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Alina is 75% done with King Sorrow
Colin! YESSSSS!
Nov 16, 2025 11:49PM Add a comment
King Sorrow

Alina
Alina is 34% done with King Sorrow
Loving this book thus far, though I have to day I am struggling with the moral conundrum. Why even is there one?
Nov 15, 2025 12:57AM Add a comment
King Sorrow

Alina
Alina is on page 112 of 1280 of Reaper's Gale (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #7)
Oh, Rhulad... *cries inconsolably*
Oct 07, 2025 02:56AM Add a comment
Reaper's Gale (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #7)

Alina
Alina is on page 1012 of 1239 of World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2)
Can't believe I've read more than a thousand pages of heinous assholes constantly getting away with the most horrific of crimes. And it's still not over.
Sep 26, 2025 12:35AM Add a comment
World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2)

Alina
Alina is 59% done with The Bonehunters (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #6)
Up until now I felt that this is the best book in the series, but I find, upon another re-read, that if the story does not follow the Malazans, I do not care a bit. Crokus, Mappo, Icarium, Karsa... I have zero investment in any of their stories.
Sep 20, 2025 12:27AM Add a comment
The Bonehunters (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #6)

Alina
Alina is starting Midnight Tides (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #5)
Ahahaha, past me saying I would never start a Malazan re-read with Midnight Tides. Technically, I'm not, I read all the prequels and GotM, but instead of Deadhouse Gates, I'm going to Letheras now. Cos chronological order and all that.
Aug 10, 2025 07:33AM Add a comment
Midnight Tides (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #5)

Alina
Alina is on page 340 of 1100 of Fall of Light
To my shock and awe... I like Dathenar and Prazek this time around? Enough to actually read their prattle?
Jul 17, 2025 02:19AM Add a comment
Fall of Light

Alina
Alina is on page 145 of 1100 of Fall of Light
‘Upon the shoreline,’ he said. ‘There, when you ask it of us, we will stand.’

This, read without prior knowledge of the man series means nothing.

But if you have already read MBotF in its entirety... you're crying. I'm crying. Everyone is crying.
Jul 15, 2025 02:12AM Add a comment
Fall of Light

Alina
Alina is on page 822 of 928 of Forge of Darkness (The Kharkanas Trilogy, #1)
Soooo many horrible things happening during the last chapters of this book. I remember them all from previous reads but I find my revulsion and hatred for some of the characters only increases with time and rereads.
Jul 13, 2025 11:56PM Add a comment
Forge of Darkness (The Kharkanas Trilogy, #1)

Alina
Alina is on page 445 of 928 of Forge of Darkness (The Kharkanas Trilogy, #1)
It's been a while since my last re-read and I had forgotten, but damn, this book is INTENSE. I know a lot of people struggle with these prequels (I do too) and the writing and so many new characters, but DAMN. So intense. And all the connections. All the beginnings. I'm in Malazan lore heaven.
Jul 11, 2025 10:42PM Add a comment
Forge of Darkness (The Kharkanas Trilogy, #1)

Alina
Alina is on page 10 of 565 of The Devils (The Devils, #1)
That moment when Steven Pacey starts reading a new Joe Abercrombie book in your ear. Best.Thing.Ever.
Jun 15, 2025 10:03PM Add a comment
The Devils (The Devils, #1)

Alina
Alina is 72% done with The Dead Zone
Wow, Stephen King completely anticipated the orange cunt monkey... all the way back in 1979. Solidifies my idea that all I need to know and all I ever need to know about the USA comes from his books.
Apr 26, 2025 01:21AM Add a comment
The Dead Zone

Alina
Alina is on page 370 of 691 of Renegade's Magic (Soldier Son, #3)
Persevering thanks to fast-forwarded audio and sheer stubbornness. But this book is absolutely pointless. I'm giving myself until the end of the day to skim through it and see how it ends.
Apr 24, 2025 02:47AM Add a comment
Renegade's Magic (Soldier Son, #3)

Alina
Alina is on page 170 of 691 of Renegade's Magic (Soldier Son, #3)
Oooh, this one is absolute rubbish. Eat, sleep, wring impotent virtual hands, eat, sleep, repeat. I'm skimming through the chapters, hoping something interesting eventually happens.
Apr 23, 2025 10:15PM Add a comment
Renegade's Magic (Soldier Son, #3)

Alina
Alina is on page 128 of 738 of Forest Mage (Soldier Son #2)
Well, I can see that this is going to be a horrible slog through a morass of contemptible characters and hideous behavior from all and sundry. I have to wonder what possessed the author to write such relentlessly depressing crap.
Apr 21, 2025 10:39PM Add a comment
Forest Mage (Soldier Son #2)

Alina
Alina is on page 200 of 632 of Shaman's Crossing (Soldier Son, #1)
Well, 200 pages in and I understand the less than stellar rating. The world and the story itself are interesting. The main character and the narration choices... not so much.
Apr 20, 2025 12:35AM Add a comment
Shaman's Crossing (Soldier Son, #1)

Alina
Alina is 50% done with Roadwork
Yeah, this is absolute shit. But I bought it and it's SK and so I will waste a day in my life readind this tripe.
Mar 30, 2025 03:16AM Add a comment
Roadwork

Alina
Alina is 37% done with Roadwork
This might be the rare SK dud.
Mar 30, 2025 02:03AM Add a comment
Roadwork

Alina
Alina is on page 402 of 740 of 11.22.63
Interesting to read an SK story where I am enjoying everything... except anything to do with the main plot. I could not be less interested or more annoyed by anything to do with the actual events on 11.22.63, they are getting in the way of a really good novel.
Mar 02, 2025 01:41AM Add a comment
11.22.63

Alina
Alina is 85% done with The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded edition
Kind of don't want to finish this now, it makes me sad to hear the communications of the last years, knowing that old age and illness and loss and whatnot caused the most painful failure: that of never having the Silmarillion published in the author's lifetime.

Thank Eru for Christopher Tolkien.
Jan 18, 2025 10:17PM Add a comment
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded edition

Alina
Alina is 65% done with The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded edition
I'm listening to the audiobook version of the extended and revised edition and the voice of Samuel West is extremely soothing. I lose track of things when Tolkien goes on philological or religious tangents, but otherwise, it is a very interesting and edifying listen.
Jan 17, 2025 10:31PM Add a comment
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded edition

Alina
Alina is on page 15 of 515 of The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)
2025 resolution is to re-read all my most favorite books and we start off with a banger.

Logan already hitting ALL his favorite sayings in chapter one and then chapter two starting with the familiar "Why do I do this?"

Feels like coming home (a demented home, but still)
Jan 03, 2025 01:34AM Add a comment
The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)

Alina
Alina is on page 45 of 369 of Tress of the Emerald Sea
Well, if this isn't the cringiest sample of Sanderson humor, nothing is...
Nov 25, 2024 01:27AM Add a comment
Tress of the Emerald Sea

Alina
Alina is on page 526 of 752 of The Navigator's Children (Last King of Osten Ard)
Holy shit... not a book that had the absolute most climactic moment in the MIDDLE of the volume and then takes all the remaining pages to wrap EVERYTHING up. What manner of sorcery is this?

Also, with respect, I hate you, Mr. Author. You're a genius and I love you, but you completely broke my heart.
Nov 22, 2024 01:37AM Add a comment
The Navigator's Children (Last King of Osten Ard)

Alina
Alina is on page 22 of 752 of The Navigator's Children (Last King of Osten Ard)
Oookay... chapter two and first gape-mouth reveal.
Nov 16, 2024 07:45AM Add a comment
The Navigator's Children (Last King of Osten Ard)

Alina
Alina is starting The Navigator's Children (Last King of Osten Ard)
Here we go. I don't think I have ever waited for a book with such anticipation and trepidation. Please be brilliant, because I have spent 2 years waiting and the last couple of weeks re-reading everything Osten Ard and I am HYPED to the gills.
Nov 16, 2024 03:13AM Add a comment
The Navigator's Children (Last King of Osten Ard)

Alina
Alina is on page 490 of 1087 of An Echo in the Bone (Outlander, #7)
Supremely bored by the "modern times" plot line that is nothing but Roger's wishy washiness about being a priest. Then again, he was boring AF in all the novels and I despise him&Brianna endlessly.

Jamie and Claire are having a crappier version of Voyager that I can do without.

I'm here for John and his adopted kid and their intrigues, political and personal. Thank frak for that.
Nov 02, 2024 01:48AM Add a comment
An Echo in the Bone (Outlander, #7)

Alina
Alina is on page 5 of 536 of The Fury of the Gods (The Bloodsworn Saga, #3)
Haven't got my physical copy yet, but I've put the audiobook on and the first thing I noticed is that the narrator (Colin Mace) either forgot his Svik voice or gave him a bad cold. Me being obsessed with the foxy redhead, I just hope he makes it to the end of this book.
Oct 25, 2024 06:04AM Add a comment
The Fury of the Gods (The Bloodsworn Saga, #3)

Alina
Alina is on page 80 of 815 of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
This one's a chore to get trough again, so much bile and vinegar and teenage rage/angst. From the adults too. *sigh*
Oct 13, 2024 11:13PM Add a comment
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)

Alina
Alina is on page 20 of 353 of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
Reading all this again for Halloween.🎃🧙‍♂️🧙
Oct 06, 2024 07:32AM Add a comment
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)

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