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Starting this morning. #10BeforetheEnd

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#10BeforeTheEnd

This feels like reading fanfic, for the very good reason that it was. The serial numbers have been filed off, but the overall feel is very much still there. That's not a criticism per se, just a fact.

There is some fun dialogue, some fun scenes, but oh my goodness they're both unbearable and the romantic scenes are pure (and awful) purple prose. I enjoyed myself but also had SO many objections.

But hey, this was my #BookSpin.

Narrator Enka has befriended Mathilda in art school. Mathilda is everything Enka ever wanted to be. When a cutting-edge technology allows her to inhabit Mathilde‘s mind and access her memories and artistic inspirations, Enka can‘t refuse. What follows is intense and bizarre and somehow very believable. The book does a great job exploring themes like greed, envy, deceit and corruption in the context of amazing art and technology

#10BeforeTheEnd #4

Just realized I never posted my #10BeforeTheEnd list. But I have read two of them so far.

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@ChaoticMissAdventures

Low pick. It‘s billed as a sequel to The Island of the Blue Dolphins, but it‘s not exactly that. I‘d say it‘s adjacent. I found the ending a little sad.

One more for #10BeforeTheEnd @ChaoticMissAdventures

#LitsyAtoZ #Z @Texreader

That ending…. 💔 This book is so sad. And somehow hopeful. Corny struggles to come to terms with life in prison after caused a tragedy that tore his family apart. He will spend three years of his life there and is determined to come out a better man. This is the story of a complex man, who has grown on me while I couldn‘t stop reading. Recommended!

#10BeforeTheEnd #3

First finish of #10BeforeTheEnd for me is this, the second in the Olga Pushkin Mysteries series. I like Olga as a character, and enjoyed this gentlest unfolding murder mystery, but, oh, the cliffhanger ending 😱

@ChaoticMissAdventures

Book 94 #Read2025 @DieAReader
#SeriesLove2025

The #BookSpin fates are whispering “read your challenge books.” My BookSpin will fulfill 1953 for the #192025 challenge AND # 15 (BIPOC author I‘ve meant to read) for my #50x50 birthday challenge (which I‘ve neglected in favor of finishing 192025 😆) My #DoubleSpin is any #50x50 book. I‘m debating between the three on the right: Last Unicorn (classic children‘s fantasy), Mabinogion (Arthurian), and Hungering Dark (published before I turned 10).