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My Name Is a Knife (the sequel to All True Not a Lie In It) continues the fictionalized account of frontiersman, Daniel Boone.

#CutsLikeAKnife

#TimbitTunes

Cinfhen, TheKidUpstairs

merelybookish Pretty spot on! 👏👏 5y

Cinfhen Of course you own a series about Daniel Boone 😂😂😘 5y

Cathythoughts Perfection for prompt ✨✨✨✨✨ 5y

LeahBergen @merelybookish @Cathythoughts I was pretty impressed with myself here. 😂😂😂 5y

LeahBergen @Cinfhen Yep. You know me well. 😆😆 5y

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Centique

City of Bones | Cassandra Clare

#timbittunes #cutslikeaknife

In the Mortal Instruments series, the Shadowhunters use steles to cut magical designs in their skin - giving them strength or speed or rapid healing etc. These instruments #cutlikeaknife I loved this series - a dense, complex world compared to a lot of YA fantasy I‘ve read, and I think Cassandra Clare writes it beautifully. Fanart of the steles thanks to Google and the artist named.

Cinfhen, TheKidUpstairs

Cinfhen You‘re such an eclectic reader 💟 5y

merelybookish There's a lot of knives in YA 5y

Centique @Cinfhen thank you! Yet I feel like I don‘t have a great depth in any area because I like so many genres 🤷🏼‍♀️ Oh well, there are worse problems!!! 😂 5y

Centique @merelybookish I hadn‘t thought of that! I notice so much fantasy has swords in it though - a lot of love for ye olde sword. 😉 5y

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Reviewsbylola

Making of a Marchioness (Revised) | Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Emily Fox-Seton is a humble, cheerful creature, so it #cutslikeaknife when she realizes that not everyone has good intentions.

This was initially published as two books. The first is about Emily‘s background and how she comes to marry a lord. The second book is what happens once they are married and she is left alone with the lord‘s conniving heir apparent. The two books were very different but both extremely satisfying.

#timbittunes

Cinfhen, TheKidUpstairs

Cinfhen She looks cunning ~ not a chick I‘d want to mess with 🙄 5y

LeahBergen Great review! 👏🏻 5y

Reviewsbylola Yeah I‘m not sure why this painting was chosen or what it is meant to represent but it‘s the painting Persephone uses on their site for this book. @Cinfhen 5y

Mdargusch Great painting for this book! 5y

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LiterRohde

The Stranger | Albert Camus

“The trigger gave...and there, in that noise, sharp and deafening at the same time, is where it all started. I knew that I had shattered the harmony of the day, the exceptional silence of a beach where I'd been happy. Then I fired four more times at the motionless body...And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.”

#TimbitTunes | 10: #CutsLikeAKnife

📷: Made with Typorama

Cinfhen, TheKidUpstairs

Cinfhen Great quote!! Hated this story in HS but you just repackaged it in a new way🙌🏻 5y

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Billypar

Station Eleven: A novel | Emily St. John Mandel

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I usually read in spurts, but from 7 am to 12 pm I found myself unable to put this down until I reached the end. Was it because this tale of a traveling symphony and theater troupe playing to the few survivors of a global flu epidemic was action-packed? Nope, but St. John Mandel knew exactly how to stoke my curiosity. In her dreamy world, history and fiction hide behind the daily routines of the characters and end up shaping their fate.

DarcysMom Great review! 5y

Billypar In a #TimbitTunes aside, my edition of this book #cutslikeaknife because Vintage chose to cut the dual crossed knives in the previous edition from this cover 😉 @TheKidUpstairs @Cinfhen 5y

LiterRohde One of my favorite books. I find myself coming back to it again and again for discussion and quote challenges. It‘s the book that comes to mind when asked for recommendations. I think it is such a thoughtful message on finding what is important to you and going for it and holding on. About what we gain when we lose. 5y

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TheKidUpstairs I loved this one. At a time when the market seemed somewhat overrun with dystopian/ post apocalyptic stories, this seemed like a fresh and beautiful take. 5y

Billypar @DarcysMom Thanks! ☺️ 5y

Billypar @LiterRohde @TheKidUpstairs Yeah I think it's one that will stick with me too. The story is framed so well that in not so many pages we get to witness entire lives lived on both sides of the pandemic. Seeing both societies side by side is so interesting- usually we either get the collapse itself or something that's much further into the future. 5y

SpeculativeFemale That one was hard to put down. So unique and compelling. 5y

RohitSawant Great review! 5y

Cinfhen Beautiful review and a favorite book! I agree with what @LiterRohde touched upon... the idea about what we hold important and the weight of what one takes for granted really stayed with me. I loved this book even though I didn‘t care for the whole comic book angle. 5y

Cathythoughts On my TBR , yes a beautiful review... must get to it soon ( I don‘t know the story , would it work for #clifi @Cinfhen ? ♥️) 5y

Cinfhen I don‘t think so @Cathythoughts but honestly it‘s your challenge so if u feel it works then I‘m 100% ok with it!!!! It‘s dystopian but it was a virus that brought on destruction not a climate related tragedy 5y

Cathythoughts @Cinfhen thanks for that , no , I‘d rather stick to the prompt properly 👍🏻😘 5y

Cinfhen You‘re #oldschool like me... a #RuleFollower @Cathythoughts 5y

Billypar @SpeculativeFemale Yeah I'm pretty good at putting books down usually, but not for this one! 5y

Billypar @rohit-sawant Thanks! ☺️ 5y

Billypar @Cinfhen Agreed: it wasn't a book that was preachy about taking things for granted or being too dependent on technology but it really made you feel those things in a deeper way in how it portrayed living two decades without electricity. 5y

Billypar @Cathythoughts @Cinfhen This is the first I'm hearing of the term cli-fi- how perfect! Butler's Parable books come to mind. Also the tagged book, which I know many like- I wasn't a fan though.

The Drowned World: A Novel (50th Anniversary Edition)

Cathythoughts Thanks Vinny ...♥️👍🏻it‘s for the #Booked2019 challenge. I‘d never heard of this term before now either ... it‘s a fun challenge @Cinfhen 5y

Cinfhen Glad you‘re enjoying the challenge @Cathythoughts ❣️❣️❣️❣️you‘re really flying through the prompts 🙌🏻💟 5y

LiterRohde @Cinfhen From one rule follower to another, it can really get in the way sometimes, can‘t it? The fear of doing something “wrong”. Sheesh. Maybe it‘s just me. 🤪 5y

Blaire I absolutely love this book. 5y

Billypar @Blaire I felt so left out before I read it with all of the love it gets: now I can join the chorus ☺️ 5y

Cinfhen My kids certainly think so @LiterRohde 😂😂😂They ARE NOT big Rule followers 😜 5y

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CrowCAH

Throne of Glass | Sarah J. Maas

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6VZhSkREYBc

My first concert was to see Bryan Adams! 🥰

Glass sure cuts like a knife!

Cinfhen, TheKidUpstairs

Cinfhen Must have been such a great concert!!!! 5y

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merelybookish

The Knife of Never Letting Go: Chaos Walking: Book One | Patrick Ness

First book of the Chaos Walking series. Supposed to be good, but I haven't read it yet.
#cutslikeaknife #timbittunes @cinfhen @TheKidUpstairs

CarolynM I think it's very good 5y

Cinfhen I‘ve heard it‘s wonderful!! Good choice 5y

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rockpools

Mythos: A Retelling of the Myths of Ancient Greece | Stephen Fry

It was a sickle. An enormous scythe whose great curved blade had been forged from adamantine, which means ‘untameable‘. A massive aggregate of grey flint, granite, diamond and ophiolite, its half-moon blade had been refined to the sharpest edge. An edge that could cut through anything.
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And you really don‘t want to know what they did with it! Started this in September but bad timing. Now, on the other hand, I‘m planning my summer hols! 🇬🇷

rockpools #timbittunes #cutslikeaknife @Cinfhen @TheKidUpstairs 5y

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