aripcy

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aripcy

Oct 03, 2025

4.5

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What an amazing book! It took me a bit to get attached bc there’s a lot of characters in the beginning and the pov keeps switching, but after the first part wow i breezed through it, i couldnt stop thinking about the main characters and the story. I came here for the gore and i was certainly not disappointed, some descriptions were very graphic lol Game apart, the themes of fascism and the shit government described in the book are soooo relevant right now, it was such a good read. I wanted to include some quotes on this subject but i read it in french and the english translation is not as powerful imo 😶‍🌫️ 4.5 and not 5 because of some clichés (it’s from 1999) and SA just for shock value.

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Thoughts from 100% (page 830)

wow wow wow i just finished it and my emotions are all over the place, i really really loved the final part !!!! wow !!!!!!!

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anabel

Does anybody ever get over this book?

I finished this book back in August and I still cannot get it off my mind. How far out are you and still thinking about it?

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peoniesfromsaturn

Best Book to Get Out of a Reading Slump

Exactly as the title says. I love reading and have a lot of books I want to read that just came out, but I just can't get into the flow. It's taking me weeks to finish a book, and I have even been trying different genres to get me out, but I just can't.

What are some fast-paced, fun books with likable characters who are witty? I would prefer a romcom, but am up for anything. I do want there to be a happy-ish ending, basically a mood lifter.

I will literally try any book lol, but if you would like me to specify: I love Emily Henry, Lynn Painter, B.K. Borison, Ali Hazelwood. I tend to go for hockey romances, enemies-to-lovers, he falls first, 'who did this to you?' vibes (not necessarily all at once lmfao). Some of my favorite reads include The Crimson Moth duology, the GrishaVerse books (the Crows supremacy), Better Than the Movies, Long Live Evil, and The Return of Ellie Black.

Thank you for reading my solo yapp session and I would really appreciate the help!

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pageswithcheri

Bookish podcast recs

As the title suggests, I’m keen to hear what are some of your favourite bookish podcasts.

I’ve been an avid listener of the What Should I Read Next podcast. I love hearing about the reading lives of other readers and always get such wonderful book recs to add to my tbr from it.

I’d love to discover other bookish podcasts out there. Do you have a favourite to recommend?

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Thoughts from 24% (page 129) Footnotes

Does anyone else have a problem with not seeing the little asterisk? I’ll read right past where I should check the footnote until I get to the bottom of the page and have to scan back through like a where’s waldo which makes me feel like a detective 🕵️

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The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas

Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantès is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration. Dumas’ epic tale of suffering and retribution, inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment, was a huge popular success when it was first serialized in the 1840s. Robin Buss’s lively English translation is complete and unabridged, and remains faithful to the style of Dumas’s original. This edition includes an introduction, explanatory notes and suggestions for further reading.

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Elementary: The Periodic Table Explained

James M. Russell

The periodic table, created in the early 1860s by Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, marked one of the most extraordinary advances in modern chemistry. This basic visual aid helped scientists to gain a deeper understanding of what chemical elements really were: and, astonishingly, it also correctly predicted the properties of elements that hadn’t been discovered at the time. Here, in the authoritative Elementary, James Russell uses his lively, accessible and engaging narrative to tell the story behind all the elements we now know about. From learning about the creation of the first three elements, hydrogen, lithium and helium, in the big bang, through to oxygen and carbon, which sustain life on earth – along with the many weird and wonderful uses of elements as varied as fluorine, arsenic, krypton and einsteinium – even the most unscientifically minded will be enthralled by this fascinating subject. Russell compellingly details these most basic building blocks of the universe, and the people who identified, isolated and even created them.

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aripcy

Sep 29, 2025

3.0

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a little torn on this book, there are a lot of similarities between the protagonist’s struggles and my life at the moment so i really appreciated her journey, but at the same time it was way too long and way too repetitive. The author was already able to convey the loneliness and simplicity and repetitiveness of her situation in the first 1/4, so i feel like the rest of the book was redundant.

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Tokyo Ueno Station

Yū Miri

Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Emperor, Kazu’s life is tied by a series of coincidences to Japan’s Imperial family and to one particular spot in Tokyo; the park near Ueno Station – the same place his unquiet spirit now haunts in death. It is here that Kazu’s life in Tokyo began, as a labourer in the run up to the 1964 Olympics, and later where he ended his days, living in the park’s vast homeless ‘villages’, traumatised by the destruction of the 2011 tsunami and enraged by the announcement of the 2020 Olympics. Akutagawa-award-winning author Yū Miri uses her outsider’s perspective as a Zainichi (Korean-Japanese) writer to craft a novel of utmost importance to this moment, a powerful rebuke to the Imperial system and a sensitive, deeply felt depiction of the lives of Japan’s most vulnerable people.

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Sympathy Tower Tokyo

Rie Qudan

The award-winning, bestselling Japanese phenomenon. A propulsive, prophetic novel about the beauty of language and the nature of identity in the age of AI. Welcome to the Japan of tomorrow. Here, the practice of a radical sympathy toward criminals has become the norm and a grand skyscraper in the heart of Tokyo is planned to house wrongdoers in compassionate comfort – Sympathy Tower Tokyo. Acclaimed architect Sara Machina has been tasked with designing the city's new centrepiece, but is riven by doubt. Haunted by a terrible crime she experienced as a young girl, she wonders if she might inherently disagree with the values of the project, which should be the pinnacle of her career. As Sara grapples with these conflicting emotions, her relationship with her gorgeous – and much younger – boyfriend grows increasingly strained. In search of solace, in need of creative inspiration, Sara turns to the knowing words of an AI chatbot… Awarded Japan's highest literary prize, Sympathy Tower Tokyo is an extraordinary novel from one of the most exciting new voices in world literature. Partly inspired by conversations with an artificial intelligence, it offers an extraordinary defence of the power of language written by humans, a touching exploration of the imaginative impulse, and an often hilarious send up of our modern world's unrelenting conformity.

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Lock In (Lock In, #1)

John Scalzi

Not too long from today, a new, highly contagious virus makes its way across the globe. Most who get sick experience nothing worse than flu, fever and headaches. But for the unlucky one percent - and nearly five million souls in the United States alone - the disease causes "Lock In": Victims fully awake and aware, but unable to move or respond to stimulus. The disease affects young, old, rich, poor, people of every color and creed. The world changes to meet the challenge. A quarter of a century later, in a world shaped by what's now known as "Haden's syndrome," rookie FBI agent Chris Shane is paired with veteran agent Leslie Vann. The two of them are assigned what appears to be a Haden-related murder at the Watergate Hotel, with a suspect who is an "integrator" - someone who can let the locked in borrow their bodies for a time. If the Integrator was carrying a Haden client, then naming the suspect for the murder becomes that much more complicated. But "complicated" doesn't begin to describe it. As Shane and Vann began to unravel the threads of the murder, it becomes clear that the real mystery - and the real crime - is bigger than anyone could have imagined. The world of the locked in is changing, and with the change comes opportunities that the ambitious will seize at any cost. The investigation that began as a murder case takes Shane and Vann from the halls of corporate power to the virtual spaces of the locked in, and to the very heart of an emerging, surprising new human culture. It's nothing you could have expected.

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aripcy

Thoughts from 97% (page 225)

omg finally something is happening in this book ?? i was losing hope lol

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L'ultimo presagio (Le indagini dei fratelli Corsaro Vol. 11) (Italian Edition)

aripcy

Sep 26, 2025

4.0

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carino dai, mi è piaciuta l’alternanza dei pov e il tipo di comicità/sarcasmo dell’autore, molto scorrevole

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mijimina

Thoughts from 41% (page 122)

If you saw my previous review when I was at 32%, you probably giggled at me lightly complaining about the translation. Lo and behold, the chapter which I had stopped at turned out to be a chapter focusing exclusively on grammar, syntax, and translation 😭 i spoke too soon lmao!! while I do still stand by my statement that I think the colloquial phrasing is very directly Korean, I do find that chapter specifically very interesting. What does a "good sentence" look like? What does a bad one look like? It was super fun reading what the characters (and in extension, the author) thought about editing, particularly in relation to translations.

If I wasn't hooked before, this definitely hooked me even more!

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Thoughts from 79% (page 394)

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mijimina

Thoughts from 41% (page 122)

If I wasn't hooked before, this definitely hooked me even more!

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