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marissa

31 | Canada. šŸ’ fantasy, romance, thriller, horror 🪩 book admirer, library enthusiast, cat lover

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Summer 2025 Readalong
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Reading...The Lilac People
My Taste
Blooms of Darkness (The Broken Prophecy, #1)
Spark of the Everflame (Kindred's Curse, #1)
The Hollow Places
When in Rome (When in Rome, #1)
Carrie Soto Is Back

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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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  • What is your main genre, and which genre is your sidepiece? šŸ‘€

    I mainly read fantasy (all age groups) but my favorite sidepiece genre is nonfiction animal books. I know that's kinda broad but I mean nature books, and memoirs from people who work with or are otherwise close to animals. What are yours?

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  • Audio(for)Books

    I am the sort of person who cannot spend a minute of their life without music playing in the background, and this is especially the case when I am reading. Do you read to a soundtrack, and if so, do you gravitate toward a specific genre? I sometimes like to pair book and music genres — indie pop for light lit fic, folk or country for pastorals, classical for, well, the classics. What do you listen to, and do you find certain music a distraction?

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  • Cress (The Lunar Chronicles, #3)
    pre-read thoughts

    i am so scared, cinder was great and scarlet was phenomenal, what do i do, i think the standards set by this book are just too high, im scared, but i want to know what happens so bad

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  • Bad gifts

    What was the worst book gift you ever received? Not something that you didn't like because of the story, but one that was not suitable for you at all? The books I got at school as gifts were mostly bad choices, but the worst one was the book I received for winning first place in a physics competition. It literally said on the cover that it was for 10-year-old girls and I was 15 at the time. I finished it out of guilt, but it was the most boring book I’ve ever read. I don't think I would enjoy it at 10 either. (In the end, I don’t think the school even bought the book, they probably just got it from the printing house that was partner/sponsor with the school.)

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  • What's your guilty pleasure genre/tropes?

    but not limited to just tropes! a character trait you like? kind of narration? plot twists? personally i love a high school/college au, if well written

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  • The Lilac People
    Thoughts from 35% - Highly recommend for those interested in queer literature & history.

    While listening to this, it got me wondering if this was inspired by real events and it is, from the blurb "..Story inspired by real events and recovers an occluded moment of trans history"! I haven't heard about this in history, I feel bad that I didn't know. We should be discussing these topics in grade school.

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  • This is How You Lose the Time War
    Thoughts from 44% (page 92)

    I love the concept of this book, I do struggle a bit with the language of this sometimes

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  • One Golden Summer
    Thoughts from 5%

    The fun part about me and Carley Fortune’s books is that I have lived everywhere or stayed nearby all of the areas she has written about so far. I grew up in PEI (This Summer will be Different). I’ve lived in Toronto for four years (Meet me at the Lake). And my partner’s family has a cottage near Barry’s Bay (Every Summer After & now One Golden Summer). It’s so, so fun to be able to read a book and know all of the locations being written about (and I can judge how accurate they are lmao) but it really does make the experience so much more enjoyable.

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  • Abscond
    Thoughts from 25% (page 12)

    For only being a dozen pages in, I'm impressed how well this has already captured that weird sense of being 13 and wanting to be like your parents but also unlike your parents and wanting to argue with their vision for you but also kind of wanting it yourself and craving approval but fearing the vulnerability required to get it...

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  • Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
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