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Pizza Girl: A Novel | Jean Kyoung Frazier
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Pickpick

raw, feral, numb, & tender all at once.
it's unraveling in a way that didn‘t feel like falling apart, just loosening.
i finished it and just… stared at the wall for a while.

i‘ll think of Pizza Girl when life slips into that oddly specific ache—the one you can‘t explain but everyone knows exists.
it has a name now.
& apparently, it brought pickles to the existential spiral lol
#pride #weird #LGBTQ #uncommon #LA #bibliophile #darkhumor

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oddandbookish
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This was an insightful self help book on love! As someone who is perpetually single, I need all the help I can get.

It is very easy to feel powerless when it comes to love, but this book tells you what you can do to improve your love life and relationships.

The book is very accessible and is written in an easy to understand manner.

Full review: https://oddandbookish.wordpress.com/2025/06/25/review-it-begins-with-you/

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oddandbookish
Top Heavy | Rhonda Dechambeau
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What an amazing novel in verse!

First off, I love novels in verse. I always find them to be so creative and moving and this book was no exception.

This is the debut book from the author and I was very impressed. The poems were all well crafted and really hit the mark, which is a tough thing to accomplish.

Full review: https://oddandbookish.wordpress.com/2025/06/21/review-top-heavy/

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uncommonlycozies
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Mehso-so

Fought to finish this one.. 😑
January‘s arc had so much potential, but in my opinion, it was overshadowed by the book-within-a-book structure.
Especially at moments when I really just wanted to sit with her and feel something. The pacing never snaps back into place. #lyricalprose #librarybooks #historicalfantasy #literaryfiction #bibliophile #fantasy

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oddandbookish
The Forger's Requiem | Bradford Morrow
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This book is technically the last book in a trilogy but can be read as a standalone. I have not read the previous two books and was able to follow the story. Reading the other books would have been helpful, but it was not necessary.

I enjoyed the writing style the most. It was elegant and felt like a throwback to classic literature.

Full review: https://oddandbookish.wordpress.com/2025/06/19/review-the-forgers-requiem-forger...

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oddandbookish
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Pickpick

This one was so much better than the first book!

First off, I have to preface this review by saying I have seen the second season of the show, so I did know a lot of the plot points going into the book and obviously wasn‘t surprised by some of the things that happened.

This book was much more emotional than the first.

Full review: https://oddandbookish.wordpress.com/2025/06/15/review-its-not-summer-without-you...

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uncommonlycozies
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🙉🙊🙈
”the reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is so we might listen more and talk less” -Diogenes Laertius
#quoteoftheday #sundayfunday #nonfiction #bibliophile #uncommon #philosophy

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oddandbookish
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Mehso-so

Honestly, I don‘t quite know how to feel about this book which is why I gave it 3 stars.

This book started off so slow. It took me a while to get into it. It just felt like the story was meandering and that made it boring.

By the second half it got more exciting and it low key got a little horny, which I typically don‘t mind but in this case it felt random.

Full review: https://oddandbookish.wordpress.com/2025/06/13/review-how-to-read-a-book/

Prairiegirl_reading I was hate reading by the end. Lots of people love it. 🤷🏻‍♀️ 2w
oddandbookish @Prairiegirl_reading I didn‘t hate it but I definitely didn‘t love it either. It got such great reviews and I was expecting more from it. 2w
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uncommonlycozies
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Pelly untangles how most music discovery gets nudged by invisible hands – makes you wonder what‘s shaping your next #bookish obsession. It‘s like #truecrime without the serial killers, talking about algorithmic influence in a tech driven investigation. 🧐
It takes a little extra concentration to adsorb.

#tunestuesday #popculture #bibliophile #2025
#librarybooks #uncommon #nonfiction

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oddandbookish
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Pickpick

This was such a fun YA fantasy!

First off, the world building was fantastic. It was simple to understand their world and how it related to our world. Everything was explained gradually which made grasping the world easy to digest. Sometimes fantasy novels can do a lot of info-dumping, but this book did not.

Full review: https://oddandbookish.wordpress.com/2025/06/09/review-guardians-of-glyndor/

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