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brandanadei

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Fall 2025 Readalong
Level 5
British & Irish Classic Literature
My Taste
Too Like the Lightning (Terra Ignota, #1)
Ghost Cities
Rebecca
Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)
Piranesi
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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn HugoCourting: An Intimate History of Love and the Law

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  • Romeo and Juliet
    comedy vs. tragedy

    Hot take but this shouldn't be classed as a tragedy, instead is should be considered a comedy. And yes, I mean the whole play, all five acts. Does it take a dark turn? Yes. But that doesn't preclude it from being a comedy.

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  • Piranesi
    brandanadei
    Oct 04, 2025
    5.0
    Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 5.0
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    I could feel this book rewriting my brain chemistry as I was reading. I'm obsessed. What an interesting and beautiful world. I'm going to have to reread this a million times I think.

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  • Piranesi
    Finished last night! Thoughts, rambly analysis, memes/funny shit
    spoilers

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  • The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
    Thoughts from 11%

    I can tell Evelyn is going to be really interesting but god this narrator is annoying.

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  • brandanadei commented on brandanadei's review of All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

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  • All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
    brandanadei
    Oct 04, 2025
    5.0
    Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 5.0
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    It actually annoys me how much I like Murderbot. Like I didn't read it for ages because I assumed it would be one of those books that's premise and vibes first, quality further down the line, but it was available on audio while I was doing some crafting and it really is just that good. Damn it.

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  • The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
    Thoughts from 11%

    I can tell Evelyn is going to be really interesting but god this narrator is annoying.

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  • Don't Let the Forest In
    100% Thoughts

    This book will forever live in my mind. It's grown its roots and burrowed deep inside me. I cannot get over how this ended, the amount of anguish, tears, and confusion that is still going on inside of me. I'll be posting a review soon, but this is definitely going on my favorite bookshelf.

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  • All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
    brandanadei
    Oct 04, 2025
    5.0
    Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 5.0
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    It actually annoys me how much I like Murderbot. Like I didn't read it for ages because I assumed it would be one of those books that's premise and vibes first, quality further down the line, but it was available on audio while I was doing some crafting and it really is just that good. Damn it.

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  • All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
    Thoughts from 20%

    Murderbot 🤝 me this could have been an email.

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  • Piranesi
    Meme about the Other for those who have finished the book
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  • The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
    Rant

    I just saw a Goodreads review say that this book was too political and far too unrealistic and everyone was flat as cardboard. Tell me you didn't get the point without telling me you didn't get the point. That made me RAGE because you would've GOTTEN it if you'd had basic reading comprehension!

    Look, I get it if you didn't like the writing style, it's not a one size fits all, but you didn't like the book for ENTIRELY WRONG REASONS! A book being too political is the dumbest excuse for disliking a book that I've ever heard. And if you say it's "unrealistic"—look at our world now. Palestine, Congo, Syria, AND more. They don't have to be games like THG, but clearly, hundreds of thousands of children and innocents are dying. If you cannot see that, then society is doomed.

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  • The Psychology of Twilight
    Thoughts from 29% (page 73, Prejudice in Twilight)

    Both Edward and Jacob have strong feelings for Bella, but because Bella can only love one of them and can only pick one of them to love her life with, she essentially is a limited resource.

    If they all just kissed in the tent in Eclipse the world would be so different

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