aliceinthelibrary
Hi I’m Alice! I love reading a wide variety of genres, but tend to gravitate towards lit fic, fantasy, history and nature writing :) you can find me on storygraph and insta @aliceinthelibrary
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I know it’s probably a bit controversial, and I don’t do it with every genre, but when I’m not sure if my favorite character survives or if the couple gets a HEA, I often read the ending first.
I just really don’t like surprises, and suspense often makes me anxious instead of excited. I need to emotionally prepare myself, and knowing how it ends helps me relax and enjoy the journey.
What about you? Do you like to keep the suspense, or do you sometimes sneak a look at the last page too?
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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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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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Percival Everett
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Hands down the best non-fiction I’ve read this year.
I thought this was a beautifully written book, and seeing such a tumultuous period of Albanian history through the eyes of a child/teenager brought the day-to-day reality to life incredibly well. Seeing Ypi’s very innocent view of the Party and its rule as a child was fascinating, as were the insights into education in that period. I like that Ypi really gave us the view she had as a child, including the ignorance she had of the atrocities going on around her (and how she, understandably, naively believed the lies she was told).
Then seeing her grapple with what the reality of “freedom” meant during the democratic transition, coinciding with her getting a more raw view of the world given her adolescence was really interesting, if at times heartbreakingly difficult. Again, seeing it through the eyes of someone young, whose priorities were of course just everyday life was powerful. You don’t get bogged down in political theory, you instead get shown how the school curriculum changed, how access to goods changed, how strangers with ulterior motives arrived in Ypi’s world. The civil war chapter being diarised was especially compelling.
I thoroughly recommend this to anyone and everyone.
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I think I just found this too weird for my liking, but I’ll admit it was a completely addictive book at the same time.
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Free: Coming of Age at the End of History
Lea Ypi
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Seeing such monumental political change through a child’s perspective is so interesting. Especially when it comes to the way Ypi was sheltered from some realities by the naivety of her age and the propaganda in her education , and also how she saw Enver so differently to her family because of that.
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The Private Lives of the Saints: Power, Passion and Politics in Anglo-Saxon England
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Weeds: In Defense of Nature's Most Unloved Plants
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Massive quality of life update coming your way!! We're dipping our toes into the stats waters with this one.. you can now update and track your progress on your current reads!
Click the progress bar below your current read on your home page to update progress. You can edit your progress for the day until midnight, and a status update with your reading progress will be added to your feed and shared to your followers :) This status update is the perfect place to add a comment for more personal updates that will be shared only to your followers.
Some notes on the nitty gritty:
- An app update is required to see this on iOS/Android!! Please update your app version (especially if you're seeing a weird "unhandled resource_type" message in your feed)
- only 1 update will be added to your feed per day per book when tracking progress (if you’re reading multiple books, one update for each book can be added to your feed). If you update your progress later in the day, the existing feed activity will be updated with the new progress.
- We are now passing your local time to our servers, which means you can edit that day’s progress until midnight local time for you and your start/finish read dates will reflect your local time rather than server time
We're working on home feed controls and updates to the Pagebound Club and Discuss tab next!
Happy Reading, Jennifer & Lucy 💜💙
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