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Blob: A Love Story
Maggie Su
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gracie completed their yearly reading goal of 75 books!
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gracie DNF'd a book
Impact Winter (Impact Winter #1)
Travis Beacham
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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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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 completed their yearly reading goal of 75 books!
gracie DNF'd a book
Impact Winter (Impact Winter #1)
Travis Beacham
gracie finished reading and wrote a review...
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.
gracie completed their yearly reading goal of 75 books!
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“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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“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 Suggestible Brain: The Science and Magic of How We Make Up Our Minds
Amir Raz
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Not in My Book
Katie Holt
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The Hidden Oracle (The Trials of Apollo, #1)
Rick Riordan
gracie wrote a review...
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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The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)
Suzanne Collins