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vivastory
Tales from the Loop | Simon Stlenhag
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Every Thursday I will be posting about a book, or short story, I love that I have either never posted about or have not posted about in a long time. For my first entry for #ThorsDayRec is Stålenhag's sui generis work Tales From The Loop. I have seen this categorized under: Graphic Novel, Sci-Fi, Art Books, Fiction. Set in the 80s, TFL tells of a town with both decommissioned & sentient machines. There's a meandering narrative woven into (cont)

vivastory incredible artwork. TFL is like Stranger Things meets Dark. I def plan on checking out Stålenhag's other work!
(PS: If you have recommendations, please post!)
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LeahBergen This sounds fun! I‘ll try to remember to add some of my own. 😆 1d
vivastory @LeahBergen I'd love to see your recommendations! 19h
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BarbaraBB Sounds pretty obscure and I like that 13h
Bette His book, Electric State has been getting buzz since Netflix, sounds like the book is preferable. 9h
vivastory @BarbaraBB There's been a board game & a tv show of his work but it seems like his books are the lesser known when you Google him 8h
vivastory @Bette I've heard a lot of mixed reviews on the adaptations. Seems like most of the Netflix book adaptation lately have been misses 8h
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thecheckoutstack
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Today‘s episode of The Checkout Stack features Orange County Florida librarian Kelley Mayer. Check it out for some manga recs!

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AshRaye
Spy x Family, Vol. 13 | Tatsuya Endo
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Mehso-so

I'd missed these characters. The last volume ended on a cliffhanger and we get to see how that all wrapped up. But after that it seemed like we got a lot of random stories that were fun, but didn't add much to the overall story plot. We did start to see some more character development though.

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totefairie
The Apothecary Diaries | Natsu Hyuuga
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Jari-chan
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Pickpick

This might be my favourite volume of the series so far. It's the story about the fish and the robot creature that takes care of it. A lot of depth is revealed here. The philosophical ideas that flew into this chapter, deeply moved also touched me.

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shanaqui
Pickpick

New lesson learned: when you have only about 5-10 minutes left to read in a book, then don't try to go to sleep without finishing it... My brain kept buzzing for AGES.

Volume 2 is a lot of fun, and I read it so fast. I really should order volume 4, since I'm sure I'll devour volume 3 as well...

Clare-Dragonfly You might as well buy the rest of the series since you‘re enjoying it so much! 😇 1mo
imthatniki I love this! Are you going to watch the anime? 1mo
shanaqui @Clare-Dragonfly Right?! Though... probably don't have the budget this month, ahaha. 1mo
shanaqui @imthatniki Possibly! But probably not as a priority -- I don't watch much TV or anything, so it's hard to fit it in, and I'm quite fidgety. 😅 1mo
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shanaqui

Yep... this was the right choice for my mood. I've read two thirds of it already; saving the last part for right before bed, or maybe tomorrow. I only have one more volume already owned, so I might have to shake my book budget later to see if I can order volume four.

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shanaqui
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I still swear I'm not deliberately avoiding a #BookSpinBingo, but... I think if I can grab some time today, I'm going to start the second Apothecary Diaries light novel. I love Maomao and her scientific approach to the world so much.

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OutAndAbout
Beware of Chicken | Casualfarmer
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If Jeremy took over the body of a Jedi knight before forming Clarksons farm. A relaxing and entertaining although odd experience. A “slice of life fantasy”.

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mariaku21
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Mehso-so

This was cute, a bit messy for me but cute. And I say messy because a lot happened but there was no sense of time so I didn't and couldn't figure out how much time had passed from one chapter to the next to try have time or a plot.

Not sure if I want to continue the rest of the series but this was cute and fun.
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