amanda_the_tangerine
25yo tangerine, but not moldy yet! Proud mother to my beautiful Clara, first name Kobo ⋆ 🇻🇪🇪🇸 ⋆ She/her. "The space between me and me is you. This is a mystery" - Anne de Marcken
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There's a gritty, perverse perseverance to highway ditches and ditch ecology.
This section reminded me very much of A Fieldguide to Roadside Wildflowers At Full Speed by Chris Helzer. Butterfly milkweed is the first one!
Image by Chris Helzer
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Curious everyone’s takes on when it’s best to mess with punctuation, I’m on my second no quotation marks book and finding it very different to the first.
I thought it was super interesting in A Minor Chorus, because it felt like the quotes could either be real quotes or internal dialogue, so it was kind of cool to not know sometimes.
In Intermezzo it’s making me a bit mad occasionally, I lose track of who is speaking! And what was the point of not using them?!
curious any other punctuation oddities that only work for you in certain conditions
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
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your favorite actor/actress, singer, or general idol is nearby signing autographs. you grab the closest book and a pen, then walk over. 1. whose signature are you getting and 2. what book did you make them sign? 🤭
my answer: SHINee member and solo k-pop artist taemin is here and i made him sign a copy of my favorite queer manga blue flag 😌
(inspired by that post of daniel radcliffe signing someone’s copy of heated rivalry lol)
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amanda_the_tangerine commented on maomi's review of The Secret World of Briar Rose
thank you to the publisher for access to this eARC through Netgalley in exchange for my honest review.
i chose to DNF this book at 21%. the setting and plot intrigued me at first, however i struggled to really immerse myself into the story. the fantasy world feels incomplete in some ways, and Pham's choice to incorporate select pieces of modern technology contributes to this quite a bit. it was a really confusing choice that pulled me out of the story multiple times, but this is mainly a personal preference. aside from the technology, another example is the general sociopolitical state of Gyldan and the surrounding countries in Corin's time feels very ambiguous and it's difficult to really get a grasp on the full situation. i quite enjoyed Amelia's chapters, and i was excited to see some social commentary was incorporated, but then we'd go back to Corin and i would feel kind of confused by the world at large. i think i would have appreciated a little more of the wider context that has landed Corin in the situation she is in.
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It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
Anne de Marcken
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It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
Anne de Marcken
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amanda_the_tangerine is re-reading...
It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
Anne de Marcken
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It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
Anne de Marcken
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the way this book included an evil mukbang, lowkey diabolical lmfao
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body hair got removed
books where body hair gets removed through a variety of means and for a variety of reasons.
(and sometimes i’m emo about it 🤧🤧)
recs are welcome!
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StJust is interested in reading...
Lobster
Guillaume Lecasble
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this is a feature i know has been requested on the roadmap already, but bc i cannot wait for that feature to be reviewed and bc i am noisy af, i am asking y'all to introduce yourself to the community with 3 emoji's 🦦
maybe we can connect simply through (emoji) vibe 💫
this is me: ⭐️🐚🫐
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I'm currently reading the ebook version of this book, and I was wondering, are there any editions of this book available that include an illustration of the map of the Metro? Because I'm getting lost very quickly here with all the stations, or if there are any illustrations available online that I can use as reference, since my version doesn't include any.
On a similar note, I wanted to ask, are these stations actual metro stations you can find in Russia? Is the book based on a real-life metro system? Or is it entirely fabricated?
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