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Thoughts from 7% (page 28)

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Thoughts from 1% - Author's Note

okay i'm going to get a bit sentimental here, but this author's note alone has already awoken something in me.

space was very much my special interest as a child, and for years, i dreamed of working for NASA, but as time went on, and i got older, science felt more like an obligation for me to like, and i started doing it for others and not for myself. since i started taking subjects i wanted to, i've kind of suppressed my love for space, maybe in trying to take back that control i felt i'd lost when i started doing science because it was what people expected of me.

but all through COVID, star-gazing was what kept me sane. i was 13 and shut at home and miserable. something in TJR's author's note has put into words exactly why that was so important to me. every night, i would go out and look for orion's belt, and then the summer triangle. it was a physical symbol of time passing, but also something that felt constant and safe. spotting venus has also always been very special to me, as that has just always been my favourite planet, and it's not super easy to spot from my garden because of where it tends to sit in the sky.

i think this is going to be a difficult read in such a special way. is reading this at a key transitional point in my life a mistake? maybe, but here we go.

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Gone Girl

Gillian Flynn

This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780307588371 Who are you? What have we done to each other? These are the questions Nick Dunne finds himself asking on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police suspect Nick. Amy's friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn't true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they weren't made by him. And then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone. So what did happen to Nick's beautiful wife?

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Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)

Ernest Cline

Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here IN THE YEAR 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines, puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them. But when Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. The race is on, and if Wade's going to survive, he'll have to win—and confront the real world he's always been so desperate to escape.

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Water for Elephants

Sara Gruen

When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, drifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town. A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It is there that he meets Marlena, the beautiful young star of the equestrian act, who is married to August, the charismatic but twisted animal trainer. He also meets Rosie, an elephant who seems untrainable until he discovers a way to reach her. Beautifully written, Water for Elephants is illuminated by a wonderful sense of time and place. It tells a story of a love between two people that overcomes incredible odds in a world in which even love is a luxury that few can afford.

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The Time Traveler's Wife

Audrey Niffenegger

This is the extraordinary love story of Clare and Henry, who met when Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry was thirty. Impossible but true, because Henry suffers from a rare condition where his genetic clock periodically resets and he finds himself pulled suddenly into his past or future. In the face of this force they can neither prevent nor control, Henry and Clare’s struggle to lead normal lives is both intensely moving and entirely unforgettable.

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Killer Instinct (The Naturals, #2)

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Seventeen-year-old Cassie Hobbes has a gift for profiling people. Her talent has landed her a spot in an elite FBI program for teens with innate crime-solving abilities, and into some harrowing situations. After barely escaping a confrontation with an unbalanced killer obsessed with her mother’s murder, Cassie hopes she and the rest of the team can stick to solving cold cases from a distance. But when victims of a brutal new serial killer start turning up, the Naturals are pulled into an active case that strikes too close to home: the killer is a perfect copycat of Dean’s incarcerated father—a man he’d do anything to forget. Forced deeper into a murderer’s psyche than ever before, will the Naturals be able to outsmart the enigmatic killer’s brutal mind games before this copycat twists them into his web for good? With her trademark wit, brilliant plotting, and twists that no one will see coming, Jennifer Lynn Barnes will keep readers on the edge of their seats (and looking over their shoulders) as they race through the pages of this thrilling novel.

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Follow Me

Elizabeth Rose Quinn

Heathers meets The Stepford Wives in this creepy and frighteningly funny dark thriller about a woman who will do anything to find her missing sister. Even pretend to be one of them. After her twin sister, Chiara, goes missing at a mom-fluencer weekend, Adrienne Shaw will find her no matter what it takes. They may have been on the outs, but no one comes for her sister and gets away with it. It’s been a year, the authorities have no answers, and her brother-in-law is useless in the matter. It’s time for Adrienne to take the case into her own hands. Following in Chiara’s last footsteps, Adrienne goes undercover, infiltrating the same influencer retreat as the last thing she wants to an Instamommy. The remote ranch in Northern California is certainly welcoming—in a cult-adjacent kind of way. A charismatic leader, communal crafts, fixed smiles—and a lot of dead eyes. Going on gut instinct and chasing a wild theory—that Chiara came here and never left—Adrienne is determined to uncover the truth before the too-perfect-to-believe women figure out who Adrienne really a threat to be eliminated.

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Thoughts from 12% (Chapter 4)

okay wait why do i kind of love miles??? i really hope he explains at some point more so why he didn't tip the waiter, but i think his response to lenny talking about losing lou was PERFECT. no "i'm sorry" or "oh that sucks" - the empty platitudes - but instead the way he instantly just asks "what was her name?" like ugh, go away, leave me alone.

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Currently wandering why I only gave it 4 stars when I remember it as heaven with a pretty bow. I guess I gotta reread it.....so sad

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Thoughts from 36%

i forgot how much i love tjr writing! there is something about this book that make me want to know the glitz and glam of hollywood! i read this a couple of years ago yet as an audiobook, i can’t keep away.

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Jan 03, 2026

4.0

Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 3.5Characters: 3.5Plot: 4.0

this was a firm 3.75 right up until the ending. i'd thought that the twists were actually quite predictable, until the end and i was SHOCKED. there was little things that i then felt so silly about not picking up on. i think there was an alternative that the ending almost led up to that would have been more exciting, but i think that would work better if the book was a standalone rather than a series. but still, the ending really made up for a lot of the issues i had with the book.

i think the premise is really interesting, and i really enjoyed all the profiling scenes. i'm really excited to see where the series goes from here!

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The Naturals (The Naturals, #1)

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

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