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HeyT
Lost Ark Dreaming | Suyi Davies Okungbowa
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I can't believe it's almost time for the November #BookSpin draw! Because I've arranged spreadsheet that I pull the list from by page number I have four new books on the list for this month. They include the tagged, Annie Bot, Dead Silence, and Buffalo Hunter Hunter. I'm excited to see what the numbers are!

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Staci
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I really liked this book and the ending was not what I expected at all!

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JuliaTheBookNerd
Lagoon | Nnedi Okorafor
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#Tarantula 🕷️

#HauntsAndHexes 🎃👻🍁🕸️🦇🧹🐈‍⬛🌙🪄

#BookNerd 🤓📚💙

Eggs Brilliant 🤗👌🏼 2w
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CSeydel
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I had high hopes for this one, but the ending left me cold. It was extremely well-written and I enjoyed both Zelu‘s and Ankara‘s storylines. Most of the book told a rich, evocative story brimming with symbolism, techno-optimism and philosophical commentary on what it means to be human and the purpose of stories in human and post-human culture. The last two chapters took that and turned it into a goofy joke.

CSeydel The breathtaking scientific illiteracy of the gene therapy gimmick enraged me, too. 3w
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SanjanaGhosh
Zikora | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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“Some kindness you do not ever forget. You carry them to your grave, held warmly somewhere, brought up and savoured from time to time.”

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Cortg
Dream Count | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Pickpick

Not my favorite book by Adiche, but I did like it. There wasn‘t much of a plot, more like themes that spread throughout. Based on four women, their friendships, their lack of a steady partner and their very different experiences as American immigrants. It‘s a thought provoking book, not a quick read but I‘m glad I read it. This one will be on my mind for a while.

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CSeydel
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#weekendreads
@rachelsbrittain

Still working through my September list 🙃

CSeydel #hauntedreads word finder - BRACKISH 1mo
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RaeLovesToRead
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This one had me slumping hard for the first 40%. There just wasn't anything to draw me into the story. It would have been a DNF... but I don't usually DNF.

And I'm glad I didn't because the second half of this book was good. I started to care.

I don't feel as positively about AI, robotics and automation as the author, but by the end I was invested.

⭐️⭐️⭐️

Aims42 The cover is so cool looking! Glad it eventually picked up for you 🤩 1mo
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Pogue
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My October TBR the tagged book is for bookclub. #blackcatcrew #hauntedshelf @PuddleJumper @BookwormAHN
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BookwormAHN I loved Death of the Author 🐈‍⬛ 1mo
PuddleJumper 🖤🧡🖤 1mo
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Tamra
Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe
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Mehso-so

🤔 This was a reread for a bookclub. Feeling rather milk toast about it. I‘m sure it was fresh & bold in 1959, but it fell flat for me today. I grasped the tensions/clashes created by the protagonist‘s narcissism within his communities and the cultural pressures brought to bear by colonization via missionaries. But it felt disjointed when suddenly in the last quarter the focus shifted to the latter theme. The pacing was off.

Tamra Since I‘m an expert 🤣, it would have made an excellent novella if the long middle descriptions of village life had been pared down and the two themes were more tightly woven together. 1mo
mcctrish ❤️❤️❤️ 1mo
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