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Rise Above: A Memoir
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Crazy Genie
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Ew, It's Beautiful: A False Knees Comic Collection
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How Lovely the Ruins: Inspirational Poems and Words for Difficult Times
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mongoose commented on BeautyOfLiterature's review of Crazy Genie

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  • Crazy Genie
    BeautyOfLiterature
    Jul 31, 2026
    Crazy Genie
    5.0
    Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 5.0
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    This book should be read by everyone in the world. It’s such a heartbreaking, sad, quiet and tender book all at once. The main narrator broke my heart on every page and was so intensely realistic that I couldn’t stop reading her. Incredibly powerful.

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  • mongoose commented on medusa1015's review of Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise

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  • Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise
    medusa1015
    Jul 31, 2026
    Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise
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    Wow wow wow, as a children's librarian, I will reflect on this book forever. This book puts into words what I truly believe - children's books are for everyone

    Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an advanced copy

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  • Discworld #forever 🐢

    ~ from Ew, It's Beautiful: A False Knees Comic Collection by Joshua Barkman.

    "The age of the turtle has only just begun."

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  • What We Fed to the Manticore
    my heart

    this is already breaking me into 5 bajillion pieces so that’s just great I’m not even 10% in bro

    so beautiful and so heartbreaking

    the audiobook is so good!!

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    mongoose
    Jul 30, 2026
    Amok
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    "It was soft, effervescent air carrying on it the aroma of fruits, the scent of distant islands, and making me feel slightly drunk."

    Of course, this is Stefan Zweig 🩷

    [Amok, German edition.]

    Masterfully written. That descent 📉 was so sudden, and unexpected.

    Agreed. Passion and desire defy conventional rules. As a society, we impose filters to maintain order, but when things spiral out of control, we lose control of far more than just desire.

    Zweig was a great teacher.

    [The Southern Cross, part of the constellation Crux. Wikipedia.]

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  • What We Fed to the Manticore
    mongoose
    Jul 30, 2026
    What We Fed to the Manticore
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    "Are you ready for a riddle now?"

    Oh, wow - these stories are written so beautifully. Simply incredible.

    [A Bengal tiger. Sundarbans National Park. Shutterstock image.]

    After finishing Open Throat, I was searching for another book that captures the voices of wild beings, reflecting their lives and emotions with depth and authenticity. What We Fed to the Manticore is so much more than the already wonderful Open Throat.

    "There are so many stories to tell in this world. There is the sleeping girl, the old man with regrets, the captive princess. There is vengeance on parents, there are star-crossed lovers, adventurous youth, and all different kinds of lonely people. There are heroes, and villains, and quests. And then there are all the stories about the animals and magical creatures."

    This book doesn’t just immerse us in the minds of a tiger, a donkey, a vulture, a pigeon, a hound, a whale, and more - it also reveals the extremes of human nature: our cruelty and heartlessness, as well as our capacity for care and responsibility.

    "Or maybe there is only one story. A living thing is born, it moves through the world, and then it dies."

    ["There is no other tree like a baobab."]

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