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Rachel is 85% done with House of Earth and Blood (Crescent City, #1)

— Jun 14, 2025 05:07AM Add a comment

Rachel is finished with Caring for Your Baby and Young Child, Birth to Age 5

I'm working on the 1 year old section, reading about 15 months to 24 months.

— Dec 16, 2024 10:54AM Add a comment

Caring for Your Baby and Young Child, Birth to Age 5

Rachel is 48% done with A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)

"I wouldn’t go so far as to call myself a beauty, but … I hadn’t cringed."
Big Mood

— Aug 18, 2023 09:54AM Add a comment

A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)

Rachel is 10% done with Her Dragon Daddy (Black Claw Dragons, #1)

Second Chapter (his perspective). It has successfully dragged me in, giving me enough information that I want more, but not info dumping.

— Sep 08, 2021 04:16PM Add a comment

Rachel is 6% done with Her Dragon Daddy (Black Claw Dragons, #1)

— Sep 07, 2021 07:01AM Add a comment

Rachel is 57% done with Chasing Cassandra (The Ravenels, #6)

— Aug 05, 2021 09:37AM Add a comment

Rachel is 22% done with Little Women (Little Women, #1)

— Dec 19, 2019 11:53AM Add a comment

Rachel is on page 84 of 709 of House of Leaves

Can we just talk about the appendices? His mother ..... beautiful inclusion of those letters.

— Oct 20, 2019 04:18PM Add a comment

Rachel is on page 3 of 709 of House of Leaves

TIL "Antinomies" meaning "1: a contradiction between two apparently equally valid principles or between inferences correctly drawn from such principles

2: a fundamental and apparently unresolvable conflict or contradiction"

Per Merriam Webster dictionary

— Oct 09, 2019 04:00PM Add a comment

Rachel is 41% done with Past Marriageable Age

Quote " “He wants to show off his cooking skills, ladies. That’s all.” Secretly, I hoped he was going to show off more interesting things too… like that sexy back side."

He cooks! <3

— Oct 09, 2019 07:34AM Add a comment

Rachel is on page 12 of 262 of Nevada

Book is due back at library, have to stop :(

— Oct 03, 2019 03:14PM Add a comment

Rachel is 9% done with Past Marriageable Age

Pride does not pay bills.....

" Of course, her pride could not take that idea where it was common for people to look down upon certain jobs. “You are struggling to pay bills,” I reminded her. “But my grandmother would die of shock if she knew I was wiping tables and serving food at a coffee shop,” she cried indignantly."

— Oct 01, 2019 12:41PM Add a comment

Rachel is 50% done with I'm Afraid of Men.

Not going to lie, I had to look up Bindi.

— Sep 14, 2019 08:12AM Add a comment