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CJ & Cedar | (he/they) | Just a man and his dog on a quest to read all the books in the world | Sci-fi, fantasy, and a bunch of gay stuff 🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️🐕‍🦺 | Trashy gay werewolf romance connoisseur 🐺

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He Who Fights with Monsters (He Who Fights with Monsters, #1)

59%

When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

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

32%

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Thoughts from 59%: Looking at the Source Material

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Thoughts from 60% ch 19

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poetry readers where are you

i really love poetry. like genuinely love it. there’s something about the way a few lines can hold so much feeling without explaining everything. i love poems that are reflective and emotional but also just good. not forced or trying to be clever, just honest in a way that stays with you. i love rereading poems and finding new meanings depending on my mood, or getting stuck on a piece trying to figure out the context or message between the lines. poetry feels personal in a way nothing else does. so i’m curious, is anyone else like this. if you love poetry too please tell me. and if you have any recommendations i would love them. reflective, emotional, comforting, devastating, anything that meant something to you. i’m always looking for poems that feel like they understand something i couldn’t put into words.

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Thoughts from 46%: Chapter 15 (Thoughts on the Original Story’s Influence on the Retelling)

I don’t know if I’m struggling with this story because I don’t know the original source material and am having a hard time differentiating from aspects of the original and aspects of the retelling. I’m not a particular fan of the plot, but I feel weird faulting the book for that when it very well could be the plot line from the original Mahabharata and integral to the retelling.

That being said, I’m on the fence about what the original epic’s themes/lessons are. Is it about the selfishness of human nature? A warning about not having clear hereditary/bloodlines? A celebration of men and their conquests? The confusion unfortunately is negatively impacting my reading experience. I’ll keep going because of the read along, but if it weren’t for that I would probably DNF this book

This is honestly why I struggle with retelling an even if I do know the source material. I often get frustrated at the plot points and decisions even though I know the author is just following the original plot.

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Goddess of the River

Vaishnavi Patel

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Triceratops and Bottoms (Dinosaur Erotica)

Lola Faust

She was a time-traveling sexaholic in search of the ultimate dinogasm! For Erin, life in the far future is safe, easy... and boring! Then the experimental timebelt takes her to a wild and sensual prehistoric playground. But will her forbidden lust for a strapping saurian spell disaster?

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How do downvotes work here??? Do you get notified if someone downvotes something or do you lose any points? Is it just to say you dislike something and that’s it? Do posts get removed if there are enough downvotes? I rarely see posts in the negatives so I’m just curious how it works compared to something like Reddit.

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An Unkindness of Ghosts

Rivers Solomon

Odd-mannered, obsessive, withdrawn, Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She's used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, as they accuse, she'd be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until nothing remained of her world, save for stories told around the cookfire. Aster lives in the low-deck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. For generations, the Matilda has ferried the last of humanity to a mythical Promised Land. On its way, the ship's leaders have imposed harsh moral restrictions and deep indignities on dark-skinned sharecroppers like Aster, who they consider to be less than human. When the autopsy of Matilda's sovereign reveals a surprising link between his death and her mother's suicide some quarter-century before, Aster retraces her mother's footsteps. Embroiled in a grudge with a brutal overseer and sowing the seeds of civil war, Aster learns there may be a way off the ship if she's willing to fight for it.

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Thoughts from 24%: Overall Thoughts

I have a feeling this book will be a case of "I love the writing style but not the content". Tbf I'm not really a fan of retellings, so I don't hold my lack of enjoyment against the book because of that. I'm probably going to pick up Patel's other books though since I really do enjoy the writing style and story telling!

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Goddess of the River

Vaishnavi Patel

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Goddess of the River

Vaishnavi Patel

A powerful reimagining of the story of Ganga, goddess of the river, and her doomed mortal son, from Vaishnavi Patel, author of the instant New York Times bestseller Kaikeyi . A mother and a son. A goddess and a prince. A curse and an oath. A river whose course will change the fate of the world. Ganga, joyful goddess of the river, serves as caretaker to the mischievous godlings who roam her banks. But when their antics incur the wrath of a powerful sage, Ganga is cursed to become mortal, bound to her human form until she fulfills the obligations of the curse. Though she knows nothing of mortal life, Ganga weds King Shantanu and becomes a queen, determined to regain her freedom no matter the cost. But in a cruel turn of fate, just as she is freed of her binding, she is forced to leave her infant son behind. Her son, prince Devavrata, unwittingly carries the legacy of Ganga’s curse. And when he makes an oath that he will never claim his father’s throne, he sets in motion a chain of events that will end in a terrible and tragic war. As the years unfold, Ganga and Devavrata are drawn together again and again, each confluence another step on a path that has been written in the stars, in this deeply moving and masterful tale of duty, destiny, and the unwavering bond between mother and son.

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