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to me, dr. chef is like the caterpillar from it’s a bugs life—including the way he talks
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The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
Becky Chambers
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this was beautiful and gay and greek and angsty. the beginning felt like living under a sun dappled canopy, the sick sweetness of watching two boys fall in love. and everything else made me want to wail, in particular, almost every line in the last 5% of the book. the writing was beautiful. i loved that it wasn’t achilles point of view. i cried twice.
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the horror of watching somebody you love devolve, and there’s nothing you can do to stop it
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Is anyone else like this? I mind I get more reading done during the sunnier times of the year than I do in the non-Summer months. I'm not diagnosed but this I have Seasonal Affective Disorder Syndrome (SADS), which at times makes it feel like I am solar powered.
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Madeline Miller
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Still trying to figure out where the plot of this book is going. I mean I get the overarching goal, but I still don't really understand why I care about that esp now that an important date has passed (in the book). We really haven't even seen that much of the character we are meant to care about looking for? I also feel like this book could benefit a lot from a special edition that has maps/artistic renderings of a lot of the architecture for these scenes, which there is a looooot of words dedicated to describing. When details like that get too dense for me I kind of give up and just make up my own map (and I am doing a lot of that in this book!), but having a visual to reference would help a lot.
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Was wondering if people here had taken the "Read Your Color" quiz online and if people have tried out the recommendations for their specific color and found that they liked them? I get a little shy trying books outside of my comfort genres, but I've been thinking about trying some of their recommendations, but I've not heard much about if people find the recommendations good--just wondering y'alls thoughts if you've given their recs a try!
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This book makes me curious about Arthurian legend again. Wikipedia has satisfied some of that curiosity and baffled me by having twisting trails of origins to the story--it sounds a lot like Medieval fan fiction at a certain point and I kind of love that. This book already has the charm and weirdness of Robin Sloan's other works and I'm greatly enjoying it!
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Was wondering if people here had taken the "Read Your Color" quiz online and if people have tried out the recommendations for their specific color and found that they liked them? I get a little shy trying books outside of my comfort genres, but I've been thinking about trying some of their recommendations, but I've not heard much about if people find the recommendations good--just wondering y'alls thoughts if you've given their recs a try!
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With so many different opinions, reading is pretty much unique to each person, and it can be super overwhelming when looking for new book recs. Finding people with similar taste is a great starting point, but even then two people can obsess over series A, but one loves and one hates series B. Then there are reviews as well, but that can be a hit or miss too. You might end up loving a book that's rated fairly low or DNFing one that everyone seems to love. So how do you decide whether to add a book to your TBR or not? When do you give a book a chance and when do you pass it over?