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Winter 2025 Readalong
Reading...Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
My Taste
Babel
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)
Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)
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Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)

Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)

Rebecca Yarros

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  • People We Meet on Vacation
    What do people think of the name change?

    I can remembering hearing discussion about how the name swapped from People We Meet in the US to You & Me for the UK edition, but I dont remember how people seemed to feel about this choice, or which they felt fit better, so I am curious! I am 75% through, and I keep going back and forth on which one I think fits better. It also just seems a slightly weird change to me...

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  • DNF
    Priest (Priest, #1)
    Enjoyment: Quality: Characters: Plot:
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    I've been curious about this one for YEARS (honestly who wouldn't be, you're lying if you say you're not), and romance/spice isn't really my thing so take this DNF with a grain of salt. To clarify: I am in no way scandalized or too prude for spice (its fun! i get it!) but I just get... bored? And the things I enjoy about reading aren't usually present in these spicy romance books (great plot, complex characters, quality writing, etc). Priest was no different. You get what you come for: a priest going absolutely wild in a church with a parishioner. As a former Catholic school girl, this was deliciously hedonistic. And once I read the scandalous scenes I was so curious about, the rest of the book didn't offer enough to keep me reading. If steamy spicy romance is your thing, Priest will probably be your thing too. If not... well, it's an experience!

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    Priest (Priest, #1)

    Priest (Priest, #1)

    Sierra Simone

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  • Priest (Priest, #1)
    Reading Update from 49%

    i should probably just DNF here 😭 priest meets girl, priest and girl have hedonistic steamy spicy time, they fall in love... I don't know if i need another 150 pages of "should we or shouldn't we" with some 👅💦🍆 every few scenes, I GET IT and now im bored 😅

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    Overbooked set their yearly reading goal to 52

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    Overbooked's 2025 Reading Challenge

    7 of 52 read
    Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)
    Redeemed (Dirty Air, #4)
    Wrecked (Dirty Air, #3)
    Collided (Dirty Air, #2)
    Murder in the Family
    All Our Hidden Gifts (All Our Hidden Gifts, #1)
    Heir of Fire (Throne of Glass, #3)
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  • The Great Alone
    Reading Update from 40%

    I was reading this book in bed and told my husband this book gives me anxiety (I don’t have anxiety) 😂 you never know if someone is going to fall through the ice, get attacked by a bear or skid off the road.

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    astral.projection wants to read...

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    Mary

    Mary

    Nat Cassidy

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    Mary

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    Nat Cassidy

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  • Mary
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    Sometimes I think to myself “man I feel like such a negative, hateful person” when I get annoyed easily, but this girl TAKES THE CAKE. 😮‍💨 If insecurity was a person, it’s her

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  • Fates and Furies
    Reading Update from 65% (page 255)

    fates done furies time 😳

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  • Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
    Reading Update from 56% (page 300)

    Kell better have a redemption moment coming cuz he’s starting to pmo. This whole allomantic manipulation of the battle between the skaa captain and rebellious skaa seems pretty low - and honestly is one of the few times in the book I’ve been like “this is completely unrealistic”. The other skaa watching aren’t skeptical?? They really think he can lend THE WHOLE ARMY his powers?? Had the rebellious skaa died, it would have been a seriously dirty trick

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    The Alloy of Law (Mistborn, #4)

    The Alloy of Law (Mistborn, #4)

    Brandon Sanderson

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  • I’m Glad My Mom Died
    Reading Update from 52%

    This is better than the first 25%, I am a bit more into it. But I still don't enjoy the writing.

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  • Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
    Reading Update from 49% (page 264)

    Kelsier is too reckless for my nerves 😩 first the shitshow at Kredik Shaw, now this Venture nobleman knowing WAY too much... fortune favors the bold and all, but I'm waiting for Kelsier's luck to run out

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  • Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
    Reading Update from 42% (page 200)

    The pacing on this one is pretty slow...kind of reminds me of the pacing of My Best Friend's Exorcism where half the book none of the horror elements really kick in except the horror of the reality of unwed mothers in the '70s. Which, yes, very horrific in and of itself, but if you're gonna put Witchcraft in the title, idk, I would prefer those elements kick in faster than they are personally. Nearly halfway through the book and it's been such a minor element that it might as well not even be a thing tbh.

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  • Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
    Reading Update from 30% (page 160)

    Ok I *think* we’re getting past the explanation of the magic system and onto the plot… as someone who is extremely directionally challenged and can hardly tell left from right, these 3D fight scenes take so much brain power for me 😩

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