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A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)

The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)

The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)

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Game: use book titles to spell your username!

I'm gonna try to stick with books I've read, but here goes nothin' 👀

A – Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff D – Daughter of No Worlds by Carissa Broadbent A – A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab R – Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston K – Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas E – Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas R – Raise the Blood by Nenia Campbell S – She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen H – Heart So Hollow by Emily Nealis A – Addicted to You By Krista & Becca Ritchie D – (The) Dark Lord's Guide to Dating (and Other War Crimes) by Tiffany Hunt E – Escaping from Houdini by Kerri Maniscalco O – Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros F – From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout R – Roll for Romance by Lenora Woods O – One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston S – Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson I – Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon E – Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia

Woo! I was able to use all books I've read! 🥳

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Paradise Logic

Sophie Kemp

A hilarious, surreal, and devastating journey into the mind of Reality Kahn, a young woman on a quest to be the greatest girlfriend of all time.It was decreed from the moment she was born. Twenty-three-year-old Reality Kahn would embark on a quest so great, so bold. She would become the greatest girlfriend of all time. She would be a zine maker, an aspiring notary, the greatest waterslide commercial actress on the Eastern Seaboard. She would receive messages from the beyond in the form of advice from the esteemed and ancient ladies magazine, Girlfriend Weekly. When she attends a party in Gowanus at a punk venue known as “Paradise,” Reality meets Ariel, who will become her boyfriend. She bravely works for his everlasting affection and joins a clinical trial created by Dr. Zweig Altmann to help her become a more perfect girlfriend. She stars in a new commercial. She learns how to become an indelible host. But Reality will also learn that sheer will and determination, and a very open heart, are not always enough to make true love manifest. At turns laugh-out-loud funny, tragic, and jarring, Reality’s quest grows ever complicated as the men in her Ariel, her waterpark commercial agent Jethro, and Dr. Altmann himself prove treacherous. Paradise Logic is a thrilling, psychosexual breakdown of our obsession with authentic true love, asking whether that is even possible in a patriarchal world, and announces Sophie Kemp as a wholly original, transformative, and brilliant new voice in fiction.

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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

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A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

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A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens’s great historical novel, set against the violent upheaval of the French Revolution. The most famous and perhaps the most popular of his works, it compresses an event of immense complexity to the scale of a family history, with a cast of characters that includes a bloodthirsty ogress and an antihero as believably flawed as any in modern fiction. Though the least typical of the author’s novels, A Tale of Two Cities still underscores many of his enduring themes—imprisonment, injustice, social anarchy, resurrection, and the renunciation that fosters renewal.

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what is a book that everyone loves but you hate?

no judgement zone here! i’m always curious about this and what made the book so bad to someone

mine is between if he had been with me and a thousand boy kisses. these books i was so excited to read but when i did, i absolutely hated them. i cringed way too hard during both of them. i know they are supposed to be heartbreaking, but it’s hard to be hurt by a book that made me want to chuck it across the room because of how bad it was

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This or that? Book edition 📚

hardcover / paperback
physical books / e-books
standalone / series
single pov / multiple povs
dark themes / lighthearted reads
happy ending / open ending
annotating / keep pristine
buying books / borrowing books
daytime reading / nighttime reading
one read / multiple reads

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