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kittytornado

It's Kate! A 40-something woman in Ontario, who wishes she could ditch all her responsibilities and move to a cottage in the woods and read all day. Alas, the horrors persist.

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Reading...Seven Year Itch (Mountain Men Matchmaker Book 2)
My Taste
Spark of the Everflame (Kindred's Curse, #1)
The Frozen River
Direbound: A Dark Romantasy
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
Dark Fae (Ruthless Boys of the Zodiac, #1)

kittytornado commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

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  • Readers of the World, Unite!

    I thought it would be kind of fun to see where in the world people are, and then folks can make friends with people from the same countries/ares (if they way, not pressure obviously). I'll go first. I'm Canadian, and more specifically I am in British Columbia (Vancouver Island if you want to get fancy. Try to find your country and join that thread! Everyone else?

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  • Pettiest DNF reasons

    If you're someone who DNFs books, what's one of the silliest or pettiest reasons you've stopped reading? I'll go first with some of mine: - The author kept repeating the same words/phrase, I couldn't stop noticing it and after 4 chapters I'd had enough - The MMC had the same name as an ex and I wasn't about to read a whole book where he gets a happy ending - They didn't use any punctuation marks at all Please tell me I'm not the only one who abandons books that should be interesting to me for ridiculous reasons?

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  • Hard to Fix: A slow burn small town romance (Halvorsen Brothers Book 1)
    kittytornado
    Jul 11, 2025
    4.5
    Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 3.0Characters: 4.0Plot: 5.0
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    A really beautiful, quiet love story about two broken people who find each other. I don't know how to describe it other than saying the book was soft. I wanted to read it in a hammock or a bathtub. There were some funky timelines.in the middle, and there are small details that pop out, like ordering draft beer and then drinking from the bottle. Or hospital names changing from page to page. But nothing major. Looking forward to more from this authour.

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  • Hard to Fix: A slow burn small town romance (Halvorsen Brothers Book 1)
    Thoughts from 7% (page 23)

    I'm already pleasantly surprised at how quietly beautiful the writing is. “Dinner’s almost ready, buddy.” The cheerfulness in my voice sounds practiced because it is. Hours of repetition in bathroom mirrors, in shelter hallways, in the front seat of the car when Leo slept in the back. The smile feels like a Halloween mask, stiff and ill-fitting, but I hold it in place regardless.

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    Hard to Fix: A slow burn small town romance (Halvorsen Brothers Book 1)

    Hard to Fix: A slow burn small town romance (Halvorsen Brothers Book 1)

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    Seven Year Itch (Mountain Men Matchmaker Book 2)

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  • Hook, Line, and Sinker (Bellinger Sisters, #2)
    kittytornado
    Jul 09, 2025
    2.5
    Enjoyment: 2.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 3.0Plot: 2.0
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    A copy paste of book 1 with less chemistry. A disappointing miss for me.

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  • kittytornado commented on smutty's update

    smutty completed their yearly reading goal of 100 books!

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    smutty's 2025 Reading Challenge

    101 of 100 read
    The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
    It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
    Vampires of El Norte
    The Library at Hellebore
    The Blonde Who Came in From the Cold (Blonde Identity, #2)
    Hot Milk
    The Wedding Forecast
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  • Hook, Line, and Sinker (Bellinger Sisters, #2)
    Thoughts from 84% - meh

    I read the first in this duology maybe a week ago and I was giggling and kicking my feet. This one is almost exactly the same plot - just slot in two new characters - and I'm just not into it. I liked Fox and Hannah way more in book 1 than in book two, and that's problematic because they are the couple in this book. It started out so strong with the text messages. Sigh. I can't believe there is so much left. What else can possible happen that hasn't happened three times already?

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  • kittytornado commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

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  • Pettiest DNF reasons

    If you're someone who DNFs books, what's one of the silliest or pettiest reasons you've stopped reading? I'll go first with some of mine: - The author kept repeating the same words/phrase, I couldn't stop noticing it and after 4 chapters I'd had enough - The MMC had the same name as an ex and I wasn't about to read a whole book where he gets a happy ending - They didn't use any punctuation marks at all Please tell me I'm not the only one who abandons books that should be interesting to me for ridiculous reasons?

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  • Hook, Line, and Sinker (Bellinger Sisters, #2)
    Thoughts from 84% - meh

    I read the first in this duology maybe a week ago and I was giggling and kicking my feet. This one is almost exactly the same plot - just slot in two new characters - and I'm just not into it. I liked Fox and Hannah way more in book 1 than in book two, and that's problematic because they are the couple in this book. It started out so strong with the text messages. Sigh. I can't believe there is so much left. What else can possible happen that hasn't happened three times already?

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    Hook, Line, and Sinker (Bellinger Sisters, #2)

    Hook, Line, and Sinker (Bellinger Sisters, #2)

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  • Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
    Reread - done
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  • Slow Burn Summer
    kittytornado
    Jul 08, 2025
    3.5
    Enjoyment: 3.5Quality: 4.5Characters: 3.0Plot: 3.5
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    I wish this book was marketed as womens lit - about a mature FMC trying to find her place in the world after a divorce and her only child moving away. The romance didn't hit for me. Maybe because I wanted more from Charlie's POV. There was so much about the circumstance (which was interesting and compelling) and not enough about them falling in love.

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  • Slow Burn Summer
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  • kittytornado commented on Fantasy's review of Where the Dark Stands Still

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  • Where the Dark Stands Still
    Fantasy
    Jul 07, 2025
    4.0
    Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 4.5Characters: 4.0Plot: 3.5
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    Hey Google, how do I ask someone to wear a full deer skull in bed and not make it weird?

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