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Diversifying my reading is the goal. Here for a good time!

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Draco Malfoy and the Mortifying Ordeal of Being in Love
And Then There Were None
Hello Beautiful
Empire of the Damned (Empire of the Vampire, #2)
The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)
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Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest InfectionYou Deserve Each OtherTender Is the FleshBury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

cestlavio commented on CherryMonster's update

CherryMonster completed their yearly reading goal of 100 books!

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CherryMonster's 2025 Reading Challenge

100 of 100 read
Carnival Creeps (Sinner's Sideshow #2)
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
Circus Creeps (Sinner's Sideshow, #1)
Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2)
Onyx Storm (The Empyrean, #3)
Oathbound (The Legendborn Cycle, #3)
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  • Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
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    My my- now that I read this.. is there any regency romance book but a vampire twist out there? Please drop a recommendation if you know any 🙇🏻‍♀️🙏🏻

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  • You Deserve Each Other
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  • My Dark Vanessa
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    Rarely do I hate any book character as much as I hate the teacher. He disgusts me. Such a realistically (yet beautifully) written book it makes my skin crawl.

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  • I Who Have Never Known Men
    Does anybody ever get over this book?

    I finished this book back in August and I still cannot get it off my mind. How far out are you and still thinking about it?

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  • Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
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    Where are the damn dragons dawg

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  • Hello Beautiful
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  • Tender Is the Flesh
    Thoughts from 47% (page 98)

    I was reading this before bed and legit had nightmares last night 😅 they weren't about anything specific just really disconcerting and eerie vibes. I'm a horror reader and have never had a problem before, so this is wild to me 🫣

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  • Piranesi
    Thoughts from 33% (page 82) — go in blind, I BEG YOU

    This is not at all what I expected in THE BEST WAY. It is so hard to search for mysterious fantasy books since they don't technically belong in the "mystery" genre but they're written around a mystery you get to try and solve while you read, all set in a beautiful and fantastical world you get to explore at the same time. THIS FELL INTO MY LIFE ON ACCIDENT AND I AM SO GRATEFUL FOR IT. I am only halfway through but hooked. Blessed to have a day I can dedicate to reading because I'm pretty sure I'll blaze through the rest. I have a few theories I'm working on but hoping I get to be completely blindsided by the end. I have a feeling I'll need other book recs after this to cope. Y'all I am having the best time!!!

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  • October Plans

    I'm absolutely obsessed with the Plan tab in the Library section on here like I've got books on there until the end of next year 😂 and I'm wondering what people have planned for October/the rest of the year. 👀

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  • Balancing reading with other hobbies

    I've always been a big reader but in college I barely read because I felt I didn't have the mental capacity for it, and started to watch a lot of K-dramas instead. Summer of last year I fell in love with reading again, and I would still watch K-dramas occasionally but it was when I wasn't reading a book.

    Now I'm out of college, but still struggling to balance reading with my other hobbies. I'm very all-or-nothing, and I find that if I'm reading I keep wanting to watch my show, and when I'm watching the show, I want to read. It's frustrating because I can't balance both hobbies at the same time and enjoy them without feeling like I should be doing the other.

    Anyone else struggle with this issue and have tips for how they allocate time for reading and other hobbies?

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  • Weyward
    Finished.

    Wow. This turned out to be the most powerful read about women that I had this year.

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  • Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
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    woohoo

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  • Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
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