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armiba

I am an ex-pat fom the USA living in the UK recently withdraw from a soul-sucking PhD programme and have started reading for pleasure for the first time in decades ♥

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  • Kaiju: Battlefield Surgeon
    armiba
    Nov 06, 2025
    3.5
    Enjoyment: 3.5Quality: 3.0Characters: 3.5Plot: 4.0
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  • The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
    armiba
    Nov 05, 2025
    3.5
    Enjoyment: 3.5Quality: 4.0Characters: 4.0Plot: 3.5
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  • Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)
    armiba
    Oct 28, 2025
    4.0
    Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 3.0Characters: 3.5Plot: 4.0
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    Kaiju: Battlefield Surgeon

    Kaiju: Battlefield Surgeon

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  • Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)
    Thoughts from 22% (page 98)

    Already very enjoying this, main complaint is that the text in the paperback is a bit small and my eyes are straining just a bit BUT this is super interesting so far and the world is very complex. I am really intrigued to learn more about how the 9th differs from the other houses and why Harrow is such a raging asshole all the time. I have no doubt time tell 😎

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  • Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)
    Thoughts from 22% (page 98)

    Already very enjoying this, main complaint is that the text in the paperback is a bit small and my eyes are straining just a bit BUT this is super interesting so far and the world is very complex. I am really intrigued to learn more about how the 9th differs from the other houses and why Harrow is such a raging asshole all the time. I have no doubt time tell 😎

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    The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)

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  • Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
    Intimidated right away

    While I am super intrigued by this, at the first few pages I am feeling very out of my depth. Also, not sure if every version is like this but the speech doesn’t seem to have quotations? Ever?? Which is hard for me to process. I will persist, maybe not now, but I will eventually.

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  • Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
    Intimidated right away

    While I am super intrigued by this, at the first few pages I am feeling very out of my depth. Also, not sure if every version is like this but the speech doesn’t seem to have quotations? Ever?? Which is hard for me to process. I will persist, maybe not now, but I will eventually.

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  • Between Two Fires
    armiba
    Oct 19, 2025
    5.0
    Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 4.5Characters: 4.5Plot: 5.0
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    “This pestilence cooked away pretense and showed people’s souls, as surely as it eventually showed their bones.”

    Haunting, gothic, medieval, biblical, ecclesiastical horror. And yet also loving and thoughtful and heart wrenching. This has moved into my top reads of forever.

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    Christopher Buehlman

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  • The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
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    The girlies have picked this for our cliterature club read and I am BORED thus far. Quite possibly because I am listening to the audio book and old lady voice is boring me as well as all the posh accents. I swear I am listening but I dont feel like I have a grasp at all on what is going on. Chapter twelve seems too far in for me to not be hooked but I recognize I am always slow to get into audiobooks. I will persist because of the bookclub but bleh I am ready for it to be my turn to choose.

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