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Bria

Bria

Joined November 2016

Keep reading and clean later
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The Night Circus | Erin Morgenstern

Soo I'm reading this book. It's kinda like when I saw 50 Shades everywhere in every bookstore. It always seemed to be there when you weren't looking for it....

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Book haul!!

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The Shape of Water | Guillermo Del Toro, Daniel Kraus
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Oh no! A typo! 😢

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The Shape of Water | Guillermo Del Toro, Daniel Kraus
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I LOVE a random picture! 😍

TrishMcCallister So beautiful 😍 6y
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The Essex Serpent | Sarah Perry
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This book is poetically written, and even the some of the writing is a bit...idk I guess droll is close enough a word to describe it, it kept me hooked and curious till the end. And what a twist! Now, for a disclosure here, This story does have adultery in it as kind of a main theme. I'm personally not with that, but it made the story that much more complex and characters more real. All in all, amazing read!

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The Essex Serpent | Sarah Perry
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This right here couldn't have spoke to me any deeper. "I love you and I am content without you"...it's so profound when you read something that speaks across fiction to your reality.

sophierayton I listened to this book on audio and just scoured the internet searching for the hard words, to have the quote correct. So beautiful. Glad it spoke to you too. 5y
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The Shape of Water | Guillermo Del Toro, Daniel Kraus
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So, we braught in movies, cd's, vinyl, and books into half priced books to sell. We got $45 worth! We are so proud we purged/spring cleaned the house that we treated ourselves to get more books 😂 sis got three and I got this one that I'm fangirl ing over! Basically gave them their money back, but I think it's a good deal!

JoScho Totally good deal plus you got rid of extra stuff you didn‘t want or need and got something you love 💜 7y
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The Essex Serpent | Sarah Perry
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Ok, can anyone tell me what could possibly be wrong with Stella??! Is it arsenic or lead poisoning making her look so vibrant & and fixating on blue??? And I'm halfway through the novel and I'm almost certain that Cora might be a tad gay for her friend Martha. The relationship just comes off as more than very good friends...

Jess_Franzino I know this post is from 3 months ago, (found it by clicking on the tag for the book), but I can answer those questions 😃: The book is 90% symbolism. Stella is often associated with blue because she symbolizes Spiritualism/Religion and blue, in this instance, is likened to the sky— similar to how Cora is always associated with Green as a way of associating her with Nature/Science/Earth. 7y
Jess_Franzino (Con‘t) As Will grows closer to Cora (Earth & Nature), Stella (Religion & Heavens/Sky), grows weaker. 7y
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The Mermaid's Sister | Carrie Anne Noble
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Let's try this one out for size...

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Mehso-so

Guys... I really wanted to like this book, I really did. It took me forever to get through and I'm sad to say that I even sped read through some of the passages. Some parts were worth the read, but the plot was just so choppy and and character development so... I don't know. I'm guessing the word is blunt...
All in all it left me bereft...

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Last Chance Llama Ranch | Hilary Fields
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Ok so it's dark in this truck so no pick lol but I switched over to this book cuz I was needing a break from 'the last days of magic' I started it maybe a day or two ago and I didn't think I had that kind of reading stamina any more! I ate it up! Plus it made my desire to own alpacas even more acute.. Probably going to reread this thing over and over....

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Ok, I consider myself a smart person, but this exchange was lost on me.... I hate when scheming and plotting goes on in a book and I lose track of the plans. I know he wants to launder the money through Jewish bankers, but I got lost with the church giving the confiscated land back??

PirateJenny The church regularly confiscated land from the Jews in the Middle Ages 7y
PirateJenny Sorry, but send too early. This is a way for them to get some land back. The more monasteries the church can man in Ireland, the less strong magic will be. So getting the Jews to indirectly fund armies to Invade will help destroy magic, leaving it in the hands of the exorcists--somerhing else to be controlled by the church 7y
Bria @PirateJenny the confiscation part I get now lol. The whole business with trading loans is what gets me. So they plan on confiscating land from the Jews and then the British crown gives them the gold that ends up going back to the Catholic Church that the church gives back to the crown? It's the trail of money that I'm confused on.. 7y
PirateJenny @Bria The Crown can't be seen as doing it directly so it needs to be done through the Church. Medieval politics is very crazy. (I was a medieval studies minor ages ago when I was in college which possibly helped when I read this book.) 7y
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Untitled | Unknown
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Guys...I have a problem....

Eggs You're in good company ☺️ 7y
Bria @Eggs I really wish there was a like button for comments on here lol 7y
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Right... Because in no way could anyone sack Rome on their own without demonic help... And all the knowledge the celts had that the Vatican did not MUST be given to them by demons & it must be wicked to have know lapse on how the world works 😒 can't stand the history of the Catholic Church. Smh

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City of Brass | S A Chakraborty
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Merry Christmas to me!!

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Books and truck stops with wide open scenery. Does anyone else have some odd reading aesthetic? 😎

PirateJenny I love this book so much. 7y
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"Running his hand over the rough wood he tried to comfort the dying base and roots. He could feel the presence of the tree's ghost, as an amputee feels a missing arm and the sudden, sharp sting of the ax it had suffered."
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These are all from my last two trips to Barnes and Noble. I have whole shelves of TBR, but these are the most recent lol

PirateJenny Last Days is such a great book 7y
Bria @PirateJenny so far so good. I have a feeling that I was too naive in thinking there is a happy ending though lol 7y
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Gonna need an escape from reality since my fav person is leaving for work & don't know when I'll see him again 😢 bring on the fairies...

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The Jane Austen Book Club | Karen Joy Fowler
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It was a pleasant world to escape to, but the plot was choppy and ending sort of...anti climactic... Austen deserves all the respect, but this book did a good job at mimicking her stories. Sweet book, but I would have been a lot happier with it if there was less flashback and more plot progression.

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The Jane Austen Book Club | Karen Joy Fowler
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Being a passenger in the truck at work lets me get some reading in 😊

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The Jane Austen Book Club | Karen Joy Fowler
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Waiting on the German goulash to cook while reading a book I'd only thought was a movie till about a week ago.

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My face after realizing that the cliff hanger was deeper than than the Grand Canyon. Next book. Need it like yesterday!! 😍😍😍😍❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

RiotMom This happened to me with the last Robert Galbraith novel! I need more Strike and Robin! 7y
Bria I haven't read those, but I just added it to my list ☺️ 7y
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Misery | Stephen King
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Holy cockadoodie!! What a spectacular metaphor of a book! No spoilers, but its one of his most famous, so no explanation. Just read it.

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Gorillas in the Mist | Dian Fossey
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This woman's story has everything that makes me fangirl over the natural world. Adventure, intrigue, true crime, natural beauty, the best and worst in people depicted in one instant, and heartbreak. And all of it is true and rends at your feelings. Her account should be required reading so we know what kind of an influence we have in the world....

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Mehso-so

I really wanted to like this one. But all I got was confusion. The character's love life clearly was written by a man. It focuses too much on the wrong things. It has promise, but maybe I'm the wrong person to read this...idk. Don't not read it on my account. Decide for yourself...

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After You: A Novel | Jojo Moyes
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I almost couldn't read the sequel after how heart wrenching the first one was. I'm glad I did because it gave me a chance to heal at the same pace as the characters. Whew! I'm not a fan of books that make me cry. I avoid them until I can't any longer. This was an emotionally intense read, and I loved every minute of it! Every once in a while, there comes a book that'll rip your heart out, and you'll feel grateful. ☺️