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Check out my $3 book haul from my favorite thrift store in Iowa! I can only visit when we‘re picking up my niece from Luther College, so I make sure to peruse it diligently.

The Theater reference is for my theater shelf and Divergent is to try and entice my other nieces into dystopian lit (ages 12 and 16).

Dark Matter, Hell Bent, Robopocalypse, and Robogenesis are all first editions and I couldn‘t leave them behind. Which should I start with?

its kinda like the syfy version of its a wonderful life for me lol…enjoyed both the book and the series #audiophile #readinglife #readinggoal

This is kind of like Groundhog Day meets the 4th season of Umbrella Academy. I like what Crouch is attempting here, but boy, does it get tedious at times. For a genius, Jason takes a long time to reach fairly obvious conclusions sometimes. Still, an enjoyable read overall. (I wanted to use a different picture, but Litsy didn't want to let me use any of the photos I had, just this screenshot. So, here we are.)

Late posts 😳😬

#WickedWhispers Day 9 prompt-dark @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

#HauntedShelf #FrightClub team @Jadams89

#BookScavengerHunt prompt-dark 15 pts
#BookRecommendation 30 pts

355 pts (previous) + 40 pts (now) = 400 pts

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I enjoyed this book even though I didn't really have a sweet clue what was going on. University physics prof is abducted on his way home from a bar and thus begins a fast-paced story about life's myriad choices and the multiverse.

I‘m not a big sci-fi girl, but I loved this book!

#HauntedShelf #bookrecommendation #dark #DeadSerious

A fast-paced sci-fi book exploring the possibility of switching between different possible versions of your life. It was a quick read, pulling me along through the story! There were several times where something happened in the plot that felt a little too convenient. But I would say it‘s a pick just because it was creative and entertaining.

Another multiversey, quantummy fast-paced sci fi thriller from Blake Crouch.

I say "another" - this was his first, I just read Recursion first. I'd probably have loved this even more if it had been my entry into his writing.

As with Recursion, this packed a huge emotional punch. Recommended for sci fi and thriller lovers, but expect to be hit in the feels. Repeatedly.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

This was a great book! There were so many twists and turns and had me guessing every turn. Literally had me gasping, and the ending was so beautiful. 5/5

Well, now I have to get Apple TV again.

https://tv.apple.com/us/show/dark-matter/umc.cmc.4luj45vtqpmjsvb6sc2675oeg

This was my second time reading Dark Matter. It is fast paced from beginning to end. This novel is also where my fascination with the multiverse theories began. It encourages thought about the complexities of identity; What makes you, you? How would even the smallest choice set your life on an entirely different trajectory? What are you capable of, for better or worse, under the "right" circumstances?
I will probably read it again, again.

Some thought provoking moments. This type of subject has been tackled before but not a bad job. More of a love story. I wouldn‘t call it mind bending though as per the quote from Justin Cronin. His own book The ferryman also a subject done before but that one is the best I‘ve read and is indeed mind bending. I would recommend that one highly. This is not bad though. I‘ll also read the sequel of Dark Matter called Recursion.

“You live with your choices and learn. You don‘t cheat the system.”

A decent spec-fic thriller. The narration is rapid and choppy which heightens the sense of urgency, but gets repetitive when used to describe scenes. A bit heavy on tropes (smart man motivated by gorgeous wife, tempted by beautiful companion-in-crisis, etc.) but the story moved on fast enough to let things slide. The premise is wild and thought-provoking, making this an entertaining read.

Cool book with an even more interesting concept… what if you could see a world where things went different. This books gives you a story of grief and longing for what could have been. As a man searches for a way back home he knows.

Was an amazing story of humanly with a lot of physics that‘s not that hard to understand

Jason, a physics professor finds himself in one moment making his family dinner to being abducted and shoved into a parallel world that is not his own. He finds out that a version of himself has created a way to access the multiverse where he both exists and doesn‘t in trillions of different parallel worlds. This book was brilliant and the butterfly effect/Schrödinger‘s cat vibes made for an epic read!

Blake Crouch has crafted a masterpiece that seamlessly blends science fiction with an emotionally resonant narrative. “Dark Matter“ is a must-read for anyone seeking a thought-provoking and exhilarating journey through the unknown, and I highly recommend it to fellow readers, especially those who enjoy a perfect balance of heart and suspense!

Thank you @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks for this festive bunch of goodies! The Sphynx sticker 🩵. I look forward to reading this, Crouch‘s books are such a wild ride!

Jason is on a mission to find his family and salvage the life he has with them but he has obstacles created by different versions of himself.

At the risk of sounding ironic, I thought this was predictable.
#escher #multiverse

#readingbracket2023 #fiction

#Movie2BookRecs @Klou
Movie: Yesterday

I love my new bookmark 😂🫶🏻

So far this is a very interesting mind twist of an introduction!

Book 142🎧 4⭐️

This one is quite a mindfuck😂😵‍💫

Super interesting, very futuristic!

Beaten up on the way home one night, Jason finally wakes up to find out his wife is not his wife and his son was never born… 😬

Dark Matter is a sci-fi action-adventure flick in book form. Unfortunately, action storylines *really* aren‘t my thing, no matter what format they‘re in. My chances of liking this better as a movie would‘ve been higher, though, especially if it were a visually stunning film with a killer soundtrack. As it stands, the only appreciation I can give it is to say that the ending was well-done. It‘s just not the type of writing I want to read. 🤷‍♀️

First day of staycation from my library job? Visited a different library and got a stack of books. Of course. 😅 I was picking up the tagged, which is my book club book. But you all know it‘s impossible to leave with just one…

Isnt it funny when all your holds come in at the same time. I already had two books I checked out yesterday. I got alot of reading I have to do. #libraryhaul #bookaholic

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#EscapetoaNewWorld

So here are my reads this month for the #roll100 challenge. One of these has been on my shelf since 2015 (Velveteen) so it‘s a long time coming.

2023 week 2 wrap up:
🎧 Dark Matter: done!
🎧 Atomic Habits: done!
📚 The Demon King: 50%
📱 Before I Fall: 18%
Last week's goals: ✅️✅️
This week's goals: read 75% of The Demon King, 50% of Before I Fall, and start and finish City of Bones 😁

Do I look at the world differently after reading this? Absolutely

Book 2 of 2023! It took me a couple of years to come back to this one but I'm super glad I did. A nice sci-fi book with an incredible message ❤️

#January #bookspinbingo #1 - Library
@TheAromaofBooks

4✨

I really enjoyed the combination of horror elements, physics and a love story all wrapped in one. Jason‘s Doppelgänger forcefully trades worlds, he must fight through the multiverses and multiple Jason‘s to get back to his family: the glue keeping him together. The descriptions, writing style and constant questions kept pulling me in deeper. Intense and thought provoking, worth the hype.

I couldn‘t choose between the two - both were 5⭐️ reads from July!

#12Booksof2022

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I loved this book! I found it super absorbing and fast paced. The story was really intriguing. It‘s one of my husband‘s favorite books and now I see why. I‘m interested in reading more Blake Crouch!

I feel like this might be an unpopular opinion but i didnt thought this book waa the amazing book everyone talked about. Yes it was interesting and a very quick read but i felt like it was missing something. Everyone talk about how great of a book this is but for me it was just meh. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

An intriguing sci fi thriller with a love story intertwined

I'm on vacation and have read 3 books so far. I enjoyed this one. His writing reminds me of Michael Crichton (but maybe only because they're both sci-fi?).

Oh my God I could not put this down. It‘s one of the most unique books I‘ve ever read. I can‘t say I can quite rap my head around some of the concepts, but it‘s not for lack of explanation, just the ideas being pretty unimaginable.

Saw a comment from Blake Crouch in regards to the 'Dark Matter' tv series that's being made. Did he just say 'first book'? Is Dark Matter getting a sequel?

#ManocMondau @CBee #LetterD

📘 Dark Matter (tagged)
✒️ Emily Dickinson
🎬 Dead Poets Society
🎤 The Doobie Brothers
🎶 Dream On by Aerosmith

There are books you recommend. Then there are books you want to go out and buy twenty copies of and give them to everybody like, ‘You have to read this now!‘

This is one of those books.

This is repeatedly popping up in my search for comps for my own novel. Pretty sure it isn‘t going to quite fit my needs, but it sounds too good to pass over.