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Born.A.Reader
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#pub100yearsago #aboutabook
My newest hire on my team at work recommended this one to me. Originally published in 1924.
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

Eggs Awesome ❤️💜❤️ 3mo
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Twainy
Past Crimes | Jason Pinter
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Pickpick

I love books like this … and B movies … it‘s like WestWorld had a baby with a VR video game with grampa Jurassic Park overseeing it. It takes place hundreds of years in our future.

A crime drama, mystery, amateur women sleuths, sci-fi thriller, with a side of creepy AI.

Murder Land … where everyone dresses up and interacts with famous (serial) killers! Need I say more?

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2

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BookmarkTavern
Look to the Sun | Emmie Mears
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Good morning my #JuneOfARC littens, and thank you for coming along with me on this journey to work on our NetGalley backlogs!

We‘ve finished the month, and so I‘m wondering if there‘s any old ARC you read that you really want to recommend!

I was actually surprised by how much I enjoyed the tagged book! It ended up being much more hopeful than I had thought!

eskoch28 I spent the whole month fighting with my netgalley app 😭😭😭 but I got an audiobook and a digital book read! I'll make a post afterwhile 5mo
Booksblanketsandahotbeverage I really enjoyed my non-fiction read and it wasn‘t old, but the next Flavia book by Alan Bradley was entertaining 😄 5mo
julesG I managed five ARCs 🎉 - my favourite was the tagged. About to be published. 5mo
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julesG Can't count, it was six. Just 152 more to read. 😉 5mo
MonicaLoves2Read I loved Paul Dorian's Pitch Dark. Of course, I love the series. Loved Linda Castillo's next one in the Kate Burkholder Series, Burning, also 5mo
BookmarkTavern @eskoch28 Good on you for persevering! @Booksblanketsandahotbeverage Wonderful! @julesG Wow! Congrats! @Monica5 Sounds great! 5mo
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BookmarkTavern
Look to the Sun | Emmie Mears
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Strangers Rose & Beo come together as their city seethes w/ violence when the National Peoples‘ Voice ramps up their propaganda against the “unnatural degenerates” threatening the city.

Wow! A very powerful read about the encroachment of facism, the strength of community coming together against hate. A sweet poly romance & the power of stories! Everything resolved more easily than I anticipated, but that‘s an allure of fiction right?🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗

BookmarkTavern #JuneOfARC CW 👇🏻 (edited) 5mo
BookmarkTavern General warning throughout for the rise of facism, domestic (emotional and physical) abuse, and references to past suicide 5mo
AnnCrystal I spy the cute, bushy tail of a little cat 💕😻💝. 5mo
BookmarkTavern @AnnCrystal She‘s rolling a new toy around that lets out treats when she rolls it just the right way. 😄 5mo
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Dilara
Blackout Island | Sigrur Hagaln Bjrnsdttir
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After a busy start to the day (farmer's market, lots of cooking, Eid lunch, IT troubleshooting for the elderly, and an hour's work) it's time to relax with a cup of lemon verbena tea, leftover cheesecake & some lovely raspberries . And the tagged book.

TheBookHippie It all looks so lovely!!! 5mo
Graywacke Yum! 5mo
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Dilara
Blackout Island | Sigrur Hagaln Bjrnsdttir
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The political situation being what it is in France right now, I find it hard to concentrate on books, but I did finish Epilogue of the Raindrops (although I probably was too distracted to really take it all in) and a small collection of poems by Sigurbjörg Þrastardóttir. I am starting Blackout Island.
#FoodandLit #Iceland
@Catsandbooks @Texreader

Catsandbooks Hope you can find some peace ❤️ 5mo
Bookwomble Feeling it here in the UK, too. I'm hoping calmer, more peaceful and inclusive politics arise from the current reactionary turbulence 🕊️ 5mo
Dilara @Bookwomble Fingers crossed! But the current climate is vicious right now. 5mo
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RebeccaRoo7
The Bridge | Jane Higgins
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Banksy is always needing and looking for attention. My favorite time of the has become our bedtime when he wants to snuggle while I'm reading.

#science #fiction #catsoflitsy #Banksy #young #adult #summer #bedtime #goodboy

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Bookwomble
Judge Dredd: Year Two | Cavan Scott, Matt Smith, Michael Carroll
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That was surprisingly better than I expected it to be 😊
The first story is basically a Western with Dredd as sheriff in a border town run by a corrupt business family, with high explosive weapons, mutants and radioactive twisters.
The second story sees Dredd battered and bloodied, running a gauntlet of violent perps in a locked-down Mega-Block, not dissimilar to the excellent Karl Urban Dredd movie.
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Bookwomble The last story is a detective mystery, featuring a female Trump-alike trillionaire politician and Deadliner, a serial killer targeting journalists. This story was marred by a section of egregious fatphobia😕 I know that the “Fattie“ subculture is comic canon, but there's a choice of using this sensitively or abusively, and Scott went the wrong way.
Overall, a fun romp with a bit more going on than steel-chinned police brutality 4⭐
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Bookwomble
Judge Dredd: Year Two | Cavan Scott, Matt Smith, Michael Carroll
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In an America riven by factional violence, political in-fighting, gangs, and gun crime, in which human life is held cheap and social cohesion is threatened, a para-military police force rises to enforce the Law, regardless of Justice, to quell protest and protect the vested interest of a rich elite.
So, to distract myself from all that, I thought I'd read a Judge Dredd novel.

lil1inblue I see what you did there. 😏 6mo
Ruthiella 😂 6mo
Bookwomble @lil1inblue @The_Book_Ninja @Ruthiella The old jokes are the best 😉 6mo
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