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fairysbookshelf · 5 months
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Book Review: Night Shift by Annie Crown
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Book Stats:
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️(3.7)
Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Tropes: Sports romance, Miscommunication
Publisher: Wattpad Books
Notable Quotes:
“Reading is so much fun, but I’m tired of feeling like all the best parts of my life have been lived inside my own head.” Page 71
Spolier-free review:
Before I start I just wanted a to say, yes there are real books on wattpad. They are worth checking out and it’s a great option for people looking for a way for writers to get their books out there.
That being said, this one wasn’t really for me. Typically I am SO down for a sports romance(it’s one of my favorites!!!) but this book honestly disappointed me alittle bit. Like most books I randomly pick up, I saw it featured on Bookstagram and next thing you know, it was in my kindle library.
Let’s start with the good things, shall we? I liked the idea of the book. The smut was written pretty decently and the book also seemed somewhat realistic. My problem lies with the characterization of the main couple more than anything else. Our main character, has two personality traits. Her current prospect Vincent and books. She has no backstory, no personality, unless you count the “I’m not like other girls” story line the author throws in to create some tention. It’s like she doesn’t exist before her college days. It made it really hard to enjoy the book when i had so many questions about the main character’s life that are never addressed.
90% of this book is 🌶️. And it’s honestly not my favorite. I get that is how your characters met, they are attracted to each other, but literally every time the characters are together, they are kissing, hooking up or something other in that variety. There is no get to know you, take me out on a date nada. It’s just them hooking up, which is fine but doesn’t make sense in the context of the book.
The misscommumcation trope is very heavily featured and it’s not one of my favorites. The author makes it known that the main characters don’t like it, but still commits to it mutiple times………
Overall, it’s a okay read. If your into it, then go for it.
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On en garde 10 !
On en garde 10 !
Marie-Rose Guarnieri On en garde 10 ! est un album (non, pas vraiment !), un livre (oui bien sûr), qui en rassemble 500 autres choisis par cinquante écrivains ! Le samedi 23 avril 2022, c’était la San Jordi ou la fête des librairies indépendantes qui célébraient la Journée mondiale du livre et du droit d’auteur. A cette occasion, les librairies qui y participent, achètent un livre édité par…
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allysio · 7 days
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i went to library to study and i've never been here, but there's so many teens and tweens and kids here? it's a new building and there's a lot of space to hang around, both quiet an loud zones, and computers and games and i'm amazed, something something about libraries and accessible third places
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quartodeviagem · 1 year
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Avenue de l’opéra, Paris📍cartões postais na avenida da ópera em Paris.. 🌏📚📒🇫🇷 #quartodeviagem #france #walkingtour #walkingvideos #librairies #paris #quartodeviagemparis (at Avenue de l'Opéra) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck6s7--sX4z/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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drakonfire12 · 1 year
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sofysta · 8 hours
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Shakespeare and Company ~ Paris
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dovevonascerequadro · 9 months
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lerefugedeluza · 3 months
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Un peu de verdure dans cet hiver tout gris.
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prettybindings · 9 months
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Femme June, photographed in 2023, with Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal, Librairie Grund, Paris 1961.
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rotor25 · 3 months
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fairysbookshelf · 5 months
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Why I am done with Book of The Month, a Battle of the Book Boxes Review
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So, if you have been on any kind of bookish platform in the past 2 years or so, you probably have heard of the book subscription platform, Book of the Month(BOTM). The little blue box has become famous as with there advertising coupons, you can get a full hardcover for as low as $5.99 but this monthly subscription book isn’t all it seems.
I have been a BOTM subscriber for the past two ish years, and what started out as the cheapest book subscription box for me, has now turned into something that doesn’t seem worth the $17.32 price tag anymore
Let’s start with the pros:
-They always have plenty of boxes available(I suspect this is true because they print on demand)
-they always offer free shipping(don’t have to pay an extra $10 like many other book boxes)
-unlimited skips
Now for the bad things:
-There are only at most 9 books to choose from, 5 books that are “this month’s picks” and then you can choose a “member fav” if you don’t like any of the main books. Problem is, when I want a novel that I am going to enjoy, I likely want a different genre then what is offered.
-many of them from the same genre(Contemporary, Historical fiction, and thriller) as a huge romance/fanasty reader this is very disappointing. According to my research they have only offer a different fanasty novel once every two to three months. Romance is offered way more, but still not as often as Contemporary or Thriller.
-There has been a huge price increase. BOTM use to run $10.99 a month(which is better than Barnes and Nobel prices for a hardcover) but have slowly but surely increased prices as the months go by. (While I know due to inflation things are more expensive, this price jump makes no sense, and was not communicated with customers at all. I have checked my records and the only email I have received was a email almost a year and a half ago about prices increase from $10.99 to $12.74 but that’s it.)
-For the $17.32 I am paying, I can go to Barnes and Nobel and pick out a book I know I will actually enjoy……
-A lot of the books are incorrectly labeled on their site. For example I chose to get Well Met by Jen Deluca as at add on. I thought it would just be a cute read. To cut it straight, There was definitely smut in the book. Not a lot, but enough that it should be marked as salacious on their website, but it’s not.
At the end of the day, as someone who reads as much as I do, I don’t like this bookish subscription box. Personally, I think this box is better of for someone who wants to get into reading and not yet a full book worm. People who want to start their collection of books and enjoy the contemporary genre more than anything.
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purplelea · 7 months
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One detail I really like in The Dragon Prince is the name of the Lux Aurea Bookery. "Bookery" isn't an English term. It's the incorrect but more literal translation of the French word "bibliothèque", which is more usually translated to "library" instead.
Why didn't they use library instead? Well, it was to insist on language specificity. In French there's the word "librairie" that exists, but doesn't mean library at all. Instead, it means bookstore. As they couldn't simply call it a "bibliothèque", they decided to stay as close as possible to the French word to showcase the specificity of the culture of the Fire Elves, which, if their accent is any indication, is partly based on France.
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quartodeviagem · 1 year
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Avenue de l’opéra, Paris📍cartões postais na avenida da ópera em Paris.. 🌏📚📒🇫🇷 #quartodeviagem #france #walkingtour #walkingvideos #librairies #paris #quartodeviagemparis (at Avenue de l'Opéra) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck6szA-MZde/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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inartchive · 1 year
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aschenblumen · 2 months
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Lo que le interesa al lenguaje es la precisión, aparte de toda la indispensable variedad de la expresión. No transfigura, no «poetiza», nombra y denota [nennt und setzt], intenta medir el campo de lo dado y de lo posible. Naturalmente nunca actúa aquí el lenguaje mismo, el lenguaje sin más, sino solo un yo que habla bajo la especial perspectiva de su existencia y es quien se interesa por el perfil y la orientación. La realidad no está dada, la realidad exige que se la busque y logre.
—Paul Celan, «Respuesta a una encuesta de la librería Finkler de París (1958)» en Obras completas. Traducción de José Luis Reina Palazón.
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