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gracie

Fantasy feels like home, but I like to travel.

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The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
Project Hail Mary
This Could Be Us (Skyland, #2)
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year

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  • Not in My Book
    Thoughts from 66% (page 216)
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    Blob: A Love Story

    Blob: A Love Story

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    gracie completed their yearly reading goal of 75 books!

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    gracie's 2025 Reading Challenge

    75 of 75 read
    Morbidly Yours (Love in Galway, #1)
    The Paper Magician (The Paper Magician, #1)
    The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
    Murder in the Crooked House (Kiyoshi Mitarai, #2)
    Love & Gelato (Love & Gelato, #1)
    Eleven Numbers
    We Hunt the Flame (Sands of Arawiya, #1)
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    Do you guys consider telling someone there is a plot twist in a book a spoiler?

    Because I 100% think it is. I'm of the opinion that any good plot twist will have details along the way that are just subtle enough to miss if you're not looking for them but make you think, "oh my god that makes so much sense" when you realize. When someone tells me there is plot twist nine times out of ten I guess it correctly because I am LOOKING for those hints/details when I otherwise wouldn't be. However, this seems to be a hot take because I see so many reviews and recommendations that mention the plot twist in books?? I guess a review is one thing but mentioning there's a plot twist when recommending a book is actually wild to me. What's everyone's opinion on this? I'm so curious!

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  • Do you slog through a lackluster first book in a series to get to a more enjoyable sequel, or do you skip the first book entirely?

    I know this question is weird but please bear with me. I started reading A Mirror Mended by Alix E. Harrow a few month ago and only realized after reading a few pages that it's the second book in a series. I enjoyed what I read and the chemistry between the main charactes is great, but I decided to stop reading and start with the first book in the series. That decision put me in a reading slump for two month, I was stuck with this book and couldn't finish it because it's so boring. It also didn't help that one of the main characters from the second book isn't even in the first book. So my question. What do you do? Skip the first book or slog through it? Have you been in a similar situation?

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  • gracie commented on gracie's update

    gracie completed their yearly reading goal of 75 books!

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    gracie's 2025 Reading Challenge

    75 of 75 read
    Morbidly Yours (Love in Galway, #1)
    The Paper Magician (The Paper Magician, #1)
    The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
    Murder in the Crooked House (Kiyoshi Mitarai, #2)
    Love & Gelato (Love & Gelato, #1)
    Eleven Numbers
    We Hunt the Flame (Sands of Arawiya, #1)
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  • The Suggestible Brain: The Science and Magic of How We Make Up Our Minds
    gracie
    Jul 24, 2025
    3.0
    Enjoyment: Quality: Characters: Plot:

    This book was everything it promised to be and nothing more. Admittedly, I thought I was going to learn something, but perhaps I've watched too many YouTube videos and had one too many psych classes back in college. Or I misjudged the audience for this book as people with some basic knowledge, and not someone who knows next to nothing about the human mind.

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  • gracie completed their yearly reading goal of 75 books!

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    gracie's 2025 Reading Challenge

    75 of 75 read
    Morbidly Yours (Love in Galway, #1)
    The Paper Magician (The Paper Magician, #1)
    The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
    Murder in the Crooked House (Kiyoshi Mitarai, #2)
    Love & Gelato (Love & Gelato, #1)
    Eleven Numbers
    We Hunt the Flame (Sands of Arawiya, #1)
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  • Not in My Book
    Thoughts from 13% (page 42)

    “Writing’s in the revisions. Nothing’s set in stone, you know. Your backspace works as well as the other keys.” Excuse me while I add that quote to my wall and stare at it when I'm demotivated.

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  • Not in My Book
    Thoughts from 13% (page 42)

    “Writing’s in the revisions. Nothing’s set in stone, you know. Your backspace works as well as the other keys.” Excuse me while I add that quote to my wall and stare at it when I'm demotivated.

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  • The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)
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  • The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)
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    The Suggestible Brain: The Science and Magic of How We Make Up Our Minds

    The Suggestible Brain: The Science and Magic of How We Make Up Our Minds

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  • The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)
    gracie
    Jul 22, 2025
    4.0
    Enjoyment: 3.5Quality: 4.5Characters: 4.0Plot: 4.0

    At risk of stating the obvious, Coriolanus is an absolute rat and I hate him. I deeply enjoyed some of the Easter eggs for the trilogy in this book and I'm telling you I straight up LOVE to hate Coriolanus. This book was very, very good but suffers from one of my biggest issues with prequels--the inability to surprise the reader hobbles any plot tension. Collins is a great writer, so she manages to create significant atmospheric tension, but atmospheric tension isn't enough to keep me reading into the night hours, especially when the book is over 500 pages. That being said, I still very much so enjoyed this book and watching Coriolanus transform throughout the book was fascinating. Side note: if you're considering investing in the audio version, maybe listen to a sample first. I cannot even begin to tell you how much the narrating annoyed me.

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