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britt_brooke
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Three-mile audio greenway walk with my boy. 🎧🐾

#audiowalk #reread #bookclub #dogsoflitsy

Ruthiella 🐶❤️🐶❤️🐶 1d
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 1d
OrangeMooseReads Such a handsome boy! 1d
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squirrelbrain He‘s always so smiley!😃 1d
britt_brooke @squirrelbrain My happy buddy! 18h
LeahBergen That sweet boy! 16h
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Littlewolf1
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Pickpick

4.2⭐️ this was a #FriendsPicForMe read. It is a memoir that really shows how easy it is to get sucked up into somebody else‘s plot. I‘m so happy that she was able to find herself make a life for her and her daughter away from all that control and manipulation.

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Brooke_H
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Pickpick

In the early 2000s, Lenz, a devout Christian, joined a Hollywood Bible study group mostly for some camaraderie. She quickly found herself sucked into “the Family” cult, giving them access to all her money and eventually marrying one of their own.

I would never call what Lenz experienced “harrowing,” but I definitely found myself thinking, “oh, girl, no…” many times as she was coerced into making choices advantageous to the Family.

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vivastory
Monica | Daniel Clowes
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According to Ye Olde Goode Reads, I have read 4 of Clowes' books since 2016, but Monica is the first 5 star. This one truly had the capaciousness, & complexity, of a fleshed out novel. , This has much in common with other Clowes works I have read but it was def. a step beyond. One of the first books that I read after my move back in Feb. & I specifically recall it breaking through my mental fatigue at the time as a special work.
#2025bestreads

Reggie Moving sucks, man. 6d
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Bzosche
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“There is one indisputable way to identify a cult, one characteristic they all share...it is the notion that anyone who does not agree with the group's beliefs or choices, who expresses concerns, who simply dares to ask questions, is deemed "unsafe.””

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khooliha
Last Days | Adam Nevill
Panpan

Almost made a so-so before that wild ass reveal that brings in some transphobia without seemingly understanding that trans people are real. The man needs and editor BADLY

BookmarkTavern Blegh! At least you‘re done! 4w
khooliha @BookmarkTavern the things we read for book clubs we love 4w
BookmarkTavern True! Although the books I‘ve really hated have also turned into the most interesting and funny discussions! My book club had a book a few years ago that we all hated so much we all ranted for over four hours about it. 😂😂 4w
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OriginalCyn620
The Incendiaries | R.O. Kwon
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Mehso-so

This was just okay for me. I was hoping a book about a cult would have more action!

#bookspinbingo
#pop25 - book about a cult

TheAromaofBooks Great progress!! 4w
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khooliha
Last Days | Adam Nevill
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The horrifying reveal that's supposed to be that the evil lady put her soul inside a child is rendered, by the framing details, a horrifying reveal that the villain of this book is queer and trans, and both of those things are explicitly tied to his evil, as they're ways he has manipulated people to maintain power.

Does this author think through ANYTHING he writes?????

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khooliha
Last Days | Adam Nevill

Wait, at nearly 60% this book is deciding to propose that social media is like cults from the 70s, specifically the cult that has 100% already caused supernatural shit to happen?? This is only my second Nevill book, but I don't think he's great at writing characters getting upset, because it's always about the wrong thing.

khooliha I'm sorry you don't like reality TV! But the weird dog humans are trying to break into your house already and you are very aware of that!! 1mo
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Robotswithpersonality
Big Machine: A Novel | Victor LaValle
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Mehso-so

There's weird, and then there's stuff you thought you'd only read on A03.
Starts with a catchy premise, written well, continues into some unexpected but interesting fare, tackling some difficult subjects, while unfortunately, if perhaps predictably, given the topics, being kind of unrelentingly grim. Without going into spoilers, I can say with confidence , if you don't want to read about cults, don't pick this up. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? So we're trucking along dealing with various people's trauma, with a somewhat unorthodox format for relating how few options remain for those trapped in poverty and addiction , especially when you add in systemic racism, how homelessness is perennially underserved and dismissed as a societal issue by structures of power. 1mo
Robotswithpersonality 3/? And then things go completely off the rails, in a way that, thanks to everything leading up, you kind of feel like you should have seen coming, and yet I'm not sure I ever would have guessed, despite my taste in fanfic. Off the wall would be one thing, but I'm not left with the impression, given everything else the story involved, that it pulled off that ending being told in the space allotted. (edited) 1mo
Robotswithpersonality 4/? Safe to say that after enjoying Lone Women and The Ballad of Black Tom, while I look forward to investigating what LaValle comes out with next, I don't think I'll be delving further into his backlist.
Given the chronology, I have to wonder if an agent or editor didn't basically say: 'if you want to increase your readership you can go further into the horror elements, but you're gonna have to make it more cohesive, and less dark!'
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Robotswithpersonality 5/5 My conspiracy theory for the day, feels very on theme...

⚠️drug and alcohol addiction, fertility issues, mention of miscarriages, suicide bombing/domestic terrorism(?)/murder for religion/cult, child deaths, body horror, racism, colourism, SA(?), torture, withdrawal symptoms, suicide, slurs and stereotypes, child neglect, gore
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