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Eileen is Currently Reading

Eileen is currently reading

The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #3)

by Matt Dinniman (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: 2024, 2024-ng-group-challenge, adventure, audiobook, dystopian, humor, fantasy, currently-reading, 2026, 2026-genrechallenge, 2026-ng-group-challenge, litrpg, reread

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read in January 2024

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Eileen said: " 3.5 stars

I'm really enjoying this series and am really pulling for Carl and Donut to get through with some of their friends intact, and the ability to stick it to the corporation! But they have a ton more levels to get through before that can happen! 3.5 stars

I'm really enjoying this series and am really pulling for Carl and Donut to get through with some of their friends intact, and the ability to stick it to the corporation! But they have a ton more levels to get through before that can happen!

This particular level (will there be 18 books for 18 levels?) was not exactly interesting. The main challenge in this book was that they had travel by train, hijack some trains, destroy some trains, do whatever it took to get to a station so that they could then get down to the next level. As much as I'm enjoying the series, I tend to get lost in the details and forget the big picture. So with the exception of some of it, the trains were my least favorite part of this book. I did like the demon engineer and her babies!

But I liked how this one had Carl becoming a leader of sorts, coordinating with other crawler groups, and trying to get everyone to work together so that as many of them can survive to the end. While some of the leaders are clearly out to get other leaders for the good of their own group, Carl is all about helping all the humans survive the hell that is the dungeon. His biggest weakness is that he sometimes lets his anger get the better of him.

Without revealing specific spoilers, the title of this book is also one of the plot elements in this book, and I look forward to finding out more about it in future books. I didn't like that Mordecai was as absent as he was because I do like his character. But on the flip side, it allowed Carl to make his own decisions, and whether they were the best decisions or what Mordecai would have recommended, I think they did help Carl learn a lot about being a leader.

Princess Donut is also maturing from the initial spoiled brat of a Persian she was at the beginning of the series, and I like that Carl recognizes that about her. While he knows some of her weaknesses, he also knows her strength, and I like that he tends to try talking through things with her, respecting her as an equal partner in what they choose to do. That's what this book felt like to me. The continuing development of their relationship with each other with mutual respect and love. What I like is that she is not his pet (or even Bea's pet) but his partner, while Mongo is her pet.

I also liked the addition of Katia--while she started out kind of like a wallflower, I liked watching her development, and I really liked how Carl tried to help her grow, even if he knew she was part of another team. It ultimately made me realize that he wants as many humans (well, the original humans) to survive the dungeons as possible. I'm hoping to see a lot more of her in future books.

I will be continuing with this series! ...more "

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Jan 30, 2024 09:10PM · see review

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Drop Dead Dave: A LitRPG Action Comedy Death Game (Don't Die Dave Book 2)

by A.R. Witham (Goodreads Author)

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Murder Bites

by Mimi Montgomery

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Eileen’s Quotes

“Getting sober never felt like I had pulled myself up by my own spiritual bootstraps. It felt instead like I was on one path toward destruction and God pulled me off of it by the scruff of my collar, me hopelessly kicking and flailing and saying, 'Screw you. I’ll take the destruction please.' God looked at tiny, little red-faced me and said, 'that’s adorable,' and then plunked me down on an entirely different path.”
― Nadia Bolz-Weber, Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint

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“It was wonderful indeed how I could have heart-to-heart talks with my dogs and they always seemed to understand. Each question I asked was answered in their own doggish way.

Although they couldn’t talk in my terms, they had a language of their own that was easy to understand. Sometimes I would see the answer in their eyes, and again it would be in the friendly wagging of their tails. Other times I could hear the answer in a low whine or feel it in the soft caress of a warm flickering tongue. In some way, they would always answer.”
― Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows

tags: dogs

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“...if anything matters then everything matters. Because you are important, everything you do is important. Every time you forgive, the universe changes; every time you reach out and touch a heart or a life, the world changes; with every kindness and service, seen or unseen, my purposes are accomplished and nothing will be the same again.”
― Wm. Paul Young, The Shack

tags: forgiveness, making-a-difference, what-maters

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“I'm from the Lenape Tribe.
There're no full blooded Lenape alive. Interracial is assimilatory genocide, especially for Indiginous and Minorities worldwide.
Especially when specific suggestion on a mass scale is applied. For many tribes, Interracial was the only way to survive.”
― San Mateo, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

tags: genocide, interracial

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“God's grace is not defined as God being forgiving to us even though we sin. Grace is when God is a source of wholeness, which makes up for my failings. My failings hurt me and others and even the planet, and God's grace to me is that my brokenness is not the final word ... it's that God makes beautiful things out of even my own shit. Grace isn't about God creating humans and flawed beings and then acting all hurt when we inevitably fail and then stepping in like the hero to grant us grace - like saying, "Oh, it's OK, I'll be the good guy and forgive you." It's God saying, "I love the world too much to let your sin define you and be the final word. I am a God who makes all things new.”
― Nadia Bolz-Weber, Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint

tags: forgiveness, god, grace, new, religion, shit, sin

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