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comfort read 😌

current audio read 🎧(i love a scientific memoir)

emezi absolutely slays every genre they write so im excited about this one

all i know about xavier so far is that he looks like rhysand and idk what rhysand looks like. punishment for relying on another author’s character descriptions is that i’m mentally making this guy 4’11’ and bald

u ever just get the urge to reread something that kinda makes u feel ill

i mean, five stars for the title alone, right?

again! again!

only a quarter of the way through but eating this UP. eliana ramage has a capital-F Future ahead of her, i can just taste it

i'm going to be surprised if i end up liking this, but you gotta read what the book club tells you to read

maybe this will be the thriller that finally works for me ☝️

this is one of those books that just feels so...smart. arkady martine, your brain is big and juicy and delicious.

megan giddings is very rapidly becoming an auto-read author for me !!

“The camera captures the words of the man who tortured people, like the notes the lawyer took long ago and the lines you are reading here. Captures them so the message won’t be erased, so that what we don’t yet understand can be deciphered by someone in the future. Captures them in order to anchor them to the earth, adding weight and gravity, so that nothing goes shooting into space and is lost.”

something about south american litfic that really sits with those mid-century military dictatorships...i will eat it up every time

okay so an absolute banger of an opening chapter

my body is a machine built to listen to marine science audiobooks idc idc

it's literally called fossil men, so idk what else i was expecting, but this is THE MOST egregious example of men in academia being generally terrible people to work with and that somehow being, like, a fun personality quirk

i put this down back in february to try and chip away at my endless pile of library books but FINALLY this is my priority 🙈

literary sci-fi/horror, my beloved

i absolutely am rereading all of these before finally getting around to sunrise on the reaping and no one is allowed to say anything to me about it 🫶

i'm actually finding this quite bad but in a way that i now have to see through to the end 🙃

reading this while watching severance is kinda crazy…the people yearn to forget 😌😌

love reading something that makes the anthropology degree worth it

“I know I shall die some time and I don’t want to, nor you to. If either of us goes, nothing’s left for both. I don’t know if you call that clean and clear?”
“Yes, I do.”
“Then I’d rather be dirty,” said Maurice, after a pause.

my heart

i'm not usually someone who enjoys a thick, meaty biography, but jackson's writing is SO autobiographical that i feel like this might be a really insightful read and a way to understand her work a bit more

i'm not (and honestly...will never be) a dramione shipper BUT i do have to admit that this is really well written and i love senlinyu's version of hermione. interested to see how this converts to tradpub since it's hard for me to really separate the characters and context from all of the background of the original series (most of which is still canon here/central to the fic's plot)

my beloved!

these books are unfortunately not really holding up for me BUT they're nice and quick and i need something to listen to at work