Taynicole
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Just started this book, saw the dog emoji in the description, and am already nervous
4Taynicole finished reading and wrote a review...
Brilliant book, infinitely discussable, and the more I think about it the more impressive I think the writing is.
It is pretty heady- not necessarily always an emotionally gripping page turner- but does so much with themes of money, power, control, our own ability to see ourselves. This feels like a book where what you think and who you believe becomes more a reflection on you than anything
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Taynicole commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Knowing my sensitive self, I tend to avoid the fictions that would definitely stir up my feelings because I don't know what to do with them.
Just now I have braced myself to finish a really good fiction that meant to be disturbing. Underprepared, sadly. And now I can't stop thinking about all these flawed and struggling characters. I'm angry at them, at their deeds that led to the tragedy, and also the fact that there are even more people like them out there; I'm frustrated that I can do nothing--a wand flick or a finger snap--to wipe the issue away... I'm just soaking in my pieces of feelings and thoughts.
How do you deal with it? Or make a "use" out of it?
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I thought part 1 was a decent standalone novel. Part 2 is convincing me that this book is brilliant
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Trust
Hernan Diaz
0Post from the The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2) forum
Just started this book, saw the dog emoji in the description, and am already nervous
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The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)
Brandon Sanderson
0Taynicole commented on EatTheRich's review of Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
I wanted to love this so bad, but it was just missing the mark for me.
I think my big gripe with it, is them all being 15 - 19....Kaz being described as 17 and also supposedly being this absolutely terrifying gang boss just didn't click for me. Have you met 17 year olds? They're never scary....and I feel like all the other grown ups in the Barrel would also be like "...that kid is 17" And just shoot him in the head lol . I don't buy that he had any street cred. But I get that that is the genre.
Also could have done without each event being described from every perspective by every character. I was losing the plot by the end.
I'm going to read the next one, if only to see Jesper and Wylan together but my god do I not care about Kaz/Inej or Nina/Matthias. Nina should have been a Lesbian and you can't change my mind.
15Taynicole finished reading and wrote a review...
This was a fun and engaging read, and I enjoyed the ways it felt like even though there was a full cast of main characters they were all well built out. I just struggled with the idea that these characters were teenagers- they didn't read that way at all and I had to age them up in my head to enjoy.
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Post from the Wuthering Heights forum
Really struggling to keep track of all the H names.
But, I listened to a podcast about this book that suggested focusing on the critical question about whether this is a love story- excited to focus in on that
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Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
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Helpful overview on the connections between processing trauma and fitness practices. I think I would have potentially appreciated this more if I was in a place of actively trying to set up a practice for myself, but having already settled into some rhythms of both movement practice and processing it felt a little repetitive
0Post from the Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1) forum
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Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
Leigh Bardugo
0Taynicole commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
so... do you guys have a hard limit on how many books you'll read at once? what is that number determined by? i somehow keep reading like 6 books at the same time and now i'm curious what other people do and how y'all manage!
i tend to just... borrow 1 book that has like no one waiting for it, 2 books of different genres that i can pause at any time and not feel pressure about it, and then the rest on top of that are whatever holds become available and i want to read them next. especially if it's a book that has been on hold for a looong time and i've been waiting quite a few weeks, i'll just go ahead and borrow it and collect my loans like a little gremlin.
...i also want to note that someone had mentioned in a previous discussion (i forgot who - if they show up or i remember, i'll add their user here!) that once you borrow a book on libby and make sure you have the book downloaded, you can go on airplane mode, return the book on a different device, and keep the book for however long you need to read it. i only just now did it because i amassed too many delicious books this time around, whereas the last time this happened i just devoured them fast enough before my loan deadlines. so thank you to whoever that was!
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