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Monica is 23% done with Babel: An Arcane History
I’m really enjoying this book. The storytelling is alive fresh intriguing…,
Feb 27, 2025 02:20AM Add a comment
Babel: An Arcane History

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Monica is on page 260 of 558 of Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)
This is the book that I thought was reading when I reviewed children of earth… yep. This is hours tired I am lol.

Turns out, the intro part IS really mind numbingly complicated and overflowing with too many details that I couldn’t make sense of until I started hitting the 200s. It’s not the Frank Herbert Dune first 100 pages kind of complicated. FH built universes full of light & dark, but showed it all to us
May 03, 2024 04:31PM Add a comment
Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)

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Monica is on page 142 of 608 of Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
This is the slowest reading I’ve done in a long while. There are so many species, locations, names, layer upon layer upon layer of complexity that I’ve not been able to get into the book yet.

It is a huge universe he’s built, yes… but did it have to be so heavily populated with so much complexity this early on? I’m struggling to keep all the details in mind from one evening to the next…
Mar 26, 2024 08:11AM Add a comment
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)

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Monica is 25% done with Humankind: A Hopeful History
I’m loving this book. It’s a soul healing kind of book that lets me see a bit of the light that’s in everyone around, through all the layers of division, uncertainty, conflict.
Jan 17, 2024 02:06PM Add a comment
Humankind: A Hopeful History

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Monica is 17% done with The Space Between Worlds (The Space Between Worlds, #1)
It’s a much slower read than I’ve anticipated for such a highly acclaimed book…
Dec 20, 2023 04:41PM Add a comment
The Space Between Worlds (The Space Between Worlds, #1)

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Monica is 7% done with Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
This book takes you on such a grand journey through space time… it’s like looking up at the stars at night and realizing how small we, as individuals, are, and yet, here we are…
Dec 20, 2023 04:40PM Add a comment
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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Monica is 20% done with The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
A MUST READ! From every point of view!
It’s not a fast read for me because I have to sit and process and sometimes even write my way into understanding.
It has impact on the personal level, the social system, the priorities we have as a society, inequality, climate, omg! It’s really that good!
Mar 01, 2023 06:55AM Add a comment
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

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Monica is 35% done with Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder
“But ADD precedes the plot. It adjusts the lighting and sets the stage. If the lighting is too low or significant props are missing from the stage, the story cannot be fully comprehended. Before getting the story going, before developing the plot lines of one’s ongoing narrative of introspection, it is worthwhile to have a lighting specialist and a propman check the stage out.”
Sep 23, 2022 03:26AM Add a comment
Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder

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Monica is 15% done with Blindfold
Surprisingly slow... I'm not able to connect to the characters
Sep 01, 2021 01:58AM Add a comment
Blindfold

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Monica is 7% done with Blindfold
A blend of what seems life fantasy in a sci-fi universe. Just started and can't tell where is going yet, but the writing, like always, is just top!
Aug 04, 2021 07:27AM Add a comment
Blindfold

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Monica is 7% done with Goldenhand (Abhorsen, #5)
For an audiobook, you need to have a good narator. This does not have a good narator!

It's truly difficult to get into the book with this voice going up and down on ever single word.

I wish I'd had gotten this book in ebook format instead.
Jun 16, 2021 03:28PM Add a comment
Goldenhand (Abhorsen, #5)

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Monica is 17% done with Starman Jones
Always loved Heinlein's style. This book doesn't disappoint.
May 30, 2021 03:53AM Add a comment
Starman Jones

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