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Jillybeane

Jillybeane

Joined January 2018

I‘m a bookish hooker.
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The Prey of Gods by Nicky Drayden
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The Summer Queen by Joan D. Vinge
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Pandora's Closet by Martin Harry Greenberg, Jean Rabe
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The Blue World by Jack Vance
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I‘ve never read a richer, more evocative writer.

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Huh. I should apply this logic to more interactions.

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Dark Dance | Tanith Lee
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A better description of God never existed

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Sideshow | Sheri S. Tepper
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I see what she did there 🤣

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To Live Forever | Jack Vance
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Sick burns 🤣

Patchshank Need some aloe for that burn. 4y
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The Summer Queen | Joan D. Vinge
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OH GOD THAT TINY PRINT 😱

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Mehso-so

The writing was good, but the whining, self-centered, myopic protagonist was just plain unlikable.

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On the Beach | Nevil Shute
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My dad stole this book from his high school library in 1970, and now I‘m gonna try to read it without it falling apart.

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A Confederacy of Dunces | John Kennedy Toole
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I tried. It wasn‘t funny, it was just painful.

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The Testaments: A Novel | Margaret Atwood
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Yikes. It‘s the littlest details that make #Gilead so horrifying.

#TheTestaments #ReadingWomensChallenge

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The Testaments: A Novel | Margaret Atwood
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IT‘S FINALLY FUCKING HERE Y‘ALL

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Methuselah Enzyme | Fred Mustard Stewart
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Ugh. I don‘t know how long I‘ll be able to hang with this book. In 2 pages he‘s referred to her as the Young Wife four times 🤮

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My bff bought me this book ten years ago and I just found it in a box I still hadn‘t unpacked since moving here. Imma finally get to it ❤️

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This book is taking me forever. It gets so painful in parts that I have to set it down mid sentence and walk away.

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I scored this book at a Con earlier today and couldn‘t put it down. There‘s not a single bad story in this book. They‘re rich, and varied in unexpected ways, with a common fucked up thread stringing them together.

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Lirael | Garth Nix
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I called this one a pick, but it‘s more halfway pick, halfway so-so. There‘s so much emo and self pity it‘s hard to get through (teenagers, amirite?), but in the end, I found it worth the time spent reading it. 3/5 ⭐️

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Lirael | Garth Nix
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Sam‘s idiocy is hard to read through.

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Sabriel | Garth Nix
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Awwwe, look what I found in my new used book, y‘all!
#messageshiddeninbooks

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Circe | Madeline Miller
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This is an interesting origin story for how witchcraft came into the world. Not at all what I expected.

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Circe | Madeline Miller
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Reading Women | Stefan Bollmann
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“Stfu, I‘m tryna read”

Happy #internationalwomensday!

lynneamch Basbleu catalog has reading women cards and calendars every year. I've had some framed for my reading nook. 🤓 6y
Jillybeane @lynneamch Sweet, I‘m gonna check it out! 6y
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I‘ve been obsessed with the radium clock dial painters since the fourth grade. My friend‘s daughter starred in this play, but living 900 miles away, I missed it 🥺, So I‘ll just hafta read for the #readingwomenschallenge.

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The Marrow Thieves | Cherie Dimaline
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A wonderful, horrifying book. As someone who dreams intensely, the thought of not being able to dream at all anymore sounds like a brain damage I couldn‘t live with. I don‘t think the solution they came up with is one I could live with, either.

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Akata Warrior | Nnedi Okorafor
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Just got home from the Y. Dying in progress 😥😩🤗

Kaye I‘m not sure if I should click LIKE on this. Are you ok ? Or just tired from your workout ? 6y
Jillybeane @kaye I‘m fine, just being whiny ☺️. I‘d always rather be chilling when I read 6y
Kaye Yep. I usually do the bike last. Take my kindle and read while biking. Slow down at the end. That way your body gradually cools down a bit. I‘m proud of you. Good job for going. 💖 6y
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Akata Warrior | Nnedi Okorafor
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My kindle makes the gym bearable

#readeverywhere

Kaye 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 6y
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(In no particular order)

1. Philip K. Dick
2. Jack Vance
3. Margaret Atwood
4. Octavia Butler
5. Sheri S. Tepper

I‘m mostly a science/dystopian fiction reader, with the occasional fantasy and chick lit sprinkled in for spice ☺️

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Happy National Read In The Bathtub Day!
#readeverywhere

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For a translated book published before 1945. When I picked this one, I didn‘t realize it‘s selected stories, and only two of them are pre-1945. It still counts, though, right?

#ReadingWomenChallenge2019

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Pickpick

It‘s sweet, horrifying, and dripping with Gemma‘s hidden history. Simple and complex, a portrait of contrasts.

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Next up on the #readingwomenchallenge, a book featuring a religion other than your own. I‘ve had this book for years and years, and I thought I‘d try to do as much of this challenge as I could from books I already have.
#tbrstack #readingchallenge #teaandagoodbook #readingduringthesuperbowl

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The Sweetheart: A Novel | Angelina Mirabella
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Mehso-so

It‘s well-written and flows well, but something about the second-person narration didn‘t sit well with me. It‘d make a good movie, in the vein of A League Of Their Own.

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Portnoy's Complaint | Philip Roth
Bailedbailed

I really tried, but the whole thing is a dude‘s boring monologue to his therapist. I couldn‘t take him whining about his mom and his dick anymore. As much sex is in this book, it isn‘t sexy.

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The Beauty | Aliya Whiteley
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This story beautifully illustrates how gender is a social construct and a spectrum. With mushrooms.

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Tatiana's Wedding | Cynthia A. Robinson
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It‘s hard to read at times, like watching a slow-moving disaster, and the fallout. It‘s well written, the characters are deeply flawed people, completely believable. 8/10 would read again.
#ReadingWomensChallenge

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The Sweetheart: A Novel | Angelina Mirabella
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Tryna start my #readingwomenchallenge and also observe the Thou Shalt Not Disturb Thy Dog‘s Slumber rule 😂

For A book about a woman athlete

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Deathless | Catherynne M. Valente
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Where to even begin? There are a couple of books we come across that change our lives, and this is one of them. The prose is so rich and raw you will feel e v e r y t h i n g; that said, don‘t read this when you‘re cold or hungry.

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Reading Women | Stefan Bollmann
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Getting my list together for #readingwomenchallenge2019, here‘s how it‘s shaping up so far. I‘m probably going to start with #10, as it‘s the category I‘m least excited about.
#readingwomen
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LoverofLit I'm also struggling with that topic. I'll have to check out your pick! I definitely want audio for it I think. 6y
Jillybeane @LoverofLit Audio! That‘s a great idea! 6y
Rissreads @LoverofLit @Jillybeane How about 40 autumns by Nina Willner? It tells the story of 5 women from one family separated by the Berlin Wall and one of them is an Olympic athlete. It‘s a fantastic read! 6y
LoverofLit @Rissreads That sounds right up my alley. Thank you! 6y
Jillybeane @Rissreads I‘ll check it out, thanks for the suggestion! 6y
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Deathless | Catherynne M. Valente
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Her descriptions are like secrets. She makes you feel like a coconspirator, as poor Ivan stumbles around clueless.

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Deathless | Catherynne M. Valente
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I am IN for this #readingwomenchallenge!

MelissaSue81 Oh yes! Totally in! 6y
Jillybeane @MelissaSue81 There‘s a goodreads group forming! 6y
Andrew65 When does it start? 6y
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Jillybeane @Andrew65 January 2019 (it sounds so far away, doesn‘t it?) 6y
Andrew65 @Jillybeane It does but it‘ll will be here sooner than we know. I‘m in! 6y
Jillybeane Yay!! 6y
MelissaSue81 @Jillybeane - ooh. I‘m not very in the loop with good reads groups.. (like im not even sure what my handle is and I‘m only friends with a handful of Littens) - how do I find it? 6y
Jillybeane @MelissaSue81 There‘s a link directly to it on the website. It‘s right under the title on the picture ☺️ 6y
MelissaSue81 @Jillybeane - found it, thanks! 6y
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Deathless | Catherynne M. Valente
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Capitalists. Definitely capitalists.

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Deathless | Catherynne M. Valente
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Her descriptions are silky, but full of teeth.

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Reading Women | Stefan Bollmann
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It‘s a delightful book, full of little blurbs to help you catch all the nuances of the paintings. I loved it.

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Marune: Alastor 933 | Jack Vance
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This is one of the things I love about Jack Vance‘s writing style: he‘s super specific about things, but because he made it up, it means nothing. Or, better, it means whatever you want it to mean. In my imagination, cinniborines are low, thorny shrubs, highly sculpted like topiary or banzai trees. And colorful.

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Marune: Alastor 933 | Jack Vance
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This book is a mere nine months younger than I 📚

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Wyst: Alastor 1716 (in Russian) | Jack Vance, Alexander Feht
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This was a hard read, as events just kept piling onto poor Jantiff. Like a train wreck, I couldn‘t look away, which is a good thing, as it‘s a satisfying book. On to book 3!

Jillybeane I didn‘t read the Russian version. I don‘t know why it says that. 6y
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I almost didn‘t read this when I realized it had a heavy sports theme. I would‘ve really missed out, and now I‘m on to book 2 💖

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Jacob's Room | Virginia Woolf
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When you‘re not impressed with the opening act 😇

#readeverywhere

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Ecce & Old Earth | Jack Vance
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I‘m awake waaaay too early, but it‘s almost time to leave my Airbnb and head for home.

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Araminta Station | Jack Vance
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“It wouldn‘t take all that long” 😂😂😂😂

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Notes from a Public Typewriter | Michael Gustafson
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Fucking. Yikes. Now that‘s a terrifying thought.

This was a quick, sweet read, and I think I‘ll mail it to somebody so they can love bookstores all over again, too.

AmyG 😳 Frightening 6y
Burghbookaddict I didn't need to know this 😫 6y
Jillybeane @laurenashley girl neither did I but here we are 😭 6y
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