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Currently being lazy for the holidays and working on crafts/playing video games. New books coming soon. :)

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Mortimer really just said “so anyway I started blasting” IASIP-style.

You had me at “Terminal C of the Charlotte-Douglas International Airport at 8AM on a Monday morning was no one’s idea of a good time.” Because it’s true.

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This book is incredibly good but I also made the mistake of starting a new XCOM 2 run, so they’re battling it out for my attention.

Soft ‘reshelved’ for this one—I have two weeks before it needs to be back at the library but I also have other holds coming in, so I’m gonna come back to it before the due date.

This book isn’t bad at all, but I’m not loving it enough to be fully engaged and I’m slogging through it. I might need to pick up a second read to get through this one.

Revisiting a childhood favorite; there are only 4 books and they’re short, why not.

I’ve heard the intro is better as an afterword (plus the philosophical minutiae of different interpretations of nihilism and God and the internet are also too dense for my brain at the moment), so I’m going to read it at the end.

I am realizing that a book about watching things in your head is probably not a good choice for me as a person with aphantasia, but I’m still having a good time.

“Feral animals—their histories, their futures, their survival—are inextricably linked to humankind. Their lives are tied to ours.

Feral, for all the wildness it implies, just means that an animal was abandoned by the system that created it.”

This book is gonna make me cry, I’m certain.

Mixed bag so far, but I think every anthology is prone to that.

I feel like I have to put this down in between each chapter to give myself a minute. Weird time in my life to be reading this one.

I’ve read too much normal stuff recently, time to get weird with it and join a worm cult

Literally judged a book by its cover on this one, but I suspect I’ll like it

Ok this is far too long, ngl.

Getting there. It’s due back to the library by 5 pm tomorrow, I’m confident I can finish it at least.

The Spanglish dialogue and descriptions are, of course, a valid style and are used beautifully in this book, but god it’s slowing me down having to translate multiple passages per chapter.

Taking a massive step back from social media so hopefully I’ll get some good reading in for the next… however long. Forever? Idk man, fuck Meta fr.

Narrator voice: she lied about taking a break from this series.

I may take a break after this one before I tackle volumes 4-6; I had some other holds come in from the library and I’m ok with giving this series some space for a week or so.

Ngl it was losing me a little bit around the early middle, but I’m invested now

My boyfriend recommended this one, and I know he’s a man of good taste so we’ll see.

Increasingly certain that I'm not even close to the intended audience here, but my coworker loaned me this book 3 months ago so I'm finishing it regardless.

I don’t even remotely know how I feel about this book, but I do know that I’m not making much progress

Idk about this one, folks. I know the author is supposed to be bad because that’s the framing narrative, but I found myself skimming entire pages in “Girl A.” On to “Girl B.”

This book is gonna wreck me, what have I done