dishiereads
• 100% an indoor cat. • Moderately curious, passably intelligent, deeply unserious. • Escapism junkie. Calgon, take me away... It suuuuucks here. 🇺🇸 😭
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I'll go first! I have two cats. One named Ruffles Cheddar and Sour Cream Potato Chips [my last name], The other, Special Agent Dale Cooper. We go by Chips and Cooper.
Chips is my sweet precious baby angel. I call her Tiny, Baby Cheepie, Keety Girl, Peep Peep, and Peeper (she does the tiniest little peep peep meows when she talks to you), and the Murterer (she gets very ferocious when she's frisky). There are a few others that aren't coming to mind, but those are the main nicknames. She is a 10yo (rare female) orange floof and she weighs 6 pounds.
Cooper is my whiny naughty velcro boy, and he is always up my butt. He does a lot of vocal yearning (for what, he does not know -- only that he NEEDS IT). His primary nicknames are Boo Hoo Baby, Woo Boy (inspired by the woo girls from HIMYM but with a whinier twist), Mommy's Bad Boy, Pooper, Corporate, Car Park, and Kyerp Yerp (those last ones are just me mangling his name on purpose, lol). He is 3 years old, 12 pounds, and a tuxedo (because of course he is). Chips tolerates his presence, much like a beleaguered older sister with a brother twice her size who keeps trying to test out WWF Smackdown moves on her. She'd rather be in her room, alone with her feelings and thoughts. 😂
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[Asclepias syriaca] came to be named for a Greek god and a Middle Eastern nation.
🥹🥹 my beloved Syria Truly wasn’t expecting to find out this plant’s species name is from my familial homeland
26dishiereads commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Hello Bookaholics!!
How is everyone doing?
Your question of the day is.... Do you judge a book by its cover more than you'd like to admit?
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dishiereads commented on nabou_reads's review of The Twelve (The Passage, #2)
OMG!
So I was thinking this series could not get any nicer, the first book I have to say was the bomb and then this one comes and I had to keep forcing myself to stop reading so I could do homework and eat and sleep lol
The twelve are so bad! Like why would you turn murderers into vampires, I know it wasn't intentional but still
Martinez, wow that guy is bad! one nasty piece of work there
And the characters, wow, I am so attached to them, I was getting so anxious when any of them had to put themselves in harm's way
Can't wait for the third book now, October seems so far away
I thoroughly enjoyed this those
1dishiereads commented on Tinuviel's review of The Twelve (The Passage, #2)
I enjoy these books; I really do. I like that Cronin uses various times to tell different stories about the vampire apocalypse: the very beginning of the crisis, stories from random people in different times and places after the apocalypse, and the story of Our Heroes that started 92 years after. They are interesting and always draw me in. However, there are two things that really bug me. One is the names of the characters; they just don't feel right. A young man named Bernard? Horace? These are people from the beginning of the apocalypse, which is more or less around now. There are not 20-somethings named Bernard who don't go by another name or nickname (like Ben). There are not 50-year-old men named Horace. And then the last names. Having a Grey, Greer, and Guilder all in one book gets seriously confusing, especially in the audiobook. Also, calling Greer by his last name in the first book, but mostly by his first name (Lucious) in the second...I had to go back and skim the first book to make sure that I knew who everyone was.
The other thing that bugs me is how often the phrase "he/she didn't know how it happened." That's just lazy writing. Can't think of a way to actually kill someone? "Peter saw the body next to him, but he didn't know how it happened." Can't figure out how someone would escape the unescapable? "Alicia saw that Andrea made it out alive, but she didn't see how it happened." (NOT real spoilers; just plausible examples.)
Those are small things that grate on my mind, but I am still enjoying this series and plan to read the next one soon.
1dishiereads commented on Bookish_Predator's review of The Twelve (The Passage, #2)
4 stars
After reading The Passage I kinda knew what to expect with this one and by that I mean the backwards and forwards in time thing that can confuse the heck out of you.
There are so many characters but some are from 'the time before' and you just have to try and keep them all where they're supposed to be.
The little strings of the various times do merge to move the story forward and you get those 'oh yeah' moments with regards to family and friends of the characters.
I enjoyed this book and will be picking up The City of Mirrors shortly as I want to know how this all plays out.
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lindsay99 started reading...
The Everlasting
Alix E. Harrow
5dishiereads commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
I heard this delightful interaction at the library and had to share 😄
Person 1: "I'm looking for Beverly Hills Cop if anyone has seen it."
Person 2: "I only know of the chihuahua."
It seriously cracked me up and made me wonder if y'all had your own funny little experiences at the library or bookstore that you'd be willing to share?
50dishiereads commented on kittygoons's review of Daughter of the Empire (The Empire Trilogy, #1)
I'm pro women doing what they want, but if Mara had succeeded in becoming a nun, this universe would have lost out on a political genius. This book just illustrates that a teenage girl can be better at ruling by the seat of her pants than any man that came before her.
I had so much fun with this book, and I can't wait to see what happens next in the series!
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“Have you seen Walter?”
“I’m sure he’s fine.” This was not a guess on Hildy’s part. She had personally sent Walter on a completely different outing, going so far as to slip a revised itinerary under his door and hire a car to pick him up an hour before the bus departed for the gardens.
these both are crazy lmfao tsundere yandere couple 😭😭😭
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dishiereads commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
I want to know how others tag/sort/organize their digital PB libraries!
I'm in the middle of a BIG Library overhaul because I love digital origination and want to know what other people do!
If you want to take a peak at mine and give me feedback at what I could be missing I would love! I can always learn of a to organize better!
77dishiereads commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
I'll go first! I have two cats. One named Ruffles Cheddar and Sour Cream Potato Chips [my last name], The other, Special Agent Dale Cooper. We go by Chips and Cooper.
Chips is my sweet precious baby angel. I call her Tiny, Baby Cheepie, Keety Girl, Peep Peep, and Peeper (she does the tiniest little peep peep meows when she talks to you), and the Murterer (she gets very ferocious when she's frisky). There are a few others that aren't coming to mind, but those are the main nicknames. She is a 10yo (rare female) orange floof and she weighs 6 pounds.
Cooper is my whiny naughty velcro boy, and he is always up my butt. He does a lot of vocal yearning (for what, he does not know -- only that he NEEDS IT). His primary nicknames are Boo Hoo Baby, Woo Boy (inspired by the woo girls from HIMYM but with a whinier twist), Mommy's Bad Boy, Pooper, Corporate, Car Park, and Kyerp Yerp (those last ones are just me mangling his name on purpose, lol). He is 3 years old, 12 pounds, and a tuxedo (because of course he is). Chips tolerates his presence, much like a beleaguered older sister with a brother twice her size who keeps trying to test out WWF Smackdown moves on her. She'd rather be in her room, alone with her feelings and thoughts. 😂
111dishiereads commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
hi all! recently I’ve taken an interest in reading some more fantasy books and was hoping you could recommend me some of your favourites!
I’ve had a look through the numerous fantasy quests for some ideas, but am a little overwhelmed with how many options there are so I was hoping someone would provide some recommendations for me! I’m fairly new to the fantasy genre and am open to all kinds of plots, but I do have a preference for magic based words! I also love love love detailed word building, and am willing to sacrifice a bit of characterisation if the world is super detailed!
I’m a complete fantasy noob and the only fantasy books I’m aware of are the popular ‘booktok’ recs (from like 2021 so they’re a bit out of date), so I’d love to read some hidden gems you’ve discovered!
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