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One Piece, Volume 1: Romance Dawn (One Piece, #1)

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)

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Reading this because I was told it had badly written French words/phrases and 😭😭😭 I don't know if I'm gonna survive reading it💀 it's both hilarious and painful

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"Arrête d'être niaiseux."

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Has anyone listen to the podcast Bad Gays that inspired this book. I've never really listen to any podcast but I was wondering if I should try this one.

Also, if you have watched the podcast....How is it? Did they change certain things? Is it better than the book? (my biggest issue while reading was definitely the format/writing)

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Murdle: The School of Mystery

G.T. Karber

The runaway bestselling Murdle puzzle series is back to test your wits in 50 murder mystery logic puzzles set at the dark and mysterious Deduction College. Can you crack these cases before the final bell? Earn your place as a master detective with this electrifying collection of 50 logic puzzles. Each mystery comes with a list of suspects, weapons, locations, and clues. By using deductive reasoning and a handy logic grid, reveal the devious killer and unfold an even greater enigma. Filled with illustrations, codes, and interactive exhibits, and brimming with wit and intrigue, this upmarket paperback edition is the Murdle casebook you've been waiting for. Uncover a vast mystery that lies within the interactive illustrations, dark academia settings, and adventures through mysterious tunnels and secret societies, featuring: • 50 murder-mystery logic puzzles from the first case files of Deductive Logico • Deckled edges and cover flaps that include an optional cutaway bookmark • Color interior front and back covers featuring a maze-like design

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Murdle: The School of Mystery

G.T. Karber

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2.5

Enjoyment: 2.5Quality: 2.5Characters: 2.5Plot: 2.5

the book is so short that there's isn't a lot to say about it..... there was an excerpt from the next book at the end, and it was literally a third of my e-book. At that point just merge the two together..... Also, I feel like a book wasn't the best medium for this story, I think it would have translated better in a short animation/picture book. The folklore aspect of the story would have been highlighted more. The cover itself reminded me of ''Over the Garden Wall'' and that kind of the vibe I was hoping for.

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Reading in French versus English?

As someone who is kind of out of practice with the French language, but spoke/read it pretty well around 5 years ago, would it be a bad idea to try and read this in the original language? I’m down for a challenge but I’m afraid of missing all the themes if I’m having to look up a lot of vocabulary, especially since it’s a classic.

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Content warnings for this book according to Storygraph and my reading experience! I'm currently only half way through the book, so I don't know the actual intensity of some of these, and some might be wrong or not detailed enough. If any are missing or in the wrong category, please comment and i'll add details. I wanted to do this considering the upcoming summer readalong :)

The content is separated in GRAPHIC, MODERATE, and MINOR, where some have more detail on the content in parentheses. I tried to avoid spoilers as much as possible, but some of the details are spoiler-ish.

UPDATE: I finished the book! I tried my best with the content warning details, but some are still missing or inaccurate, so I would appreciate any help! I'm also not 100% sure for some of the content's category. I'm hesitating between Graphic, Moderate and Minor for some of these so I would love everyone's opinion :)

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Alcohol (Drinking. Underage drinking resulting in hospitalization due to alcohol poisoning.) Classism (One of the main themes of the story. Main character acts classicist and entitled sometimes.) Death (Death of a important side character. Mentions of mass murders and deaths.) Murder (Mass murder of civilians in a fire. Description of REAL LIFE EVENT Cinema Rex Fire.) Religious bigotry (Implementation of religious government and forced religion/religious doctrine onto characters.) Sexism (One of the main themes of the story. Scenes where the characters are victims of it or perpetuate it.) Torture (Psychological torture in prison. Sexual torture alluded to only.) Violence (Sexual, physical, verbal violence suffered by the main characters and sometimes done by main characters.) War (War with Iraq. Bombing. Sirens. Rumbles. Displacement.)

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Child marriage (Teenager marries right after graduation to an older man. Mention of legalized marriage to children as young as 9 years old.) Death of parent (Mention of by side character dead parents. Death of a parent of a main character in the book's timeline.) Fire/Fire Injury (Mention of a premeditated fire that kills several people. Actual REAL LIFE EVENT of Cinema Rex Fire.) Grief (Death of a husband, friend, father.) Incarceration (Main character incarcerated for political activism. Mentions of parent incarcerated for political activism.) Infertility (Main character struggling with it.) Miscarriage (Main character has repeated miscarriages. Not graphic.) Police brutality (Kidnapping by secret police. Fast scene. Mentions of the morality police.) Rape (Main character raped. Not described in details. Only mentioned/alluded to.) Sexual assault (Alluded to/Mentionned sexual assault in prison to torture main character.) Sexual violence (Alluded to/Mentionned sexual violence in prison to torture main character.)

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Pregnancy (Mentions of being pregnant. Normal pregnancy. Pregnancy resulting from rape.)

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Just for the Cameras (Bay Area Players, #1)

Meghan Quinn

From New York Times bestselling author Meghan Quinn comes a sizzling sports romance full of flamingo feathers, slow-burn heat, and one grump-meets-sunshine love story that's anything but fake. They're faking it for the cameras. But what if the sparks are real? Graydon St. John doesn't do drama―or public appearances. The brooding defensive end for the San Francisco Foghorns prefers silence, solitude, and avoiding headlines. But when a league-wide PR scandal forces him into a media stunt at the city zoo, he's suddenly face-to-face with squawking birds, nosy fans, and the zookeeper who seems to hate his guts on sight. Maple Baker loves her flamingos. Loud, pink, messy? Sure. But they're hers. And the last thing she needs is a grumpy football player stomping into her sanctuary with a bad attitude and a bigger ego. Unfortunately, they've been paired for the zoo's new public outreach program, and the cameras are already rolling. The banter is sharp. The tension is electric. And the more they pretend to play nice for the press, the more their fake flirtation starts to feel like something dangerously real. But when family secrets, viral fame, and a PR romance gone off-script threaten everything Maple's worked for, Graydon must decide if he's willing to fight for love―or let it slip away to protect her.

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Till Summer Do Us Part

Meghan Quinn

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author comes a brand new sizzling summer read that will have you laughing, swooning . . . and sweating. Scottie Price just started a new job and it's a real sausage fest. She's the only woman on a team filled with Brads and Chads. Expecting a bachelor pad atmosphere, she is quickly corrected when she finds out everyone is happily married. In an effort to impress her boss, Scottie mentions her nonexistent husband in a company meeting. But eagle-eyed Chad points out her lack of wedding ring. Panicked, Scottie creates a story about her unhappy marriage. Unfortunately for Scottie, her boss has a solution—a one-on-one session with the best marriage counselor in the Northeast, who happens to be her boss’s husband. With no way out of her lie, Scottie agrees to see him. Frantic, she calls in help from her best friend who sets her up with his brother, an improv-obsessed millionaire. Enter Wilder Wells. More than happy to take on the job, he teaches Scottie the main rule of always say yes. But the rule backfires during the session when Wilder signs them up for an eight-day summer marriage camp with all of Scottie’s co-workers where she’ll have to share a cabin with her way-too-handsome fake husband.

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Dead Beat (Ninth House Series Book 3)

Leigh Bardugo

Hell is empty and all the devils are here… Alex Stern made it to hell and back more than once, but this time she left the door open behind her. Demons are creeping through the streets of New Haven and the Yale campus, feeding on the souls of the living, terrifying the dead. Alex and her allies can hunt them, but it’s only a matter of time before the gates to the underworld open and they face a war they cannot win. To stop it, they’ll have to reach deep into the secrets of Yale and its societies, and discover the truth hidden in Alex’s own blood. While she struggles to hold onto the dream of a future Yale once offered, Alex must contend with the machinations of a corrupt Lethe Board and a deadly vampire with his own connection to the societies. But for the first time in her life, she won’t have to face the fight alone. Dawes, Turner, Mercy, and even Tripp will have a role to play, none more so than Alex’s mentor Darlington, the golden boy who lived so long in her head, now back in the flesh and cursed with dangerous powers of his own. Hell itself is stalking the delegates of Lethe House, and they’re all about to learn that demons don’t play by human rules.

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Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)

Leigh Bardugo

Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. By age twenty, in fact, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she’s thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of the world’s most elite universities on a full ride. What’s the catch, and why her? Still searching for answers to this herself, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale’s secret societies. These eight windowless “tombs” are well-known to be haunts of the future rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Street and Hollywood’s biggest players. But their occult activities are revealed to be more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive.

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The Familiar

Leigh Bardugo

From the New York Times bestselling author of Ninth House, Hell Bent, and creator of the Grishaverse series comes a highly anticipated historical fantasy set during the Spanish Golden Age In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to better the family's social position. What begins as simple amusement for the bored nobility takes a perilous turn when Luzia garners the notice of Antonio Pérez, the disgraced secretary to Spain's king. Still reeling from the defeat of his armada, the king is desperate for any advantage in the war against England's heretic queen—and Pérez will stop at nothing to regain the king's favor. Determined to seize this one chance to better her fortunes, Luzia plunges into a world of seers and alchemists, holy men and hucksters, where the line between magic, science, and fraud is never certain. But as her notoriety grows, so does the danger that her Jewish blood will doom her to the Inquisition's wrath. She will have to use every bit of her wit and will to survive—even if that means enlisting the help of Guillén Santangel, an embittered immortal familiar whose own secrets could prove deadly for them both.

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Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, #2)

Octavia E. Butler

The futures of both mankind and an alien species rest in the hands of one hybrid son in the award-winning science fiction author’s masterful sequel to Dawn. Nuclear war had nearly destroyed mankind when the Oankali came to the rescue, saving humanity—but at a price. The Oankali survive by mixing their DNA with that of other species, and now on Earth they have permitted no child to be born without an Oankali parent. The first true hybrid is a boy named Akin—son of Lilith Iyapo— and to the naked eye he looks human, for now. He is born with extraordinary sensory powers, understanding speech at birth, speaking in sentences at two months old, and soon developing the ability to see at the molecular level. More powerful than any human or Oankali, he will be the architect of both races’ intergalactic future. But before he can carry this new species into the stars, Akin must decide which unlucky souls will stay behind. At once a coming-of-age story, science fiction adventure, and philosophical exploration, Butler’s ambitious and breathtaking novel ultimately raises the question of what it means to be human.

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