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Challenger Deep
Challenger Deep | Neal Shusterman
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Eggs
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A brilliant HS student, Caden Bosch has delusions that are sheer reality for him. In his mind, he‘s on a ship that's headed for the deepest point on Earth: Challenger Deep, the southern part of the Marianas Trench.
“The things I feel cannot be put into words, or if they can, the words are in no language anyone can understand.”

#Delusion #AutumnPlease!

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

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kimmypete1
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This is the year I finally complete the Pop Sugar Challenge! Normally I skip prompts I don't like but this year I'm going for it. The Pantone reading challenge and the ABC Reading Challenge are new to me this year, but lots of fun.

Book Recs I'm looking for:

A book published in 1981
Written during NaNoWriMo
Started as Fan Fiction

Pantone Colors: Oyster Mushroom, Summer Song and Leak Green

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Bookish_Gal
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Mental illness of psychosis/schizophrenia through the eyes of a teenager. Caden loves two lives; a real world and a mystery one on a ship. The story follows as these two worlds collide into what is real. This is a difficult book to read because it holds no bars. The authors child went through this and helped. One thing that stuck was how Cadens views on the world and his parents changed from start to finish.

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LiteraryNib
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To acclimate the reader inside the mind of a schizophrenia patient, Neal Shusterman begins the novel in second person. Using elements of the second person voice, Shusterman lets the reader know that there is something different about Caden and that this story will be an emotional deep dive into his fears and hopefully his abilities to overcome the voices in his head. Beautiful story!

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BoldCityBooks
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This is a tough book but it‘s wonderful. I just couldn‘t imagine and my heart breaks for every person and family that this story is a non-fiction book.

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LitsyEvents
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The LiterALLy BOOKiSh 2022 #ReadingChallenge was just announced! Join the fun in @IheartYA 's Facebook group. 😃

IheartYA Thank you! ❤️ 3y
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Eggs
Challenger Deep | Neal Shusterman
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Explore the psyche of teen Caden Bosch and his untethered soul. An engaging view of human mental illness and its attempt to reach equilibrium...

#conflictedworlds #personvsself @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

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Bookgirl
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Wow. This book is an examination of mental illness, drawn from the author‘s own son‘s experience. I‘ve read books that deal with anxiety and depression, but never one that really digs into psychosis/schizophrenia. It was eye-opening and sad and beautifully written. It‘s in the “teen” genre because it‘s about a teenager but this story has a broad audience. Readers of all ages can learn from this book. #petsoflitsy #dogsoflitsy #loki #rescuedogs

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JazzFeathers
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#FourFoursIn21 @lauredhel

I have a solid record of falling at reading challenges, no matter how much l love them. So l don't see any reason why l shouldn't fail at this too.
Should l then renouce already?
Hell, no!!!!!!

Lauredhel Just in case... I'm wrapping up the #fourfoursin21 #readingchallenge ! If you have completed it, please email me lauredhelhoyden@gmail.com with your list of reads by the end of the year. I'll randomly choose a winner, and email you your prize questionnaire. 3y
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Eggs
Challenger Deep | Neal Shusterman
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TheSpineView Thanks!❤ 4y
OriginalCyn620 Thanks so much! 4y
Klou Thank you!!! 4y
Eggs @Klou you‘re most welcome 🙏🏻 (edited) 4y
Eggs @TheSpineView @OriginalCyn620 you‘re welcome 😉 4y
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Eggs
Challenger Deep | Neal Shusterman
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Neal Shusterman writes the most #absorbing books
#aboutaugust
The tagged book is just one example; I also recommend the Scythe trilogy

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OriginalCyn620
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 💙💙💙 4y
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cwarnier
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#BBRC
New round started yesterday. Head over to @LibrarianRyan or SaraReadsTooMuch to sign up and see the new prompts.

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ephemeralwaltz
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Finished this yesterday over coffee. Caden Bosch is torn between figuring out what is real and what is not as he descends into mental illness. The plot of this MG/YA novel is unclear at the beginning but it slowly unravels as Caden talks about his life and his friends and family. This wasn't my type of read per se but it's a good one, and would make a great school read or YA bookclub discussion.

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Bookgoil
Challenger Deep | Neal Shusterman
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1. My handle I use goil instead of girl due to a New York accent - I used to write Newsies fanfiction & often wrote that word that way.
2. Elementary school librarian
3. Reading, cooking, playing with my dogs & walking them. Gaming more on the computer.
4. Challenger Deep & Map of Stars
5. I use FB groups & letter writing like #litsylove - it helps to have ppl outside family and real time friends #allaboutme @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I always wondered about goil!!! 😁 5y
Bookgoil It definitely is never taken lol @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 5y
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JazzFeathers
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I can't believe that the #LitsyPartyOfOne is back!!!!
This is a challenge particularly close to my heart because it was the first community activity l took part in when l first joined Litsy, three years ago.

So happy to take part once more.

Head over to @Alisnazzy and @Lynnsoprano #LitsyPartyOfOne

Lynnsoprano Thanks for helping to spread the word. Look forward to seeing you that weekend 😄 5y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 💗💗💗 5y
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JazzFeathers
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After all, why not?
I really need to make a dentro in a couple books.

#24B4Monday
@TheReadingMermaid @Andrew65 @jb72

jb72 Glad to have you aboard! 5y
Andrew65 Thanks for reposting! Great to have you with us as always. ❣ (edited) 5y
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Malisa
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I did it 😭😭😭😭😭 #readingchallenge #completed

Jas16 🙌🏽 5y
LauraJ That‘s insane! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 5y
sprainedbrain Awesome! 🥳🥳🥳 5y
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JazzFeathers
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It should be a relatively quiet week... if nothing goes astray, so l seriously want to try this.

#24b42020

@TheReadingMermaid @Andrew65 @jb72

Andrew65 Enjoy the Readathon, great to have you with us. 😊👍 5y
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1ReVeluvY
Challenger Deep | Neal Shusterman
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Young Adult Fiction
2019 12 19
2019 12 23
A friend said that the book was a good read.

1ReVeluvY The story is told in the perspective of Caden Bosch. He is the unreliable narrator who develops schizophrenia and experiences the symptoms of the mental illness as the story progresses. The story is structured in a way where Caden explains his thoughts which represents situations and characters that appear in real life. The way he interprets reality would be taken over by his thoughts but eventually clears as he conquers the mission of diving the 5y
1ReVeluvY deepest point on earth. As the mission comes to an end, his illness does as well.

He realizes that what is down the trench was not worth it and that the parrot, who represents Dr. Poirot who had a role in helping him get better, was right. The puzzle piece of the sky guided him up the trench, which may be a metaphor for the state of his illness at that moment. ~That moment could be due to the effect of cheeking his medicine for the first time be
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1ReVeluvY cause the people he had liked to be with at the hospital leave him. Carlyle had to leave because he took the blame of lacking the responsibility for the group he took care of since it led to Hal‘s attempted suicide (nobody really knows his condition since Caden never got that news) and was free from all the burden. When actually, Hal, who represents the navigator in Caden‘s thoughts, was going through something that most likely related to his 5y
1ReVeluvY relationship with his mom. ~ The puzzle needed to be complete just like how Caden had to be complete again in one place so that he can identify reality and the captain‘s convincing (the captain who may symbolize that the illness that can approach at any time but Caden knows that he will not join the captain's voyages for a long while). Caden is reunited with his family as a member of the rational world once again, free from burden and confusion. 5y
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JazzFeathers
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Well, I think I'm doing it. Maybe l can catch up on #ThereAndBackAgain and on another book l should have finished ages ago.

#11thHourReadathon @EclecticReaders

EclecticReaders Yay! Glad you‘ll be joining us! 5y
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JazzFeathers
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I was thinking, maybe not - l totally failed at it this year. Then l thought, well, why not?

# Booked2020

Cinfhen Why not, is right!!! Glad you‘re back for another year ❤️ 5y
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JazzFeathers
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Read one book a month related to the prompts and post about it in the 29th.
See @MrBook profile for details.

Considering l'm terrible with challenges, it's not able that l'm taking up both #ReadingWithMrBook and #ReadingEurope2020. And am even considering #Booked2020 (though l failed epically to this year edition).

What challenges are you taking up in 2020?

Freespirit I am doing #ReadingEurope2020 and will aim for 50 books for the year again. It's manageable for me I hope. I don't want to commit to too much as much of my reading is spontaneous! 5y
MrBook Thank you sharing, @JazzFeathers ☺️🤗🤗🤗! Hope you like this one! @Freespirit , ooh, that‘s a good one too 😁👏🏻! 5y
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Rachel.Rencher
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I was running 20 minutes late this morning and grabbed whatever books were closest to the door to read on my break as I was running out of the house. I ended up with Challenger Deep and Ten Days in a Mad-House...super random choices, but I've also been wanting to read both so I guess it works out. 😂📚

Johanna414 I loved Challenger Deep! 5y
ChaoticMissAdventures I have not read 10 Days, but know the story. Nellie Bly was such an incredible woman. Hope this book is good. 5y
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Panisaaa
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Genre: Young adult fiction
Book started: 10/11/19
Book completed: 10/16/19
Chosen: Read the back of the book (blurb)
Summary: Caden Bosch has two worlds the real one and the one in his mind. Over the past months he loses his grip on reality and close ones start to notice his odd behaviour. He goes through a lot of paranoia and treatment. As he's clear he gets to go home, but though it could come back he knows to be the bigger person.

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EmilyM
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Mental illness--such an important topic, and this book captures what it is like to be tormented by inner demons that require hospitalization, therapy and medication to be vanquished. Shusterman compares mental illness to a tempestuous ocean with beasts that require confrontation. It took me three times of starting this book to figure out where he was going, but once I got it, it was worth the ride. ⭐⭐⭐⭐/5

Riveted_Reader_Melissa I loved this one! 5y
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Eggs
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Shusterman has a writing style I respect. This story involves a #fantasysetting that is part of a conjured place in the psyche of the MC. It becomes his “default setting” (yes, pun). Poignant

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#fantasysetting

#letstravelaugust

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 💫📚🌟 5y
Bklover This book intrigues me. 5y
OriginalCyn620 This was a good book! 5y
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hwestfall
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Wow. What a book!

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Mitch
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I think I‘ve learnt that looser, more open ended intentions perversely help me stay on track better! I think I‘m cracking exercise - I‘m loving what I‘m doing and new routines I‘m in... but my relationships with food not so much!
And I so want to listen more to audiobooks!Here‘s to round 3 #bfc3 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 With my new teammates

@Blaire @nelehelen @Siani123 @callielafleur @Chrissyreadit @sudi @MicrobeMom @crazeedi @Books.Bottles.and.Babies

MicrobeMom Great goals Mitch! I love it! 👏👏♥️♥️ 5y
wanderinglynn Great goals! 🙌 5y
Megabooks 👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻👍🏻 5y
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Crazeedi @Mitch I love the way you posted your goals, not necessarily a specific number, but just the intention and focus , that is actually perfect! Wish I had thought that! I think I'll kinda do the same in my goals 5y
Crazeedi @Mitch does our team have a name? 5y
sudi Great goals 👏👏👏 5y
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Victoriahoperose
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This book was so good. I really don‘t want to say too much because I feel like it could be spoiled very easily. Very tough subject matter, but excellent writing and insightful perspectives all the way through. I highly recommend this one. #lmpbc

book_em_danno Awesome cat 5y
Erofan 😻 5y
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OriginalCyn620
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What a great book! Once I got used to the writing style, which alternates between MC Caden‘s real world and his alternate reality caused by his mental illness, I found the book to be utterly fascinating. I think this is a wonderful depiction of what it must be like to live with mental illness.

Soubhiville Sounds interesting! Stacked. Thanks for the review! 6y
Bookish_AF I absolutely had the same hurdle with the writing style but once you get used to it it‘s sooo good! 6y
cwarnier I loved this book. 6y
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Eggs
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Sometimes there are moments when we objectively face the never, and it overwhelms us.

I'm off the deep end, watch as I dive in
I'll never meet the ground
Crash through the surface, where they can't hurt us
We're far from the shallow now🎶

#shallow #amonthofsongs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620

OriginalCyn620 Love the quote! I‘ll be reading this book this month for #lmpbc! 👌🏻 6y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 💗💗💗 6y
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cwarnier
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What a great book. It was surprised at how it hit home with me and what I learned. I would definitely recommend this book.
I will be sending this off later today hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
#lmpbc #groupc
@whippoorwill815 @OriginalCyn620 @Victoriahoperose

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cwarnier
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1. Challenger Deep #lmpbc
2. Maid
3. BLUE! 💙💙💙💙
#WEEKENDREADS @rachelsbrittain

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cwarnier
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Starting this books today. 😀😍💖
#lmpbc #groupc @whippoorwill815 @Victoriahoperose @OriginalCyn620
By the way my library offers the audio through Hoopla. I love to listen to books.

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cwarnier
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April reads!
Right stack is my current reads- No Exit #botmbuddyread, All the Ugly and wonderful things #controversialbookclub, Challenger Dee @lmpbc #groupc
Left stack is my wish list of books to read.

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cwarnier
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Bookish_AF Yay! 6y
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Bookish_AF
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The writing style of this book took a little getting used to, but it‘s worth it. The story centers on a teenager suffering from mental illness and is told from his perspective, which includes both real events and events that are constructs of his illness.

Some heavy topics are covered here but the story is also told with humor and empathy.

Hope you guys enjoy it too!

#LMPBC #GroupC

Victoriahoperose Can‘t wait. I need to get on the ball and finish mine. I have been sick all week and not reading all that much! But I‘m going to finish this weekend 😊😊😊 6y
OriginalCyn620 Sounds really good! 6y
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Bookish_AF
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No cozy at home reading this morning. Instead I was up with coffee in a travel mug to embark on the 1.5 hour journey for car maintenance (yeah it‘s a pain, but I‘ll be meeting up with my cousins after!)

So my Saturday morning reading is in the car dealership waiting room.... Making progress on my #LMPBC pick!

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TheBookStacker
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I decided this year to not participate in a reading challenge and just read at my own pace without putting pressure on myself to speed read to get to a certain goal. I just want to relax and enjoy my books!

Jennifer3 Good for you! Sometimes that is what we need to remember about reading! 6y
Ashley_Nicoletto I feel like my crazy mind would still count them and challenge myself. 🤣🤣 6y
BookNightOwl I usually read about 120 books a year. So I always set my challenge at 100 even though I know I will surpass it. 6y
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Bookish_AF
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#LMPBC

The Buried Giant from #Round4 has made it home! It will be fun perusing everyone‘s comments 😊

And now I am gearing up for my book for #Round5! #GroupC

@Victoriahoperose @OriginalCyn620 @cwarnier

Victoriahoperose Yay 😊😊😊 6y
OriginalCyn620 Awesome! 6y
cwarnier So fun. 💖💖 6y
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Eggs
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Explore the psyche of teen Caden Bosch and his untethered soul. An engaging view of the human mind in its attempt to find equilibrium
#starboy #TimbitTunes @Cinfhen @TheKidUpstairs

Tanisha_A This sounds good! 6y
Cinfhen I‘ve been meaning to read this ever since @Robothugs posted about this book!!!! 6y
Eggs @Cinfhen @Tanisha_A it really captivated me, hard to put down 6y
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Centique I loved this. 💕 6y
Robothugs Ooo I am SO glad to see another person who loves this. It is so beautiful, in more than one way. It is on my list of all time favorites. I have used it a lot for photo challenges so @Cinfhen will one day fall victim to reading it just like @Centique !! 😆😆 (edited) 6y
MicheleinPhilly @Cinfhen Wait, you didn‘t read this? You sent it to me. 6y
Cinfhen I know!!! I tried a few times 🙈but it wasn‘t working for me @MicheleinPhilly 🤫🙄🤭 6y
MicheleinPhilly @Cinfhen 😂😂😂 “You are not working for me. Off to America you go.” 6y
Cinfhen Something like that 😂😂 @MicheleinPhilly I can always borrow it from you when I‘m in town 😘😘 6y
Centique @Robothugs it‘s so good to see you pop up - miss seeing you here 💕 6y
Robothugs @Cinfhen *gasp* Try audio!!! 🤣🤣 @Centique 🤗🤗♥️ (edited) 6y
Centique @Cinfhen i think it‘s just that for a large part of the book you‘re inside the world of his psychosis. It‘s interesting because you can see how his brain is taking real life people and events and reimagining them. As the psychosis ends most of the “unreal” elements feel explained. I can see how that part would be jarring for a reader that is used to realism maybe? 6y
CJharles Omg I love this book! 6y
Cinfhen You weren‘t supposed to check back and peak @Robothugs 😂😂😂😂 (edited) 6y
Cinfhen That makes sense @Centique 6y
Robothugs @Cinfhen Bahahaha 😂😂😂 @Centique explained it pretty perfectly! 6y
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WanderingBookaneer
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@BookishMarginalia wants to kill me. She‘s creating a bingo-style reading challenge. #MetaLitsy

saresmoore I sensed this coming. 6y
WanderingBookaneer @saresmoore : Me too. It‘s super cute, though 6y
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WanderingBookaneer
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🤣🤣🤣 6y
DGRachel That was me last year! It made December very stressful, so this year I am just setting a Goodreads goal and a MountTBR goal. MountTBR will be stressful enough. 6y
Zelma That meme sure does work for so many things! 6y
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Birdsong28 😂😂😂😂😂📚📖 6y
silentrequiem 🙋‍♀️ 6y
EllieDottie Haha this is so me!! 6y
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WanderingBookaneer
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@BookishMarginalia says @jessberk13 is the creator. Maybe the new baby has been keeping her busy.
If so, no worries, Mama. You keep nurturing that little future bookworm!

jessberk13 Hi there! Baby girl is due in 6 weeks and with everything going on the past few months I haven‘t had a second to put together a 2019 bingo card. Sorry to anyone who was looking forward to one! 6y
WanderingBookaneer @jessberk13 : Relax! I already have my eye on 10 challenges. I just want you to know that I finished my 2018 one. Your challenge was a pleasurable treat. 6y
jessberk13 Thank you! I hope to get back into the swing of things reading-wise. I really dropped off my physical books reading the latter part of 2018 and only listened to audio on the way to work. I‘m trying to get back into it this year. Hopefully baby girl will let me! 6y
Peddler410 @jessberk13 Read aloud YOUR books to new baby! That‘s how I got in my reading with a new baby...she got the benefits of hearing my voice and I still read what I love — babies don‘t care what you‘re saying, they just need to hear your voice 😊 6y
Bookzombie @Peddler410 I don‘t have kids but I love this suggestion. 6y
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abbielistenstobooks
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This one was slow to grab me, but I'm 60% done and I'm glad I kept going! Interesting portrayal of mental illness, for sure.

BridgetteM Love this book! 6y
abbielistenstobooks @BridgetteM it's great! I may find time to finish it today. We'll see 6y
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Centique
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#nofemmeber #debbiedowner

In the book I just finished there‘s a character that fits this prompt and she‘s in charge of team morale!

But let‘s also give a cheer for the #debbiedowner They have something to say that other people don‘t want to hear but they say it anyway. ✊✊

Billypar True- it's unwise to dismiss the downers! 👍😞 6y
batsy I'm always cheering for #TeamDowner 😉 6y
Centique @batsy I figured we had that in common! 🙃 6y
Cinfhen Ha!!! You‘re the peppiest 🧡🧡🧡 6y
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