avidreadergeekgirl

avidreadergeekgirl

Neurospicy, queer, disabled, genre jumper. My dog is my child. Prolific paper crafter. Romances better have plenty of 🌶. Spreadsheet fanatic. Experimenting with CAWPILE, again.

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My Taste

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

The Damning Stone (Tales From Verania, #5)

Silent in the Sanctuary (Lady Julia Grey, #2)

Reading...

87%

The Lightning-Struck Heart (Tales From Verania, #1)

18%

Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler

31%

The Goat in the Bedroom (The Cocky Kingmans, #6)

16%

avidreadergeekgirl made progress on...

Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler

Lynne Olson

31%

avidreadergeekgirl is interested in reading...

11h

Remain

Nicholas Sparks

A one-of-a-kind novel that grapples with the supernatural mysteries of life, death, and human connection—an unprecedented collaboration between the globally bestselling author of love stories like The Notebook and the renowned writer and director of blockbuster thrillers like The Sixth Sense When New York architect Tate Donovan arrives in Cape Cod to design his best friend’s summer home, he is hoping to make a fresh start. Recently discharged from an upscale psychiatric facility where he was treated for acute depression, he is still wrestling with the pain of losing his beloved sister. Sylvia’s deathbed revelation—that she can see spirits who are still tethered to the living world, a gift that runs in their family—sits uneasily with Tate, who struggles to believe in more than what reason can explain. But when he takes up residence at a historic bed-and-breakfast on the Cape, he encounters a beautiful young woman named Wren who will challenge every assumption he has about his logical and controlled world. Tate and Wren find themselves forging an immediate connection, one that neither has ever experienced before. But Tate gradually discovers that below the surface of Wren’s idyllic small-town life, hatred, jealousy, and greed are festering, threatening their fragile relationship just as it begins to blossom. Tate realizes that in order to free Wren from an increasingly desperate fate, he will need to unearth the truth about her past before time runs out . . . a quest that will make him doubt whether we can ever believe the stories we tell about ourselves, and the laws that govern our existence. Love—while transformative—can sometimes be frightening. A story about the power of transcendent emotion, Remain asks us all: Can love set us free not only from our greatest sorrows, but even from the boundaries of life and death?

avidreadergeekgirl is interested in reading...

11h

Night Magic: Adventures Among Glowworms, Moon Gardens, and Other Marvels of the Dark

Leigh Ann Henion

On this imperiled planet, nature’s magic still exists, often in the places we least expect it. Night Magic is a glorious celebration of the dark! New York Times bestselling nature writer Leigh Ann Henion makes the case for embracing night as a profoundly beautiful part of the world we inhabit—and she invites us to leave our well-lit homes and step outside. It turns out we don’t have to go far to find marvels: We are surrounded by animals that rise with the moon, gigantic moths, and nocturnal blooms that reveal themselves, incrementally, as light fades. In her quest to know night with greater intimacy, Henion travels through forests alight with bioluminescent mushrooms and mountain valleys teeming with migratory salamanders. She ventures into the dark alongside naturalists, biologists, primitive-skills experts, and others who’ve dedicated their lives to cultivating relationships with darkness and the creatures who depend on it. Every page of this lyrical book feels like an opportunity to ask: How did I not know about this before? For example, we learn that it can take hours, not minutes, for human eyes to reach full night vision capacity. And that there are thousands of firefly species on earth, each with flash patterns as unique as fingerprints—with one million tourists making pilgrimages to witness synchronous fireflies every year. In this age of increasing artificial light, Night Magic is an invitation to focus on the biodiversity that surrounds us. We do not need to stargaze into the distant cosmos or to dive into the depths of oceans to find awe in the dark—when we reclaim night, dazzling wonders can be found in our own backyards.

avidreadergeekgirl is interested in reading...

11h

Fox

Joyce Carol Oates

A spellbinding novel of literary and psychological suspenseabout the dark secrets that surface after the shocking disappearance of a charismatic, mercurial teacher at an elite boarding school—by the legendary author 'who is surely on any shortlist of America’s greatest living writers' (New York Times Magazine) 'Eerie, shocking, provoking, and beautifully written, Fox is yet further proof Oates is one of the greatest writers among us today' Gillian Flynn Who is Francis Fox? A charming English teacher new to the idyllic Langhorne Academy, Fox beguiles many of his students, their parents, and his colleagues at the elite boarding school, while leaving others wondering where he came from and why his biography is so enigmatic. When two brothers discover Fox’s car half-submerged in a pond in a local nature preserve and parts of an unidentified body strewn about the nearby woods, the entire community, including Detective Horace Zwender and his deputy, begins to ask disturbing questions about Francis Fox and who he might really be. A hypnotic, galloping tale of crime and complicity, revenge and restitution, victim vs. predator, Joyce Carol Oates’s Fox illuminates the darkest corners of the human psyche while asking profound moral questions about justice and the response evil demands. A character as magnetically diabolical as Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley and Vladimir Nabokov’s Humbert Humbert, Francis Fox enchants and manipulates nearly everyone around him, until at last he meets someone he can’t outfox. Written in Oates’s trademark intimate, sweeping style, and interweaving multiple points of view, Fox is a triumph of craftsmanship and artistry, a novel as profound as it is propulsive, as moving as it is full of mystery.

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11h

Spells, Strings, and Forgotten Things

Breanne Randall

A young witch cursed with sacrificing memories to cast spells must decide how much she’s willing to lose to save her town in this thrilling tale of magic, love, and self-discovery—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic.In the small town of Gold Springs, Calliope Petridi and her two sisters carefully guard the secret of their magic and the price they must pay to practice memories. The more powerful the magic, the greater the memory required.Luckily, all Calliope wants to do is forget. Forget the mother who left them without a trace. Forget the cracks in her relationships with her judgmental oldest sister, Thalia, and her distant middle sister, Eurydice. Forget about the very cost of her magic. And most of all, forget the way the love of her life shattered her heart two years ago.But when an ancient evil awakens in their town, the fragile thread that holds the sisters together breaks. As their magic slowly begins to fade, Calliope accidentally binds herself to an annoyingly handsome leader of a rival coven infamous for their ruthless pursuit of power.Battling a sizzling chemistry to a man she can't trust, Calliope needs to confront her sisters and the painful memories of her past, dark family secrets, and ancient magic in order to keep the town and all she loves safe. But will she have anything left of herself?

avidreadergeekgirl TBR'd a book

11h

Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

Andrea Lankford

From a former law enforcement park ranger and investigator, this female-driven true crime adventure follows the author’s quest to find missing hikers along the Pacific Crest Trail by pairing up with an eclectic group of unlikely allies. As a park ranger with the National Park Service's law enforcement team, Andrea Lankford led search and rescue missions in some of the most beautiful (and dangerous) landscapes across America, from Yosemite to the Grand Canyon. But though she had the support of the agency, Andrea grew frustrated with the service's bureaucratic idiosyncrasies, and left the force after twelve years. Two decades later, however, she stumbles across a mystery that pulls her right back where she left - three young men have vanished from the Pacific Crest Trail, the 2,650-mile trek made famous by Cheryl Strayed's Wild , and no one has been able to find them. It’s bugging the hell out of her. Andrea’s concern soon leads her to a wild environment unlike any she’s ever ventured into - missing person Facebook groups. Andrea launches an investigation, joining forces with an eclectic team of amateurs who are determined to solve the cases: a mother of the missing, a retired pharmacy manager, and a mapmaker who monitors terrorist activity for the government. Together, they track the activities of kidnappers and murderers, investigate a cult, rescue a psychic in peril, cross paths with an unconventional scientist, and reunite an international fugitive with his family. Searching for the missing is a brutal psychological and physical test with the highest stakes, but eventually their hardships begin to bear strange fruits—ones that lead them to places and people they never saw coming.

avidreadergeekgirl commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

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What counts as a reading slump?

How long do you have to go, and how little do you have to read for you PERSONALLY to call it a reading slump?

Like I typically read EVERY day for at least1-3 hours. So if I go more than a few days without reading that much, I consider it a slump.

Before today, I'd gone at least 4-5 days without reading for more than at least 1.5 hrs, and I thought I was heading into a major slump.

But I started re-listening to an old favorite of mine last night. And now it's only 8pm and I've read at least 1.5 hrs. 😁 🤷‍♀️ My mind is an odd place, lol. Guess I just needed a comfort read.

avidreadergeekgirl made progress on...

The Lightning-Struck Heart (Tales From Verania, #1)

T.J. Klune

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75 Booked Challenge starts on Friday!! More Info. on how to participate!

Hi All,

Some of you may have seen my earlier post about running an informal 75 Booked Challenge! There was some interest and desire for participation, so I wanted to formally introduce the challenge, how I will be "facilitating", and welcome folks!

📚 What is the 75 Booked Challenge?

This challenge is based off the popular fitness challenge called 75 hard; however, the 75 Booked challenge is a much softer and meant to encourage TBR tackling, building bookish community, spending time with your reading practice, and reducing bookish consumption for 75 days. The challenge was created by @emilypaigebooks on TikTok and all credit goes to that account!

📚 What are the rules?

Official challenge rules:

Complete two 45-minute reading sessions each day (one of them not in bed). And yes, audiobooks count.
Finish a water bottle during each reading session.
Log all your reading in a physical journal.
No purchasing new books—everything you read must already be owned, bought secondhand, or borrowed from a library. (found on The Everygirl, written by Leanna Julius)

Added community guidelines:

we celebrate ALL reading (audiobooks, e-readers, physical books, etc.)
we do not participate in genre shaming! read what you want and leave what you don't!
customize the "rules" to fit your needs! For some (myself included) two 45 minute sessions a day is not attainable - that's 100% okay and you are still welcome to participate!

📚 How can I participate?

I will be posting weekly updates in the Pagebound Club every Friday for the duration of the challenge! I'll include some prompts encouraging people to share their experiences, what they're reading, etc. with each post. They will be clearly labeled with "75 Booked Challenge - [Insert Week] Wrap-Up".

Note: I am holding myself gently accountable for this because I want to build community; however, I may accidentally miss a week or be a bit late. Please be understanding :)

📚 When do we start?

If you've made it all the way to this part of the post - thank you! We begin the challenge on May 15th and I will post the 1st weekly wrap-up on May 22nd! Can't wait to hear from you all!

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avidreadergeekgirl

What counts as a reading slump?

How long do you have to go, and how little do you have to read for you PERSONALLY to call it a reading slump?

Like I typically read EVERY day for at least1-3 hours. So if I go more than a few days without reading that much, I consider it a slump.

Before today, I'd gone at least 4-5 days without reading for more than at least 1.5 hrs, and I thought I was heading into a major slump.

avidreadergeekgirl commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

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Question of the Day!

Hello Bookaholics!

How is everyone doing???

Here is your question of the day:

Where is your favourite place to read?

I personally love reading anywhere, but I always feel comfiest either on my bed, or on the couch in my living room ❤️

avidreadergeekgirl made progress on...

Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler

Lynne Olson

15%

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Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler

Lynne Olson

The little-known true story of Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, the woman who headed the largest spy network in occupied France during World War II, from the bestselling author of Citizens of London and Last Hope Island In 1941 a thirty-one-year-old Frenchwoman, a young mother born to privilege and known for her beauty and glamour, became the leader of a vast intelligence organization--the only woman to serve as a chef de r�sistance during the war. Strong-willed, independent, and a lifelong rebel against her country's conservative, patriarchal society, Marie-Madeleine Fourcade was temperamentally made for the job. Her group's name was Alliance, but the Gestapo dubbed it Noah's Ark because its agents used the names of animals as their aliases. The name Marie-Madeleine chose for herself was Hedgehog: a tough little animal, unthreatening in appearance, that, as a colleague of hers put it, "even a lion would hesitate to bite." No other French spy network lasted as long or supplied as much crucial intelligence--including providing American and British military commanders with a 55-foot-long map of the beaches and roads on which the Allies would land on D-Day--as Alliance. The Gestapo pursued them relentlessly, capturing, torturing, and executing hundreds of its three thousand agents, including Fourcade's own lover and many of her key spies. Although Fourcade, the mother of two young children, moved her headquarters every few weeks, constantly changing her hair color, clothing, and identity, she was captured twice by the Nazis. Both times she managed to escape--once by slipping naked through the bars of her jail cell--and continued to hold her network together even as it repeatedly threatened to crumble around her. Though so many of her agents died defending their country, Fourcade survived the occupation to become active in postwar French politics. Now, in this dramatic account of the war that split France in two and forced its people to live side by side with their hated German occupiers, Lynne Olson tells the fascinating story of a woman who stood up for her nation, her fellow citizens, and herself.

avidreadergeekgirl commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

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Do you know this book cover?

Y'all I need you! A couple days ago I was deep in PB and passed by a book (I assume a romance) with a shirtless man on the cover. Normally this would be entirely unremarkable but this particular man was wearing a kilt and was showing what could only be described as "butt cleavage". I am destroying my Internet search history trying to prove this is a real cover and I didn't make it up.

Please tell me one of you knows this book!

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Introvert bday ideas?

I imagine there are some fellow introverts here 🤗. I am turning 40 this summer 😅 and have been thinking on how I want to mark the occasion. I’ll do something fun with my partner and kid but am thinking on what else could feel meaningful and help with the feelings of isolation I’ve been dealing with for the last 3ish years due in large part to long covid (mine and my kid’s).

Previously I’ve asked people to send me postcards, and I’ve done online fundraising in honor of my bday (for people in Gaza the last two years). I may do either or both of those but am wondering if folks here have done things that felt nice and included a wider circle of friends that weren’t a party or a gathering (asynchronous things are more accessible for me/my fam right now). TIA!!

avidreadergeekgirl made progress on...

The Lightning-Struck Heart (Tales From Verania, #1)

T.J. Klune

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Thoughts from 1%

"'Please don't, you really don't have to.' Of course, he didn't listen., villains never do. That's why they suck, a lot."

avidreadergeekgirl is re-reading...

The Lightning-Struck Heart (Tales From Verania, #1)

T.J. Klune

This edition is out of print. For current Paperback edition see: The Lightning-Struck Heart Once upon a time, in an alleyway in the slums of the City of Lockes, a young and somewhat lonely boy named Sam Haversford turns a group of teenage douchebags into stone completely by accident. Of course, this catches the attention of a higher power, and Sam's pulled from the only world he knows to become an apprentice to the King's Wizard, Morgan of Shadows. When Sam is fourteen, he enters the Dark Woods and returns with Gary, the hornless gay unicorn, and a half-giant named Tiggy, earning the moniker Sam of Wilds. At fifteen, Sam learns what love truly is when a new knight arrives at the castle. Sir Ryan Foxheart, the dreamiest dream to have ever been dreamed. Naturally, it all goes to hell through the years when Ryan dates the reprehensible Prince Justin, Sam can't control his magic, a sexually aggressive dragon kidnaps the prince, and the King sends them on an epic quest to save Ryan's boyfriend, all while Sam falls more in love with someone he can never have. Or so he thinks.