nezuu

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

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How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

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Popularity isn't everything

What are character names you love in books, you think is overdone, and you're ready to chuck at a wall if you see it ONE more time!! Cuz I'm seeing Rhys, Sloan, and more a lot lately. I'm getting a little annoyed😀🔪 I know it's because some books got popular so other authors wanted their books and characters to get more attention and for people to be interested cuz Hey look they have the same names! But come on, where has all the originality gone? Probably with all the ai😡 Anyhoo, curious of y'all opinions.

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nezuu

Thoughts from 27% (page 105)

this is so fun omg. i haven't read a murder mystery that's actually fun and engaging without sounding too childish in a hot minute

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nezuu

Thoughts from 27% (page 105)

this is so fun omg. i haven't read a murder mystery that's actually fun and engaging without sounding too childish in a hot minute

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the_rags

what book would you want to be adapted into a movie/tv show?

fun little question for y’all: if you could choose one of your favorite books/book series to be adapted to the screen, which would it be and why?

follow up questions to that: would you want it to be a tv series or movie/movie series? animated or live action? and for extra fun, who would you cast for some of the main characters as actors for a live action, or voice actors for animated?

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How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

Kristen Perrin

For fans of Knives Out and The Thursday Murder Club, an enormously fun mystery about a woman who spends her entire life trying to prevent her foretold murder only to be proven right sixty years later, when she is found dead in her sprawling country estate... Now it's up to her great-niece to catch the killer. It’s 1965 and teenage Frances Adams is at an English country fair with her two best friends. But Frances’s night takes a hairpin turn when a fortune-teller makes a bone-chilling prediction: One day, Frances will be murdered. Frances spends a lifetime trying to solve a crime that hasn’t happened yet, compiling dirt on every person who crosses her path in an effort to prevent her own demise. For decades, no one takes Frances seriously, until nearly sixty years later, when Frances is found murdered, like she always said she would be. In the present day, Annie Adams has been summoned to a meeting at the sprawling country estate of her wealthy and reclusive great-aunt Frances. But by the time Annie arrives in the quaint English village of Castle Knoll, Frances is already dead. Annie is determined to catch the killer, but thanks to Frances’s lifelong habit of digging up secrets and lies, it seems every endearing and eccentric villager might just have a motive for her murder. Can Annie safely unravel the dark mystery at the heart of Castle Knoll, or will dredging up the past throw her into the path of a killer? As Annie gets closer to the truth, and closer to the danger, she starts to fear she might inherit her aunt’s fate instead of her fortune.

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nezuu

Sep 13, 2025

4.5

Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 4.0

i read this book at a much slower pace than i normally read, but that was because i feel like this book had me thinking soo much about the experiences that cyrus describes but also his idea of death/martyrdom and what that means for him and others. i am glad he found some semblance of meaning/peace in the end.

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Martyr!

Kaveh Akbar

Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves, others—in which a newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum. Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother’s plane was shot down over the skies of Tehran in a senseless accident; and his father’s life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest. Cyrus is a drunk, an addict, and a poet, whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of his past—toward an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields dressed as the Angel of death to inspire and comfort the dying, and toward his mother, through a painting discovered in a Brooklyn art gallery that suggests she may not have been who or what she seemed. Electrifying, funny, wholly original, and profound, Martyr! heralds the arrival of a blazing and essential new voice in contemporary fiction.

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nezuu

Thoughts from 40% (page 134)

"At the intersection of Iranian-ness and Midwestern-ness was pathological politeness, an immobilizing compulsivity to avoid causing distress in anyone else. Cyrus thought about this a lot. You cooed at their ugly babies, nodded along with their racist bullshit."

yeah. when i was reading this i remembered a conversation that i had with a fellow student in one of my classes last year, where we talked about how people of color are always expected to swallow their emotions, reactions and discomfort in the face of racism and oppression, because it makes white people uncomfortable to be disliked or called out when they're bigoted and do bigoted things. because the pain and distress of people of color will never be as important as a white person's momentary discomfort at being called out for stupid shit.

nezuu wants to read...

That Night in the Library

Eva Jurczyk

One night locked in the library. What could go wrong? On the night before graduation, seven students gather in the basement of their university's rare books library. They're not allowed in the library after closing time, but it's the perfect place for the ritual they want to perform—one borrowed from the Greeks, said to free those who take part in it from the fear of death. And what better time to seek the wisdom of ancient gods than in the hours before they'll scatter in different directions to start their real lives? But just a few minutes into their celebration, the lights go out—and one of them drops dead. As the body count rises, with nothing but the books to protect them, the group must figure out how to survive the night while trapped with a murderer. That Night in the Library is a chilling literary mystery that transports readers to a world where secrets live in the dark, books breathe fears to life, and the only way out is to wait until morning.

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Our Wives Under the Sea

Julia Armfield

Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep-sea mission that ended in catastrophe. It soon becomes clear, though, that Leah is not the same. Whatever happened in that vessel, whatever it was they were supposed to be studying before they were stranded on the ocean floor, Leah has brought part of it back with her, onto dry land and into their home. Moving through something that only resembles normal life, Miri comes to realize that the life that they had before might be gone. Though Leah is still there, Miri can feel the woman she loves slipping from her grasp. Our Wives Under The Sea is the debut novel from Julia Armfield, the critically acclaimed author of Salt Slow. It’s a story of falling in love, loss, grief, and what life there is in the deep deep sea.

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Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America

Talia Lavin

An investigation into the rise of the Christian right over the last half-century that lays out the grim vision Evangelicals are enforcing on our democracy. All across America, a storm is gathering: from book bans in school libraries to anti-trans laws in state legislatures; firebombings of abortion clinics and protests against gay rights. The Christian Right, a cunning political force in America for more than half a century, has never been more powerful than it is right now—it propelled Donald Trump to power, and it won’t stop until it’s refashioned America in its own image. In Wild Faith, critically acclaimed author Talia Lavin goes deep into what motivates the Christian Right, from its segregationist past to a future riddled with apocalyptic ideology. Using primary sources and firsthand accounts, Lavin introduces you to “deliverance ministers” who carry out exorcisms by the hundreds; modern-day, self-proclaimed prophets and apostles; Christian militias, cults, zealots, and showmen; and the people in power who are aiding them to achieve their goals. Along the way, she explores anti-abortion terrorists, the Christian Patriarchy movement, with its desire to place all women under absolute male control; the twisted theology that leads to rampant child abuse; and the ways conspiracy theorists and extremist Christians influence each other to mutual political benefit. From school boards to the Supreme Court, Christian theocracy is ascendant in America—and only through exploring its motivations and impacts can we understand the crisis we face. In Wild Faith, Lavin fearlessly confronts whether our democracy can survive an organized, fervent theocratic movement, one that seeks to impose its religious beliefs on American citizens.

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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

Kristin Kobes Du Mez

A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that identifies the forces that have turned Donald Trump into a hero of the Religious Right. How did a libertine who lacks even the most basic knowledge of the Christian faith win 81 percent of the white evangelical vote in 2016? And why have white evangelicals become a presidential reprobate’s staunchest supporters? These are among the questions acclaimed historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez asks in Jesus and John Wayne, which delves beyond facile headlines to explain how white evangelicals have brought us to our fractured political moment. Challenging the commonly held assumption that the “moral majority” backed Donald Trump for purely pragmatic reasons, Du Mez reveals that Donald Trump in fact represents the fulfillment, rather than the betrayal, of white evangelicals’ most deeply held values. Jesus and John Wayne is a sweeping account of the last seventy-five years of white evangelicalism, showing how American evangelicals have worked for decades to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalism, or in the words of one modern chaplain, with “a spiritual badass.” As Du Mez explains, the key to understanding this transformation is to recognize the role of culture in modern American evangelicalism. Many of today’s evangelicals may not be theologically astute, but they know their VeggieTales, they’ve read John Eldredge’s Wild at Heart, and they learned about purity before they learned about sex—and they have a silver ring to prove it. Evangelical books, films, music, clothing, and merchandise shape the beliefs of millions. And evangelical popular culture is teeming with muscular heroes—mythical warriors and rugged soldiers, men like Oliver North, Ronald Reagan, Mel Gibson, and the Duck Dynasty clan, who assert white masculine power in defense of “Christian America.” Chief among these evangelical legends is John Wayne, an icon of a lost time when men were uncowed by political correctness, unafraid to tell it like it was, and did what needed to be done. Trump, in other words, is hardly the first flashy celebrity to capture evangelicals’ hearts and minds, nor is he the first strongman to promise evangelicals protection and power. Indeed, the values and viewpoints at the heart of white evangelicalism today—patriarchy, authoritarian rule, aggressive foreign policy, fear of Islam, ambivalence toward #MeToo, and opposition to Black Lives Matter and the LGBTQ community—are likely to persist long after Trump leaves office. A much-needed reexamination, Jesus and John Wayne explains why evangelicals have rallied behind the least-Christian president in American history and how they have transformed their faith in the process, with enduring consequences for all of us.

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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

Kristin Kobes Du Mez

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santizo

Fall Readalong Check In

How's everyone doing with the Fall Readalong? I was able to finish Don't Let the Forest In, and will be starting The Spellbook! I won't have as much time this week, so I don't anticipate finishing this one by end of week.

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Daughter of the Moon Goddess (The Celestial Kingdom Duology, #1)

nezuu

Thoughts from 60% (page 300)

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The Beauty and the Beast (MinaLima Edition)

lottelotus

Thoughts from 13% (page 26)

How have I never realised that Belle is not her actual name? 😂🙈

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GingerBiccie

How does being ill affect your reading?

This thought occurred to me as I've currently got some kind of heavy cold/flu thing going on. Whenever I'm under the weather, I can never bring myself to read! It doesn't matter how hooked by a book I am, if I'm ill all interest in reading goes right out the window. Instead I turn to a strict diet of media content, or gaming. Is anyone else like this? Or are you the opposite? Or is there some other random outlet that you use?

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bluemascara

hii!!

helloo everyone!! I'm kinda trying to be more comfortable on here, and making this post is a step towards it (I don't usually do posts on socials lol). I got a bit of courage after reading some other posts: everyone seems so sweet and kind!! a thing I'm curious of is, how many books can you read contemporarily? I have a friend who's reading five, another who only reads one at a time, and I myself read 2-3 books together (usually a physical one, an ebook and often a fanfiction, if it is long enough)

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nerudababy

How far do you go into imagining characters?

Hi community 😛 I was just wondering what characters look like when you’re reading! Is it just a body with some hair, or do you go into the details of eyes, hair style, hair type, shoes, etc.

My friend imagines everything down the details (especially if they’re not given) to fill in the gaps, she says it makes them feel more real! I read Don’t Let The Forest In and I just imagined a curly headed male shadow for one of the characters 😭 maybe I’m lacking in creativity haha but lmk what you guys imagine down in the comments because I’m curious!!

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🚨 BOOK TROPES THAT NEED TO BE ILLEGALISED 🚨

aka things i’ve read that sent me into a full identity crisis 😃🔫

okay but fr some of y’all authors need to be put on a government watchlist for the stuff you’re writing 😭 i picked up a book thinking it was gonna be a cute lil romance and tell me why this girl ended up MARRYING her dad’s best friend?????

like. not crushing. not flirting. MARRYING. HER. DAD’S. BEST. FRIEND.

sir that is the man who watched you grow up???? he was at your 7th birthday party and now he’s your husband??? nah because that’s not a trope, that’s a CRIME SCENE 🚓🚓🚓

AND ANOTHER THING—can we have a moment of silence for the amount of step-sibling romances i’ve accidentally read bc y’all love to hide that info in the second half of the blurb 😐

like “they met one summer, fell in love, but then… their parents got married 😏” — HELLO??? that’s not forbidden romance, that’s THERAPY BAIT. why do they always find out after the kissing?? that’s not plot development, that’s trauma 💔

and i know some of you are gonna be like “they’re not blood related tho” but okay?? 😭 let’s be so serious

✨other tropes/random book things that need to be YEETED into the sun✨: —miscommunication that lasts 300 pages when one text could solve it (i’m tired) —the toxic emotionally unavailable guy who needs a girl to “save him” (sir get a journal and a therapist, not a girlfriend) —the “sHe’S oNLY 18 😏” paired with a 32-year-old man. LOCK. HIM. UP. —surprise secret baby. no bc that’s not a twist, that’s a whole tax bracket

🫡 can we bring back: —healthy tension with actual chemistry??? —friendships that matter?? —soft boys who journal and make playlists?? —banter that isn’t just bullying in disguise?? —main characters with hobbies besides just ✨breathing✨ and falling in love

i read books to escape reality, not to end up emotionally damaged AND confused 💀 anyway, i’m gonna go read fanfic where the characters act like humans again 🫶

#BookTok #Pagebound #TropesILoveToHate #ThisFeltIllegal #WhattheWattpad #CallThePoliceNotTheLoveInterest

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