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Reading...The Sirens of Titan
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Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
Iron Widow (Iron Widow, #1)
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

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  • Katabasis
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  • Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
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    I feel like there is too many graphic details and text on each page, and it is kind of hard to read

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  • Darker by Four (Darker by Four, #1)
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    Someone said it is a great read if you liked K-Pop Demon Hunters and I couldn't ignore that

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  • The Union Street Bakery (Union Street Bakery #1)
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    I still don't have any idea what are we doing here. Are we looking for her mother? Are we trying to save the bakery? Are we trying to find out who Susie was? What the hell this book is about???

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  • If We Were Villains
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  • Even the Reviews Are AI too 🫩

    I usually go and read reviews of my completed books, sometimes to see if I missed anything themewise/plotwise, but mostly for the fun of it. Now I can't even get through some of the recent reviews without visibly CRINGING at the blatant AI. Can we just have one thing that is not touched by AI in this hobby??? I've seen it on here. I've seen it on GR. I've even seen it bookstagram captions. I mean, is it really that serious???? I get it, I find it hard to articulate everything I felt about a book in a few paragraphs. But the idea of using AI to do so just fills me with secondhand embarrassment. I would rather write a corny ahh statement like “I couldn't put this down!” rather than resort to asking chat to write a review?? The tone is always so unbearably positive, and the sentences all follow the same formulaic wording, it is nauseating. Even if all the points brought up are good, just reading those generated reviews takes away any joy I had in reading. I wish people who did use it knew how obvious it is to spot an AI post. I mean, you are posting this review to be read by people who love to read? You don't think we can recogbise wack ahh AI slop when we see it?? Embarrazzing.

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  • bookidlen set their yearly reading goal to 97

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    bookidlen's 2025 Reading Challenge

    61 of 97 read
    10 Things I Want to Do Before I Turn 40
    Vampires at Sea
    The Foxhole Court (All for the Game, #1)
    The Bookseller
    Binti (Binti, #1)
    I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks
    Murder by Memory (Dorothy Gentleman, 1)
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    Сім чоловіків Евелін Г’юґо

    Сім чоловіків Евелін Г’юґо

    Taylor Jenkins Reid

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  • Babylonia
    bookidlen
    Jun 29, 2025
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    Enjoyment: Quality: Characters: Plot:

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  • Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
    Thoughts from 2% (page 3)

    I feel like there is too many graphic details and text on each page, and it is kind of hard to read

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