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ponderit

just a girl who loves reading sci-fi, fantasy, and romance.

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Iconic Series
Reading...The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
My Taste
Moonbound
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
Foundryside (The Founders Trilogy, #1)
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
Illuminae (The Illuminae Files, #1)
  • The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
    Thoughts from 12% (page 54)

    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)

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  • The Song of Achilles
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    Jul 29, 2025
    4.5
    Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 5.0Characters: 4.5Plot: 5.0
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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 Song of Achilles
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  • The Song of Achilles
    Thoughts from 82% (page 304)

    the horror of watching somebody you love devolve, and there’s nothing you can do to stop it

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  • The Song of Achilles
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  • More Sun = More Reading?

    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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  • The Song of Achilles
    Thoughts from 22% (page 80)

    oh, i think this book is going to break my heart.

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  • Witch King
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    Jul 27, 2025
    2.0
    Enjoyment: 2.5Quality: 1.5Characters: 3.0Plot: 1.5
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  • The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan, #1)
    For those almost done with the book, what are some of your conspiracies with certain characters or plot lines?

    List them below pls

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  • The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan, #1)
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    Jul 26, 2025
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    Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 4.0
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  • Witch King
    Thoughts from 63%

    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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  • Read Your Color

    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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  • Moonbound
    Thoughts from 13% (page 54)

    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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  • Read Your Color

    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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  • How do you choose your books?

    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?

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