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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #reread
So I‘ve been having a really rough start to 2025. This led to my doing a reread of The Bonds That Tie series. I honestly really love the magic of this world and the concept of bonds. Plus the direction this series takes is so well done, especially with the discussions on trauma. That being said, I will acknowledge that it‘s not everyone and the ending falls a little flat. Other than that, I still had a blast.
#reread #arcanesociety
pickLast #ToB25 book of the entire list of 18!! Woohoo 👏
I would love to find a list of all the connections between stories cuz I think I missed a few. #Jan2025 Book12 #Completist Litflu 47863
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I forgot how much of a comfort read this is for me. It makes me more excited than I already was to reread the series. I think my favorite part of this first book is how Mercy stumbles into this role we see for her throughout the series just because she‘s trying to be a good person and not judging people based on the type of creature they are. And the discovery of just how powerful Walkers can be is only just starting. #reread
pickA reread, but I‘m being kinder to it the second time than I was my first read. I still think the weight Vivi puts on Rhys‘ betrothal is too much, but hey, gotta second chance romance it somewhere. I do need some hard and fast magic rules tho bc Vivi doing “big magic” like the candle and the summoning? I don‘t even know what this world would consider big magic. Gimme rules! Outlines! Something! Overall, fun, fast, and easy.
3⭐️| #romance #reread
pickSeventh candle of my #Hanukkahchallenge & the stormy weather affected my choice. Agnon‘s short story is about a man who came to build a house in Talpiyot, a windy hill in Jerusalem. The story is less than three pages, but it‘s multilayered: it‘s a man vs nature, it‘s a autobiography in both the direct meaning of Agnon building his home and finding his way with G-d, but also about Jews and Arabs being neighbors. #reread #iamthatjew
pickFifth candle of the #Hanukkahchallenge: Two heroines move in some strange parallel four hundreds years apart and tell a story, reveal the history of people, history of Jews.
I cannot be objective judging these stories, because at some point of my life I have experienced some measure of it all: the awfulness of being addressed "you, the Jewess", the heated discussion of rabbis and the scorching sun at Masada. #reread #iamthatjew
