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    Hi everyone! We dropped 5 new quests today, shout out to our Top Contributors who spent so much time curating the lists and reading voraciously in their niche to make sure the quest lists are unique, interesting, and emblematic of the theme!

    We've seen when Quests are launched, the community chimes in with recs and opinions. Definitely have discussions about the list, but want to kindly remind everyone that the TCs put in a ton of work to curate the lists, and Quests are intended to be slow-growing (with mostly new releases; the work of curating backlist titles was done before Quest release).

    Hope everyone enjoys the new Quests, we have some exciting Quest updates to launch very very soon! (new badge tiers....? šŸ‘€)

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    Hey! I know for a fact I read something about it either in the Q&A or in another post, but I can't find my way around anymore- so I apologise in advance if the answer to my question is easily found.

    Are there any plans on (or a reason not to) collect the series' of a book? I look specifically at my Manga's, where there are often over 20 of them. Would it not be a good thing to have them under one forum? Or would it be too much work? (I am too tired to formulate myself properly i feel, I hope this made sense 😭)

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    Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.5Characters: 4.0Plot: 3.5
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    A meditative novel that centers the small details in life, you can tell that the author is knowledgeable and passionate about the earth (Coulter is a professor leading the world’s first major in animal ethics and sustainability). There's a lot of wisdom Magic the tortoise is ready to impart if you're willing to sit quietly and move slowly. In my mental bookshelf, A Tortoise's Tale would be shelved with Becky Chambers and Robin Wall Kimmerer.

    What didn't quite work for me: Since the only POV is through Magic, the reader only gets glimpses into the lives of the many people that pass through her home. While this makes sense for a book focused on a character that lives 150 years and experiences life in swathes of time, I was craving more context and complexity. Without the ability to peer into the inner workings of a human's messy, flawed mind, I could not understand the full picture of why certain plot points happened, and the human characters felt one-dimensional. They were portrayed as inherently good or inherently bad without the nuance of why.

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