niddi

I'm in my 20s and I love stories and learning

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Book Related Excels

So, I really enjoy making excels that I update my reading on along with my updates on storygraph and on here, I have an excel of all my owned books, of my TBR list and all my reads, there's just something satisfying for me to fill an excel relating to books. Anyone else who does this or are the apps enough for you?

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Thoughts from 56%

I started this book blindly because I didn't want any spoilers. Halfway through it, I realize I saw the movie based on this book years ago. I don't remember much for now.

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Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internationally award-winning author On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist. Ireland is falling apart. The country is in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny and Eilish can only watch helplessly as the world she knew disappears. When first her husband and then her eldest son vanish, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a collapsing society. How far will she go to save her family? And what – or who – is she willing to leave behind? Exhilarating, terrifying and propulsive, Prophet Song is a work of breathtaking originality, offering a devastating vision of a country at war and a deeply human portrait of a mother’s fight to hold her family together.

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Mockingbird

Walter Tevis

Mockingbird is a powerful novel of a future world where humans are dying. Those that survive spend their days in a narcotic bliss or choose a quick suicide rather than slow extinction. Humanity's salvation rests with an android who has no desire to live, and a man and a woman who must discover love, hope, and dreams of a world reborn.

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The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)

N.K. Jemisin

Five New Yorkers must come together in order to defend their city. Every city has a soul. Some are as ancient as myths, and others are as new and destructive as children. New York City? She's got five. But every city also has a dark side. A roiling, ancient evil stirs beneath the earth, threatening to destroy the city and her five protectors unless they can come together and stop it once and for all.

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The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)

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on Snow

the fact that Snow isn't a maniac but is in fact the perfect product of a capitalistic patriarchal society

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Solaris

Stanisław Lem

A classic work of science fiction by renowned Polish novelist and satirist Stanislaw Lem. When Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface, he finds a painful, hitherto unconscious memory embodied in the living physical likeness of a long-dead lover. Others examining the planet, Kelvin learns, are plagued with their own repressed and newly corporeal memories. The Solaris ocean may be a massive brain that creates these incarnate memories, though its purpose in doing so is unknown, forcing the scientists to shift the focus of their quest and wonder if they can truly understand the universe without first understanding what lies within their hearts.

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niddi

May 01, 2025

4.0

Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 3.0

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the fact that Snow isn't a maniac but is in fact the perfect product of a capitalistic patriarchal society

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Thoughts from 63%

I'm about to start the third part and I really like this book. I had read this before and I did like it, but now I'm liking it even more. I feel like it raises very interesting points on humanity, what's make people human and the dehumanisation that the people of the district are subjected to by Capitol Citizens. It's very telling to see how before the hunger games became this big reality show (before Snow, that is) even Capitol Citizens weren't invested, they didn't really like it. I like also how we are constantly reminded of the districts' humanity through Sejanus and his mother.

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Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)

holazarina

Some characters’ deaths didn’t hit me as much.

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niddi

Apr 26, 2025

5.0

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

this is something else, really. If you are wondering if you should read this, the answer is yes. I read this too fast. That sometimes happen when I love the book I'm reading, but this one deserves more. I think I'll keep returning back to it for a while. Also, this is a book I must definitely buy (the copy I'm reading is from the library). But first I have to read everything Butler wrote. Genius. Truly. This book goes straight into my favourites. (Now for the different short stories: Bloodchild: 5⭐️ The Evening and the Morning and the Night: 4.5⭐️ Near of Kin: 3.5⭐️ Speech Sounds: 4.5⭐️ Crossover: 4 Positive Obsession: 4.5⭐️ Furor Scribendi: 5⭐️ Amnesty: 5⭐️ The book of Martha: 4.5⭐️)

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Bloodchild and Other Stories

Octavia E. Butler

A perfect introduction for new readers and a must-have for avid fans, this New York Times Notable Book includes "Bloodchild," winner of both the Hugo and the Nebula awards and "Speech Sounds," winner of the Hugo Award. Appearing in print for the first time, "Amnesty" is a story of a woman named Noah who works to negotiate the tense and co-dependent relationship between humans and a species of invaders. Also new to this collection is "The Book of Martha" which asks: What would you do if God granted you the ability—and responsibility—to save humanity from itself?Like all of Octavia Butler’s best writing, these works of the imagination are parables of the contemporary world. She proves constant in her vigil, an unblinking pessimist hoping to be proven wrong, and one of contemporary literature’s strongest voices. Bloodchild The evening and the morning and the night Near of kin Speech sounds Crossover Positive obsession Furor scribendi Amnesty The Book of Martha

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Thoughts from 65% (page 136)

I can't believe I still hadn't read anything by Butler. This one is rapidly becoming one of my favourite books. I already know I want to read everything she wrote.

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The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)

Suzanne Collins

Ambition will fuel him. Competition will drive him. But power has its price. It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute. The odds are against him. He’s been given the humiliating assignment of mentoring the female tribute from District 12, the lowest of the low. Their fates are now completely intertwined—every choice Coriolanus makes could lead to favor or failure, triumph or ruin. Inside the arena, it will be a fight to the death. Outside the arena, Coriolanus starts to feel for his doomed tribute . . . and must weigh his need to follow the rules against his desire to survive no matter what it takes.

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Bloodchild and Other Stories

Octavia E. Butler

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niddi

Apr 23, 2025

5.0

Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 4.5Plot: 4.0

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I think the ending is perfect, because it feels so real. The overall pace of the book was a bit off maybe, with the first part a bit too slow, but with an ending like that I can forgive anything. Also, even if certain deaths felt unnecessary (and maybe they were), I get why the author decided to include them. This was never suppose to be a happy story.

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The Darkness Outside Us

Eliot Schrefer

Two boys, alone in space. After the first settler on Titan trips her distress signal, neither remaining country on Earth can afford to scramble a rescue of its own, and so two sworn enemies are installed in the same spaceship. Ambrose wakes up on the Coordinated Endeavor, with no memory of a launch. There’s more that doesn’t add up: Evidence indicates strangers have been on board, the ship’s operating system is voiced by his mother, and his handsome, brooding shipmate has barricaded himself away. But nothing will stop Ambrose from making his mission succeed—not when he’s rescuing his own sister. In order to survive the ship’s secrets, Ambrose and Kodiak will need to work together and learn to trust one another… especially once they discover what they are truly up against. Love might be the only way to survive.

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my unpopular take on the romance subplot (after completing the trilogy)

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