mentallyinabook

📚 Reading and sharing what I read. 🐉 Fantasy, Sci-fi, Mystery, Thriller, Literary. 😌 29 | she/her | Spain.

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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)

The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1)

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Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder--From Childhood Through Adulthood

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The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)

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The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

From master storyteller Carlos Ruiz Zafon, author of the international phenomenon The Shadow of the Wind, comes The Angel’s Game — a dazzling new page-turner about the perilous nature of obsession, in literature and in love. The whole of Barcelona stretched out at my feet and I wanted to believe that when I opened those windows — my new windows — each evening its streets would whisper stories to me, secrets in my ear, that I could catch on paper and narrate to whomever cared to listen… In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man, David Martin, makes his living by writing sensationalist novels under a pseudonym. The survivor of a troubled childhood, he has taken refuge in the world of books and spends his nights spinning baroque tales about the city’s underworld. But perhaps his dark imaginings are not as strange as they seem, for in a locked room deep within the house lie photographs and letters hinting at the mysterious death of the previous owner. Like a slow poison, the history of the place seeps into his bones as he struggles with an impossible love. Close to despair, David receives a letter from a reclusive French editor, Andreas Corelli, who makes him the offer of a lifetime. He is to write a book unlike anything that has ever existed — a book with the power to change hearts and minds. In return, he will receive a fortune, and perhaps more. But as David begins the work, he realizes that there is a connection between his haunting book and the shadows that surround his home. Once again, Zafon takes us into a dark, gothic universe first seen in The Shadow of the Wind and creates a breathtaking adventure of intrigue, romance, and tragedy. Through a dizzyingly constructed labyrinth of secrets, the magic of books, passion, and friendship blend into a masterful story. (jacket)

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Chain-Gang All-Stars

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America's own. Loretta Thurwar and Hamara "Hurricane Staxxx" Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a highly-popular, highly-controversial, profit-raising program in America's increasingly dominant private prison industry. It's the return of the gladiators and prisoners are competing for the ultimate prize: their freedom. In CAPE, prisoners travel as Links in Chain-Gangs, competing in death-matches for packed arenas with righteous protestors at the gates. Thurwar and Staxxx, both teammates and lovers, are the fan favorites. And if all goes well, Thurwar will be free in just a few matches, a fact she carries as heavily as her lethal hammer. As she prepares to leave her fellow Links, she considers how she might help preserve their humanity, in defiance of these so-called games, but CAPE's corporate owners will stop at nothing to protect their status quo and the obstacles they lay in Thurwar's path have devastating consequences. Moving from the Links in the field to the protestors to the CAPE employees and beyond, Chain-Gang All-Stars is a kaleidoscopic, excoriating look at the American prison system's unholy alliance of systemic racism, unchecked capitalism, and mass incarceration, and a clear-eyed reckoning with what freedom in this country really means.

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Las edades de Lulú

Almudena Grandes

Sumida todavía en los temores de una infancia carente de afecto, Lulú, una niña de quince años, sucumbe a la atracción que ejerce sobre ella un joven, amigo de la familia, a quien hasta entonces ella había deseado vagamente. Después de esta primera experiencia, Lulú, niña eterna, alimenta durante años, en solitario, el fantasma de aquel hombre que acaba por aceptar el desafío de prolongar indefinidamente, en su peculiar relación sexual, el juego amoroso de la niñez. Crea para ella un mundo aparte, un universo privado donde el tiempo pierde valor. Pero el sortilegio arriesgado de vivir fuera de la realidad se rompe bruscamente un día.

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Las tres bodas de Manolita (Episodios de una guerra interminable, #3)

Almudena Grandes

Manolita es una joven de 18 años que, en un Madrid devastado por la miseria, se ve en la complicada situación de mantener a su familia debido a que sus padres fueron encarcelados y su hermano vive oculto en la clandestinidad. A su cargo también tiene al resto de sus hermanos, que en total son cuatro criaturas más. Después de mucho insistir, Antonio conseguirá que Manolita participe en su lucha de resistencia y por ello deberá visitar en la cárcel a un preso que ha de permitirles poner en marcha sus panfletos. Manolita no sabe que ese muchacho tímido y sin aparente atractivo va a ser en realidad un hombre determinante en su vida, y querrá visitarlo de nuevo, después de varios periplos, en el destacamento penitenciario de El Valle de los Caídos. Pero antes tiene que saber quién es el delator que merodea por el barrio. Las tres bodas de Manolita es una emotiva historia coral sobre los años de pobreza y desolación en la inmediata posguerra, y un tapiz inolvidable de vidas y destinos, de personajes reales e imaginados.

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The School of Life: An Emotional Education

Alain de Botton

Discover everything you were never taught at school about how to lead a better life... Introduced and edited by the bestselling author of The Consolations of Philosophy, The Art of Travel and The Course of Love We spend years in school learning facts and figures but the one thing we're never taught is how to live a fulfilled life. That's why we need The School of Life - a real organisation founded ten years ago by writer and philosopher Alain de Botton. The School of Life has one simple aim: to equip people with the tools to survive and thrive in the modern world. And the most important of these tools is emotional intelligence. This book brings together ten years of essential and transformative research on emotional intelligence, with practical topics including: - how to understand yourself- how to master the dilemmas of relationships- how to become more effective at work - how to endure failure- how to grow more serene and resilient The School of Life is nothing short of a crash course in emotional maturity. With all the trademark wit and elegance of Alain de Botton's other writings, and rooted in practical, achievable advice, it show us a path to the better lives we all want and deserve.

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Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

Grady Hendrix

There’s power in a book… They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to the Wellwood Home in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, give them up for adoption, and most important of all, to forget any of it ever happened. Fifteen-year-old Fern arrives at the home in the sweltering summer of 1970, pregnant, terrified and alone. Under the watchful eye of the stern Miss Wellwood, she meets a dozen other girls in the same predicament. There’s Rose, a hippie who insists she’s going to find a way to keep her baby and escape to a commune. And Zinnia, a budding musician who knows she’s going to go home and marry her baby’s father. And Holly, a wisp of a girl, barely fourteen, mute and pregnant by no-one-knows-who. Everything the girls eat, every moment of their waking day, and everything they’re allowed to talk about is strictly controlled by adults who claim they know what’s best for them. Then Fern meets a librarian who gives her an occult book about witchcraft, and power is in the hands of the girls for the first time in their lives. But power can destroy as easily as it creates, and it’s never given freely. There’s always a price to be paid…and it’s usually paid in blood. In Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, the author of How to Sell a Haunted House and The Final Girl Support Group delivers another searing, completely original novel and further cements his status as a “horror master” (NPR).

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I guess it's time that I start speed reading this book, the badge look so cool ... I want it :(

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From the provocative and challenging to the emotional and quiet, Japanese literary fiction tends to be nuanced, introspective, and minimalistic. These books contain layered cultural commentary and may lean on psychological, surreal, or fantastical elements to convey their message.

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Can anyone relate?

Sometimes I feel like tracking the books I'm reading takes away from the joy of .. just reading ... Sometimes I feel like I'm just reading to update the percentage on pagebound and it makes me sad. Like I just don't enjoy reading, I enjoy the numbers going up.. I read 60 books last year and only 2 this year and I feel so burnt out. I also had a hard year last year so maybe it's time to stop tracking every single page and just.. enjoy the book. Does that make any sense at all?

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Some suggestions!

Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Awakenings by Oliver Sacks, Queer, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, No Country for Old Men, The Jungle Book, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil would all fit in this list!

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The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)

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Gandalf in Helm’s Deep

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Who's Who Wednesday (possibly part 17)

Hey y'all 👋🏻

I noticed that the Who's Who Wednesday posts have ended. I looked it up and saw that the user who started it originally deleted their account 😔😭 Jadelovesbooks

These were some of my favorite posts to read through so I'd like to bring it back if that's cool (or if these were ended on purpose, let me know and I'll remove this).

It’s time for Who’s Who Wednesday where every Wednesday we introduce ourselves and make new friends. This is possibly part 17.

If you participated in any of the times before, you don’t have to introduce yourself again but you can share some different facts about you, an opinion you have, or how your week is going.

If you’re new, introduce yourself!

I’ll go first.

My name is Wibbily. If I was a video game character, this is the loot I would drop after being defeated: 🎧 - over the ear headphones 🎲 - dice 🃏 - Pokemon cards 📚 - books ☕ - iced coffee 💄 - bright red lipstick

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The Decagon House Murders (House Murders, #1)

Yukito Ayatsuji

The lonely, rockbound island of Tsunojima is notorious as the site of a series of bloody unsolved murders. Some even say it’s haunted. One thing’s for sure: it’s the perfect destination for the K-University Mystery Club’s annual trip. But when the first club member turns up dead, the remaining amateur sleuths realise they will need all of their murder-mystery expertise to get off the island alive. As the party are picked off one by one, the survivors grow desperate and paranoid, turning on each other. Will anyone be able to untangle the murderer’s fiendish plan before it’s too late?

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