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Delightful! I laughed loudly & nearly cried in the airport.

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Oathbringer | Brandon Sanderson
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Dropped from the tree, I just blow on the wind and pretend I'm in charge of my destiny.

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Pickpick

Epic & astonishing, superbly enlightening, I'll read this again.

speljamr This book was really good. I'm fascinated by these creatures. 6y
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Seriously, just read Wong.

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Jamiedemo
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This juicy mindblower is making good use of my dictionary app; splenetic, riposte, abstruse.

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Words of Radiance | Brandon Sanderson
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When Mr. Sanderson surprises you with happy tears, one must put the book on the kitchen floor, grab grandmother's iron wall art, & include their own toes, right?

Cosmos_Moon I like your toes 👣 6y
Jamiedemo @Smemily I like yours! 6y
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Disasterology | Maggie Smith
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This photo is from the literary magazine F(r)iction. I'm not sure if this specific poem is included in Disasterology. I got goosebumps the first & third times I read this poem, so far...

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Words of Radiance | Brandon Sanderson
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Power is an illusion of perception.

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The Way of Kings | Brandon Sanderson
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Very impressive...

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Rabbit Cake | Annie Hartnett
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The double of my double is not my double.

Jamiedemo "Dreams are dreams and the future is like a hall of mirrors reflecting the past and offering up wavering illusions until everything shatters and you're cut to ribbons by shards of reality." (edited) 7y
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Monstress #1 | Marjorie Liu
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To quote the poets... We're fucked.

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Joshua is so rad.

pocketmermaid Loved this! It was fantastic on audio. 7y
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All My Puny Sorrows | Miriam Toews
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Pickpick

Heartbreaking & hilarious.

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The Border of Paradise | Esme Weijun Wang
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Mehso-so

Dismal & disturbing... Yet I had to finish & did appreciate the end.

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Read me pile; tactile & tempting...

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The Fireman | Joe Hill
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Pickpick

Apocalypse disease horror; 4 out of 5 stars. Well done; vivid, heartfelt, & suspenseful.

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Mr. Loveheart is a delightful upstart Lord of the Underworld.

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Swan Song | Robert McCammon
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Pickpick

Vivid, brutal, magic. Read it so fast, cinematic. An excellent mad ride...

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"They ate her," said Brother Number One. "With porridge. That's what 'ran away and was never seen again' means in these parts. It means 'eaten.' "
"Um, and what about 'happily ever after'?" asked David, a little uncertainly. "What does that mean?"
"Eaten quickly," said Brother Number One.
And with that they reached the dwarfs' house.

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I'm adoring this adult fairytale. Visceral & beautiful, the mysteries enchant. The time traveling narrative is excellent. A shape shifting guardian & a demon death clock girl; funny, shocking, delightful...

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What's true about our fellow humans is that we are clever and stupid. We are gray areas.

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1Q84 | Haruki Murakami
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I'm here, but I'm not here. I'm in two places at once. It goes against Einstein's theorem, but what the hell. Call it the Zen of the killer.

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The Deep | Nick Cutter
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You are not who you are...

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The Drowned Life | Jeffrey Ford
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Loved this so much, I was compelled to read the title story twice in one day. Ford says, "A book is a time machine of our intentions, our ideas, our emotions; the alchemy of ingredients psychological, physical, and experimental which have coalesced in the form of the words we choose."

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The Drowned Life | Jeffrey Ford
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"With cephalopod brilliance, nonvertebrate intuition, Madame Mutandis will answer one question for each of you. No question is out of bounds. She thinks like the very sea itself. Who'll be first?"

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Tamsin | Peter S. Beagle
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Mehso-so

Young adult ghost story with history. Consistent voice, compelling. Ghost cat, mythical creatures, mysterious powers on an old farmstead with a dilapidated manor.

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Bailedbailed

52 pages in... Drawn out & dry with foreshadowing like a drum with the word drum on it being beaten by the reader's face every page...

diovival I'm on the bus trying to stifle my laughter. Inside I'm cackling. 7y
Jamiedemo @diovival Glad to inspire an inner guffaw! ❤️💙💜💚 7y
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The Walls Around Us | Nova Ren Suma
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Unreliable narrators? Hmmm...

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How much of that was a dream?

ReadingOver50 Sounds interesting. Love your photo. 7y
Jamiedemo Thank you. So far it is excellent... 7y
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Bone Gap | Laura Ruby
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Everyone is an idiot.

Jamiedemo This is one of the best books I have ever read. Everyone who reads this will be better. Everyone should read this... Magic. 7y
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Bone Gap | Laura Ruby
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Enrapturing magical realism, visceral, crucial...

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Are you the only living creature that matters?

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Stress relieving myself by coloring others in stressful situations. The damsel isn't always in distress; sometimes she is the villain or holding her own... Or undead. Loving the interesting covers!

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The nature in which rats exist calls to mind those lives that are not recalled and honored, whose careers are not reexamined in histories -- the lives that seem to be unnatural and even ratty or at least low-down but are not, actually... When we look at rats, we are thus compelled to look at the history of the lives in their midst, to search for the Unrepresented Men.

Jamiedemo The picture is of pet rats. This book is more about wild rats & people in New York. I like that it does not automatically demonize rats. Interesting & entertaining so far. 8y
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I was just blown away by the story, "This is Love;" wow! Goosebumps & actual tears from a horror story. "Welcome to the Reptile House" was an excellent tale of a certain type of monster(no spoilers). So far the best part of this collection is the surprising freshness. Loving it!

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The Evolution of Jane | Cathleen Schine
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I made it 70 pages. Perhaps, I could read this at some other point in my life... Or not. Slow moving plot combined with complaining narrator incessantly asking why her friendship disappeared. Sorry, we can't be friends either...

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Venice.

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Armada: A Novel | Ernest Cline
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Strong with the dark side of the force that place is. In you must go, mofo.

Jamiedemo I liked this well enough, but Read Player One is soooooo much better. 8y
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There are intrinsic benefits to constantly probing the possibility that our assumptions about the future might be wrong: humility and wonder.

Jamiedemo This may be the best mindfuck I have ever had; thank you Mr. klosterman! 8y
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Black Hole | Charles Burns
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The savagery, the cruelty, the relentless anxiety and ennui, the longing for escape... And then the murders start.

steer_the_ship I heard about this on Literary Disco awhile back, and bought it recently because I am trying to make myself get into graphic novels. I started with My Friend Dahmer and I loved it. 8y
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The Ghost in Love: A Novel | Jonathan Carroll
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Picnicking in the rain with yourself at twenty different ages; Mr. Carroll pulls at my heartstrings with his magnificent surrealities.

MrBook Good review and pic! 8y
Jamiedemo Thank you! 8y
SusanInTiburon Pretty picture 8y
Jamiedemo Thanks. 8y
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Jamiedemo
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These are my girls today; fruity & fun!

jessberk13 I didn't love Kung Fu Girl when I tried it! 8y
IndyHannaJones I had a dream last night that I was desperately searching for that book. I kept finding books that looked like it or had similar titles but it was never the right one and I was very upset. I guess I should just order it online, eh? 8y
Jamiedemo I love Kung Fu Girl; buy it all the time. It is especially delightful if you mix it with sparkling mineral water. 8y
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Jamiedemo Certainly order it! You need this magic in your life. 8y
IndyHannaJones I passionately love the first two to the point where I've considered getting a quote or artwork tattooed 8y
Jamiedemo That sounds like an excellent idea. 8y
JenniferJarrell Maybe my favorite Riesling...haven't read that book yet though! 8y
monalyisha Heck yes. 🙌🏻 7y
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Jamiedemo
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Just awful. I like deadpan, but this was tedious & boring beyond belief; way too many details about building fences. I threw it violently on the floor after reading 90 pages, & I have been kicking it & verbally abusing it all day.