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brightsword

Librarian with a taste for romance and speculative fiction.

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Brandon Sanderson Universes
Fated Mates Book Club: Romance Books for Novel People
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My Taste
Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children, #1)
The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut Universe, #1)
Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3)
Tress of the Emerald Sea
Sorcery & Cecelia: or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot (Cecelia and Kate, #1)
Reading...
Lost Wax: Essays (Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction)Destiny's Captive (Destiny, #3)

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  • Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
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    Oct 04, 2025
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  • brightsword completed their yearly reading goal of 52 books!

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    brightsword's 2025 Reading Challenge

    53 of 52 read
    Bird by Bird
    The Self after Postmodernity
    A PhD Rollercoaster: A Diary of The Ups And Downs of Being a Doctoral Student
    The Duchess Hunt (Once Upon a Dukedom, #2)
    The Sunlit Man
    The Clash of Civilizations?: The Debate: Twentieth Anniversary Edition
    What I Did for a Duke (Pennyroyal Green, #5)
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  • Bookish podcast recs

    As the title suggests, I’m keen to hear what are some of your favourite bookish podcasts.

    I’ve been an avid listener of the What Should I Read Next podcast. I love hearing about the reading lives of other readers and always get such wonderful book recs to add to my tbr from it.

    I’d love to discover other bookish podcasts out there. Do you have a favourite to recommend?

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  • Need a Vampire Romance Recommendations 👄 🩸

    I’m looking for vampire romance books (more slow burn) Vampire MMC x Human/Witch FMC

    I already read: 🧛 Night of House 🧛 Land of Shadow 🧛 Loving a Vampire is Total Chaos (romcom) 🧛 A Dowry of Blood 🧛 Court of the Vampire Queen

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  • The Guest List
    Thoughts from 16% (audiobook + ebook)

    so i'm unsure whether this is a me thing since many of the reviews don't seem to mention it much but i just can't get over how frustrating this first person present narration is? sure, we get a lot of intimate and personal information from the characters themselves but the writing is just so boring and unoriginal?

    someone please tell me either the story and suspense picks up or the writing starts to get better because i kind of need to read this (potential comp title for future manuscript query) and i genuinely don't know if i can make it through at this point 😭

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  • An Impossible Impostor (Veronica Speedwell, #7)
    brightsword
    Sep 17, 2025
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    Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 4.5
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    Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

    Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

    Yuval Noah Harari

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    Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present

    Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present

    Fareed Zakaria

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    A Gentleman and a Thief: The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue

    A Gentleman and a Thief: The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue

    Dean Jobb

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  • The Spellshop
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    Sep 13, 2025
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    Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 4.5
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    There is something about the idea of restoring an overgrown cottage that satisfies a very particular itch in my brain. Probably the same reason I love Stardew Valley.

    I really enjoyed the variety of species without the text getting too technical, and that the book engages with difficult topics without ever really making the reader feel unsafe. I'm so glad for the extra push the Fall Readalong gave me to read this book!

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  • Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
    Thoughts from 55% (page 292)

    What the heck is soda bread and why have I never heard of it?

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