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khooliha

khooliha

Joined September 2016

Gonna get crushed by a tbr pile. They/Them
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The Kiss Countdown by Etta Easton
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A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
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When the mating bond never hit, I couldn't believe it! Good for you, book!

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Every time Amara gets mentioned, I'm pumping my fist and chanting Amara! Amara! Love that bad vibes lady.

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Kaleb out here, hanging out on the actual edge of a cliff, the world's biggest drama queen

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Last Days | Adam Nevill
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Almost made a so-so before that wild ass reveal that brings in some transphobia without seemingly understanding that trans people are real. The man needs and editor BADLY

BookmarkTavern Blegh! At least you‘re done! 5d
khooliha @BookmarkTavern the things we read for book clubs we love 5d
BookmarkTavern True! Although the books I‘ve really hated have also turned into the most interesting and funny discussions! My book club had a book a few years ago that we all hated so much we all ranted for over four hours about it. 😂😂 5d
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Inn at Last Chance | Hope Ramsay
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I decided to experiment with the sort of romance novel I think of as a "porch book" aka a book with a porch on the cover, and I really tried, but so much of it is just repelling me like a magnet - this, I think, is what I expected romance novels to be when I decided (as a teen) that I wouldn't be reading them.

willaful I'm a huge romance fan and not a fan of “porch books“ at all. It's a very large genre with a lot of variety, just FYI. 😁 6d
khooliha @willaful oh, I read tons of romance novels now, deeply ensconced in my 30s! But never tried one of this stripe - I can't rightly draw a conclusion about porch books based off of getting 2/3rds through a single one, but I don't think I'll be going back. Sorry, porches! 6d
willaful Ah, you don't need to be converted. 😂 5d
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Last Days | Adam Nevill
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The horrifying reveal that's supposed to be that the evil lady put her soul inside a child is rendered, by the framing details, a horrifying reveal that the villain of this book is queer and trans, and both of those things are explicitly tied to his evil, as they're ways he has manipulated people to maintain power.

Does this author think through ANYTHING he writes?????

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Last Days | Adam Nevill

Wait, at nearly 60% this book is deciding to propose that social media is like cults from the 70s, specifically the cult that has 100% already caused supernatural shit to happen?? This is only my second Nevill book, but I don't think he's great at writing characters getting upset, because it's always about the wrong thing.

khooliha I'm sorry you don't like reality TV! But the weird dog humans are trying to break into your house already and you are very aware of that!! 1w
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Notes from a Regicide | Isaac Fellman
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khooliha Certainly too small to read here, alas 2w
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Inn at Last Chance | Hope Ramsay

Picked this up from Hoopla because I saw one of the leads described as a "horror author", but this guy just dismissed the very idea of writing supernatural horror. I hope his ass gets haunted.

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Bailedbailed

I do not think this burgeoning subgenre is for me: too much cross over with "literary horror", too slow a burn. A single nightmare is the first 60 pages of a horror novel (while the rest is a basically straightforward family drama) just... isn't enough for me.

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Notes from a Regicide | Isaac Fellman
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A wonderful, wonderful book - structurally trickier than Dead Collections, but, to me, just as emotional. Hoping I get to read new Isaac Fellman books for a long, looooong time!

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Notes from a Regicide | Isaac Fellman

Got stressed out by my pile of books to read (can I go to 2 back to back horror book clubs, especially when one of the books I have to read I am dreading??), but as this evening reminded me, I also GET to read a new book by one of my favorites. Book good so far! I've already cried quite a bit!

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Notes from a Regicide | Isaac Fellman
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Hell of a first line!

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Victorian Psycho | Virginia Feito
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Boy, I wish I hadn't forced myself to finish this! Real no thank you hours!

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Bailedbailed

Writing just rubbing me the wrong way

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Some Like It Scot | Pepper Basham

Just saw this title on an upcoming book list and immediately had to see if there was any cross dressing involved and there doesn't appear to be?? And, while making this post, I see that there are a handful of books with this title and do any of them have cross dressing??? You are riding the title coat tails of one of the great comedies with no respect for tradition?!?!?!

BookmarkTavern Thank you for reminding me of a great movie. I‘m going to go dig out my DVD and watch it! 4w
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Long Live Evil | Sarah Rees Brennan
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It's ALWAYS crying about siblings o'clock!!!!!

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A Canticle for Leibowitz | Walter M. Miller
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Got the reading together for the next Shelved by Genre unit! They're doing post apocalyptic fiction.

vivastory Dr Bloodmoney is one of the wildest books I've ever read. Jonathan Lethem wrote a sequel that's worth reading. 1mo
khooliha @vivastory Pretty sure it's going to be my first PKD and I'm excited! 1mo
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Long Live Evil | Sarah Rees Brennan

"When I'm fighting to live, I think to myself: what a story to tell my sister. I will be her favourite story. I will be the greatest story she ever heard."

It's crying-about-siblings o'clock in these parts

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Mona Lisa Overdrive | William Gibson

Meanwhile, if Sally Shears isn't Molly Millions I will eat my cyberspace deck and also be disappointed

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The first half of this book is a reread for me, but I feel compelled to say: Nate SUUUUUUUUCKS

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Fan Service | Rosie Danan
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Finished this one and yeah, I loved it! My favorite sort of werewolf narrative (where figuring it out is a big part of it), with a more thoughtful take on fandom than I was expecting, and two leads I loved. The emotional stakes/situation at the end was pretty perfect. Awoooooo

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Fan Service | Rosie Danan
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Confirmed!

julesG 🧐 2mo
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Fan Service | Rosie Danan

I am currently listening to this audiobook, because it turns out hoopla has it and I can't just take a day off to read the book like I want, but what that means is I cannot check if, indeed, Devin describes himself as taking a "big, slutty inhale" - dirtbag puppy indeed!

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Fan Service | Rosie Danan

oh my god, this book maybe takes place in Florida

khooliha I was already thrilled with a queer Floridian lead, but this werewolf has taken a trip to Florida 2mo
khooliha @willaful I haven't, but I've met that author! She lives near enough to our local indie bookstore that she does events there (and attends the romance book club, from time to time). I think ai have her previous book in my tbr. 2mo
willaful No wolves, but I really liked reading about a queer person in a red state. 2mo
khooliha @willaful as a queer Floridian myself, I am really enjoying how this book is making no bones about how plenty of us live in red states, and in areas of red states that are assumed to be devoid of us. 2mo
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Kiss of Snow | Nalini Singh

Let me meet these ocean changelings! Let me meet them right now! I hope one of you is some kind of star fish, one of the voracious predators, just to keep that changeling theme going!

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Fan Service | Rosie Danan
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When you gotta finish one wolf book to read a completely different wolf book

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Kiss of Snow | Nalini Singh

🚨I think some side characters might be gay in this book! Finally!!!🚨

khooliha Since these books are in the cishet mines, I don't really expect queers to ever be leads, but prove me wrong Psy-Changelings! 2mo
willaful I think she finally went there in the Archangel series? But it's been a long time since I've read Singh and I'm not sure. 2mo
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Deep End | Ali Hazelwood
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This thing was never going to be a pick, but that last slog really took it out of me. Get your shit together! And don't even get me started on the fucking MMC POV as epilogue and you switch to 3rd person!!!

khooliha Writing that out made me switch this to a pan. Love to learn about wildly successful authors I can safely skip. 2mo
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Deep End | Ali Hazelwood

The grim, -grim- feeling that a book should be wrapping up, but it still 150+ pages left...

BookmarkTavern Oh no! 🫣 2mo
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Count Zero | William Gibson

I read a little more and, uh oh, I am in danger of loving Bobby aka Count Zero aka an idiot who just got his brain computer scrambled by maybe touching a vast, alien machine intelligence. Try not to pull your own face off, Bobby!

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Count Zero | William Gibson

Reading along with Shelved by Genre, starting the parts of the Sprawl trilogy that I don't think people talk about much! Very interested to more properly meet the possibly titular Count Zero, who has been around for about 3 pages and spent them all stupidly computer-dying

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Hex Americana | Iron Circus Comics
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Oh, this YA graphic novel is Charming As Hell! When the children I know get older, they will be getting a copy.

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Bonds of Justice | Nalini Singh

I enjoy this series, really I do, but they are definitely trips into the cishet mines, and now that Sascha is pregnant it's just getting weirder. You know your fetus's gender, psychically??? And don't even ask me about feeling the life-force at a couple weeks post conception...

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Gift Card Books (minus 2 February preorders)

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Mistress of Mellyn | Victoria Holt
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Honestly, the horror of some of the final chapter bumps this Gothic up to a light pick. Good for you, book!

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Bailedbailed

I... I don't think this book understands It's A Wonderful Life very well

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Magic's Price | Mercedes Lackey
Mehso-so

Truly couldn't hold up under its own back half, though there was still moving stuff it there

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Magic's Price | Mercedes Lackey
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Introducing a whole clan of psychic, underground wolves in the penultimate chapter?! Book, what are you doing???

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Magic's Price | Mercedes Lackey
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Just read chapter 17 and I'm getting whiplash from the introduction of both an extended sexual assault and also the introduction of a magical mob doctor. You're wild for this one, book!

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Long Live Evil | Sarah Rees Brennan
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My impulse December stack has an unexpected color scheme!

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Magic's Price | Mercedes Lackey
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These dudes are cracking me up

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Mehso-so

You know, I've been hankering for some monster romance recently, but this was absolutely not what I had in mind. Noah and his monster girlfriend really drug this thing down for me.

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Beneath the Salton Sea | Michael Paul Gonzalez

Couple of horror publishers are having sales today: Ghoulish Books is doing a 31% off sale of their stuff and everything in their bookstore, and Tenebrous Press has half off ebooks. Treat yourself to some horror!

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The year is not correct, but I think this book is besmirching the cinematic classic Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters and this I cannot stand for!

khooliha j/k I know I am one of maybe the single digit fans of that movie in the world 6mo
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Bailedbailed

Normally I enjoy characters this rock stupid, but these two are a bit much

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Best Hex Ever: A Novel | Nadia El-Fassi
Bailedbailed

Sweet natured and cozy and very autumnal, but I am having to force reading it, which is a cue to return it to the library.

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Magic's Promise | Mercedes Lackey

I really enjoy the way Lackey writes characters hanging out, which is good, because this book (like the last one) takes nearly half the page count for some plot thing to happen.

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A couple more thoughts on this Federation history:
1) fucking Malcolm Reed makes captain? And he expected to roll up and big dog the Organians?!
2) convergent evolution already exists on planet Earth, I don't think it's that radical to think it could exist across planets (the extent it exists with the humanoids does seem unlikely)

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In a book full of drawings, this page was a real lol