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Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
Babel
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
The Fury of the Gods (The Bloodsworn Saga, #3)
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  • The Shadow of the Gods (The Bloodsworn Saga, #1)
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    I feel like nothing has really happened so far. There's nothing to hook me in this story, I hope it gets better, cause I already bought the second book and I don't want it to just sit unread

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  • Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
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    The Fall of Roe: The Rise of a New America

    The Fall of Roe: The Rise of a New America

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  • Where are my fellow lovers of classics?

    I absolutely understand why classics have a reputation of being intimidating (or sometimes boring), but lots of these books are considered classics and literary staples for a reason -- because even hundreds of years after their publishing, we can still sooo deeply relate to the feelings and experiences of the characters and their circumstances. I think classics are worth reading for that reason, if nothing else. They have a way of making you feel intimately connected with the human experience, and they serve as reminders that nothing you are feeling or going through is new. Humans are the same across geography and time. I always feel less lonely/existential after reading a good classic 📚❤️

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    lunarnaut completed their yearly reading goal of 120 books!

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    lunarnaut's 2025 Reading Challenge

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    Lady’s Knight
    The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir
    Betrothal or Breakaway (D.C. Eagles Hockey, #3)
    Fable for the End of the World
    Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children, #1)
    The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
    Rubinrot (Edelstein-Trilogie, #1)
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  • Books that finished you .

    So, we all have great books that we read and recommend. Then there are those that simply live in our head , do not pay us any rent for the valuable real-estate and we just let them thrive .

    I consider those as my books that finished me I did not finish them. I'll go first, most recently it has been the When Among Crows by Veronica Roth series for me. Especially the epilogue of the second book.

    It was a small, deadly weapon. Let me know what's yours 😸

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  • Emergency books?

    Do other people carry a 'in case of emergency' book with them? I have a copy of Cormac McCarthy's The Road in my glovebox in case I get stuck somewhere unexpected & don't have my current read with me 😊

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  • Give me your overrated books

    So I think everybody had that one book - that everyone else loved and you just didn't get a hype.

    For me it's Invisible life of Addie LaRue. I'm stuck in the middle. Don't get me wrong, it's beautifully written. And I like the author. The concept itself was interesting too. But I felt like which each time skip I was more tired of reading it. And I just wasn't invested either with story or characters.

    So I'm curious - what are your book that everyone love and recommend but it didn't win you heart?

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    The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World

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  • Game Time: Steal a Book From the PB User

    Okay, let's start a game! The rules are pretty simple:

    1. Pick a PB user from the comments (or you can use me to make a fresh comment) and check their profile.
    2. Look at their "my taste" books on their profile and choose one or more books.
    3. Come back and reply back to that comment and tell them which book from their "my taste" you would steal (or read). You can also give a reason.
    4. It would be common courtesy for you to tell the person who comments on your comment which book you would steal from them.
    5. Make sure you're interacting with other's comments and not just making your own -- that would defeat the purpose of us all playing together!

    EXAMPLE: ((User crypt-glitch comments on this post)) Oh! I would steal The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw from you because I LOVE mermaids!! ((User UltraVi replies to crypt-glitch's comment)) I would absolutely steal Earthlings by Sayaka Murata bc I think the hedgehog on the front is a cutie. ((User crypt-glitch then responds to UltraVi)) That's such a good book! I would steal Malice by Heather Walter from you because what's better than a sapphic fairytale retelling???

    Okay, cool. Let me know if you have any questions and I will try to respond to every single comment so absolutely no one is left out (but feel free to respond to everyone on the thread!)

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