egyptjen

Got back into reading and now I’m hooked. "Mexican Gothic" got me back into reading and Sarah J Maas has made reading a daily part of my routine.

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A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)

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House of Earth and Blood (Crescent City, #1)

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BlackRose2400

Thoughts from 5% (page 22; Chapter 2)

So far, I'm really enjoying this. I'm listening to the audiobook and reading along in my ebook copy. Ray Porter is a great narrator. Also, this book has me laughing so far! I think I'm going to love this! This isn't my usual genre for the most part.

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The Anxious Generation

Jonathan Haidt

After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on many measures. Why? In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults. Haidt shows how the “play-based childhood” began to decline in the 1980s, and how it was finally wiped out by the arrival of the “phone-based childhood” in the early 2010s. He presents more than a dozen mechanisms by which this “great rewiring of childhood” has interfered with children’s social and neurological development, covering everything from sleep deprivation to attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison, and perfectionism. He explains why social media damages girls more than boys and why boys have been withdrawing from the real world into the virtual world, with disastrous consequences for themselves, their families, and their societies. Most important, Haidt issues a clear call to action. He diagnoses the “collective action problems” that trap us, and then proposes four simple rules that might set us free. He describes steps that parents, teachers, schools, tech companies, and governments can take to end the epidemic of mental illness and restore a more humane childhood. Haidt has spent his career speaking truth backed by data in the most difficult landscapes—communities polarized by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the public health emergency faced by Gen Z. We cannot afford to ignore his findings about protecting our children—and ourselves—from the psychological damage of a phone-based life.

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Then She Was Gone

Lisa Jewell

THEN She was fifteen, her mother's golden girl. She had her whole life ahead of her. And then, in the blink of an eye, Ellie was gone. NOW It’s been ten years since Ellie disappeared, but Laurel has never given up hope of finding her daughter. And then one day a charming and charismatic stranger called Floyd walks into a café and sweeps Laurel off her feet. Before too long she’s staying the night at this house and being introduced to his nine year old daughter. Poppy is precocious and pretty - and meeting her completely takes Laurel's breath away. Because Poppy is the spitting image of Ellie when she was that age. And now all those unanswered questions that have haunted Laurel come flooding back. What happened to Ellie? Where did she go? Who still has secrets to hide?

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Sometimes I Lie

Alice Feeney

My name is Amber Reynolds. There are three things you should know about me: 1. I’m in a coma. 2. My husband doesn’t love me anymore. 3. Sometimes I lie Amber wakes up in a hospital. She can’t move. She can’t speak. She can’t open her eyes. She can hear everyone around her, but they have no idea. Amber doesn’t remember what happened, but she has a suspicion her husband had something to do with it. Alternating between her paralyzed present, the week before her accident, and a series of childhood diaries from twenty years ago, this brilliant psychological thriller Is something really a lie if you believe it's the truth?

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The Great Alone

Kristin Hannah

Alaska, 1974. Unpredictable. Unforgiving. Untamed. For a family in crisis, the ultimate test of survival. Ernt Allbright, a former POW, comes home from the Vietnam war a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes an impulsive decision: he will move his family north, to Alaska, where they will live off the grid in America’s last true frontier. Thirteen-year-old Leni, a girl coming of age in a tumultuous time, caught in the riptide of her parents’ passionate, stormy relationship, dares to hope that a new land will lead to a better future for her family. She is desperate for a place to belong. Her mother, Cora, will do anything and go anywhere for the man she loves, even if it means following him into the unknown. At first, Alaska seems to be the answer to their prayers. In a wild, remote corner of the state, they find a fiercely independent community of strong men and even stronger women. The long, sunlit days and the generosity of the locals make up for the Allbrights’ lack of preparation and dwindling resources. But as winter approaches and darkness descends on Alaska, Ernt’s fragile mental state deteriorates and the family begins to fracture. Soon the perils outside pale in comparison to threats from within. In their small cabin, covered in snow, blanketed in eighteen hours of night, Leni and her mother learn the terrible truth: they are on their own. In the wild, there is no one to save them but themselves. In this unforgettable portrait of human frailty and resilience, Kristin Hannah reveals the indomitable character of the modern American pioneer and the spirit of a vanishing Alaska―a place of incomparable beauty and danger. The Great Alone is a daring, beautiful, stay-up-all-night story about love and loss, the fight for survival, and the wildness that lives in both man and nature.

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ChaosKing

Thoughts from 11%

3 chapters in and trusting no one except the narrator. Not even their closest family.

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Thoughts from 32%

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Catsncoffee

Thoughts from 48% (page 223)

This is my first Kristin Hannah book and I will definitely be binging her books after this one! I love when the author can bring the universe of the book to you; almost like you’re in a little bubble with the setting around you. The book is complex and thought provoking while still being easy to read and follow along. Following Frankie’s shift in mentality while she’s “in-country” was subtle but impactful on her character. I’m curious to see how it continues to change and evolve once she returns home.

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ams_8125

Thoughts from 77% (page 752)

Ummm... okay so chapter 89... WHYYY????😭😭

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lulemon

Thoughts from 23% (chp 17)

There's no point in delaying the inevitable. I'm already crying

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lulemon

Thoughts from 25%

I don't hate this as much as I thought I would

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fallen_angel_23

Thoughts from 7% (page 42)

Yesss rhysand to the rescue!!! I already love that guy, i wasnt sure what to think of him in the first book but i already love him

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archercasper

Edited

A question for audiobook lovers...

How do you do it? My library often has the books I want as audiobooks with no wait, so I am trying to become someone who listens to them. Emphasis on the trying. Every time I try to listen I get so distracted by other stuff and miss whole chapters and important details. I think being able to listen to my books would suit my daily life and schedule a lot better, but I just can't seem to make it work!

Does anyone else feel that way?

What do you do when you're listening to audiobooks? How do you stay focused?

Edit: thank you, everyone, for the thoughtful comments. I will definitely give it another try with some books I've already read!

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mangodevourer

Thoughts from 21% (page 65)

gotta be honest girly pops this is taking me so long to get through and i'm getting a little bored..... someone tell me i should at least read on to page 100 :(

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ChaosKing

Thoughts from 4%

One chapter in, and definitely curious of what comes next. Really hoping I like the book 🤞

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