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"Could have worms," mused Kitlan.
"You goddamned Apoths always think it's worms."
"That's because so many people have so many fucking worms."

Hold came a bit late for the Summer themed reads but oh well, regency archaeology nerd and a pirate woo~

Ok, *actually* starting this

I forget if she's still active here but Emily I definitely see some of the inspiration for Woodwalker

Mixed feelings on this maybe feeling more like it should be in the 200s instead of 921 but this was published in 2023 and in a chapter that she wrote in 2021:
"The forty-fifth president of the United States recently completed his time and only (prophetic note here) term..."

oh noooooo

For Storygraph's Genre Challenge 2026 prompt 6: a biography about a Black historical figure (I did read Tina Knowles' Matriarch earlier this year, but 1 I'm not sure if autobiographies count and 2 she feels too contemporary to be historical).

I do think I'm not the target audience for this as it's very faith/spirituality focused, but it's an aspect of Tubman I'm not familiar with

H fell asleep not long into chapter 4

Probably should've done this in September when I was catching up on MB, but then library due dates/book clubs got ahold of me

Again, I know it's not the point but Natalie's mom just said Pastor Ben's taking Abigail on a ski weekend just the two of them to Sun Valley. Why not Brundage or Tamarack or Bogus Basin? Idahomies can chime in but like... SV feels out of the way unless it's going fancy for a proposal.

Tbh the only times I've been to the Hailey area was for a concert & for a wedding

> Fans who know and love Samantha's girlhood stories will recognize some of the characters from her original series. However, not all of Samantha's friends and family appear in this book, as we envision this story as only the *first* of many to come.

This better not be a warning for a lack of O'Malley girls because the absence of her adopted sisters would be a glaring omission!!

I know it's not the point but the location geography is really annoying me, as someone who grew up in southeast Idaho. Why fly into Sun Valley instead of Boise when visiting your new ranch in the southwest corner of the state? The river and reservation descriptions feel more like *SE* to me, but then the mountain range part doesn't make sense either.

Last book for the Fall 2026 pagebound readalong!

"...when we moved to our new town in the southwestern corner of Idaho, four hours away from where we’d grown up."

so like, did she grow up in my neck of the woods lol

Love Allston getting the flyboys back together!

Cringing a bit at Grace trying to pivot to be a new and improved self sophomore year versus being a freshman when we started but maybe that's more being An Old

Anyway, I think I might still hold off on watching Off Campus until I get through Allie's book

Whoops, realized I hadn't been updating GR.

So far I think "Fist Full of Warlocks" is my favorite but the Bigfoot trilogy of stories is also really fun

Genuinely do not know where this went from unpacking hospital bags 3.5 years ago, resuming via digital copy

general update because I'm mostly audiobooking and have less incentive to update GR versus teh other sites with streaks- I am also glad that Debra McCurdy is dead too holy cow.

Rereading to the 3 year old; we'll see how far I get

"Among the more troubling trends of twenty-first-century American politics is the normalization of every election as the existential one, the one upon whose results rests the very survival of American democracy."

This posthumous compilation was published after I was too old for Madeline, so this is my first time going through these as well. We read Madeline in America tonight, in which the titular character is apparently a Neiman Marcus heiress and travels to Texas at Christmas to inspect her inheritance (ranch etc). But, can't get too spoiled as the will states she will have access at 21 so back to Paris the girls go, lol

"Parenting is the most terrifying thing I can imagine, even under the best of circumstances," she said softly. "When you bring a child into dangerous times, it's even worse."

Moving quite briskly though it doesn't shy away from anything

For the Decade of Reads fall challenge/been meaning to get around to it

River of Teeth got mixed reception in book club thus far and I wonder how much of that is debut shakies versus other factors like audiobook (the narration accent is... a Choice from what I heard)