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message 1: by Donne (last edited Dec 16, 2023 10:31AM) (new)

Donne "a book about survival."

Survival? That is a word that has a lot of conotations to it, even the definition lists a couple of different meanings. A couple of weeks ago, I started REALLY going through my to-read list, all 300+ books. It didn't take long to notice that a lot of the books I had added in 2020 were stories about bleak, dystopian, futures with ragtag bands of humans roaming the earth trying to survive. Needless to say, a worldwide pandemic that killed millions had a profound effect on my reading preferances back then. Prior to 2020, I despised those kinds of stories. Yep, they were the first ones to go.

When it comes to survival stories, I would say I prefer to read stories about the underdog rising from the depths of society to achieve a good life. This would explain my 5star review of Lessons in Chemistry as well as my highly ranked reviews of similar stories.

I added my fave "survival" stories.


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