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ballina

Joined October 2016

book by book, traveling the world
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Great Expectations | Charles Dickens
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Let's give it a go!!

Notafraidofwords I'm so intimidated by him !! 7y
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Untitled | Unknown
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#whenwillfallbehere I mostly enjoy my weekend trips to the countryside where my grandma lives, and this is my absolutely favorite spot to sit down and read! I feel like Heidi in this huge green field!

BethM That looks lovely! I adore reading in my treestand! 7y
ballina @BethM thank you 😊 7y
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Untitled | Unknown
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#unpopularopinionsbooktag

1. The Chronicles of Narnia
2. Diary of an Oxygen Thief
3. None actually????
4. Fantasy, sorry :(
5. Don't really know if she's beloved or not but I quite dislike Daisy from The Great Gatsby
6. George R. R. Martin
7. YA novels with the repetitive outline of a weird kid in love with another weird but popular kid, and the whole no climax thing during a book
8. The Hobbit
9. Pretty Little Liars (more than the book)

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Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen
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I've had this book sitting on my shelf for about three months now and I finally got to reading it! It makes me think how much we degraded our speaking abilities! Such a beautiful language used and such a beautiful story. You all have probably already read it several times but I felt like I need to post about it anyways. #classicsjourney #prideandprejudice #janeausten

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Untitled | Unknown
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Decided I wanted to do the #bookishwouldyourather

1. Definitely Beer
2. Based on their last pages #oops
3. At a beach, I'm too intrigued to explore forests, I won't have time to read.
4. Only read realistic novels!
5. MR. ROCHESTER ALL THE FKING WAY!

Kalalalatja You read the last page? 😱 7y
ballina @Kalalalatja if it's a full page I just read the last paragraph hahahah, 97% of the time it doesn't give out any important information, I just like seeing how the author concludes the story 7y
Kalalalatja That's true, most of the big twists come before the last page. It just feels so wrong to me 😄 7y
minkyb @ballina My daughter does the same thing with the last page! 7y
ballina @minkyb it's a very satisfying thing to do! 7y
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oh British literature, I love you.

Libby1 SO DO I. ❤️🇬🇧❤️ 7y
MariaW 😍 7y
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Which one should I read next?? #GreatExpectations VS #PrideAndPrejudice

Notafraidofwords Love P&P. Love all the characters. 7y
Bookish.Leftist.Auntie Great Expectations! 💜 7y
CaroPi I try to read Great Expectations. Didn't manage to arrive to half of it. But my old time favorite is P&P. I guess is a matter of taste 7y
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Olivetoread Great Expectations for sure! 7y
kristen_reads Pride & Prejudice! I agree with CaroPi- Great Expectations was a bit difficult for me to get through. 7y
Leniverse They're both excellent, but my preference is for Austen and especially for P&P. 7y
Laalaleighh Dickens. 7y
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Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bront
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Finished this beautiful book this morning. One of the best books I have read. So beautiful, so full of life. I am speechless

Foragingfantasy One of my very favorites as well! 7y
DivineDiana I felt the same way. Don't know why I took so long to read it! 7y
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Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bront
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I don't know why, but this stuck on my mind. #JaneEyre #CharlotteBronte #SummerRead #classics

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I just can't believe my dearest has turned 20! I will never be able to thank J.K. Rowling for creating this whole new universe I have had the fate to experience. I grew up re-reading these stories, and re-reading these stories made me grow up even more. Forever grateful.

GRThomas2014 Ikr? I remember picking the first book up off a shelf in a bookstore before it was ever really heard of. What a find it was! 20 years of bringing readers back to the love of words and imagination 😍 7y
ballina @GRThomas2014 I feel you. I just re-read the last chapter of HP and the Deathly Hallows, the nostalgia hit me so hard 7y
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Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bront
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School is over and so my summer reading list begins! Join me on my classics ride..Such a good book! So deep and poetic! #janeeyre #charlottebronte

RachelAmphlett I'm just fangirling over your nail varnish 😂 7y
ballina @RachelAmphlett omg thank you sooo much! It's drugstore- Essence The Beach House in the color 04 Splish Splash :)) 7y
RachelAmphlett @ballina It's a fab colour! 7y
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The Time Machine | H. G. Wells
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Mehso-so

If you're a classic lover then this is the book for you. If not, you'll enjoy it but it's not the best classic ever. Good for collectors.

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The Circle | Dave Eggers
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HOLY FKING SHIT!!!!!! This book oh my god! I was wondering why isn't there a climax to the book? What is going on! But the ending oH MY GOOOOOD! This book is so good 10/10 everyone has to read it. It'll kill you.

Laalaleighh I'm buying it today. 7y
mcctrish I had a few issues with this book ( all solved by better editing) and friends who bailed for different reasons. But I still encounter things IRL that I say to my husband ( who read too) OMG its The Circle ( and often) 7y
ballina @Laalaleighh be patient with it pleeease ☺️☺️ 7y
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ballina @mcctrish same! I loved it even though I thought there would be a point of climax and everything would be okay, I kept waiting for that point but the end got me speechless! 7y
TheWordJar All of this was my exact reaction! Although not categorized as horror, it's one of the scariest books I've read! 😱 7y
ballina @TheWordJar I'd categorize it as a thriller, sooo good! 7y
Zelma I really enjoyed this one too. 👍 7y
Wife Sold! 7y
StrictlySusannah I'm like 60% through. She's on stage with Eamon. Should I keep going? I'm dragging. 7y
ballina @StrictlySusannah well, I don't know what to say; there won't be a moment when you're gonna be hooked to continue reading it but the ending is marvelous. Huuuuge plot twist and makes you think about the future.. 7y
Purrfectpages Great read! 7y
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The Circle | Dave Eggers
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I just started this book. I'm on page 38 and I'm loving it so hard. It's so intriguing I can't wait to see what's going to happen next. As far as I've come, it's a 10/10 would recommend #thecircle !!!!

Zelma I really enjoyed this one! Scared the crap out of me and made me want to quit social media, but alas, I'm still here. 😂 7y
ballina @Zelma still haven't finished it! I actually hope it has a huge impact like that on me. I really want to quit hahahah 7y
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I literally want to hug this book! I bought it on Barnes and Noble and it's the best Sherlock Holmes compilation by far!

TheLondonBookworm 😍😍😍😍😍 7y
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This book had sooooo much potential, and I loved it until, WAIT FOR IT. In the middle of the book, it switches genres and becomes a fantasy novel! I really liked how it started with a great mystery but then the mystery turns around and it just becomes so stupid. I'm sooooo disappointed. :(

pocketmermaid Bummer! 7y
JoeStalksBeck I bailed too on this one 7y
LiteraryinLawrence Good to know! 7y
Tigerbook Too bad 7y
yvo_about_books I enjoyed this one as well until the fantasy bomb was dropped. Forced myself to finish it, but definitely didn't like it... 7y
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Deception Point | Brown, Dan
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This book started out great! It had three of my favorite things intertwined: politics, physics and astronomy. I was absolutely in love with it, until I reached the middle of the book and then it became kind of "meh". It lost its spark and it wasn't interesting anymore. Still a great book though! #november #great #danbrown

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower | Bestsellers - Books USA Press
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I read this book at a very delicate age and it completely changed me. I realized that I should know the importance and cherish the small things in life.
Red ribbon week is here and I want to say:
Cherish yourself and be happy. #theperksofbeingawallflower #stephenchbosky

BeckyK This book is so beautiful, it definitely changed my perspective of the world once I'd finished it. 7y
OrangeMooseReads I love this book. 7y
LilMamaMastro Lovely sentiments with which I wholeheartedly agree! 7y
Dragon 👍 7y
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The Great Gatsby | Francis Scott Fitzgerald
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Call me cliché, but this is my favorite book to read when I'm feeling down. A must. #thegreatgatsby #fscottfitzgerald #great #october

charl08 Have you come across this look at the history that inspired FSF? Loved this book. 7y
ballina @charl08 I haven't but thank you! Perhaps I'll read it :) 7y
prowlix It's my favorite books too! It's my go to when I'm in a reading slump 7y
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Sputnik Sweetheart | Haruki Murakami
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This book is the ideal book for deep quotes, but the actual book all over wasn't that great for me. I like the way Murakami writes but the story itself wasn't that appealing to me. #harukimurakami #sputniksweetheart #october

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Can't wait to read this one. Has anyone read it? #iamnotaserialkiller #danwells #october #read #mystery #crime

NerdyRev I have. I remember I enjoyed it, but never went back to finish the series. 8y
ballina @NerdyRev thank you :) I hope I like it though, it's been a while since I enjoyed a series 8y
Nicohlay It's on my shelf if that counts lol Another on the long list of Tbr! 8y
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DebinHawaii It sounds good! 😱👍 8y
rachellayown My son read it. He liked it! 7y
ballina @Nicohlay oh I feel you.. 7y
ballina @rachellayown thank you :) 7y
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Victorialeanna Follow for a free copy of Staying Alive Through Twenty-Five memoir 7y
Crafts4others I have it on the next book to read. I hope it is good. How are you liking it so far? 7y
ballina @Crafts4others it's great, I like it :) 7y
ballina @Crafts4others I put this book down because I was so preoccupied with other stuff in my life but I just continued it and I have to sat I'm quite disappointed. I thought that this would be a cool mystery novel but in the middle of the book it just has a huge plot twist that results in it becoming more of a fantasy novel and that's not what I expected. If you like fantasy it's nice I guess but I don't 7y
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The Book Thief | Markus Zusak
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A must-read. Even better when you're learning German. #october #amazing #thebookthief #cried

BeththeBookDragon One of my all time favorite books. Ever. 8y
Jessie.Zhao Have seen the movie and loved it, but didn't know there is a book. Should start it some time 7y
ballina @Jessie.Zhao Only if you really want to, the adaption of the film was amazing, you haven't missed anything. Maybe wait a couple of months until your memory or the film fades away and then read it :) 7y
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Inferno: A Novel | Dan Brown
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One of my favorite books ever, ending with a mind blasting plot twist. The author did a wonderful job on intertwining Dante's Inferno with the book. A great adventure/mystery book, an even greater series. If you're a fan of mystery with a hint of history then this is your book.
P.S. Don't watch the movie. Just don't. It's real bad. Don't. #danbrown #inferno #mystery #october #amazing #adventure #favorite

mariejoechahine How would you compare it wirh The Da Vinci Code? It's the only Dan Brown book that i read and i found it a bit overrated 😅 8y
ballina @mariejoechahine Well, in my opinion The Da Vinci Code is more of a conspiracy, while the other books are purely fictional. There's no big revelation or connection to a blood line like in The Da Vinci Code. So if you like a good adventure, read it. The other books are way different and more interesting to me :) 8y
mariejoechahine Thanks! I'll consider reading it 8y
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ballina @mariejoechahine no problem :) 8y
Kathrin I actually recommended this to a guy in the airport book shop. He was looking for a new book and asked me if I could recommend anything... oh the responsibility! 😱 8y
BekahB I really liked this one! I'm excited for his new one coming out next year. 😀 8y
ballina @Kathrin awww. Is it bad that the first thing I thought of was a love story. I'm reading too much hahahah. I'm pretty sure he'll like it :) 8y
ballina @BekahB when I got the e-mail that he was publishing a new book I got up and started dancing, and then I saw that he was publishing it on September 2017 and it was a sad moment hahah 8y
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Confessions of a Murder Suspect | James Patterson, Maxine Paetro
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This book started out GREAT. I loved it, I couldn't WAIT to get to the end and find out who the murderer was. The revelation of the murderer in my opinion was a total disaster and it could've been so much better.
The actual story: 10/10, the ending 1/10.
Didn't buy the sequels because I was so mad at the ending. If you're a mystery/crime fanatic like me, buy it so you'll have it in your collection! #october #crime #mystery #dark #murder

NadiaBatista Read it this year. The ending was so predictable! 😒 8y
ballina @NadiaBatista I wanted it to be one of the siblings so bad and I expected a mind blasting ending but gosh it was so bad 8y
NadiaBatista @BALLINA I know, right? It just sinks every reader's hope. And it's such a shame, I wanted to know so much more about the family! 8y
ballina @NadiaBatista yeah same :( 8y
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Where I Belong | Gwendolyn Heasley
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This book is such a sweet romance/bildungsroman. I loved reading it, and now that I think about it, maybe I should re-read it. #teenage #comingofage #romance #october #easyread

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Diary of an Oxygen Thief | Anonymous, Viv Creative
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Ah this book. Short and sweet.

If you're up for a quick and easy read, this is the book you're looking for. It'll make you laugh and think deeply at the same time.

I wish I knew who the author was, I'd love to talk to him. #great #october #anonymous

Riveted_Reader_Melissa That looks very interesting! 8y
Xoxomel I've heard so much about this book, gotta read it... 8y
ballina @riveted_reader_melissa What attracted me to buy this book was its shortness. I read this book on the bus for an hour and a half but it was great. You see a man growing :) 8y
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ballina @Xoxomel It's really nice, nothing extravagant but as I said, it's great for a quick read :) 8y
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @BALLINA Sometimes you need a short escape. I already marked it on Goodreads to read, and it looks like it has a sequel too. 8y
ballina @Riveted_Reader_Melissa I absolutely agree. Have fun reading it and I hope you'll like it :3 8y
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Forever one of my favorite books. A must for your library.

I'd like to praise the author for writing a masterpiece. I cried for no reason, it emotionally drained me. I had to put it down so many times and just think. Think about the world. Think about my existence. #amazing #october

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The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho
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If you're feeling lost, read this book.
Everything will make sense.
Maktub.
#paulocoelho #alchemist #literature #brazilian #amazing #october #read #goodbook

Suet624 He did a great interview with Krista Tippett. Check it out at OnBeing.org 8y
ballina @Suet624 thank you so much :) 8y
ShelvesAndCandles This is my favorite book!! I just love Paulo Coelho! 👍 8y
Victorialeanna Follow for a free copy of Staying Alive Through Twenty-Five memoir 7y
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Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy
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I've been avoiding this book but I finally came to my senses and started reading it... #annakarenina #leotolstoy #october #fall #read

vuhlrybyhn How was it so far? I've only read Tolstoy's short stories before and it was good. :) 8y
ballina @vuhlrybyhn Well it takes awhile to actually get into the story, I'm at page 150-ish and the story still hasn't started quite yet, Anna Karenina's character was introduced about twenty pages earlier. Overall it's not bad but it's not the best either :) 8y
vuhlrybyhn @BALLINA I see.. The roller coaster ride might start in the middle? It' a thick book after all, right? Actually, it's thickness intimidates me. Haha. Anyhoo, good luck! :) 8y
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ballina @vuhlrybyhn yeah it's about 700 pages, maybe it'll get crazier hahah, I've put it on hold though for a week or two and I'll continue reading it :) 8y
MrBook Welcome to @Litsy ! I think you'll like it here 😎👍🏻. 8y
ballina @MrBook thank you, I'm already loving it :) 8y
BooksTeasAndBookishThings This story has so many different facets. I know it takes a while to get to the titular character, but he is also telling a story of Russia and westernization and double standards and family... It really is great. You have to see the farming as another character because in a lot of ways it is. This is my 3rd favourite Classic, and I know it is not for everyone, but it is such a beautiful book. ❤️ 8y
ballina @BooksTeasAndBookishThings if I'm honest I actually love the rest of the story, Anna's love story is great but I love how the author gives so many details to other characters, I feel so close to them! 8y
BooksTeasAndBookishThings I completely understand that, I think Tolstoy might have wanted to give such detail to the others because they make Anna even more human. Anna is full of so much passion and compassion and even Karenin loves in his own way. The best quote from that book is the one mentioning many minds for many heads and many loves for many hearts. It rings true. These characters all won me over 😍 8y
ballina @BooksTeasAndBookishThings yes! Finally someone who understands hahaha! That's the beauty of the story 8y
BooksTeasAndBookishThings It truly is 🙌🎉📚 8y
Mccall0113 I'm currently reading this on serial reader. It's taking a while but I want to finish! 8y
ballina @Mccall0113 Yeah! It's sooo long! 8y
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