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Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)

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Lu and Ren's Guide to Geozoology: A Graphic Novel

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)

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inkyfingers

Thoughts from 50%

This is one of the most beautiful graphic novels I've ever seen. 🥰

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Lu and Ren's Guide to Geozoology: A Graphic Novel

Angela Hsieh

Perfect for fans of Studio Ghibli and The Tea Dragon Society, this beautiful graphic novel follows a girl who learns more about friendship and family as she journeys across the fantastical land of Lirrin to tend to its majestic animals. Lu dreams of being a great adventurer, just like her ah-ma, who is a world-renowned geozoologist. Ah-ma has traveled far and wide, researching unique animals like dreamy cloud-jellies, enormous sunfish, and playful mossgoats. There’s nothing Lu loves more than reading Ah-ma’s letters about her quests, even if she and her mom struggle to understand the Cylian language Ah-ma writes in. But when Ah-ma’s letters suddenly stop, Lu becomes worried. So when a nearby town needs a geozoologist, Lu decides to go on the journey to find Ah-ma. She charts a course with the help of Ren, an old friend turned new travel buddy. As they follow in Ah-ma’s footsteps, Lu begins to discover the complex relationships between geofauna—and between people. What stories has Ah-ma never told her? And what’s Ren hiding from her?

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Libraries have to continously pay a fee for e-media

I recently have learned that a lot of libraries have to continously pay a fee for e-books and audiobooks; for example they can keep them for x-months or they have a can be lent x-times before they have to renew their license, and while I understand this from a technical standpoint - e-media can be lent indefinitely and infinitely - I still think this is insane.

Granted I am very socialistic in nature but I think that libraries should be able to get media for a smaller price than we as customers (I understand that this might suck for some authors, but readers who are willing to wait weeks, if not months for a book were less likely to buy it anyway?)

What do you think? Any librarians can confirm this? also from other countries than the US? I couldn't find anything for my local library unfortunately.

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inkyfingers

Audiobook

Just found out this has a full cast narration including Mara Wilson (Matilda!) and TJ Klune! And it won a 2025 Audie award. 🎉 Definitely moving it to the top of my audiobook list. Other than that I'll be going in blind 😬

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generalhugs95

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Thoughts from 33%

I'm still wondering what I was thinking when starting this. But, by all means, I'm going to finish it. But yeah, I'm not used to horror stuff like this, this is absolutely crazy. Every single page is a new lesson on humans' abilities to be nasty as f*ck.

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Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1)

Matt Dinniman

The apocalypse will be televised! A man. His ex-girlfriend's cat. A sadistic game show unlike anything in the universe: a dungeon crawl where survival depends on killing your prey in the most entertaining way possible. In a flash, every human-erected construction on Earth—from Buckingham Palace to the tiniest of sheds—collapses in a heap, sinking into the ground. The buildings and all the people inside have all been atomized and transformed into the dungeon: an 18-level labyrinth filled with traps, monsters, and loot. A dungeon so enormous, it circles the entire globe. Only a few dare venture inside. But once you're in, you can't get out. And what's worse, each level has a time limit. You have but days to find a staircase to the next level down, or it's game over. In this game, it's not about your strength or your dexterity. It's about your followers, your views. Your clout. It's about building an audience and killing those goblins with style. You can't just survive here. You gotta survive big. You gotta fight with vigor, with excitement. You gotta make them stand up and cheer. And if you do have that "it" factor, you may just find yourself with a following. That's the only way to truly survive in this game—with the help of the loot boxes dropped upon you by the generous benefactors watching from across the galaxy. They call it Dungeon Crawler World. But for Carl, it's anything but a game.

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Bury Your Gays

Chuck Tingle

From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding story about what it takes to succeed in a world that wants you dead. Misha is a jaded scriptwriter who has been working in Hollywood for years, and has just been nominated for his first Oscar. But when he's pressured by his producers to kill off a gay character in the upcoming season finale―"for the algorithm"―Misha discovers that it's not that simple. As he is haunted by his past, and past mistakes, Misha must risk everything to find a way to do what's right―before it's too late.

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Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1)

Matt Dinniman

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16h

Ring Shout

P. Djèlí Clark

In America, demons wear white hoods. In 1915, The Birth of a Nation cast a spell across America, swelling the Klan's ranks and drinking deep from the darkest thoughts of white folk. All across the nation they ride, spreading fear and violence among the vulnerable. They plan to bring Hell to Earth. But even Ku Kluxes can die. Standing in their way is Maryse Boudreaux and her fellow resistance fighters, a foul-mouthed sharpshooter and a Harlem Hellfighter. Armed with blade, bullet, and bomb, they hunt their hunters and send the Klan's demons straight to Hell. But something awful's brewing in Macon, and the war on Hell is about to heat up. Can Maryse stop the Klan before it ends the world?

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The Bewitching

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Three women in three different eras encounter danger and witchcraft in this eerie multigenerational horror saga from the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic.“Back then, when I was a young woman, there were still witches”: That was how Nana Alba always began the stories she told her great-granddaughter Minerva—stories that have stayed with Minerva all her life. Perhaps that’s why Minerva has become a graduate student focused on the history of horror literature and is researching the life of Beatrice Tremblay, an obscure author of macabre tales.In the course of assembling her thesis, Minerva uncovers information that reveals that Tremblay’s most famous novel, The Vanishing, was inspired by a true Decades earlier, during the Great Depression, Tremblay attended the same university where Minerva is now studying and became obsessed with her beautiful and otherworldly roommate, who then disappeared under mysterious circumstances.As Minerva descends ever deeper into Tremblay’s manuscript, she begins to sense that the malign force that stalked Tremblay and the missing girl might still walk the halls of the campus. These disturbing events also echo the stories Nana Alba told about her girlhood in 1900s Mexico, where she had a terrifying encounter with a witch.Minerva suspects that the same shadow that darkened the lives of her great-grandmother and Beatrice Tremblay is now threatening her own in 1990s Massachusetts. An academic career can be a punishing pursuit, but it might turn outright deadly when witchcraft is involved.

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Chain-Gang All-Stars

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America's own. Loretta Thurwar and Hamara "Hurricane Staxxx" Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a highly-popular, highly-controversial, profit-raising program in America's increasingly dominant private prison industry. It's the return of the gladiators and prisoners are competing for the ultimate prize: their freedom. In CAPE, prisoners travel as Links in Chain-Gangs, competing in death-matches for packed arenas with righteous protestors at the gates. Thurwar and Staxxx, both teammates and lovers, are the fan favorites. And if all goes well, Thurwar will be free in just a few matches, a fact she carries as heavily as her lethal hammer. As she prepares to leave her fellow Links, she considers how she might help preserve their humanity, in defiance of these so-called games, but CAPE's corporate owners will stop at nothing to protect their status quo and the obstacles they lay in Thurwar's path have devastating consequences. Moving from the Links in the field to the protestors to the CAPE employees and beyond, Chain-Gang All-Stars is a kaleidoscopic, excoriating look at the American prison system's unholy alliance of systemic racism, unchecked capitalism, and mass incarceration, and a clear-eyed reckoning with what freedom in this country really means.

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marissa

Thoughts from 60%

Okay I'm ngl, I'm a little disappointed, but I definitely think the disappointment stems from my expectations. I went into this thinking there was going to be way more innkeeping aspects and taking care of a whimsical inn, maybe we even see some fun guests coming through. Almost like The Grand Budapest Hotel vibes. There are those plot lines a little bit, but just not enough for me to be loving this.

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20h

inkyfingers

Thoughts from 26%

The audiobook narrator keeps pronouncing skeletal like "ske-LEE-tal". It has happened 4 times and I'm about to lose it --

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inkyfingers

Thoughts from 45%

"Why do you find it so easy to be kind to me and so difficult to be kind to yourself?"

Oof 😭

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cozylatte

Similarity to The Night Circus

Has anyone who’s currently reading this book also read The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern? The Starless Sea is on my tbr, but I wasn’t the biggest fan of The Night Circus, so I was wondering how similar the pacing / writing style is!

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spacebunny9925

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Thoughts from 24% (ch 6)

“Sometimes what you think is you being calm can sometimes, er, come across as, er…” “Artic…Antarctic even.”

I can relate. 🤣

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