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Fall 2025 Readalong
My Taste
Circe
Spark of the Everflame (Kindred's Curse, #1)
The Hollow Places
Poets Square: A Memoir in Thirty Cats
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
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Snake-eaterHouse of LeavesThe Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women

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  • The Fury of the Gods (The Bloodsworn Saga, #3)
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  • Don't Let the Forest In
    should I read?

    I may or may not have spoiled the ending of this book while looking at the trigger warnings and now am unsure if I wanna read anymore. Not because I think I'll be triggered by anything, but because I hate spoilers... I think I'll still enjoy the book, but I don't have the motivation for it anymore since I know how it ends. (I am also gaslighting myself and telling myself that I don't actually know the ending and that google is wrong, so it should be easy to convince me) Also let me know if this is where this post should go or if I should move it.

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  • The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
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    Blaming their diet for the reason why their bodies are harbouring radium is certainly a choice..

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    Sing Me to Sleep (Sing Me to Sleep #1)

    Sing Me to Sleep (Sing Me to Sleep #1)

    Gabi Burton

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  • The Spellshop
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    biblically accurate merhorse btw

    peophin from neopets

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  • The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
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    The author is starting to take some liberties with historical events that's making me raise an eyebrow. Here's hoping that doesn't continue, I don't like seeing "a kindly passerby might have done" in what's supposed to be a historical account. Stick to the facts please!

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    Very interesting.

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  • Favorite book that embodies feminine rage?

    I support women’s rights and wrongs, what’s your favorite story that has to do with feminine or female rage? I’ve read Hungerstone, They Never Learn, and a few others. I have Poppy War on my list to read. Anyone got book recommendations for a lady angry at the world? šŸ™‚ā€ā†•ļøšŸ™‚ā€ā†”ļø

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  • Autobiographies you couldn't put down?

    I've never read an autobiography/memoir, so I'm looking for recommendations. What's the autobiography you couldn't put down, that you think more people should read, and why?

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  • The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
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    Oh gosh, every time the book describes them putting the paintbrush to their lips, I physically cringe. Knowing what we know now makes it almost unbearable, I just want to yell at them to stop & protect them. It’s such a visceral, gut-deep reaction. They didn't know 😭

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    ā€œShe was getting old, she was 33.ā€

    Oh, um, I guess I’ll just pack up my knitting supplies, order my early-bird special, and see myself out…

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  • tropes as romance book titles šŸ¤”

    i don’t know if this is a new trend or what but I’ve been seeing new books lately that have literal tropes as their titles. For example, a book called Friends to Lovers, another called Enemies to Lovers, and yet another called Second Chance Romance (these are all real titles).

    I find it kind of lazy and reductive but I’m curious what others think about it

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