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The House Witch 1 (The House Witch, #1)
Delemhach
masen commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
As a kid I read Nancy Drew books like I was running out of time. I also loved books like the Gallagher series by Ally Carter. If you used to read these types of books yourself - what do you read now, as an adult?
I read fantasy books (sometimes sci-fi) and occasionally light spy / thriller stuff, but I'm still searching for the high that Nancy Drew used to give me 😂 I'm honestly still trying to figure out what my book taste is since I haven't been reading as much as I'd like for sometime now.
masen wrote a review...
didn’t re-read the summary on this before starting it and very much enjoyed going into this one essentially blind. the translation was very well done and the story was just interesting enough without too much world building or a large cast of characters to keep me interested. definitely one for the bookshelf.
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Sweet Bean Paste
Durian Sukegawa
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such a cute book! short and sweet and cozy. 🥰
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The Curious Kitten at the Chibineko Kitchen (Meals to Remember at the Chibineko Kitchen, #1)
Yuta Takahashi
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I’m really loving the narrator’s voice in this even though there’s a “wet” sound to it I normally don’t enjoy. She reminds me of the librarians or volunteer readers who would come into my kindergarten to read to us kids when I was little. It gives a nice, warm nostalgic feel to the story that I think matches perfectly!
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"If she was anyone else I’d look her in the eye and say, 'Religion is the biggest scam on the face of the planet, followed closely by higher education in America.'"
*Laughs/cries in $100k student loan debt
masen commented on lunarnaut's review of Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert
did bob kind of lose me on the plot at point? yeah, a little, but other than that, this was an amazing book and just the right length honestly. you get kind of thrown into a world where there's people back from the dead, but believe me just roll with it because there's so many great moments in this book AND the audiobook is narrated by the author and includes two songs in the end??? amazing
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I’m really loving the narrator’s voice in this even though there’s a “wet” sound to it I normally don’t enjoy. She reminds me of the librarians or volunteer readers who would come into my kindergarten to read to us kids when I was little. It gives a nice, warm nostalgic feel to the story that I think matches perfectly!
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i cant BELIEVE he THREW AWAY that old lady's tupperware container. Who does that?!
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Dinner at the Night Library
Hika Harada
masen wrote a review...
ngl it took me a bit to get into this book. you're dropped right into the middle of the action in terms of all these famous people just being BACK from the dead. bob plays a version of bob that doesn't exist in the real world (which is the part that really threw me because i was expecting Bob the Dragon Queen). but after finally wrapping my head around everything it was an entertaining short little audio to listen to. and the bonus songs at the end were great! pretty sure i know the first one from somewhere.