notsolocaltheatrekid

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ruichimi completed their yearly reading goal of 80 books!

ruichimi's 2025 Reading Challenge

80 of 80 read

Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children, #1)

Down Among the Sticks and Bones (Wayward Children, #2)

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kittytornado

What's the opposite of a reading slump?

I have three stellar books on the go right now and I want to start another one. All three are different genres and styles. I want to read all three at once. Why do I do this to myself?

I usually have at least 2 books on the go because I am incredibly fortunate to be often able to listen to audiobooks at work. So 1 audio book and 1 book loaded on my kindle is my standard.

But right now I have 2 ebooks and an audio book and I want to start another audio book and i checked out some pyhsical books at the library and and and....

Is there even a point to this post? Maybe not. I just figured that if i wanted to find a sympathetic crew i could start here.

How many books do read at the same time?

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heathersdesk

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One Book that Changed Your Life

The first time I read Fahrenheit 451 completely changed my brain chemistry. I couldn't even articulate it at the time, but the power of that moral reckoning changed me as a person. Montag realizing that he was destroying his own society from the inside, stopping himself, and changing without turning back was something I'd never seen before. His resistance to the trajectory of society, even when it meant he would be totally alone, became a permanent part of my psychology. Bradbury is a poet and a philosopher that is one of my favorite authors of all time. And as someone who exists in a community that gets very trigger happy with book bans, it inoculated me from ever believing in censorship.

What's yours?

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juneandday005

authors whose back catalogues you want to read?

I have so many authors who have published several books and I’ve never gotten around to reading any of them or I’ve only read a few of their works.

who are some of the authors whose books have been on your TBR for a long time but you haven’t read yet? for me right now it’s VE Schwab, Olivie Blake, Rebecca Ross, and Chloe Gong

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Loveless

Alice Oseman

For fans of Love, Simon and I Wish You All the Best, a funny, honest, messy, completely relatable story of a girl who realizes that love can be found in many ways that don't involve sex or romance. From the marvelous author of Heartstopper comes an exceptional YA novel about discovering that it's okay if you don't have sexual or romantic feelings for anyone . . . since there are plenty of other ways to find love and connection. This is the funny, honest, messy, completely relatable story of Georgia, who doesn't understand why she can't crush and kiss and make out like her friends do. She's surrounded by the narrative that dating + sex = love. It's not until she gets to college that she discovers the A range of the LGBTQIA+ spectrum -- coming to understand herself as asexual/aromantic. Disrupting the narrative that she's been told since birth isn't easy -- there are many mistakes along the way to inviting people into a newly found articulation of an always-known part of your identity. But Georgia's determined to get her life right, with the help of (and despite the major drama of) her friends.

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Promise Me Sunshine

Cara Bastone

Grieving the loss of her best friend, a young woman’s life is turned upside down when she meets a grumpy stranger who swears he can help her live again, in this heartwarming, slow-burn romance by the author of Ready or Not Lenny’s a bit of a mess at the moment. Her best friend, Lou, recently passed away after a battle with cancer, and her death has left Lenny feeling completely lost. She’s avoiding her concerned parents, the apartment she shared with Lou, and the list of things she’s supposed to do to help her live again. The only thing she can do is temporary babysitting gigs, and luckily, she just landed a great one, helping overworked, single mom Reese and her precocious daughter, Ainsley. It’s not perfect: Ainsley’s uncle, Miles, always seems to be around, and is kind of... a huge jerk. But if Lenny acts like she has it all together, maybe no one will notice she’s falling apart. Miles sees right through her though. Turns out, he knows a lot about grief and, surprisingly, he offers her a proposition. He’ll help her complete everything on her “live again” list if she’ll help him connect with Ainsley and overcome his complicated relationship with Reese. Lenny doubts anything can fill the Lou has left behind, but she begins to spend more time with Miles, Lenny is surprised to discover that, sometimes, losing everything is only the first step to finding yourself, and love, again.

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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

Victoria Schwab

From V. E. Schwab, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue: a new genre-defying novel about immortality and hunger. This is a story about hunger. 1532. Santo Domingo de la Calzada. A young girl grows up wild and wily—her beauty is only outmatched by her dreams of escape. But María knows she can only ever be a prize, or a pawn, in the games played by men. When an alluring stranger offers an alternate path, María makes a desperate choice. She vows to have no regrets. This is a story about love. 1827. London. A young woman lives an idyllic but cloistered life on her family’s estate, until a moment of forbidden intimacy sees her shipped off to London. Charlotte’s tender heart and seemingly impossible wishes are swept away by an invitation from a beautiful widow—but the price of freedom is higher than she could have imagined. This is a story about rage. 2019. Boston. College was supposed to be her chance to be someone new. That’s why Alice moved halfway across the world, leaving her old life behind. But after an out-of-character one-night stand leaves her questioning her past, her present, and her future, Alice throws herself into the hunt for answers . . . and revenge. This is a story about life— how it ends, and how it starts.

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Thoughts from 34% (positive)

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The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison

The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and boldness of vision. Set in the author's girlhood hometown of Lorain, Ohio, it tells the story of black, eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove. Pecola prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be as beautiful and beloved as all the blond, blue-eyed children in America. In the autumn of 1941, the year the marigolds in the Breedloves' garden do not bloom. Pecola's life does change—in painful, devastating ways. With its vivid evocation of the fear and loneliness at the heart of a child's yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment. The Bluest Eye remains one of Toni Morrison's most powerful, unforgettable novels- and a significant work of American fiction.

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endless_tbr_list

Horror Book Recs, Please!

Spooky Season is coming and I'm once again trying to fit in as many horror books as possible and would love recommendations! Straight up gore isn't always my cup of tea, but I devour all things unsettling, creepy, horrifying, and eerie.

A few faves for example:

T. Kingfisher (literally everything) The Reformatory - Tananarive Due My Darling Dreadful Thing - Johanna van Veen Into the Drowning Deep - Mira Grant The Buffalo Hunter Hunter - Stephen Graham Jones

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notsolocaltheatrekid

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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Atmosphere

Taylor Jenkins Reid

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program and the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits. Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA’s Space Shuttle Program. Suddenly, Joan burns to be one of the few people to go to space. Selected from a pool of thousands of applicants in the summer of 1980, Joan begins training at Houston’s Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates: Top Gun pilots Hank Redmond and John Griffin, who are kind and easy-going even when the stakes are highest; mission specialist Lydia Danes, who has worked too hard to play nice; warm-hearted Donna Fitzgerald, who is navigating her own secrets; and Vanessa Ford, the magnetic and mysterious aeronautical engineer, who can fix any engine and fly any plane. As the new astronauts become unlikely friends and prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a passion and a love she never imagined. In this new light, Joan begins to question everything she thinks she knows about her place in the observable universe. Then, in December of 1984, on mission STS-LR9, everything changes in an instant. Fast-paced, thrilling, and emotional, Atmosphere is Taylor Jenkins Reid at her best: transporting readers to iconic times and places, with complex protagonists, telling a passionate and soaring story about the transformative power of love, this time among the stars.

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notsolocaltheatrekid

Sep 04, 2025

3.5

Enjoyment: 3.5Quality: 3.0Characters: 4.5Plot: 3.0

ugh that was so disappointing.

for like the first half of the book i was LOVING it, and i was genuinely like i think i like this book more than morbidly yours. but after the wedding, it just completely fell off for me. it was so predictable in such a frustrating way - don't get me wrong, i often read romance for the predictability, but to me there is a distinct difference between predictable and excessive coincidences, and their relationship in the end wasn't even that satisfying. i love aidan as a character, i think he was so nuanced, but by the end i was not believing their relationship.

the book was so aggressively fine.

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dayana

Favourite reads of the year so far

I was wondering, what is everyone's favourite read(s) of the year so far?

Mine are: •Golden Son by Pierce Brown •Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson •Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L. Wang •The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent

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Bronze: Finished 5 Main Quest books.

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dayana

Favourite reads of the year so far

I was wondering, what is everyone's favourite read(s) of the year so far?

Mine are: •Golden Son by Pierce Brown •Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson •Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L. Wang •The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent

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Heart Strings (A Love in Galway, #2)

Ivy Fairbanks

A sizzling exes-to-lovers second- chance romance from the author of Morbidly Yours, the “sweet, spicy, and fabulous” (Abby Jimenez, #1 New York Times bestselling author) TikTok sensationShe doesn’t do second chances. But he's not done writing their song.Cielo “Lo” Valdez doesn’t believe in second chances. Surviving cancer taught her life is too short to spend time on someone who wronged you. But Aidan O’Toole is determined to show her life is best spent together.When the tough-as-nails Texan moved to Galway for medical school, she wasn’t looking for love. Aidan, a gorgeous, tattooed, mandolin-playing lawyer, slipped past her defenses. They each fell hard and fast. But when Aidan was given the opportunity of a lifetime—to move to London and record an album—he took it, breaking Lo's heart. Yet more than two years and a successful album later, every song he writes is still about her, the one he let get away. And every time Lo hears his voice on the radio singing about love, it’s an arrow straight to her soul.Now they’re on a collision course as maid of honor and best man at a weekend-long Irish castle wedding. Are some mistakes worth forgiving? Can Aidan convince Lo their song wasn’t meant to end?

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