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The Last Pick trilogy is a great graphic novel series for middle schoolers. Author Jason Walz, a special education teacher, understands the importance of representation; in a note he explains the main theme: “Whatever the world sees as ‘different‘ is exactly what the world needs.” I don‘t think it‘s a spoiler to say that kids turn out to be the heroes. 💖

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Oryx

The Body Snatchers | Jack Finney

A few minutes reading in the sun outside the British Library.

I'm obsessed with these new SF masterworks covers. I may have bought 2 and coveted several more.

squirrelbrain Lovely! ❤️ 3w

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vivastory

Invasion of the Body Snatchers | Jack Finney

My list is going to be comprised solely of those elusive specimens: adaptations that exceed the source material.
*1978 Invasion of the Body Snatchers featuring Donald Sutherland. I liked, didn't love, the original novel but the performances in this elevate it into something truly special.
*Jaws. This was above & beyond the source material in just about every way imaginable.
*Killing Eve. The source material Codename Villanelle is so generic (CONT)

vivastory It's pretty incredible that they were able to do what they did with it.
#tlt @dabbe 1mo

psalva Totally agree about Jaws! Good choices 🎬 1mo

bookwyrm7 Not really a movie, but the series "The Haunting of Bly Manor" is a lot better than the book it was based on, "The turn of the screw", by Henry James. In fact, I quite enjoy Flanagan's adaptations which, though not always "faithful", often bring something new, if not better, to the table, at least from a cinematic point of view. 1mo

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AmyG I forgot Jaws. One of my favorites. 1mo

Suet624 I still have flashbacks from that Body Snatchers movie (I saw both of them actually, but the Sutherland one creeped me out more) 1mo

DebinHawaii @Suet624 @vivastory The Donald Sutherland one is the best! That ending!!! 😱😱😱 1mo

dabbe I only saw the 1956 version of INVASION. Seems like I have missed out! 🤩🤩🤩 Thanks for sharing. 💚🩷💚 1mo

TheBookHippie Oh my word Body Snatchers! Scared the crap outta me! 😵‍💫😂🤣 1mo

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Deifio

Happy Smekday oder der Tag, an dem ich die Welt retten musste | Adam Rex

My local library had a book sale. All in all 15 books!

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CaitlinByTheBook

Cold People | Tom Rob Smith

Current #librarybook that I‘m reading on my new Kobo! Do you use an e-reader? I love it for reading at night and limiting my blue light exposure.

Even though it‘s winter, we‘ve had some warm days and I‘m craving books set in a cold and snowy place!

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AllDebooks

Cold People | Tom Rob Smith

#JoyousJanuary #Midwintersolace

Planned weekend reading, as well as finishing the tagged.

@Andrew65

AllDebooks

A Cold Spell: A Human History of Ice

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MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm

The Forgotten (Animorphs #11) | K.A. Applegate

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Back on the horse with my Animorphs read through! The group manages to rip a hole through space and time and end up lost in the rain forest not knowing when they are or how to get back. It always surprises me when I reread these how much body horror is in them. 😅 I love it and it makes a lot of sense as to why I am the way I am today. 🤣😂 There‘s a moment where Jake wonders whether Ax has a sense of humor and I can assure you, ⬇️

MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm Ax is the funniest one of them all.
#SeriesLove2024 #Roll100 1st finished book of 2024! ❤️🤘😆🤘❤️ 4mo

Roary47 I‘ve always wanted to read these. It might be a goal one of these days to at least start them. 4mo

MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm @Roary47 I‘m honestly really lucky to have the whole collection. I was helping a friend of mine move and he offered them to me. I‘d only ever been able to get a few of them growing up. I was ecstatic! 😍 Someone mentioned before that they had found some on Libby and at their library. I see them every now and then at Half Price Books if you have one near you. 4mo

Roary47 I‘ll give that a shot. I always wanted them, but I wasn‘t a strong enough reader so my dad didn‘t want to overwhelm me. The yellow Nancy Drew books were easier for me to read so he got me that set and the American Girls. Or maybe he just wasn‘t sure about people turning into other things. 😂 4mo

MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm @Roary47 My parents were more concerned with having to buy me so many books constantly. There was a new book about every month! 😵‍💫 They found out my school and public library had them so they didn‘t see any reason to spend money on something I could get for free. But they were so popular they were pretty much always out. I just sort of made due with what I could get. Having my friend give me his had my inner child literally dancing for joy! 😅 4mo

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Reggie

Cold People | Tom Rob Smith

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Yeah, this is bad. The writing is way more tell than show. I gave it the good ol‘100 pg try and couldn‘t. I made to 25 years into the future where there are 3 settlements and the first one we read about he keeps writing there, you‘re like family. Everyone there, they‘re family. They hugged because everyone there, they‘re like family. I just started laughing. Shoutout to Olive Garden‘s marketing because when you‘re there, you‘re family. Lol👇🏼

Reggie I have 5 more books to read for my goal this year and I just want them to be good. 5mo

Ruthiella Hope the next five are great! Love the Olive Garden reference. It made me chuckle. 🤭 5mo

Reggie @Ruthiella Thanks! Yeah, he must have written that phrase like 5 times over a couple of pages. In my head I was hearing the guy in the commercials. 5mo

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batsy Lol! Love this. 5mo

Bookwormjillk I couldn‘t get through this one either. I had such high hopes too. 5mo

TrishB This is in my pics folder for future purchases! It shall be relegated! 5mo

Bookzombie I tried to read Child 44 by him years ago and couldn‘t get in to it. I hope your next five books are great! 5mo

Reggie @batsy @Bookwormjillk @TrishB @Bookzombie there are only so many times I can be told something in a book without the author writing a scene to support it. And then he expects us to be connected enough to where he kills off this character and instead of caring I just rolled my eyes. Whatever. Not for me. 5mo

Rissreads This reminded me of the book I read The last. A similar thing happened. The author used this expression at least a dozen times in the book. She/he spread her hands. I started to get an involuntary tick every time it came up! It really pissed me off in the end! 🤣 I‘ll give this book a miss. Good luck on your last 5 books! May they be fabulous! (edited) 5mo

Reggie @Rissreads Lolol, yeah. Sometimes it‘s just a word, too. They keep using it. I totally understand. Thanks! 5mo

Centique @Reggie @Rissreads the funny thing is when i wrote a novel and did a writing course i discovered my own overused phrases. It was so bizarre! I was writing for a year or more and every chapter two or three times someone would “hold their breath” or “ take a breath” Completely shocked me when i read it and saw how often i mentioned breath! (edited) 5mo

Centique @Reggie @Rissreads but YET we were just beginners and even we could use google search and find our overused words - so no excuse really for publishers and editors. 5mo

Rissreads @Reggie @Centique yep someone needs a kick up the arse! The editor was definitely asleep at the wheel! 5mo

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Addison_Reads

Cold People | Tom Rob Smith

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This was one I was excited to read even before the #tob24 long list came out. Unfortunately, it didn't work for me. Great ideas, interesting setting, but ultimately the author has too many unanswered questions and giant cavern sized plot holes.

And don't even get me started on that terrible ending! 🤦‍♀️ I will be surprised if this makes the shortlist.

Addison_Reads @BarbaraBB @squirrelbrain @Megabooks @Suet624 @BkClubCare @Jas16 @cariashley @MicheleinPhilly @Larkken @merelybookish @batsy @Readerann @Hooked_on_books 5mo

Addison_Reads @Chelsea.Poole @rmaclean4 @kwmg40 @Well-ReadNeck @Deblovestoread @jlhammar @RebelReader @Ruthiella @sarahbarnes @ImperfectCJ 5mo

BarbaraBB I‘ve been interested in this one too. Will let it be for now. 5mo

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Megabooks 💯💯💯 agree terribly disappointing!! Don‘t waste your time if it doesn‘t make the shortlist @BarbaraBB 5mo

Ruthiella Yeah, this sounds bad. The reviews I‘m seeing on Goodreads are also pretty negative. 5mo

squirrelbrain I couldn‘t get this and was very disinclined any after @Megabooks review. Then, a couple of days ago, it appeared on BorrowBox so I borrowed it. Still don‘t think I‘ll read it, unless it makes the shortlist! 5mo

Hooked_on_books I read this a while back, as I really liked another book by this author (The Farm), and I agree. Cool premise, poor execution. 5mo

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Megabooks

Cold People | Tom Rob Smith

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Holy plot holes, Batman! The premise of this book is so poorly constructed it‘s laughable. Aliens give all humans 30 days to move to Antarctica, and the majority of us don‘t make it and even fewer survive the first winter. However somehow supercomputers and an inventory of the of the DNA of every species that ever existed were moved and put in service of a crazy geneticist to save the human race by making non-human creatures to its not clear…⬇️

Megabooks I‘m going to elaborate in spoiler tags in case you‘re suddenly dying to read this, but I promise I‘ll try to make what‘s behind the tags funny! Stay tuned! #tob24 5mo

Megabooks Evacuation blah blah…that part was fine. Then you skip 20 years…just 20 years…into the future and you‘ve got geneticists trying to save the human race (as the author reiterated MANY times) by making human hybrids. But it was unclear for the entire book whether they were building a race of slaves or trying to humanize them and defining and exploring one of these options would‘ve made a WAY better book!! 5mo

Megabooks So humans share 98% DNA with chimps and 84% with dogs. This geneticist on Antarctica, where it would be difficult to get instruments adapted for warmer labs to work (and how are they fueling the electricity??), have created these hybrids with octopus blood and dinosaur tails and scalpel hands. Because that‘s totally how genetics works AGCTGoctupusbloodTAGC. 🙄🙄🙄🙄 and again unclear how these hybrids are going to save humanity. 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️ 5mo

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Megabooks So basically the entire book was a massive exercise in frustration as a person who cannot !MASSIVELY! suspend her disbelief. Rebecca Lowman‘s narration was great as always but the material was shit. Thank god I borrowed from Spotify!! See spoiler tags above for details. ⬆️ (edited) 5mo

TieDyeDude Sad. I loved his Child 44 series, but I haven't heard anything great about his other work. 5mo

Megabooks @TieDyeDude this was a huge disappointment. There were directions he could‘ve explored that would‘ve made it much better. 5mo

Megabooks Also, in trying to make these huge edits, you‘re going to lose a lot of early embryos, but how are they replacing them? Did they bring storage containers of leftover IVF embryos? How? Did they make embryos from survivors? Again how? Because they‘d seriously need A LOT. At least as far as I understand things. and yeah, the evacuation was in 2023 and twenty years later is 2043, so you can‘t use the “we‘ve figured things out in the future excuse” 5mo

Megabooks And yes, the MC with octopus blood was carried by a normal human female, so how did that placenta work?? PLOT HOLES!!! 5mo

squirrelbrain Phew! My library had this but went I went to check it out we couldn‘t find it on the shelves. My lucky day I think! 🤣 5mo

Megabooks @squirrelbrain I think so!! 5mo

AlaMich It sounds like the plot you‘d get if you had a group of people writing it without knowing what the others were writing. 5mo

Reggie I have this on Libby right now. I love the TOB pans you guys get. Makes me want to read them more. Great review Meg! 5mo

Megabooks @AlaMich it was disjointed! I really don‘t know what he was going for because there were a few interesting directions and he didn‘t seem to pick one. It just kind of lumbered. 5mo

Megabooks @Reggie very curious about what you‘ll think of if you‘ll finish! 🤔🤔 5mo

Hooked_on_books I wasn‘t a fan of this either, but didn‘t hate it quite as much as you did. 😉 I loved his book The Farm and keep looking for him to have another that good, but this definitely wasn‘t it! 5mo

Chelsea.Poole Oh wow…definitely not going there 😆 5mo

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