sablehayalet

22yo | ENTP-A | 7w8 | Check out my blog at sablehayalet.com/bookshelf!

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My Taste

The Mysterious Benedict Society (The Mysterious Benedict Society, #1)

Nice Dragons Finish Last (Heartstrikers, #1)

Reading...

You Can Draw in 30 Days: The Fun, Easy Way to Learn to Draw in One Month or Less

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The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

38%

Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)

365 Days With Self-Discipline (Simple Self-Discipline #5)

11%

Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day

78%

Designing Your Life: Build a Life that Works for You

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Made in Korea

Sarah Suk

A romantic comedy about two entrepreneurial Korean American teens who butt heads—and maybe fall in love—while running competing Korean beauty businesses at their high school.There’s nothing Valerie Kwon loves more than making a good sale. Together with her cousin Charlie, they run V&C K-BEAUTY, their school’s most successful student-run enterprise. With each sale, Valerie gets closer to taking her beloved and adventurous halmeoni to her dream city, Paris. Enter the new kid in class, Wes Jung, who is determined to pursue music after graduation despite his parents’ major disapproval. When his classmates clamor to buy the K-pop branded beauty products his mom gave him to “make new friends,” he sees an opportunity—one that may be the key to help him pay for the music school tuition he knows his parents won’t cover… What he doesn’t realize, though, is that he is now V&C K-BEAUTY’s biggest competitor. Stakes are high as Valerie and Wes try to outsell each other, make the most money, and take the throne for the best business in school—all while trying to resist the undeniable spark that’s crackling between them. From hiring spies to all-or-nothing bets, the competition is much more than either of them bargained for. But one thing is clear: only one Korean business can come out on top.

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10h

The Cloisters

Katy Hays

On the wheel of fortune, who will emerge on top... and who will die? When Ann Stilwell arrives in New York City, she hopes to spend her summer working as a curatorial associate at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Instead, she finds herself assigned to The Cloisters, a gothic museum and garden renowned for its collection of medieval and Renaissance art. There she is drawn into a small circle of charismatic but enigmatic researchers, including Patrick Roland, the museum's mercurial curator who specializes in the history of tarot; Rachel Mondray, Patrick's beautiful curatorial associate and sometime muse; and Leo Bitburg, the gardener who nurtures the museum's precious collection of medicinal and poison plants. Relieved to have left her troubled past in rural Washington behind her, Ann longs for the approbation of her colleagues and peers and is happy to indulge their more outlandish theories, only to find that their fascination with fortune-telling runs deeper than academic obsession. Patrick is determined to prove that ancient divination holds the key to the foretelling of the future. And when Ann stumbles across a breakthrough in the form of a mysterious and previously-believed lost deck of 15th-century Italian tarot cards, she finds herself at the centre of a dangerous game of power, toxic friendship and ambition. Then there is an unexpected and devastating death, and suddenly everyone becomes a suspect. As the game being played within the Cloisters spirals out of control, Ann must decide if the tarot cards can not only teach her about the past, but also about her future.

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19h

Hat Trick (D.C. Stars, #4)

Chelsea Curto

Riley Mitchell has everything he could ever want. He’s a back-to-back Stanley Cup champion. He has great friends, a fun life, and he’s living out his dream of playing hockey in the NHL. Except one night, everything changes. After a car accident leaves him with an amputated right leg, he struggles with his identity. Who is he away from the ice? How is he supposed to live without the sport that means everything to him? Enter Lexi Armstrong, the DC Stars athletic trainer assigned to Riley’s rehabilitation. Independent, proudly single, and a sarcastic ray of sunshine, she’s determined to help Riley feel better not just physically, but mentally too. And the friends with benefits arrangement they fall into? Definitely not part of the rehabilitation plan. It was supposed to be one night, but when just once turns into something much deeper than a romp in the bedroom, they have a decision to make. Do they fight their feelings and keep things purely physical? Or can they pull off a Hat Trick and find something that lasts forever? Hat Trick is a spicy friends to lovers sports romance with professional athletes, friends with benefits, injury rehabilitation, he falls first (and hard), and a guaranteed happily ever after. Please check content warnings as some material might be sensitive to readers.

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sablehayalet

Trope hate

Are there any tropes you hate (or well, dislike) and prefer not to read, or absolutely won't read, books with them?

(No shade to anyone who does enjoy these tropes! They're just not for me 😅)

For me the trope I hate most is probably RH (reverse harem). Idk why but whenever I come across books with those I keep thinking about if the genders were swapped and then I can't stomach it.

I also hate love triangle tropes (unless they all end up together 😈). I think I started realizing this when I first got into Sarah Maas books; iirc (it's been a while) both TOG and ACOTAR's first books have love triangles. I think the only cases I enjoyed the way they were handled were in Cassandra Clare's books, in TDA and TID.

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sablehayalet

Trope hate

Are there any tropes you hate (or well, dislike) and prefer not to read, or absolutely won't read, books with them?

(No shade to anyone who does enjoy these tropes! They're just not for me 😅)

For me the trope I hate most is probably RH (reverse harem). Idk why but whenever I come across books with those I keep thinking about if the genders were swapped and then I can't stomach it.

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bloominglotus

recs for romances that have flat/small-chested fmcs

sorry idk if this is a weird ask but in literally every romance i read has a CURVALICIOUS and VOLUPTUOUS and BOMBASTIC fmc i just wanna see my chopstick flatbread 4 page homework booklet of a body represented and being loved 🙏🙏🙏

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lordofthefables

Books like these video games

I’ve been itching to find books that match the vibes/story of some video games I really love and sometimes replay a couple of times a year.

Would really appreciate any recommendations?

The games: • Spiritfarer • Detective Grimoire (specifically the tangle tower one) • Jenny Leclue • What remains of Edith Finch • oxenfree 1 + 2 • Firewatch • uncharted (specifically the fourth one)

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kieva.x

Question of the Day!

Hola Bookaholics!

You're question of the day is a simple one:

Do you reread books or not? ☺️

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365 Days With Self-Discipline (Simple Self-Discipline #5)

Martin Meadows

11%

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Avatar Legends: City of Echoes (Avatar Legends Book 1) (Volume 1)

Judy I. Lin

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Judy I. Lin comes a brand-new series featuring the unsung heroes behind legendary events within the world of the Last Airbender and The Legend of KorraThere is no war outside of these walls. This is what the citizens of Ba Sing Se are told to believe, but Jin knows better. As a refugee whose parents were killed by the Fire Nation, she is haunted by her past. Now, she does her best to keep her head down in the Lower Ring, caring for her ailing grandfather and balancing school with survival. Her one bright spot is her best friend Susu, whose family treats Jin like one of their own, and whose bakery she helps make deliveries for. Her world shatters when Susu’s father gambles away the bakery and Susu is forced to take a contract in the Upper Ring to pay off the family’s debt. Jin vows to help her friend—no matter what it takes. A chain of events fueled by her desperate promise leads Jin to Xuan, an arrogant boy from the Middle Ring with ties to the Silver Fangs, a major player in the city’s black market. The deeper Jin delves into her double life, the more she learns about Susu’s own entanglement in a conspiracy darker and more dangerous than she could have imagined. As whispers swirl of the Avatar’s presence within the city’s walls, the Fire Nation creeps ever closer. With Ba Sing Se teetering on the brink of revolution, Jin must defy the powerful forces that control her city and risk everything for the friend she’s determined to save.<

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I Love You So Mochi

Sarah Kuhn

Kimi Nakamura loves a good fashion statement. She's obsessed with transforming everyday ephemera into Kimi Originals: bold outfits that make her and her friends feel like the Ultimate versions of themselves. But her mother disapproves, and when they get into an explosive fight, Kimi's entire future seems on the verge of falling apart. So when a surprise letter comes in the mail from Kimi's estranged grandparents, inviting her to Kyoto for spring break, she seizes the opportunity to get away from the disaster of her life. When she arrives in Japan, she's met with a culture both familiar and completely foreign to her. She loses herself in the city's outdoor markets, art installations, and cherry blossom festival -- and meets Akira, a cute aspiring med student who moonlights as a costumed mochi mascot. And what begins as a trip to escape her problems quickly becomes a way for Kimi to learn more about the mother she left behind, and to figure out where her own heart lies. In I Love You So Mochi, author Sarah Kuhn has penned a delightfully sweet and irrepressibly funny novel that will make you squee at the cute, cringe at the awkward, and show that sometimes you have to lose yourself in something you love to find your Ultimate self.

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riskyreads

Character names and appearance

So in my last book a character popped up that shares the same name with my husband and his name is not common. So now, when that character is mentioned I see my husband and not however the character was described lol.

Does this happen to anyone else? Once someone’s name you know is used you just envision that person in your book no matter what? 😂

Book 2 comes out very soon and I’m not sure this character will be in book 2 but it’ll be funny if he’s in the entire series. I think he’s like a young white teenager and my husband is a black man in his 30s 😂😂😂

Brains are funny.

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Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day

Jake Knapp

78%

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