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TamTracy
The Grace Year | Kim Liggett
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Hard to put down!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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LibrarianBecky
The Handmaid's Tale | MARGARET. ATWOOD
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Next book .. Done ✔️
I have always wanted to read this book! It did not disappoint.. though it did frustrate me .. and good books will .. highly recommend!! And frankly .. this book scares me!! We can never ever ever let this happen!! Hell No!!!

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Butterfinger
An Ember in the Ashes | Sabaa Tahir
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I can understand the hype around this young adult series.

Catsandbooks One of my absolute favorites! 2d
kspenmoll Happy Litsyversary!!!!! 1d
Butterfinger Thank you @kspenmoll 😊 23h
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RedCurly
Cadavre exquis | Agustina Bazterrica
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It was brutal

julesG The cover is perfect!!! 2d
RedCurly @julesG Amazing indeed! 1d
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JulietteReadsALot
Parable of the Sower | Octavia E Butler
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Impressive feat.
Well-written, this dystopia is uncomfortable to read by its realism.
It's clear reading it that Butler had a deep knowledge of human nature (the good and the bad).
Written as a diary, it's interesting to follow the thought process of the main character, how she develops Earthseed, her idea of God.
I'll definitely read the next book in the series, Parable of the Talents.

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JillR
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Our narrator is known to the 40 women she lives with in a gated, guarded bunker as the child. The other women remember their past lives but not how they got there. When I wasn‘t reading this I was thinking about it. I loved the writing; simple, straightforward, matter of fact. The story is told with such unflinching yet gentle respect of the realities our narrator faces. It was a beautiful read that left me feeling, thinking, wanting more.

squirrelbrain Great review. I have this on my TBR shelf - need to get to it soon. 2d
TrishB I loved this and still think about it! 2d
sarahbarnes Yes. This was so good! 2d
Cathythoughts Great review! Stacked ❤️ 1d
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RedxoHearts
Gone | Michael Grant

I don't know that I'll make it through the whole series if this kid keeps saying bro or brah every few statements 🙄

thegirlwiththelibrarybag That‘s absolutely enough of a reason to DNF… I recently learnt that Michael Grant is married to Katherine Applegate and that together they wrote the Animorphs series (under the name K.A. Applegate) 🤯 (I‘m currently reading the Animorphs and haven‘t had anyone to share this fact with) 2d
RedxoHearts @thegirlwiththelibrarybag oh that's interesting! I never got into those growing up but I know they were popular. I didnt realize there were that many books in the series. I also looked at the other series they have written and boy they were busy with that much writing 1d
RedxoHearts @thegirlwiththelibrarybag yeah it may be a DNF at this rate. I've got 2 nephews that bro me all the time I don't need a book to do that as well LOL 1d
thegirlwiththelibrarybag @RedxoHearts, I didn‘t read them growing up either, and it‘s a shame because I think I would have loved them (I judged them by their covers and maybe the tv show a little bit). There‘s so many books! Super prolific, both of them. (You‘ll look back on the bro years fondly, eventually) 1d
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RedxoHearts
Gone | Michael Grant
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The Gone series has been on my TBR for years so I decided to check the 1st book Gone. I like it so far but I didn't realize how long this series is. There are 6 books in the original series and then 7-9 were add ons later in guess.
So I decided to calculate how long the series is because just the 1st book is 560 pages. In case you are curious too the total page count is - 4,245 pages and the audiobooks at 1 speed is approx 136 hours long. 😱

thegirlwiththelibrarybag That‘s a compelling reason to not listen to this at 1x speed 😅 good luck to you! 2d
RedxoHearts @thegirlwiththelibrarybag oh yeah definitely not reading it on that speed either. So that does cut it down a lot 1d
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Soubhiville
The Wall | Marlen Haushofer
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I assumed this was a new release when @Hooked_on_books and others were reading it for a recent prize longlist, but no it‘s a translation from the original German written in the 60‘s.

A woman wakes after a night alone in her family‘s hunting lodge to find that an invisible wall separates the property from the town. She is alone with a cow, a dog, and a cat, and apparently everyone else in the world is dead? ⬇️

Soubhiville It‘s the kind of book where not much happens aside from her learning to live a new kind of life, but it‘s so immersive and beautiful I fell right into the world and never wanted to leave. I loved it! **content warnings for animal deaths, which are foreshadowed from the beginning.** 3d
Hooked_on_books I‘m glad you liked it! I thought it was fascinating and so well constructed. I had thought it was a release from the past couple of years and was surprised when I read it to realize it was from the 60s! 3d
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 3d
Gissy 🐕 ❤️❤️❤️ 2d
MemoirsForMe ❤️🐾❤️ 2d
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xicanti
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Doing the late 80s SF thing with my favourite schnauzer. THE CHILD GARDEN is definitely ideas-over-people, which is often a hard sell for me, but I love the vibe Ryman gives off. This book is creepy in all the right ways, with lots about theatre and opera.