mentallyinabook

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

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Cashvertising: How to Use More Than 100 Secrets of Ad-Agency Psychology to Make BIG MONEY Selling Anything to Anyone

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

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Series struggles

Hi everyone! I'm loving this quest and the books in the selection are really top tier! I'm currently in the Songs of Chaos series (finished book 3), and was wondering if I'm continuing with book 4 or if I'm going to start a new series of this quest. Since book 5 of this series still needs to come out, I'd have to wait for that anyway, so I could also wait with reading book 4 and just group those two reads together... But then I need to pick my next read. There's so many good series here! I really want to read Temeraire, but it has 9 books and seems like a bit of a commitment for the upcoming months. Then, I thought I'd better start a trilogy or something shorter, and was looking at the lengths of all of the series and the page or minute count of the books and disappeared into a wormhole. Or I could just read the first book of something... But then I'd probably want to continue anyway (like I always do). And then it struck me: does anyone else struggle with this? Of wanting to complete an entire series before starting something new? I love a good and long series, but I do sometimes get a bit of FOMO if I'm just out there reading one series and not getting to any of the other books (if that makes sense). And of course I really want the amazing dragon badge, and I'm only one book away right now, but my completionist mindset is really holding me back I feel. Does anyone have any tips? How do you handle long series? Do you read other books in between? Do you just start and see if you want to continue? Do you pause a series to (maybe) pick it up later or even next year? I just want to be hoarding these books (and dragon badges hehe) while trying to find out what works best for me. Please, help a fellow dragon fan out!

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The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas

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War and Peace

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The Last Contract of Isako

Fonda Lee

A battle-worn corporate samurai undertakes one last mission on a merciless planet where death is always a mere breath away, in this standalone dystopian epic from the author of the modern fantasy classic Jade City. Isako is a legendary swordswoman, but every legend must come to an end. When her long-time client unexpectedly retires, she plans to follow—to walk out into the frozen wasteland of their planet with her head held high and her family enriched by her death. But when she’s offered a final mission, she can’t refuse, especially when she realizes who lies at the center of it all: Martim, her last—and worst—apprentice, who’s somehow made his way to the top. As she’s thrust into a world of corporate espionage and shadowy secrets, what she uncovers could forever change humanity’s existence among the stars. The Last Contract of Isako is epic science fiction like only Fonda Lee can write it—set in a world where money trumps loyalty, the elite have the power to extend life or end it, and one woman in the twilight of her calling must decide what’s ultimately worth living—or dying—for.

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Bram Stoker

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Thoughts from Chapter 2 (page 17)

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Boy this Edmond kid is nice, I sure hope nothing bad happens to him

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So is Eragon gonna get a new stabby stick (a sword) or is he just going to complain about his options?

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kieva.x

Question of the Day!

Good evening Bookaholics!

How has everyone's week finished? I hope it was all good!

My question for everyone today actually pertains to bad books 🫣

What was the last bad book you read? And what made you dislike it?

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shanethe_readingrat

pair a book and an album!

hey everybody! i just finished a listen of The Midnight Organ Fight by Frightened Rabbit, and it gave me an idea: if you could pair a book and an album together, what book would it be and what album would it be? it can be because of subject matter, general vibes, whatever! i may also be using this as a music recommendation post🙂‍↕️

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Destiny's Edge

M.L. Wang

The most powerful warlord in the steppe sends a convoy consisting of his ten best men and his fourth wife, Chi, to escort his newest bride home—an easy journey. At least, it was supposed to be. Since losing her family and her right eye to cursed fire, Chi has been adrift, struggling to find her place within the Champion’s household. Unable to bear children due to her family’s blood curse, she has spent most of her married years training the Champion’s sons in the sword techniques she inherited from her father. When an undead monster attacks the bride’s party, killing all ten of the Champion’s men, Chi’s sword skills barely keep her alive, leaving her as the last line of defense for the young bride, Sangya. After a lifetime cloistered in a remote temple, Sangya is maddeningly inquisitive about everything around her, including Chi. While Chi scrambles to guide the chirpy nun through the wilderness, Sangya slowly pries her way through the walls Chi has built around her soul and wakes something forbidden. With enemies closing in, Chi realizes that the thing she wants most from life might be the one thing she can’t have. And in the dark of foreign woods, she decides that the best thing she can do for the world is die protecting the Champion’s bride. Better that than face a desire so dangerous.

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The Sword of Kaigen

M.L. Wang

A mother struggling to repress her violent past, A son struggling to grasp his violent future, A father blind to the danger that threatens them all. When the winds of war reach their peninsula, will the Matsuda family have the strength to defend their empire? Or will they tear each other apart before the true enemies even reach their shores? High on a mountainside at the edge of the Kaigenese Empire live the most powerful warriors in the world, superhumans capable of raising the sea and wielding blades of ice. For hundreds of years, the fighters of the Kusanagi Peninsula have held the Empire’s enemies at bay, earning their frozen spit of land the name ‘The Sword of Kaigen.’ Born into Kusanagi’s legendary Matsuda family, fourteen-year-old Mamoru has always known his purpose: to master his family’s fighting techniques and defend his homeland. But when an outsider arrives and pulls back the curtain on Kaigen’s alleged age of peace, Mamoru realizes that he might not have much time to become the fighter he was bred to be. Worse, the empire he was bred to defend may stand on a foundation of lies. Misaki told herself that she left the passions of her youth behind when she married into the Matsuda house. Determined to be a good housewife and mother, she hid away her sword, along with everything from her days as a fighter in a faraway country. But with her growing son asking questions about the outside world, the threat of an impending invasion looming across the sea, and her frigid husband grating on her nerves, Misaki finds the fighter in her clawing its way back to the surface.

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The Girl in the Tower

Katherine Arden

In the sequel to the nationally bestselling The Bear and the Nightingale, a gifted young woman with ties to the old magic of her homeland blazes a trail out of the frozen wilderness and into the court intrigues of Moscow. Vasilisa’s gift for seeing what others do not won her the attention, even affection, of Morozko—the winter demon from her nurse’s stories. But his aid comes at a cost. Orphaned, named a witch, and cast out by her village, Vasya’s options are few: resign herself to life in a convent or marriage to a stranger. Both doom her to life in a tower, cut off from the wide world she longs to explore. So instead she chooses adventure, disguising herself as a young man and riding her trusted stallion, Solovey, into the wilderness. But Vasya’s exploits soon reunite her with her long-estranged siblings and earn her the admiration of the Grand Prince of Moscow. Disguised as a boy, she must walk a delicate line, safeguarding her family, concealing her identity and navigating her increasingly fraught relationship with Morozko—even as she realizes the realm is under threat from mysterious forces only she will be able to stop.

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The Girl in the Tower

Katherine Arden

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The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas

Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantès is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration. Dumas’ epic tale of suffering and retribution, inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment, was a huge popular success when it was first serialized in the 1840s. Robin Buss’s lively English translation is complete and unabridged, and remains faithful to the style of Dumas’s original. This edition includes an introduction, explanatory notes and suggestions for further reading.

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War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy

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lucyPagebound

Fall 2026 Readalong Picks

Hi everyone, we're excited to share the 4 selections for the Fall Readalong, running September - November! We announce Readalong titles a month in advance to give everyone time to place library holds. The Seasonal Readalong page will be updated soon with the books below, but in the meantime, feel free to add them to your TBR!

How to Be Eaten by Maria Adelmann: A darkly funny horror novel featuring group therapy, fairytale retellings, and feminism.

The Incandescent by Emily Tesh: A sapphic dark academia fantasy set at an elite boarding school, where our heroine is a powerful demonology teacher on a mission.

Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor: A genre-bending sci-fi novel that interweaves the story of Zelu, a disabled Nigerian-American writer, with chapters from the novel she's writing, blurring the boundary between the real world and the created world.

The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love by India Holton: A cozy and whimsical Victorian era romcom with 2 rival ornithologists, travel via parasol, and a lot of scheming and flirting.

Excited to read with everyone in the coming months!

Happy reading, Jennifer & Lucy

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