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any/all (whatever's funniest) --- hi im peregrine and im a library science major and as such i eat books. thank u

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The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)

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TheAfterwords

When Do You Call it Quits With an Author? (Writing style)

Hi hello,

I have a small general question to pose for y'all - when do you call it quits with an author?

I'm not talking about cases where the author does something that puts you off, but rather their writing style/plot progression / etc.

I bring this up because there is a specific author who puts out books with such intriguing and fun premises (to me), but the two times I gave them a shot, I was greatly disappointed by the execution. So, I decided their books were probably just not for me. But every time I see one of their books and read the synopsis, I'm like "hmm, maybe I should give it another chance?" So I was wondering what you guys do in situations like these? How many "chances" do you give an author before you just accept that as much as you'd love to love their books, it's not going to happen T_T

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ebhook

Thoughts from 43%

I love these two boys so much. They’re just so cute. And 17/18. And so much younger than me. And just so cute.

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brandanadei

Thoughts from 11% (page 53)

Bro this clinical trial is already so biased and she hasn't even done the fraud yet 💀

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Aprilthebookqueen

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Book Criticism

I saw something today and I’m really curious what other readers think.

Someone commented on an author’s personal Instagram post to say they weren’t a fan of the new book. The author replied with “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” The person who posted the screenshot felt icky about the author’s response.

Personally, I didn’t think the author was out of line. I don’t really see the point of going onto an author’s own page just to drop a negative comment. That isn’t a review, it’s just putting criticism directly in front of the author for no real reason. Review platforms exist for a reason.

I also saw someone comment back to me about this ‘but sometimes authors don’t read reviews and won’t see it’ and I just always felt reviews are for other readers? I don’t know. And also how is ‘I didn’t like this book’ helpful in any way and why does it need to be seen?

That’s just me. What do you all think? Is it fine to leave negative opinions on an author’s page, or should that stuff stay on review sites instead?

Curious to hear everyone’s take.

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kurtthecat62

Thoughts from 65% (page 191)

If vampires drink each other’s blood is that technically cannibalism?

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Tender Is the Flesh

Agustina Bazterrica

Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans —though no one calls them that anymore. His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the “Transition.” Now, eating human meat—“special meat”—is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing. Then one day he’s given a gift: a live specimen of the finest quality. Though he’s aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death, little by little he starts to treat her like a human being. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost—and what might still be saved.

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Gifted & Talented

Olivie Blake

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six comes the story of three siblings who, upon the death of their father, are forced to reckon with their long-festering rivalries, dangerous abilities, and the crushing weight of all their unrealized adolescent potential. Where there’s a will, there’s a war. Thayer Wren, the brilliant CEO of Wrenfare Magitech and so-called father of modern technology, is dead. Any one of his three telepathically and electrokinetically gifted children would be a plausible inheritor to the Wrenfare throne. Or at least, so they like to think. Meredith, textbook accomplished eldest daughter and the head of her own groundbreaking biotech company, has recently cured mental illness. You're welcome! If only her father's fortune wasn't her last hope for keeping her journalist ex-boyfriend from exposing what she really is: a total fraud. Arthur, second-youngest congressman in history, fights the good fight every day of his life. And yet, his wife might be leaving him, and he's losing his re-election campaign. But his dead father’s approval in the form of a seat on the Wrenfare throne might just turn his sinking ship around. Eilidh, once the world's most famous ballerina, has spent the last five years as a run-of-the-mill marketing executive at her father’s company after a life-altering injury put an end to her prodigious career. She might be lacking in accolades compared to her siblings, but if her father left her everything, it would finally validate her worth—by confirming she'd been his favorite all along. On the pipeline of gifted kid to clinically depressed adult, nobody wins—but which Wren will come out on top?

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Unspoken: A collection of untold intersex stories

Intersex Peer Support Australia

This book contains personal accounts of intersex individuals in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. They contain stories of isolation, disconnection but also hope and healing, and finding community.

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What We Can Know

Ian McEwan

60%

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Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America

Krista Burton

A former Rookie contributor and creator of the popular blog Effing Dykes investigates the disappearance of America’s lesbian bars by visiting the last few in existence.Lesbian bars have always been treasured safe spaces for their customers, providing not only a good time but a shelter from societal alienation and outright persecution. In 1987, there were 206 of them in America. Today, only a couple dozen remain. How and why did this happen? What has been lost—or possibly gained—by such a decline? What transpires when marginalized communities become more accepted and mainstream? In Moby Dyke, Krista Burton attempts to answer these questions firsthand, venturing on an epic cross-country pilgrimage to the last few remaining dyke bars. Her pilgrimage includes taking in her first drag show since the onset of the pandemic at The Back Door in Bloomington, Indiana; competing in dildo races at Houston’s Pearl Bar; and, despite her deep-seated hatred of karaoke, joining a group serenade at Nashville’s Lipstick Lounge and enjoying the dreaded pastime for the first time in her life. While Burton sets out on the excursion to assess the current state of lesbian bars, she also winds up examining her own personal journey, from coming out to her Mormon parents to recently marrying her husband, a trans man whose presence on the trip underscores the important conversation about who precisely is welcome in certain queer spaces—and how they and their occupants continue to evolve. Moby Dyke is an insightful and hilarious travelogue that celebrates the kind of community that can only be found in windowless rooms soundtracked by Britney Spears-heavy playlists and illuminated by overhead holiday lights no matter the time of year.

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The Story Eaters of Yamm

Kevin Hincker

An irreverent, suspenseful, profoundly original novel about a group of science fiction writers hired to gameplan an alien invasion, led by Larry Palczewski, a struggling novelist who can't perceive time. What starts for Larry as a desperately needed source of free lunches turns sinister and inconvenient when the alien snails the group is fictionalizing actually launch an invasion, and begin taking over humanity's novels. Then it is up to Larry, unlikeliest of protagonists, to author a new ending before humankind is eaten by the ultimate bad story: his own. “Read this hilarious, profound, outsider sci-fi, where neurodivergence is just one of many alternative worldviews. By the end you’re so enmeshed in Larry’s brain you’re predicting his thoughts.”

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Starsight (Skyward, #2)

Brandon Sanderson

31%

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peckie97

Thoughts from 29%

“…which is why revulsion for Rupi Kaur's poetry has become a millennial personality trait.”

no girl, it’s because her poetry is not as good as people make it seem. but keep being delulu i guess..

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melybelly0

Quest dilemma

Hi all!

I just joined a quest that has a lot of books that I read in childhood. Is it cheating if I mark them as "finished" even though I finished them long ago?

I feel conflicted over it. One one hand, I did finish them. On the other hand, I hardly remember the plot and characters

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kellimclovin

Thoughts from 42%

This protagonist is impossible to like. Also Athena isn't a very fleshed out character.

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Dragonfruit

Makiia Lucier

From acclaimed author Makiia Lucier, a dazzling, romantic fantasy inspired by Pacific Island mythology. In the old tales, it is written that the egg of a seadragon, dragonfruit, holds within it the power to undo a person’s greatest sorrow. An unwanted marriage, a painful illness, and unpaid debt ... gone. But as with all things that promise the moon and the stars and offer hope when hope has gone, the tale comes with a warning. Every wish demands a price. Hanalei of Tamarind is the cherished daughter of an old island family. But when her father steals a seadragon egg meant for an ailing princess, she is forced into a life of exile. In the years that follow, Hanalei finds solace in studying the majestic seadragons that roam the Nominomi Sea. Until, one day, an encounter with a female dragon offers her what she desires most. A chance to return home, and to right a terrible wrong. Samahtitamahenele, Sam, is the last remaining prince of Tamarind. But he can never inherit the throne, for Tamarind is a matriarchal society. With his mother ill and his grandmother nearing the end of her reign. Sam is left with two to marry, or to find a cure for the sickness that has plagued his mother for ten long years. When a childhood companion returns from exile, she brings with her something he has not felt in a very long time - hope. But Hanalei and Sam are not the only ones searching for the dragonfruit. And as they battle enemies both near and far, there is another danger they cannot escape…that of the dragonfruit itself.

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AsiminaTriloba

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Can't make a list?

Hey everyone! For some reason I can't make a list- I'll put all the info in and the create button stays gray. Is anyone else having this issue?

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Inkbound Illusions

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Fantasy books where tattoos are neither mere adornments nor static marks. Each line and swirl weaves itself into the fabric of their life, unfurling their story. Characters choose their ink with care or with reckless abandon. Every symbol may stand as their shield, or just as easily become their undoing.

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