess of side challenges. Here’s the thing, I’m fully aware people can choose not to do the extra challenges but I’m extremely ADHD/OCD and once I commit, I’m committed. I have to finish or it will haunt me. My fellow neurodivergent/ocd friends have had the same issue and that pressure can lead to feeling overwhelmed.
So how would mine by different? First of all. It would start far more new reader friendly. The overall annual challenge would be one book a month. In both of my book clubs there are members that either due to circumstance or time restraints, it’s an accomplishment to finish just one book a month. That should be celebrated.
Next the challenge would offer tiers starting with maybe just one extra book a month up to 30 for our expert or career readers. This gives opportunities for all types of readers.
My other change would be not feeling the need to come up with brand new prompts constantly. The same prompt can be switched around or revisited for a different genre. The prompts are just a vehicle to the destination. The emphasis should be on the books and stories within, not feeling accomplishment just from knowing the Dewey decimal system.
If you’re still with, I guess my question is would this interest any of you? Even if not you, do you think a more whittled down challenge would be useful to friends or family who aren’t readers or are just starting out?
Thank you for reading my ted talk… looking forward to feedback.
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I would say this is 3.75 stars This was a...fun is not the right word..interesting read. I loved the premise of it(obviously as I picked it up to read) the execution fell a little flat. Natalie is an unlikable and unreliable narrator and the author wants you to know that straight away. As someone who has no experience with fundamentalist religions nothing about Natalie made me think she was one. She seemed more like the Christians I do know who say they are Christian despite not reading or owning a bible (no mention of the bible happens in the book or any other religious text, no mention of the children doing any bible studies) and having never gone to church since they were made to as children (Natalie mentions going to church as a child and very reluctantly joins a church group in university but nothing else). Also no one in Natalie's life who ever leaves or takes a different path leaves or deconstructs whatever faith they have.
This lack of real faith or religious thought makes Natalie's hatred and judgement seem less like a cause of the religion and more just who Natalie is. Her mother who is clearly more religious(she is at least actively a part of a church) is nice and kind so where Natalie got her vitriol from is not clear.
I won't spoil the twist but I wish there were more clues to it, just enough that you can look back and think "ah the signs were there all along" but there was really only one.
Like I said earlier Natalie is an unreliable narrator but that isn't hidden from us. There was no slow reveal or realisation that her views are wrong and don't match reality. It was so obvious that my theory for the ending(not a spoiler just my thoughts early on) was that Natalie must have had postpartum psychosis.
I think a movie of this would be better and I would watch to see how it is done.
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Yesteryear
Caro Claire Burke
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Sinfullpanda commented on wisecraic's review of The Word is Murder (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #1)
This one was a bit too meta for me with the author featuring as a main character and referencing aspects of his real life work. If this extreme level of self-insert type fourth wall breaking doesn't bother you, then this is actually a pretty decent modern take on a classic crime novel. Unfortunately, I found it both distracting and detracting from the plot. I don't anticipate continuing in the series as a result.
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Completely obsessed with the new wrap up feature!
What’s everyone’s favorite wrap up type?? I’m really loving the superlatives one!
Mine for May looked like this:
I can’t wait to see what future wrap ups look like in the coming months! This may just be the motivation I needed to get out of my reading slump 🩷
Drop your fav wrap up type below ⬇️
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