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Tess is 33% done with A Million Little Pieces
This book is woefully bad
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A Million Little Pieces

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Tess is 72% done with The Safekeep
This book is anxiously fantastic. I don’t want to finish it but also I’m delighted to be reading it in the Christmas holidays as I know I can stay in bed reading till the end.
Wonderful.
Dec 27, 2025 02:56AM Add a comment
The Safekeep

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Tess is starting The Safekeep
This book is an absolute joy to read, so beautifully written.
Dec 26, 2025 06:54AM Add a comment
The Safekeep

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Tess is starting Matrix
Somewhat annoyingly, my e-reader has decided to change the language of this book to French and I can’t revert to English. I can stumble trough the book but it’s not fun and I’ve forgotten a fair bit of French so I’m missing swathes and chunks. I give up for now
Feb 10, 2024 12:37AM Add a comment
Matrix

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Tess is 75% done with The Cat Who Saved Books (The Cat Who..., #1)
Yawn.
There’s probably some deep and meaningful philosophy going on here but whoosh. If it wasn’t such a short book I’d give up on it.
Jan 06, 2024 06:45AM Add a comment
The Cat Who Saved Books (The Cat Who..., #1)

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Tess is 33% done with It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
Dearie me. It’s every bit as bad as I’d expected. The characters have no depth. It’s like Enid Blyton with the casual racism replaced by references to sex. Not sure I can finish this.
Nov 08, 2023 01:52PM Add a comment
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)

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Tess is 40% done with Milkman
I have tried to read this book on 4 separate occasions, and every time I’ve hated it. So I’ve started the audiobook, and I’m really enjoying it!
Aug 27, 2023 12:43AM Add a comment
Milkman

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Tess is 44% done with Calling Major Tom
I’m glad I stuck with it. It’s all gone a bit Harold Fry. Overly sentimental, easy to read and probably a bit twee but it’s enjoyable.
Feb 25, 2023 01:47AM Add a comment
Calling Major Tom

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Tess is 20% done with Calling Major Tom
I hate funny books. This one is trying to be funny.
Feb 23, 2023 11:32PM Add a comment
Calling Major Tom

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Tess is starting The Fear
Ok, giving this one another go. I’m going to give all my unfinished reads a second chance this year.
Jan 21, 2023 03:00AM Add a comment
The Fear

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Tess is 32% done with Stone Blind
Why are the Greek gods all such nasty fuckers? I hate Zeus.
Jan 13, 2023 05:02AM Add a comment
Stone Blind

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Tess is 20% done with The Trees
Soooo many n bombs. I know it’s meant to convey the racism without the author specifically saying these people are racist af, but I’m finding it makes me very uncomfortable.
Jan 11, 2023 11:02PM Add a comment
The Trees

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Tess is 45% done with Rough Country (Virgil Flowers, #3)
What can I say? The book was going ok, I was loving the Queer representation until it turned out that the reason this one retreat spot was so popular with lesbians was because the young men (some of whom were underage) who worked as bar staff were also male prostitutes.
Bloody hell.
Nov 07, 2022 04:25AM Add a comment
Rough Country (Virgil Flowers, #3)

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Tess is 20% done with The Story of the Night
A lot of talk about penises and balls and men having sex 🤢🤮 and I don’t know if I’ll carry on with it. I do like the writing but I don’t know how much more sex I can endure.
Aug 16, 2022 05:00AM Add a comment
The Story of the Night

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Tess is 68% done with Hamnet
Oh. I mean I knew this was what the book was about but still, oh no :(
Beautifully written so far but oh :(
May 16, 2021 02:29PM Add a comment
Hamnet

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Tess is 12% done with The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
Oh dear god I've heard so many good things about this book and it's pure drivel 😂😂😂 I hope it gets better. At least it's short.
Apr 18, 2021 05:21AM Add a comment
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)

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Tess is 36% done with Apropos of Nothing
I love Woody Allen's work, I believe Dylan Farrow.
This book is surprising in that WA doesn't even try to make himself likeable. It's funny, but it's also disjointed and rambling. He doesn't portray anyone in a good light, least of all himself.
Apr 15, 2021 02:55AM Add a comment
Apropos of Nothing

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Tess is 45% done with The Girl with the Louding Voice
This book has captivated me!! I'm going to see if I can finish it this evening, I need to know what happens.
Jan 10, 2021 10:31AM Add a comment
The Girl with the Louding Voice

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Tess is 25% done with Ordinary People
Yawn.
It's for book club so I will carry on, but I thought it would be tedious and I was right.
Jul 02, 2020 03:00PM Add a comment
Ordinary People

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Tess is 40% done with Pig Island
This is the first time in a long time that a book has had me terrified! I think this is the first Mo Hayder book I've read, and I'm enjoying their writing.
Apr 17, 2020 01:11AM Add a comment
Pig Island

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Tess is 45% done with My Name Is Why
It's disgraceful and so upsetting that we allow our children to be damaged in this way, and all by those paid to protect them.
Apr 12, 2020 10:12AM Add a comment
My Name Is Why

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Tess is 64% done with The Binding
Only 2% finished since last time? 😭😭😭😭
Mar 04, 2020 03:03PM Add a comment
The Binding

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Tess is 62% done with The Binding
Boting, boring boring. BOOM! slightly less boring, slightly boring, boring...
Mar 03, 2020 11:11PM Add a comment
The Binding

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Tess is 33% done with Dead Simple (Roy Grace, #1)
I've not read this author before. So far, so good!
Feb 16, 2020 07:03AM Add a comment
Dead Simple (Roy Grace, #1)

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Tess is 61% done with Normal People
Everything I've read recently has been so incredibly poor that I'm reading this book about absolutely nothing, thinking it's ok purely because I don't hate it.
I need a good book.
Feb 09, 2020 02:49PM Add a comment
Normal People

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Tess is 60% done with The Holiday
Yawn.
Nov 19, 2019 01:12PM Add a comment
The Holiday

Tess
Tess is 66% done with Tin Man
This book is beautiful but oh my goodness its slaying me. I can't face any more but I know I will, but for now my heart needs to recover. Such an amazingly beautifully written book.
My heart aches.
Nov 10, 2019 02:03AM Add a comment
Tin Man

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Tess is 35% done with Tin Man
Beautifully written but oh so sad. I want to keep.going but cant handle the emotions.
Nov 09, 2019 12:33AM Add a comment
Tin Man

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Tess is 63% done with All the Light We Cannot See
Oh no, I've just had a sinking realisation of what might lie ahead. I hope I'm wrong.
Still beautifully written, but oh so sad.
Oct 26, 2019 03:08AM Add a comment
All the Light We Cannot See

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