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Reading...Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
My Taste
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)

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  • I’m curious, what book has lived on your TBR the longest?

    Mine is Poison Study by Marie V. Synder and it’s been there since March 2014 (honestly, it may be time to remove it lmao).

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  • House of Flame and Shadow (Crescent City, #3)
    joyhope
    Apr 01, 2025
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    Enjoyment: 3.5Quality: 3.0Characters: 3.5Plot: 3.5

    For a series made up of three long books, the story still feels rushed. I enjoy an ensemble cast of characters but I want to them all to feel independent with storylines of their own. Some of the tertiary characters here felt interchangeable. The world building was pretty unique but I wish it had been expanded. I don’t really feel like I have a sense of the world beyond the main city. Overall, it felt like the series wasn’t able to develop world, characters, & story in only three books like ACOTAR did. It probably would’ve benefited from a more expansive series, like ToG.

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  • The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
    joyhope
    Mar 22, 2025
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  • joyhope set their yearly reading goal to 52

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    joyhope's 2025 Reading Challenge

    12 of 52 read
    The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
    The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
    The Wedding People
    The God of the Woods
    House of Sky and Breath (Crescent City, #2)
    The Shadow of the Gods (The Bloodsworn Saga, #1)
    The Past Is Red
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  • tandem read

    anyone here who did / is doing the tandem read and has thoughts on it? :)

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