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luce goose is starting Utopia
bold of me to assume this will help my reading slump in any way
Apr 09, 2026 07:03AM 1 comment
Utopia

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luce goose is 47% done with The Night Manager
Having an ok time but becoming increasingly confident that this guy hates black people and women
Mar 26, 2026 01:26AM Add a comment
The Night Manager

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luce goose is on page 131 of 336 of The City & the City
In my “books with cleverly-made-up words” era. The author consistently shows instead of tells and relies on you being well-read and a lover of the english language. Topolganger?? Are u kidding me?? LOVING IT
Nov 15, 2025 03:43AM Add a comment
The City & the City

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luce goose is on page 44 of 336 of The City & the City
“The once-collapsing Ul Qoma rookeries, crenellated and lumpen-baroque (not that I saw them - I unsaw carefully, but they still registered a little, illicitly, and I remembered the styles from photographs)” - ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!! what a treat of a narration I’m in love with this 1984/I am Pilgrim lovechild
Nov 13, 2025 04:11AM Add a comment
The City & the City

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luce goose is on page 123 of 577 of Dune (Dune, #1)
oh no i’m actually having a fantastic time. the men were right
Oct 29, 2025 11:51AM 2 comments
Dune (Dune, #1)

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luce goose is on page 21 of 577 of Dune (Dune, #1)
Already fighting for my life, second attempt. Having the same experience as LOTR where (controversial) sometimes a great writer is not necessarily a great storyteller, or maybe I am just dumb. Get ready to see this on my shelf for a very long time - but at least this time I’ve found the bloody glossary at the back!!
Oct 29, 2025 01:09AM 2 comments
Dune (Dune, #1)

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luce goose is 64% done with Our Evenings
I can see that this isn’t going to be a book for everyone because it’s hefty and not massively gripping, but I’m really enjoying just wandering around with this character. Hollinghurst is a fantastic writer and has a wonderful ability to capture how nuanced and rarely singular emotions are - characters are always “pleased and a little bored” or “polite and rather grim-faced”. I love it
Sep 24, 2025 01:07AM Add a comment
Our Evenings

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luce goose is 15% done with Our Evenings
Thoroughly enjoying how well this book subtly keeps secrets from you through a first person author. Not easy to do without being heavy handed or irritated but so far I’m obsessed, highlighting a lot and have a feeling it will make me cry at around 40%
Sep 17, 2025 09:58AM Add a comment
Our Evenings

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luce goose is 3% done with Authority (Southern Reach #2)
MODERN books with an introduction from another author just totally glazing it to get you hyped before youve even begun……. highlighting the themes you’ll encounter without giving anything away…… drawing on comparative literature…… classifying it as postcolonial fiction…… situating it in the political environment of its pub year……., hnnnnn………
Aug 06, 2025 12:32AM Add a comment
Authority (Southern Reach #2)

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luce goose is 28% done with Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
phenomenal so far, pick it up STAT
Aug 04, 2025 01:05AM Add a comment
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)

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luce goose is on page 85 of 351 of Atonement
Giggling kicking my feet this is SUBLIME. Ian McEwan has been possessed by Virginia Woolf for this one. I am eating it up yum yum yum
Jun 05, 2025 03:54AM Add a comment
Atonement

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luce goose is 21% done with Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games)
Ok we all give JKR a rough time about naming characters but i am CACKLING at these names. What do u mean the electric district called their children COIL and LECT and AMPERT!! the fish district called their child URCHIN. WHAT do u MEAN the transport district called their child VELO and MILES. and then after all this we just get RYAN FROM DISTRICT 9 suzanne PLEASE
Mar 23, 2025 01:01PM Add a comment
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games)

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luce goose is 56% done with One Hundred Years of Solitude
I Am Doing My Best But This Book Is Genuinely Hard
Mar 21, 2025 07:00AM Add a comment
One Hundred Years of Solitude

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luce goose is 21% done with One Hundred Years of Solitude
This book will drop THEE most insane lore in a sentence and then immediately move on. “and then she died. meanwhile,” “so he married a 12 year old, who then got pregnant” I am mentally unprepared for this
Jan 29, 2025 05:12AM Add a comment
One Hundred Years of Solitude

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luce goose is on page 465 of 629 of The Secret History
Tried to read this once before and found it tiring. Went in again with the stubborn belief that while every friend has rated it 4+, I would find it cliche and entitled. Alas I am experiencing The Joys Of Reading and am having a fantastic time!
Jan 13, 2025 04:12PM Add a comment
The Secret History

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luce goose is 59% done with Sunburn
Violently reliving my own experience of summers crushing on best female friend. This is going to end sooo badly bestie
Dec 27, 2024 01:29PM Add a comment
Sunburn

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luce goose is on page 191 of 594 of Hello Beautiful
Pleasantly surprised - having been worried about the romcom vibe the book started off with. This is definitely one for Sally Rooney fans, naturally has a Little Women aspect to it, but above all reads a LOT like Demon Copperhead. For now I would recommend !!
Dec 24, 2024 09:32AM Add a comment
Hello Beautiful

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luce goose is on page 125 of 245 of Piranesi
(rubbing hands together gleefully) PHILOSOPHY
Dec 19, 2024 04:04PM Add a comment
Piranesi

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luce goose is 57% done with The Fatal Englishman: Three Short Lives
i am so not a non fiction reader. but i am trying. just with lots of naps interspersed when it gets boring
Dec 05, 2024 11:06AM Add a comment
The Fatal Englishman: Three Short Lives

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luce goose is 54% done with Purple Hibiscus
Eating this one up! Licking the plate!
Dec 03, 2024 04:27PM Add a comment
Purple Hibiscus

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luce goose is on page 150 of 524 of Catch-22
I don’t know how much longer I can pretend to be enjoying this
Aug 15, 2024 12:56AM Add a comment
Catch-22

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luce goose is on page 54 of 524 of Catch-22
Third attempt to read this book with hefty 5 year gaps between each attempt. Let’s hear it for #3 !!!
Aug 04, 2024 10:19AM Add a comment
Catch-22

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luce goose is 25% done with Ripe
I think my issue so far is that I just don’t get her motivations. She’s in a job that makes her absolutely depressed and miserable and spends so much time being miserable, which is something I could never imagine doing - life is too short? Most likely a me problem but this book wouldn’t exist if she just. Didn’t work there
Jun 21, 2024 05:20AM Add a comment
Ripe

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luce goose is on page 24 of 336 of Rosewater
“I say, exhaling perfectly round Os that imitate the shape of my shaved head” i am going to return this book
Jun 05, 2024 01:48PM 1 comment
Rosewater

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luce goose is on page 42 of 321 of Conversations with Friends
As with every other bisexual academic-smart introvert who reads this book, I fear I may be identifying with Frances a tad too much
May 13, 2024 04:26AM Add a comment
Conversations with Friends

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luce goose is 11% done with In Memoriam
This is gay ww1 angsty friends to lovers fanfiction. My specialty. I basically ghostwrote this. Unsure how to feel
Apr 18, 2024 01:30PM Add a comment
In Memoriam

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luce goose is 50% done with Prophet Song
Have to keep physically putting it down for a few seconds every chapter bc I’m so overwhelmed with emotion. This book snatches you into it and stuffs you into the narrator’s mind. It’s uncomfortable and claustrophobic and upsetting. I’m really enjoying it.
Apr 02, 2024 03:24PM 1 comment
Prophet Song

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luce goose is on page 104 of 304 of The End of the World is a Cul de Sac
I didn’t realise that these are separate short stories for more chapters than I am willing to admit
Mar 23, 2024 07:25PM Add a comment
The End of the World is a Cul de Sac

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luce goose is on page 73 of 220 of The Child in Time
He’s just transposed the entire history of this character into Lessons? The exact same story told almost word for word? Someone do this man for self-plagiarism
Mar 14, 2024 07:58AM Add a comment
The Child in Time

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