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Queste | Angie Sage

Thriftbooks.com haul
These are the books that were missing from the series I got at the thrift store last week. Now all three series are complete 😊

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Purpleness

Harry Potter Hufflepuff House Editions Paperback Box Set | J. K. Rowling

My sister surprised me recently with this super-cute Hufflepuff badger!

JenlovesJT47 Aww that‘s adorable 🥰💛💛💛 3w

JenlovesJT47 Love the books! I need to get the Slytherin ones 💚 3w

AnnCrystal 👏🏼🤩🦡💝. 3w

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BookmarkTavern

Stone and Sky | Ben Aaronovitch

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W/ the entire family on vacation in Scotland, Peter was just hoping for some relaxing time on the beach. Then a maybe selkie is found dead, a mysterious panther is stalking sheep, & Abigail gets a crush. So business as usual.

Lots of fun, great humor, & fascinating world building, it feel like we skipped a book w/ the time jump. & there were just too many characters that felt incidental. & I did not get invested in Abigail‘s romance. 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

BookmarkTavern CW 👇🏻 1mo

BookmarkTavern Abigail‘s POV chapters lightly deal with her grief over the passion of her brother 1mo

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giulia.mosna

Harry Potter: The Complete Collection (1-7) | J.K. Rowling

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I reread my (2nd hand) H. P. books, because I needed something familiar and comforting to accompany me through tough times. As much as I like the stories and some of the characters, I can only leave a negative review - not because of the plot holes/mistakes, but because I can't understand how someone can write characters/relationships like these and go on to spread so much hate, in a way that would make Voldemort proud. JKR deserves no support.

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Robotswithpersonality

Unseen Academicals | Terry Pratchett

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So much more going on in here than I remembered!
Nutt, firstly his entire existence, but also his actual identity.
How difficult it is to recognize your own worth, especially when fighting internalized and systematized prejudice, how you were raised as much as how people react to you in the present. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? Glenda and Juliet and recognizing the true breadth of their horizons, the oppressive nature of not just the social hierarchy, but members of your own 'social class' expecting for the sake of respectability you'll know your place or they'll remind you of it.
Trev, the weight of a legacy, the dangers and pressures faced by athletes, the expectations when growing up with a certain crowd. 1mo

Robotswithpersonality 3/? Pepe and Madame Sharn both being compassionate AND every kind of louche badass, challenging all kinds of societal preconceptions. Tack Professor Bengo Macarona onto this pair for a number of reasons...😏 There's a couple throwaway lines, descriptors, around Macarona that I'm not sure would be used/phrased the same way in 2025 as they were in 2009, I'm hoping they didn't end up causing offense but it feels possible. 😬 1mo

Robotswithpersonality 4/? We've also got:
-the importance of kindness, of having your efforts recognized rather than taken for granted.
-the fluctuating fortunes of sport and it's connections to fandom and mob mentality, emphasized by fantastical elements
-Bullies, their nature, their perils and their disposal
-Academic rivalry and the layers of ridiculousness and chaos available when the opponents are also wizards
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Robotswithpersonality 5/5
-and about 7/8ths into the book, a damn good game of soccer(football) 1mo

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Robotswithpersonality

Unseen Academicals | Terry Pratchett

Nightmare. Mustrum Ridcully is an information manager's nightmare. 🫣🫩

julesG Guilty of being a fan of the floor heap method. But it's more heaps of unread books and unfiled (but taken care of) documents on a sideboard than the floor. Need to be more Ponder, less Ridcully. 1mo

julesG Also, love what autocorrect made of Ridcully's name. 1mo

Robotswithpersonality @julesG See there's organized chaos, which I can get on board with, and then there's Ridcully. 🤦🏼‍♂️I aspire to Ponder, but there's no way I'd hold that many positions successfully given my zero chill baseline. 😅 1mo

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Robotswithpersonality

Unseen Academicals | Terry Pratchett

Can attest: I also find math sneaky. ☺️

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Robotswithpersonality

Unseen Academicals | Terry Pratchett

Happy Tuesday! ☺️😉

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Kylivi

Grave Peril | Jim Butcher

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Another amazing installment from the Dresden files. This one was nonstop action, even for Harry Dresden. I also loved the new crop of side characters, who I hope will be recurring. Can‘t wait to pick up the next one!

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annamatopoetry

Stone and Sky | Ben Aaronovitch

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Rivers of London books read so fast, which is a nice change before diving back into medieval gender.
I enjoyed this one despite the comparative dearth of local history (there was still some), I had missed Peter's sense of humor. Still a little formulaic, and I feel like too little work was put into the twins.

annamatopoetry Also, I get the vibe that Aaronovitch chose to make Abigail queer because he doesn't know how to write characters who aren't into women (or who are into men? See the kim book, which had no chemistry), and she feels very Peter 2.0

Stone and Sky

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