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Alone With You in the Ether
Alone With You in the Ether | Olivie Blake
CHICAGO, SOMETIME-Two people meet in the armory of the Art Institute by chance. Prior to their encounter, he is a doctoral student who manages his destructive thoughts with compulsive calculations about time travel; she is a bipolar counterfeit artist undergoing court-ordered psychotherapy. After their meeting, those things do not change. Everything else, however, is slightly different. Both obsessive, eccentric personalities, Aldo Damiani and Charlotte Regan struggle to be without each other from the moment they meet. The truth-that he is a clinically depressed, anti-social theoretician and she is a manipulative liar with a history of self-sabotage-means the deeper they fall in love, the more troubling their reliance on each other becomes. An intimate study of time and space, ALONE WITH YOU IN THE ETHER is a fantasy writer's magicless glimpse into the nature of love, what it means to be unwell, and how to face the fractures of yourself and still love as if you're not broken.
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RaeLovesToRead
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I'm enjoying #flatlayfriday even if the umbrella does always get in the way 🤣

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IndianBookworm
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Pickpick

Regan and Aldo meet in an art gallery and decide to have six conversations with each other. This is not a love story. This is not a story about happy endings.

There are parts I really liked and there are parts I didn't. I really liked how the bees and art and maths and love are intertwined together by the author and somehow it all makes sense. Not my most favorite romance book out there but easily a pick if looking for something different.
4/5🌟

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KatieRose23
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In the depths of mental health and the planes of mental diversity.

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AmyK1
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Mehso-so

A coworker wanted to recommend my next book and this is what he chose. He and I don‘t typically read the same genres but I agreed I would give it a try. It is definitely not something I would have picked on my own. I didn‘t hate it and it did keep me interested to the end. So overall not a bad suggestion 😊

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BooksNBowls
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A deeply emotional relationship study on what it‘s like to love with mental illness. 4/5

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sweetpealsd
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Panpan

I decided to read this book because every booktuber that I watch touted it as the best love story ever. I‘m starting to wonder if they were paid. The love story is sweet at first but it was toxic by the end. Nothing was solved. A relationship with a person that is mentally unstable and isn‘t taking the meds is never a good idea. The female protagonist was so unlikeable. Pretty writing but not enough to save it for me. ⭐️⭐️ 2/5

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RaeLovesToRead
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So pretty!!!!! 💙🐝 #endpapers

Tea_and_Starstuff Gorgeous edition! 1y
5feet.of.fury Omg so pretty 1y
Branwen This is absolute perfection! 😍📚 1y
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Bookbuyingaddict
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Mehso-so

It started well but personally I‘m just started to get abit bored 😐 agree with other reviewers who said in places the writing is fragmented , a 3.5/4 star ⭐️ read for me , maybe the problem was reading it so soon after tomorrow tomorrow and tomorrow which I loved 🥰

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Rissreads
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School bookclub pick.
Ok this book was exhausting and it didn‘t let up. Exactly how I imagine living with bipolar disorder and Autism would be. The constant inner dialogue that both of these characters deal with every minute of the day is portrayed perfectly and makes this story so powerful, but not an easy read.

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AC4ever17
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Haven‘t posted on here in a while but wanted to share all the books I read in February.
Alone with you in the Ether was my favorite and might go down as favorite of the year and my least favorite was Promises and Pomegranates which I gave 3.5 stars so still not bad.
#februarywrapup

Ruthiella Welcome back! 😀 2y
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Kimberlone
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January reading stats via Storygraph. I finished 7 books, 3 of which I already owned. A big goal for 2023 is to actually read more books I own from my physical and kindle TBR.

Tagged book was my highest rated read (4.5 ⭐️) and Saint was second highest (4⭐️), but overall kind of a meh month.

Saknicole Realllllly. Saint? Like the YA one? I read Fable and didn‘t care for it much. Was it better or was that the only one you read. Saint looked more mature; Fable was definitely very YA. 2y
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Kimberlone
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The subtitle A LOVE STORY says it all. This slim novel (

Kimberlone I made lots of annotations, so I may post some select passages I underlined later on. 2y
Saknicole You‘ve sold me 2y
Kimberlone @Saknicole you would definitely love it! The exact opposite of the other book I was telling you about 🤣 2y
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Kimberlone @Saknicole same author as The Atlas Six. If you like her writing you will like this one for sure. 2y
Saknicole @Kimberlone I‘m familiar… #dramione 2y
Kimberlone @Saknicole oh yeah so you already know! She writes morally grey characters so well! 2y
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Branwen
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Just finished this tonight! It took me a while, despite it being such a short book - the beautiful writing and complex characters really made me take my time and let each word and sentence sink deeply into me. It's such a lush, gorgeous book! It's nothing like The Atlas Six, but I still really loved it! 💕📚

Kimberlone I‘m almost done with this and loving the language! 2y
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Kimberlone
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My fiancé and I have been trying to do more reading rather than tv watching at night. I read about 50 pages last night. Hoping to finish this before the end of the week.

ChaoticMissAdventures This is my number 1 response when people ask me how to read more! Turn off the TV. Hope it is working! 2y
Kimberlone @ChaoticMissAdventures I actually can do both (read and watch tv) at the same time, but he can‘t. But reducing screen time no matter what is good for both of us! 2y
paulfrankspencer @ChaoticMissAdventures It's as simple as that. "I wish I read more." Oh? Then go ahead and do it. 2y
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vivastory @paulfrankspencer @chaoticmissadventures I HATE when people are like, “I just don't have time to read...“ & after talking to them you find out that they are following so many current tv shows, lol. 2y
Kimberlone @vivastory @paulfrankspencer agreed! It‘s just a matter of prioritization. I prioritize reading time, others prioritize video games, tv, etc. if you want to read more you just gotta do it! I have similar conversations with students all the time who say they want to be better readers, but don‘t like my advice that there‘s no trick to becoming a better reader other than reading more and reading more challenging texts! 2y
Saknicole Get it girllllll. I think about my books all day. Like I read during the day with the kids but I‘m always thinking about the books I want to read 😂 that‘s my life 2y
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Branwen
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I wasn't sure how I was going to feel about this one, since what I've read so far of Olivie Blake has been dark academia/fantasy, and this is a pretty contemporary story. But! So far, I've fallen completely in love! Blake's writing is just purely delicious! I don't know how else to describe it! 😂 Chaplin is enjoying it so far too! 💕😸 #catsoflitsy #chaplin

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Ellohcin
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Kimberlone
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Morning plans…I have a LOT of housework to do today, but I‘ve already done some errands out of the house, so I don‘t feel too bad about taking a coffee/musubi/new book break!

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Kimberlone
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Oops…I went to Target yesterday and couldn‘t resist. Now I need to carefully remove those awful stickers!

BooksNBowls A hair dryer is my favorite way to remove stickers! Comes off like a band-aid! 2y
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sprainedbrain
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August was another great reading month! 😃

I finished 23 books: 12 on audio, 9 on Kindle, and 2 print. I got 5 BookSpin bingos, too.

One of my favorite stats from Storygraph is my ratings. I like to read diversely, and that includes reading some masterpieces, some absolute crap, and a lot of just good books. 😉

My favorites last month (all 5 stars):

Alone With You In the Ether

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

The Silver Dark Sea

Leftcoastzen Is Book Tok smut fails an official category !😂😉Love it! 2y
BookwormAHN Lockdown for #LMPBC came in yesterday. 2y
Daisey Great way to sun up your monthly reads! 2y
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sprainedbrain @Leftcoastzen nah, that‘s one of my own special categories. 😂 2y
sprainedbrain @BookwormAHN I sent early this time! 2y
charl08 I'm another fan of your categories here, as @Leftcoastzen says 🤩 2y
5feet.of.fury BookTok smut fails got me twice this month! 2y
sprainedbrain @5feet.of.fury it happens at least once a month, but that doesn‘t stop me from trying more. 😂 2y
5feet.of.fury @sprainedbrain every now and then there‘s a gem! 2y
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sprainedbrain
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It‘s labeled as a love story or romance, and it is those things, in sort of the same way Sally Rooney‘s novels are (I love Rooney so this is praise from me).

This is a story about two very human humans, dealing with their own differing degrees of damage, coping with mental health issues, and trying to find meaning and joy in the void of life. So beautifully written. I am sad that I will never get to read it for the first time again.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

MrsMalaprop Now that has me interested. Stacked 📚. 2y
CarolynM Lovely review 2y
BarbaraBB What @MrsMalaprop says! Stacked too. 2y
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