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An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
The Hobbit (The Lord of the Rings, #0)
Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)
A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
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Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first CenturyThe Hollow Places

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  • Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)
    Thoughts from 79% (page 349) (middle of chapter 31)

    i have never liked so much an AI like in this moment

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  • What’s the pettiest reason as to why you won’t read a specific book, series, or author?

    I’m not talking problematic, I’m talking PETTY. Like, “I know it’s stupid, but I’m dying on this hill anyway,” level of petty. I’ll go first…

    Typically I’m all for an author getting their bag for their intellectual property. But in this case, I won’t read 'The Witcher' series, and it’s because the author pretty much dissed gaming as an art form, then got the Polish government involved to force CD Projekt Red (game devs of The Witcher series) to renegotiate his contract because he chose to sell his IP in the gaming sector for an immediate payout over taking a royalties check. He didn’t believe the game series would come to anything, didn’t believe that gaming was a serious art form, then cried when he noticed how much money the devs made (as well as the exposure it created for his book series) and threatened litigation for $16 million.

    So I refuse to read his books or watch the show. In fact, I think it’s kinda hilarious that the Netflix writers don’t respect his material in the same way he didn’t respect gaming. I consider it karmic payback.

    You can find out the full scope if you look up YongYea on YouTube. The videos span from 5-6 years ago. And yeah… that’s my Petty Betty book moment. What's yours?

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  • Do you ever forget you’ve read a book?

    It’s happened a few times now where I start a book and go «wait a minute..», only to realise I’ve read it before.

    I also have zero recollection of ever reading anything Colleen Hoover but apparently I have.

    🥲 Just me?

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    the_rags commented on ash.isreading's update

    ash.isreading completed their yearly reading goal of 55 books!

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    ash.isreading's 2025 Reading Challenge

    55 of 55 read
    The Memory Police
    The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
    Sexing the Cherry
    Rebecca
    The Lamb
    Stoner
    Of Love and Other Demons
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  • What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
    100% - thought on the title
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  • Small updates (feed + avatars)

    Quick announcement of some smaller updates -

    We have new avatars for levels 3 and 4. Level 3 has two new dragons to choose from, and level 4 has three food-inspired avatars 🥐🌶️🍚

    We also have two new feeds on your homepage. You'll see your Main Feed (the normal feed you're used to), a Following feed (just activity from people you follow) and My Books (the feed that is currently on Discuss, this is just posts from books in your library). Many people have been asking for a following feed :)

    In your Main feed and My Books feed, you will no longer see posts from TBR books that are marked as spoilers.

    We're aware of an intermittent bug on the app when posting in the book forum (from the book page specifically). The feed updates + a bug fix for this is out on iOS, please update your app to see these changes. On Android, we're still awaiting app approval - in the meantime there is a workaround : use the currently reading card on your home feed, which has a "Post to Forum" button, to post rather than going to the book page.

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  • Reading with kids and middle school age book recs

    I read to my kids when they were younger, and as they got older (they're 9 and 12 now) they started reading on their own in their own spaces. Recently we've started reading together and I didn't realize how much I missed it. It's been a great calming evening routine - we get into our PJ's, curl up on the couch with our books, and read and chat about what we're reading. It seems obvious but it's helped with the kids struggling to get to sleep, and it just is a nice (and sadly, rare, in our busy lives) time for us to just be together.

    That being said, I'm always looking for recommendations for middle-school-age appropriate chapter books to suggest to them - bonus points for sports-related stories! If anyone has suggestions, please send them my way!

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  • Books you can't recommend to anyone you know IRL

    Sometimes you really love a book, but for whatever reason you can't recommend it to anyone you know in real life.

    Maybe you don't know many readers! Maybe it's a genre your friends don't like! Maybe it's too spicy or too violent! Maybe it's just too....weird!

    Recommend that book here that you can't recommend anywhere else and maybe it'll find a new home with someone in the comments :)

    ⭐️ The book I can't recommend IRL but desperately wish I could: No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood. It's definitely in the "too weird" category. It's a commentary on how we relate to each other and ourselves in our online brainrot age, and it's written in the form of these disconnected stream-of-consciousness blurbs. In the first half of the book, the narrator describes going on a world tour after one of her posts goes viral. Her life exists online entirely. In the second half, something happens in her real life offline that changes everything for her. The whole book is strange, esoteric, and deeply moving. It's one of those books that I'll be thinking about for the rest of my life, and anytime I see a review from someone saying they don't like it or don't get it a little piece of my heart dies. It's not a book for everyone, but it WAS a book for me—and I'm desperate to find someone who got the book and loved it to way I did.

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  • A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)
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    this novel is convincing me even more that 2nd person POV is such a powerful literary tool, it just works so perfectly with Constasta addressing him so boldly

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  • Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)
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  • The Hollow Places
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    ”it reminded me a bit of that fairy tale ‘The Goose Girl,’ where the severed horse head gets nailed to a wall and the heroine talks to it every day.”

    A Sorceress Comes to Call premonition?? jokes aside, i really love how much T Kingfisher respects and ties in more obscure (sometimes) and dark fairytales/stories to her books! so many little homages to other tales and it’s so cool

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  • The Hollow Places
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    ”Uncle Earl believes strongly in Jesus, Moses, the healing power of crystals, the Freemasons, the Illuminati, that aliens landed at Roswell but the government is suppressing it, secret histories, faith-healing, snake-handling, that there is an invention that will replace gasoline but the oil companies are suppressing it, chemtrails, demon-possession, the astonishing power of Vicks VapoRub, and that there’s proof that aliens contacted the Mayans and Aztecs and probably the Egyptians, but the scientists are suppressing it.”

    i would give so much to be able to pound down a few beers with Uncle Earl

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