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The Song of Achilles
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I’m Glad My Mom Died
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  • Circe
    petitrat
    Nov 29, 2025
    5.0
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    Madeline Miller is a master craftsman and to no one's surprise this book is sweeping and brutal, lovely and delicate. It ducks every feminist trope, and instead creates a complex portrait where women are centered in all their capriciousness and constancy, their victimization and strength, their soft touch and hard edges. This is a book about women, about how they navigate a world that gives them little power and few choices, treated with all the seriousness of a classic Greek epic.

    Thank you Madeline Miller, as always you are in a league of your own.

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  • Circe
    Thoughts from 39% (page 152)
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  • The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
    End of Book 1 (66%)

    OMG??

    This book needs to decide if it’s actually YA or not because this past chapter was crazy.

    So curious about what’s going to happen now.

    It took me a while to get into this book but I am intrigued…

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  • First-Time Caller (Heartstrings, #1)
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    Nov 23, 2025
    2.0
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    I should’ve DNFed. I don’t know what it is but I found this book to be really bland and entirely lacking in momentum.

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  • First-Time Caller (Heartstrings, #1)
    Thoughts from 81%

    Why does every romance novel MMC have to be an amateur dom?? Not that men can’t be dominant obv but it feels like every romance novel I read I get jumpscared by the guy being dominant in bed even when it doesn’t make any sense for the character. Where are my male subs at???

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  • First-Time Caller (Heartstrings, #1)
    Thoughts from 81%

    Why does every romance novel MMC have to be an amateur dom?? Not that men can’t be dominant obv but it feels like every romance novel I read I get jumpscared by the guy being dominant in bed even when it doesn’t make any sense for the character. Where are my male subs at???

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  • Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
    Thoughts from 47% (page 151)

    “We found that if you make more road space, you get more cars. If you make more bike lanes, you get more bikes. If you make more space for people, you get more people and of course then you get public life.” 🔥🔥🔥

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  • First-Time Caller (Heartstrings, #1)
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    Romance book pet peeve- when the FMC is like "oh no did I say that out loud??" No amount of alcohol or lust-induced haze can convince me people are out here not sure if they're talking or not!! My credentials- I am a certified yapper and have never had this experience and I don't believe anyone else has either.

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  • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
    petitrat
    Nov 20, 2025
    4.0
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    Until The Spoiler happened I was entirely expecting this to be a solid gold five star read for me. From the first page I could tell this book was something special- the prose has that magic that instantly made me sit up and pay attention, and as a certified lover of character driven books the push and pull of Sadie and Sam’s relationship counterbalanced by Marx and rendered in such loving nuance had me in heaven.

    Then The Spoiler happened and honestly, the last 20% was a slog for me. I kept hoping for a sense of peace or resolution but left still feeling unresolved.

    This is an excellent book, it’s just not quite what I dreamed it would be.

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  • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
    Thoughts from 77% (page 304)

    It actually would’ve been kinder to just punch me in the face

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  • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
    Thoughts from 77% (page 304)

    It actually would’ve been kinder to just punch me in the face

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  • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
    Thoughts from 68% (page 268)

    Where do I find a Marx of my own?? Unproblematic, grateful king 👑

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    Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

    Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

    Gabrielle Zevin

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  • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
    Thoughts from 12% (page 47)

    My heart aches for Sadie. I was once a 21 year old computer science student, trying to be the cool girl, sleeping with people I shouldn't and never advocating for my own needs because that wouldn't be chill of me. I just want to scoop her up in my arms and tell her all the things I would tell my younger self. 🥲

    This book I gonna wreck me, I can feel it coming

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    Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

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