robyn00

If I'm not sleeping there's a 85% chance that I'm listening to an audiobook. The other 15% I'm reading an ebook. I mostly judge books based on vibes, but I'm trying to be more intellectual and shit.

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A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1)

Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)

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The Family Game

Catherine Steadman

A rich, eccentric family. A time-honored tradition. Or a lethal game of survival? One woman finds out what it really takes to join the 1% in this riveting psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Something in the Water, Mr. Nobody, and The Disappearing Act. Harry is a novelist on the brink of stardom; Edward, her husband-to-be, is seemingly perfect. In love and freshly engaged, their bliss is interrupted by the reemergence of the Holbecks, Edward's eminent family and the embodiment of American old money. For years, they've dominated headlines and pulled society's strings, and Edward left them all behind to forge his own path. But there are eyes and ears everywhere. It was only a matter of time before they were pulled back in . . . After all, even though he's long severed ties with his family, Edward is set to inherit it all. Harriet is drawn to the glamour and sophistication of the Holbecks, who seem to welcome her with open arms, but everything changes when she meets Robert, the inescapably magnetic head of the family. At their first meeting, Robert slips Harry a cassette tape, revealing a shocking confession which sets the inevitable game in motion. What is it about Harry that made him give her that tape? A thing that has the power to destroy everything? As she ramps up her quest for the truth, she must endure the Holbecks' savage Christmas traditions all the while knowing that losing this game could be deadly.

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Not Exactly What I Had in Mind

Kate Brook

An irresistible, funny, sharply observed debut novel in which two roommates, and two sisters, will learn that sometimes family--and love--find you in the most unexpected places Hazel and Alfie have just moved in together as roommates. They've also just slept together, which was either a catastrophic mistake or the best decision of their lives--they aren't quite sure yet. Whatever happens, they need to find a way to keep living together without too much drama or awkwardness, since neither of them can afford to move out of the apartment. Then Hazel's sister, Emily, and her wife, Daria, come for a visit, and Hazel's and Alfie's feelings about each other are pushed to the side in the whirlwind of their arrival. Recently returned from abroad, Emily and Daria are excited for a new life in a new town, and ready to start a family of their own. As the lives of Hazel, Alfie, Emily, and Daria collide, a complicated chain of events begins to bind them all together, bringing joy and heartache, hope and anxiety, and reshaping their relationships in ways that no one quite predicted. Warm, clever, and devastatingly relatable, Not Exactly What I Had in Mind is by turns funny, heartbreaking, and a painfully true-to-life story about family, friends, and everything in between.

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Apr 23, 2025

4.0

Enjoyment: 3.5Quality: 4.5Characters: 4.0Plot: 4.0

This was peculiar. I liked it.

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Killingly

Katharine Beutner

Based on the unsolved real-life disappearance of a Mount Holyoke student in 1897, Killingly weaves a haunting spell of intrigue, longing, and terror, perfect for fans of Donna Tartt and Sarah Waters. Bertha Mellish, “the most peculiar, quiet, reserved girl” at Mount Holyoke College, is missing. One cold November morning the junior is spotted walking through the Massachusetts woods; then, she vanishes. As a search team dredges the pond where she might have drowned, Bertha’s panicked father and sister arrive at the campus desperate to find some clue as to her fate or state of mind. Bertha’s best friend, Agnes, a scholarly loner studying medicine, might know the truth, but she is being unhelpfully tight-lipped, inciting the suspicions of Bertha’s family, her classmates, and the private investigator hired by the Mellish family doctor. As secrets from Agnes and Bertha’s lives come to light, so do the competing agendas driving each person who is searching for Bertha. Where did Bertha go? Who would want to hurt her? And could she still be alive? Edmund White Award–winning author Katharine Beutner crafts a real-life unsolved mystery into an immersive, unforgettable work of literary crime fiction--a beautifully drawn historical portrait of queerness, family trauma, and the risks faced by women who dared to pursue unconventional paths at the end of the 19th century.

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Apr 22, 2025

4.0

Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.5Characters: 4.5Plot: 4.5

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Books/Authors you'll never read

What are the books that no matter how much people recommend them, or how much hype there is around them, you're still never going to read? For me, it's anything Brandon Sanderson 🫣

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I Hope You Get This Message

Farah Naz Rishi

Seven days. Seven days. The Earth might end in seven days. When news stations start reporting that Earth has been contacted by a planet named Alma, the world is abuzz with rumors that the alien entity is giving mankind only few days to live before they hit the kill switch on civilization. For high school truant Jesse Hewitt, though, nothing has ever felt permanent. Not the guys he hooks up with. Not the jobs his underpaid mom works so hard to hold down. Life has dealt him one bad blow after another — so what does it matter if it all ends now? Cate Collins, on the other hand, is desperate to use this time to find the father she’s never met, the man she grew up hearing wild stories about, most of which she didn’t believe. And then there’s Adeem Khan. While coding and computer programming have always come easily to him, forgiveness doesn’t. He can’t seem to forgive his sister for leaving, even though it’s his last chance. With only seven days to face their truths and right their wrongs, Jesse, Cate, and Adeem’s paths collide even as their worlds are pulled apart.

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Apr 20, 2025

4.0

Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 4.0Characters: 4.0Plot: 4.5

well i did not see that coming. im mildly shocked

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TBR Jar Prompt List

Thank you for all the suggestions of prompts to put in my TBR jar! I thought I'd share the final list I came up with in case anyone else wants to do this too: * Title starts with one of your initials * Alliteration in title or author name * Part of a series * Spine matches my outfit * Finish something you paused/DNFd * Memoir * Non fiction (not a memoir) * Something that intimidates you * First on the shelf * Last on the shelf * A gift * Owned 5 years or longer * By an author read once before * Owned in multiple formats * Monochromatic cover * Published before you were born * One word title * Five word title * Something epic * Highlighter coloured spine * Vibe of the current season * Short stories or essays * Gothic energy * Author has a backlist of 10+ * Set between 1950 and 2000 * Set between 1850 and 1949 * Set before 1849 * Under 222 pages * Over 444 pages * Strongly recommended * Something mysterious * About the chaos of fame * About the arts: music, art or literature * A person's name in the title * A retelling * About siblings or friends * Most popular colour on shelves * Least popular colour on shelves * Set somewhere with cuisine I love * Purchased in 2025 * Adapted to film or TV * Bought new * Set ouside the UK and US * Features magical creatures * Written by a male author * Plants on the cover * Features death/grief/tragedy * POC author * By an author read from 5+ years ago * Cover is opposite to your last read on the colour wheel * Less that 50 pages longer than last read * Title starts with an author initial from last read * Published in a different decade to last read * First letter of title matches last letter of title of last read * Same spine colour as last read * Author's name starts with same letter as author of last read * Spine is the same colour as the author's name of last read * Title has 2 more words than last read * Set in a different country to last read * Author comes later alphabetically than author of last book * Author comes earlier alphabetically than author of last book * Set in a different century than last read * First letter of author's name matches last letter of author's name from last book Excited to start using these!

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Adaptation

I was thinking about that the other day and I’m actually wondering what book y’all would be interested to see adapted on screen?

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tbr planning

Pagebound has made it so much easier to plan my tbr in the planning feature here. I've just spent hours putting in a bunch a books, and doing the math of how many books i think i can get through in a month. So now i have a detailed plan that i will most likely deviate from quite alot... The impulse control is never present when i come over a pretty book in a bookstore. They have to be read immediately. But i had fun planning my reading year atleast. According to the plan I'm going to struggle to meet my book goal this year, but whatever. Maybe I'll just change it in december.

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