sleepychick11

Will a smaller reading goal keep me more present in the books I read? Let's find out in 2026!

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sleepychick11

Mar 29, 2026

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

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I really liked this story. There were parts that were very creepy. The atmosphere was great. I liked the characters (even the ones you're supposed to hate). The villains were pretty obvious though, even when I think the author tried to pull back and make you doubt. It didn't work, lol. I really loved the visuals used, and I'm not usually one for body horror (no spoilers). I liked the mystery of how Mara woke up buried (this happens immediately so no spoilers). I kind of figured it out maybe halfway through the book, though I was very wrong about the true nature of the mystery. And I loved the two sidekick friends Natalie and Declan. I want them to be my friends too! Over all, a very solid book. Not super scary but has a good amount of uncomfortable.

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kenznais

54321 Sunday

Happy Sunday folks! If you’d like to share, I’d love to hear the following:

5 books you love 4 books on your TBR 3 books you alway recommend 2 recently read 1 currently reading

Here are mine! 5 books I love: The Pairing by Casey McQuiston, The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern, Woodworking by Emily St. James, Come, Thou Tortoise by Jessica Grant, and Interesting Facts About Space by Emily Austin 4 books on my TBR: The Language of the Night by Ursula K. Le Guin, Moderation by Elaine Castillo, The Night Ends With Fire by K. X. Song, and Mood Machine by Liz Pelly 3 books I alway recommend: One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston, Cosmic Love at the Multiverse Hair Salon by Annie Mare, and Shark Heart by Emily Habeck 2 recently read: Kindred by Octavia E. Butler and A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers 1 currently reading: The Republic of Salt by Ariel Kaplan

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Lost Lambs

Madeline Cash

Rippling with humor, warmth, and style, Lost Lambs is a new vision of the charms and pitfalls of family dysfunction. The Flynn family is coming undone. Catherine and Bud's open marriage has reached its breaking point as their daughters spiral in their own chaotic Abigail, the eldest, is dating a man in his twenties nicknamed War Crime Wes; Louise, the middle child, maintains a secret correspondence with an online terrorist; the brilliant youngest, Harper, is being sent to wilderness reform camp due to her insistence that someone—or something—is monitoring the town’s citizens. Casting a shadow across their lives, and their small coastal town, is Paul Alabaster, a billionaire shipping magnate. Rumors of corruption circulate, but no one dares dig too deep. No one except Harper, whose obsession with a mysterious shipping container sends the family hurtling into a criminal conspiracy—one that may just bring them closer together. Irreverent and addictive, pinging between the voices of the Flynn family and those of the panorama of characters around them, Madeline Cash’s Lost Lambs is a debut novel of quick-witted observation and surprising tenderness. With Lost Lambs, Cash has crafted a family saga for the twenty-first century, all held together with crazy glue.

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CaitlinByHerShelf

Let’s Create a Review Chain 📚👾

Let’s play an easy and quick game - Review Chain!

1️⃣ Post a book in the comments - just the title and author is enough. 2️⃣ Scroll through the books posted and leave a ONE WORD review (keep it spoiler free please) 🤫

Let’s see how many words can be used to describe each book, and how much they’re alike - or different! Feel free to kindly debate one another’s words!

Hope everyone is having a good week! 💛

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ShelbyLines

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Preferred reading medium

I'm curious, what everyone's preferred medium of reading. And I'll just preface that none of that audiobook-ebook doesn't count as reading nonsense. That's not what I'm asking here. If you prefer reading:

Printed books: Hardbound or paperback? E-books: What device? (Phone, e-reader, Ipad - etc) Audiobooks? Scrolls? gold plates? papyrus? 😂😂 If it's a combo, what combo?

Personally, I'm flexible. But when I started immersive reading (audiobook + ebook/printed combo), that became my preferred medium since it helps with my dyslexia. Now your turn. Rants your what and why 🎤🎤

edit: Paperbacks are popular choice, followed closely by e-books

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kayex333

Boo!

I've never really liked horror media. Horror movies, shows, books, anything of the sort, really. But I'm curious about how it's done in books! I'm too much of a wuss to actually read a scary book, so can horror lovers tell me how a scary book scares you? Are there any actual jumpscares or just segments filled with suspense? Also, maybe an example of a book you thought was really bad, because the horror part was done poorly. Or a book you thought was really good cause it scared you a lot. I'd love to hear!

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If It Makes You Happy

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My new next-door neighbor seems to have everything figured out. Small town golden boy? Check. Single dad extraordinaire? Check. Hot baker forearms? I didn’t notice them, I swear. I, on the other hand, don’t–at all–have anything figured out. Trust me, I didn’t think taking over my mom’s dream bed and breakfast in Copper Run Vermont was going to be easy. It should be a good place to heal after my divorce. But apparently my scones belong in the garbage with my small talk skills. As pointed out by none other than Cliff. Cliff is inescapable. He knows exactly what people need–always. His charm, the way he wears flannel, and even his pastries, make not wanting to be friends with Cliff and his daughters pretty hard. Friends? I can make friends. That’s safe. Except I’m leaving in three months to pass the inn off to my little sister and get the promotion in Seattle I’ve been working towards. So ask me why I’m thinking about kissing my hot neighbor.

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Hamnet

Maggie O'Farrell

Drawing on Maggie O'Farrell's long-term fascination with the little-known story behind Shakespeare's most enigmatic play, Hamnet is a luminous portrait of a marriage, at its heart the loss of a beloved child. Warwickshire in the 1580s. Agnes is a woman as feared as she is sought after for her unusual gifts. She settles with her husband in Henley street, Stratford, and has three children: a daughter, Susanna, and then twins, Hamnet and Judith. The boy, Hamnet, dies in 1596, aged eleven. Four years or so later, the husband writes a play called Hamlet. Award-winning author Maggie O'Farrell's new novel breathes full-blooded life into the story of a loss usually consigned to literary footnotes, and provides an unforgettable vindication of Agnes, a woman intriguingly absent from history. A New York Times Notable Book (2020), Best Book of 2020: Guardian, Financial Times, Literary Hub, and NPR.

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j.bateman

Describe a book plot badly

Try to stick to the general synopsis to avoid spoilers please! I'll go first: A young boy with ADHD and dyslexia finds out those are the least of his problems.

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The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness

Elyn R. Saks

Elyn Saks is a success by any measure: she's an endowed professor at the prestigious University of Southern California Gould School of Law. She has managed to achieve this in spite of being diagnosed as schizophrenic and given a "grave" prognosis—and suffering the effects of her illness throughout her life. Saks was only eight, and living an otherwise idyllic childhood in sunny 1960s Miami, when her first symptoms appeared in the form of obsessions and night terrors. But it was not until she reached Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar that her first full-blown episode, complete with voices in her head and terrifying suicidal fantasies, forced her into a psychiatric hospital. Saks would later attend Yale Law School where one night, during her first term, she had a breakdown that left her singing on the roof of the law school library at midnight. She was taken to the emergency room, force-fed antipsychotic medication, and tied hand-and-foot to the cold metal of a hospital bed. She spent the next five months in a psychiatric ward. So began Saks's long war with her own internal demons and the equally powerful forces of stigma. Today she is a chaired professor of law who researches and writes about the rights of the mentally ill. She is married to a wonderful man. In The Center Cannot Hold, Elyn Saks discusses frankly and movingly the paranoia, the inability to tell imaginary fears from real ones, and the voices in her head insisting she do terrible things, as well as the many obstacles she overcame to become the woman she is today. It is destined to become a classic in the genre.

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