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MostMagenta is 60% done with The Running Grave (Cormoran Strike, #7)
I'm loving this! It really is a page turner (what's the equivalent when I'm listening to the audiobook version?) Infiltrating a cult is a brilliantly interesting concept.
Oct 31, 2023 08:50PM Add a comment
The Running Grave (Cormoran Strike, #7)

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MostMagenta is 75% done with The Shining (The Shining #1)
Argh!!! I can't believe I'm struggling to get this book finished. I thought I'd love it. I really don't.
Dec 29, 2021 08:41PM Add a comment
The Shining (The Shining #1)

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MostMagenta is 50% done with The Nesting
Loving this.
Nov 11, 2021 01:32AM Add a comment
The Nesting

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MostMagenta is 5% done with Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
I'm quite sure that I have overestimated my intelligence in choosing to read this book.
Oct 18, 2021 10:45PM Add a comment
Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody

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MostMagenta is 15% done with The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
The audio book I am listening to is performed by Andy Serkis. What a treat!
Sep 29, 2021 09:10PM Add a comment
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)

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MostMagenta is 5% done with The End of Men
Weird that someone showing minor signs of the flu (pre-outbreak) would be taken to the emergency department at the hospital. Slight plot hole I think.
Aug 12, 2021 02:40AM Add a comment
The End of Men

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MostMagenta is 75% done with It
I'm not really loving this book. It seems extremely drawn out and unnecessarily long.
Aug 10, 2021 01:09PM Add a comment
It

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MostMagenta is 20% done with The Perfect Couple
This women behaves pretty oddly for someone who has no idea where her husband is. I've been more upset over my cat being missing. I really seriously doubt you would be trying to work and wondering if certain police officers were in a relationship or not when you have a loved one missing without a trace for over 48 hours. Are you serious? Pretty bad, but I will persevere.
Jul 19, 2021 02:40AM Add a comment
The Perfect Couple

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MostMagenta is 25% done with Reservoir 13
Having trouble keeping tabs on who is who.
May 19, 2021 11:34PM Add a comment
Reservoir 13

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MostMagenta is starting 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
I want to understand what is supposed to be so remarkable about Jordan Peterson. The book is not helping me discover this. I just find him extremely rambling, long winded and not really saying anything. I doubt I'll be finishing this book.
Apr 12, 2021 03:54AM Add a comment
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

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MostMagenta is on page 75 of 1007 of The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
This is so good. Completely engrossing.
Oct 29, 2020 11:04PM Add a comment
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)

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MostMagenta is 75% done with The Witches' Tree (Agatha Raisin #28)
Well this is very unfortunately reading like some sort of spoof version of it's former self. Really awful and disappointing.
Sep 29, 2020 12:18PM Add a comment
The Witches' Tree (Agatha Raisin #28)

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MostMagenta is 50% done with Where the Crawdads Sing
Thoroughly absorbing so far. Lovely atmospheric writing.
Sep 20, 2020 11:44PM Add a comment
Where the Crawdads Sing

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MostMagenta is 90% done with The Secret History
Oh dear. I've come so far but finishing has become quite a chore. I don't care about any of the 1 dimensional, boring, entitled characters and it seems there will be no consequences for what they have done, and there are no exciting Ancient Greek secret classes at all. Not a lot is happening. I feel like the entire book is false advertising.
Sep 17, 2020 02:55PM Add a comment
The Secret History

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MostMagenta is 50% done with The Secret History
So it"s the author reading the book. Oh dear. Also only 50 %???? This book is very very very slow. It feels like I have just listened for 12 hours for something to finally happen and I can't imagine there could possibly be another 50% more story to go. Horrible, unbelievable characters. The mystery of this book is why it is so incredibly popular. But I do like the writing I suppose or I would have given up long ago.
Sep 14, 2020 11:01AM Add a comment
The Secret History

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MostMagenta is 40% done with The Secret History
I have an issue with the audio book narrator being a woman who is reading for the first person male character. It is an odd choice and she is incapable of maintaining anything like a male voice for more than half a sentence. She is also doing the most idiotic voice for another male character who she has sounding like Bugs Bunny. OMG it's hideous torture to my ears.
Sep 13, 2020 12:48PM Add a comment
The Secret History

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MostMagenta is 40% done with The Secret History
I have an issue with the audio book narrator being a woman who is reading for the first person male character. It is an odd choice and she is incapable of maintaining anything like a male voice for more than half a sentence. She is also doing the lost idiotic voice for another apparently attractive male character who she has sounding like Bugs Bunny. OMG it's hideous torture to my ears.
Sep 13, 2020 12:46PM Add a comment
The Secret History

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MostMagenta is 10% done with Cage of Souls
This is great. I'm very excited to say I have found a good one at last! Superb narrator too. I think that makes the world of difference in an audio book. It's a performance, not a droll reading of the page. This book has just a hint of Terry Pratchett about it. I love this author.
Sep 07, 2020 12:11PM Add a comment
Cage of Souls

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MostMagenta is 5% done with Cloud Atlas
Oh no. It will be a miracle if I get through this. Wow it's boring.
Sep 05, 2020 10:38PM Add a comment
Cloud Atlas

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MostMagenta is 90% done with The Stand
Epic. Stephen King is an amazing storyteller.
Aug 23, 2020 11:10AM Add a comment
The Stand

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MostMagenta is reading Year One (Chronicles of The One, #1)
I think it's safe to assume that the author has never given birth, let alone to twins.
Aug 03, 2020 11:44PM Add a comment
Year One (Chronicles of The One, #1)

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MostMagenta is 40% done with Burial Rites
Very reminiscent of Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood.
Jul 29, 2020 01:46AM Add a comment
Burial Rites

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MostMagenta is 30% done with Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
This is great. And I'm not a sci -fi fan.
May 20, 2020 01:32AM Add a comment
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)

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MostMagenta is starting The Burned Tower
Yikes, this drawn out experience of 59 pages just proves that if it's not an audio book then I am never going to finish it!
Apr 02, 2020 03:03AM Add a comment
The Burned Tower

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MostMagenta is 60% done with The Woman in White
This is one captivating story!
Feb 18, 2020 08:47PM Add a comment
The Woman in White

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