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Dark Academia
Spring 2025 Readalong
Level 4
Reading...The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
My Taste
The Housekeeper and the Professor
Giovanni's Room
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
Strange Weather in Tokyo
Piranesi

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  • Tender Is the Flesh
    Thoughts from 40% - underwhelmed

    Yeah, maybe this just isn't for me. Not on a body horror level - because honestly, it's not that insane or descriptive of body horror. It feels as if I'm reading a meat processing how-to guide but they replace the word animal with human once every three paragraphs to keep you on your toes. This book is too much yet nothing at all at the same time. Bazterrica sacrifices actual stakes and growing tension for "shocking" imagery and fanciful prose. This book could be a great look at classism, environmentalism (though it does feel a bit like an aggressive way of promoting not eating meat/be against the meat processing industry - which needs revamping but this just feels pretentious af), and grief, but instead it's just too much talk with very little actual story or substance... Maybe it's just not for me (and the scene in Chapter 18 was unnecessary and took me waaaay out of the narrative)... Yeah idk, I'll finish it but it's not... outstanding to me.

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  • Fiksyen 302
    milddaydreams
    May 31, 2025
    4.0
    Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 4.5Plot: 4.0
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    The mindfuckery of it all..... penat weh aku berpikiaq. Tapi serious. Jangan percaya. Apa² pun jangan percaya!!!!!!

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  • Fiksyen 302
    Thoughts from 50%

    Ni buku RAM pertama aku baca. Sumpah tak expect jalan cerita thriller ni tak dapat nak jangka apa yang akan berlaku. Teori asal aku folie a deux, aka shared hallucination/psychosis. Tapi lama2 rasa macam dina suspicious gila babiiii eeeee and tak dapat nak expect buku ni nak bawak aku ke mana. Apa² pun, aku excited gila nak tahu apa yang terjadi.

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  • The Convenience Store by the Sea
    milddaydreams
    May 23, 2025
    3.0
    Enjoyment: 2.5Quality: 2.5Characters: 2.5Plot: 2.5

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  • Time of the Flies
    Read All Yours before this one?

    I had no idea prior to reading this book that this is the sequel(?) to her previous book titled All Yours, which consists of the same characters and it elaborates further on the murder. No idea if having read the first book makes this one more enjoyable; I think without reading the first book this is pretty good as a standalone, but seeing other reviews talk about All Yours makes us more connected to Ines + more insight on who Ernesto was.

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    All Yours

    All Yours

    Claudia PiƱeiro

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  • Time of the Flies
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    May 18, 2025
    4.0
    Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 3.5Plot: 3.5
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    I love how PiƱeiro writes about motherhood and being a woman. Her stories are always so intriguing. This book specifically, plot-wise, is nothing outstanding, but it was easy to follow, and you feel highly connected to every single one of the characters in the book. Reading it felt like watching a movie. I can see it being a bit slow for others, but me personally I enjoyed it a lot. I also really liked the philosophical dialogues in between and you don't get the reveal of who they are until the end of the story. Great read!

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  • A book you didn't like?

    I'm working on completing a book bingo for my local bookstore and one of the prompts is to read a book a friend didn't like. I don't have friends that read often, so I thought I'd ask here... Recommend me a book you didn't like!

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  • Crying in H Mart
    milddaydreams
    May 12, 2025
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