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Lord of the Rings & Tolkien's Legendarium
Every Villain is a Hero
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Fall 2025 Readalong
My Taste
Fahrenheit 451
Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures (Zamonia, #3)
Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu (Novel) Vol. 1
Vampire Hunter D
The Memory Police
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  • A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)
    itsmal
    Oct 05, 2025
    4.0
    Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 4.5Characters: 4.5Plot: 4.0
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    I didn't think that I would enjoy this book as much as I did! The second-person POV works for this story, even if it took a bit to grow on me. Though I can't say I would have chosen this book for myself without the seasonal readalong, I am, in the end, glad that I read this.

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  • A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)
    📱 Thoughts from 21% - PART ONE

    “I came alone, of my own accord.”

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    Hi all!! I got yet another bookish app and just spent the last two hours after I got off of work updating my reading lists!! As I was doing that I realized how much I still think about the book Pachinko and how I should really reread it and annotate it. Feel free to say hi or say a book you think about constantly!!!

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    Silver Under Nightfall (Reaper, #1)

    Silver Under Nightfall (Reaper, #1)

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    itsmal commented on MadHoney's update

    MadHoney completed their yearly reading goal of 52 books!

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    MadHoney's 2025 Reading Challenge

    54 of 52 read
    The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
    The Spellshop
    A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)
    The World According to Cunk: An Illustrated History of All World Events Ever, Space Permitting
    The Scattered Bones: A Dark Fantasy Romance
    The Memory Police
    Blood Over Bright Haven
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  • The Seep
    itsmal
    Oct 03, 2025
    4.5
    Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 4.5Plot: 4.5
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    What a beautifully strange piece on grief and healing as a means of retaining humanity, of resisting becoming someone unrecognizable. One can't help but to compare the titular entity to the real-life scourge of AI, it comes very naturally to do so. Reading this left me feeling hollow and melancholic yet somehow hopeful? I really enjoyed this one!

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  • The Seep
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    Thoughts from 58%

    "Time is embodied learning! That's why memory exists!"

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