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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new. --Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

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Babel
Untethered Sky
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)
The Housekeeper and the Professor
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Vanishing World

Vanishing World

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  • The Vegetarian
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    Fairy Tale

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  • Orbital
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    It doesn’t feel surprising that some astronauts become artists afterwards

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  • We Used to Live Here
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    Ummm I have decided I cannot read this at night. That is all.

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    This Hoe Got Roaches In Her Crib

    This Hoe Got Roaches In Her Crib

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  • Pachinko
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    The first tear was shed 🥲

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  • The Secret History
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    Dude. That review I read was right. There is really nothing to this book other than flowery prose. This is genuinely the worst. The prose is great. But that's really it. Prose alone doesn't make a 5 star book. Everything else has to back it up. And everything else is genuinely bad. The characters don't do anything. At all. Bunny and Henry are pretty much the only characters. Richard is barely interesting. He just seems like he's kinda there. Same with everyone else. Bet you didn't care about anyone else huh? Exactly. And the setting and mood is great. But there is nothing all that great about this. The plot is pretty mid ngl. I read the rest beyond this point on Wikipedia and I'm shocked that this is all there is to the book. That's it. That's all. Side note, yeah this book could lose about 200 pages. We didn't need them. At all. Just a bunch of nothing. Also what is with the random racism?? We didn't even need that. That character and that entire plot line was pretty much meaningless. The message is already so obvious and clear. I seriously don't understand the point of any of this. Genuinely. I swear she just wanted another excuse to write the n-word with the r. Because who calls Arab people "Sand n-words"? Like are we deadass. What was the point of that? It was barely even an interesting or good message but surprisingly enough that's one of the few interesting things that happen in this overly long snoozefest. What a waste of a Libby loan!

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  • Book Covers Should be LEGIBLE!

    I have a bone to pick with a lot of cover designers nowadays: 1) I should be able to read the title of the book on the front cover without struggling! I saw "A Study in Drowning" at the bookstore yesterday and couldn't read the cover because the title was in a dark gold that blended in with the rest of the art - USE CONTRAST! Book titles and Author names should be legible and understandable - that's basic graphic design. I shouldn't have to hold a book up to the sun at a certain angle to read the title... 2) Put numbers back on the spines of books in a series! I shouldn't have to guess or look up which book is the first in a series (or if a book is in a series - I had this issue with "A Monsoon Rising" because they placed it like a standalone), it should be easily available to see which order a series goes in. Esp. with some series having up to 12-15 books (AHEM "SHATTER ME") Sorry, that's just something that has been irking me.

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  • A recommendation please

    I'd like a book to read about unrequited love. Basically loving someone and them rejecting you over and over again, and the pain that comes with it. A girl is in need please 🙏🏼💖

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  • How many reading at once?

    I'm currently reading three books at once (one is for a book club), and I was wondering: Do you like reading just one book at a time or you'd rather pick more titles and read them simultaneously?

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  • Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)
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    Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 4.0Plot: 4.0
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    It's only 13 pages! How do I write a review without giving too much away? This is book #4.5 and picks up after "Exit Strategy" and it's the first time in the series that it's from another person's perspective other than Murderbot. It's Dr. Mensah's POV and her dealing with her PTSD after the events of the last book. I really loved reading about her vulnerability and her masking her fragility with bureaucratic steel, refusing therapy while leaning on Murderbot’s unobtrusive and sometimes standoffish support. There's a line in it that make me gush with kawaii but I won't ruin it for those who will read it. All I will say is that Wells, as always, does a brilliant job at making quiet moments resonate as deeply as her battle scenes.

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