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You ever purposefully avoid picking up a book to read the next chapter because you KNOW it won’t just be “one more chapter”?

I’m not talking about “I need to sleep” type of “one more chapter”, but the “I need to get out of bed and adult” type.

Sigh.

But the book is so good. Decisions, decisions.

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it's wild to me that people act as if chani's primary reason for leaving paul was bitterness about being a concubine like girl..... i promise that did not even register in her brain compared to the realization that paul had chosen to become her people's oppressor, to become her oppressor, to destroy the equality that was very foundation of their relationship. i promise her agency and her loyalty to her people, things which existed before paul and will exist after him, were more important to her than how "official" her relationship would be considered within a system she did not care about.

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The problem is not the packing, I admit; I simply dislike travelling. Why people wish to wander to and fro when they could simply remain at home is something I will never understand. Everything is the way I like it here.

🍄 Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands

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no "other/see results" we die like men

note that I'm not talking about the best SERIES just your favorite CHARACTER

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RECO OF THE WEEK!

Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant

Synopsis:

"Seven years ago, the Atargatis set off on a voyage to the Mariana Trench to film a “mockumentary” bringing to life ancient sea creatures of legend. It was lost at sea with all hands. Some have called it a hoax; others have called it a maritime tragedy.

Now, a new crew has been assembled. But this time they’re not out to entertain. Some seek to validate their life’s work. Some seek the greatest hunt of all. Some seek the truth. But for the ambitious young scientist Victoria Stewart this is a voyage to uncover the fate of the sister she lost.

Whatever the truth may be, it will only be found below the waves. But the secrets of the deep come with a price."

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Add this book to your TBR on Goodreads here.

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Happy reading!

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Hey New York people!

The city’s libraries have already had to cut Sunday service and limit hours. The new budget being put forward is even worse for libraries and may require the loss of another day of service.

Please contact City Council and the Mayor asking for budget restoration

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top 5 authors?

Thanks! I'll answer by quality/quantity ratio because otherwise it's Pat Rothfuss but my man does not put out enough books

K. D. Edwards

Pierre Bottero

Robin Hobb

Ann Leckie

Becky Chambers

Ask me my top 5 anything?

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10 Most-Read Authors

Thanks for the tag @fluencylevelfrench and @the-forest-library

what are your ten most most read authors? and how many books have you read by them? also tag someone who you would like to do this!

instructions: scroll to the bottom of your goodreads shelves and most read authors is listed underneath.

I couldn’t figure out the Goodreads thing but here’s my list by approximation!

Neil Gaiman (23)

I have read A LOT of Neil Gaiman books because I’m trying to read everything he’s ever published and there’s a lot.

Holly Black (15)

My partner got me into Holly Black’s writing and I’ve read almost all her fairy books, minus The Stolen Heir duology.

Darren Shan (12)

I read the whole Cirque du Freak series in like 2 months while I was in high school- I was OBSESSED.

Gerald Durrell (7)

My high school biology teacher recommended “My Family and Other Animals” to me and then I was hooked.

Seanan McGuire (6)

Such an amazing author- I’ve been gradually reading their books and loving them.

Rick Riordan (6)

Percy Jackson, need I say more?

Kate DiCamillo (5)

One of my childhood favorite authors right here!

Tillie Walden (4)

A lovely bookseller, when I asked for gay graphic novels, promptly handed me a bunch of Tillie Walden books and I love them for that.

R.D. Henham (4)

A pen name covering the Dragon Codecies series which I’m still reading and enjoy a lot!

T. Kingfisher (3)

I’m getting there, y’all!

Tagging: @balaenabooks @princess-peregrine @introvertedbookworm24 @tea-intheworld @stefito0o @storytime-reviews

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It puzzles me when people cite LOTR as the standard of “simple” or “predictable” or “black and white” fantasy. Because in my copy, the hero fails. Frodo chooses the Ring, and it’s only Gollum’s own desperation for it that inadvertently saves the day. The fate of the world, this whole blood-soaked war, all the millennia-old machinations of elves and gods, comes down to two addicts squabbling over their Precious, and that is precisely and powerfully Tolkien’s point. 

And then the hero goes home, and finds home a smoking desolation, his neighbors turned on one another, that secondary villain no one finished off having destroyed Frodo’s last oasis not even out of evil so much as spite, and then that villain dies pointlessly, and then his killer dies pointlessly. The hero is left not with a cathartic homecoming, the story come full circle in another party; he is left to pick up the pieces of what was and what shall never be again. 

And it’s not enough. The hero cannot heal, and so departs for the fabled western shores in what remains a blunt and bracing metaphor for death (especially given his aged companions). When Sam tells his family, “Well, I’m back” at the very end, it is an earned triumph, but the very fact that someone making it back qualifies as a triumph tells you what kind of story this is: one that is too honest to allow its characters to claim a clean victory over entropy, let alone evil. 

“I can’t recall the taste of food, nor the sound of water, nor the touch of grass. I’m naked in the dark. There’s nothing–no veil between me and the wheel of fire. I can see him with my waking eyes.”

So where’s this silly shallow hippie fever-dream I’ve heard so much about? It sounds like a much lesser story than the one that actually exists.

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Currently Reading: Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert

There has been a time skip and my brain is finding it a little hard to keep up. The Paul Maud'Dib Atreides that was at the end of Dune is different from this Paul Atreides. 12 years the Jihad he tried so hard to prevent has been moving forward and he's trying to now figure out what to do as Emperor, God, Messiah, as well as Paul, Usul, and Maud'Dib. As well as brother, husband, self, and a multitude of other identities that someone takes on as they age.

You can see and read the conflict in him, but I have a feeling I won't really know what's happening until the end of the book. I don't have the benefit of movies to ground me this time around.

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murderbot.

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Dalinar meeting the Nightwatcher I don't find much time lately for fanart, but this one just fitted my mood that day. It is based on an old sketch from 2021 which I never fully rendered.

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“Yes, a person is more than their experiences, stacked up like stones. But our best moments are the foundations we use to reach for the sky.” - Yumi & the Nightmare Painter

I have a lot of thoughts about the Cosmere but Yumi & the Nightmare Painter is probably my favourite single book by Mr. Sanderson so far

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Tiny Navajo Reads: Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

It’s Wednesday, and that means it’s time for another book review! This time we’re diving into another one of Brandon Sanderson’s Secret Project books, this one is probably my favourite of them all. Granted, I’ve only read 2 of them, but I’m working on it. And he’s come out with another one…does this man ever stop writing?! Granted, I’m not complaining, I love his writing, I’m just wondering for…

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