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dragondrool

Joined September 2016

The slugs have all gone mad!
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The Companion by Katie Alender
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The Chestnut Man: A Novel by Soren Sveistrup
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Malice by John Gwynne
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Dune by Frank Herbert
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I got these two little heart stealing characters a week ago today. Meet Herman and Pete. #petsoflitsy

WJCintron 😍 😍 😍 3y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Oh how sweet! 2mo
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I talked myself out of waiting for the paperback, and I do not regret it one iota. Is it more than a bit fluffy? Yep. Does everything tie up all too neatly? Yep. Did it make my heart all warm and fuzzy and nostalgic. Yep. So much fun! Towanda!

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Mexican Gothic | Silvia Moreno-Garcia

From the very start this is a very compelling read. The gothic, creepy vibe full of decay and mystery is simply fantastic. I've read a lot of horror, but nothing else quite like this. Once the weird factor jumped the rails it landed in a class all its own, confronting colonialism and eugenics in a very twisty way that works very well. There is some great characterization here, too. I enjoyed this immensely, even as it got all too strange.

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The Return | Rachel Harrison

I remember all the hype when this one came out, talking about how crazy it is, and refusing to give anything away. On the surface it sounds more like a thriller novel than the crazy horror novel it is. I loved the creepy setting, which had me tearing through this thing. I loved the macabre vibe. The ending certainly wasn't hard to guess at, though, and the buildup to it got a bit too repetitive. It was fun, but fluff.

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The Family Plot | Cherie Priest

The heart wants what the heart wants. Since it's Halloween week, the heart wants creepy. I don't know why I don't read many haunted house tales, but this one was a Book Riot Deal of the Day the other day, so I pressed the buy button. This one has a nice, creepy vibe. It also has a strong female lead with a sense of humor. There isn't really much original here, but I still liked it quite a bit, and I'm glad I picked it.

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I bought The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires as a Kindle deal the other day, and decided to finally dig My Best Friend's Exorcism out and read it first. Oh, so much fun! So much 80's nostalgia. Two references to my favorite band. Just a great lark of a book for Halloween week. The last passage of this book I have no words for. This is an excellent rendering of the friendship theme. I'm glad I pulled it from the pile.

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Scythe | Neal Shusterman

I put this book off for months, since one can only read so much YA dystopia, particularly when one teaches middle school, aids and abets the librarian, is surrounded by it all of the time. But that premise! I think it's very well done. It's definitely dark and twisty, which I love. Now I just have to wait for my sequels to come in the mail, because I'm not waiting for book two to come back and go through quarantine before I read it.

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1. I never have. Even if it's been years since the last one. I can usually just fall right back into things. If I don't, I might skim a little, but I don't tend to reread from scratch.

2. Yep. Many. I'll read one or two and not get back to it for a long time.

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Goldfish: A Novel | Nat Luurtsema
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Baby Teeth | Zoje Stage
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1. Baby Teeth. Which I am loving. And which I will try and finish tonight.
2. I re-watched Batteries Not Included last weekend. So much fun! Can't go wrong with Jessica Tandy and little alien gizmos.
3. A good black tea blend. Preferably Harney and Sons Queen Catherine or Eight at the Fort. Or a genmaicha.

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The Farm | Tom Rob Smith
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Now that's an image.😂

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The Farm | Tom Rob Smith
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Greetings from Montana, where the current wind chill as I scribble this is a balmy twenty-six degrees below zero. A good night to scroll through Litsy and bond with my fuzzy blanket and a book.

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And Then There Were None | Agatha Christie
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1. Agatha Christie
2. Sue Grafton
3. Stephen King
4. Greg Iles
5. George R.R. Martin

MuddyPuddle Great combination of authors! 6y
dragondrool I want to squeeze in Tad Williams, too. 6y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Greg Iles 🙌🏻🙌🏻 6y
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Fifty Shades of Grey | E. L. James
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1. I see nothing redeeming about Fifty Shades of Grey.
2. Salty. Especially popcorn.
3. Herman and Esther. John and Gladys.
4. Gremlins. And E.T..
5. London.

Chrissyreadit My grandparents were John and Gladys too. 6y
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Anyone else having issues with crashing? I can scroll past about twenty posts and then Litsy crashes when I get to one particular post. Sigh.

ShookBelf Yep. Trying to catch up on what I've missed during the night (UK litten) and failing miserably 😖😖 6y
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1. Montana
2. I guess I would say Angie Thomas, since I finally got around to reading The Hate You Give.
3. Umm...which pile?😂
4. In a moving vehicle.
5. Freak the Mighty, by Rodman Philbrick. It's YA, but it'll make grownups feel all young at heart

LindaMcGraw16 @dragondrool I just finished reading Freak the Mighty to my class today. Funny how timing works. 6y
RaimeyGallant Which pile indeed! :) 6y
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Here, There Be Dragons | James A. Owen
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It's a forum screen name I made up many years ago. A migraine was marauding in my skull and making me drool just a tiny bit as I was brainstorming potential names. My addled brain spit out "dragondrool". I laughed and typed it in. It's been my screen name ever since.

LindaMcGraw16 @dragondrool Ha ha! I don‘t think I knew that! 6y
dragondrool @LindaMcGraw16 Well now you do. 6y
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Harbor Me | Jacqueline Woodson
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1. Goldfish meme
2. Sparkling water can
3. YA Realistic fiction
4. A couple of weekends ago
5. Not my thing

BookishTrish 😂 that is DARK. 6y
dragondrool @BookishTrish Dark, but funny. Pedro (my goldfish)will never get the chance to follow suit. 6y
LindaMcGraw16 @dragondrool I thought Pedro was Flash‘s goldfish...🤨😆 6y
dragondrool @LindaMcGraw16 He only started out as Flash's fish. Since then he has relinquished custody. He would've let Pedro die when the condo tanked. He wouldn't have gotten him a palace and rescued him. 6y
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The pathetic excuse of a filter on Pedro's fish condo conked again. And I love him. So I bought my little buddy a palace. #petsoflitsy

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Sharp Objects: A Novel | Gillian Flynn

Just as good the third time. Still love the twisted ending.

LindaMcGraw16 Did our discussion about this book prompt the re-read? 6y
dragondrool Nope. I'm watching it on HBO, and wanted to reread it, but it became our latest pick for book club, so it moved to the front of the line. 6y
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Origin | Dan Brown
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Now that I've got that pesky classwork out of the way for my teaching certificate renewal I can get back to more posting and less just scrolling. 😊 And more reading. I'm finishing the last few pages of the Connelly so I can also start Origin tonight. It's the new pick for my book club.

LindaMcGraw16 Before you start Origin you could come over and we could have a readathon. You wouldn‘t get much reading in though as the Gupster is here and you‘d get happily distracted! 6y
Bookworm83 @LindaMcGraw16 @CaitMobley Wouldn‘t a cousin readathon be such fun?? 6y
LindaMcGraw16 @Bookworm83 Yes, it would!!! 6y
dragondrool @Bookworm83 It would be grand. But don't expect Linda to pick up The Book Which Shall Not Be Named 😜 6y
LindaMcGraw16 @dragondrool True. I don‘t have time for that. Rumor has it that parts are sloggy. It‘s all I can do to get through my current “Tome of Great Length!”🎈 (edited) 6y
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Elephants Can Remember | Agatha Christie
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This is the back of the fabulous book bag my sibling sent me. That's a great big elephant footprint! 🐘

LindaMcGraw16 Clearly, your sibling loves you. 6y
dragondrool And I love her right back. She is pure magic. 💖 6y
LindaMcGraw16 Clearly, I‘m not so sure about the magic. 6y
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Elegance of the Hedgehog | Muriel Barbery

You all keep mentioning how good this is. I grabbed it off of the book exchange cart at school last year, and knew it was somewhere in a bin. I finally sorted all six big bins after a year because you all kept putting this book on my radar and I wanted to find it. Thanks for the prodding. I'm glad that's done now. And it wasnt as bad as I thought all year. 😊

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1. Green
2. Roadkill pennies
3. I think so.
4. Mystery. Horror. Fantasy. Science fiction.
5. Not picky. Lately I use a lot of hunks of ribbon burned off along the edges.
6. November 13

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I‘m glad you did this!! I‘ve been meaning to and fell asleep!! 6y
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The Weekend: A Novel | Peter Cameron
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1. Not a lot. Some homework for a recert class. Reading. Maybe a movie.
2. Doughnuts.
3. A textbook on close reading, and The Good Daughter.
4. The. Trees. Have. Leaves. Again. And. There. Is. Sunshine. 😊

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1. Fried Green Tomatoes and The Silence of the Lambs. My top two movies ever.
2. Nay. I can't think of any decent ones at all.
3. I think Guillermo del Toro could do a fantastic adaptation of Robert McCammon's The Wolf's Hour.
4. Open tag.

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Rendezvous With Rama | Arthur Charles Clarke
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1. Loved the Rama series.
2. Atari. We loved Pitfall. And we also had the infamous E.T. game. Also Tetris.
3. Duran Duran. Tears For Fears. A-ha. The Cure. R.E.M..Depeche Mode. Cyndi Lauper. Culture Club.
4. The Breakfast Club. E.T.. Gremlins. Short Circuit. Lots of schlocky horror movies.

CSeydel Omg - the ET game! We have found the one person who actually purchased the ET video game! 😆 6y
dragondrool Well, actually Mom bought it for us. 😁 6y
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I went in to check for a new issue of Locus (no go). These two books followed me home.

RaimeyGallant #BookPets :) (edited) 6y
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Sue Grafton.
Duran Duran.
Probably tea.

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Our latest book club pick. Let's see how many of us get through the heavy-duty page count by one month from today. 😊

dragondrool Finished it Saturday night. Not bad for 771 pages. 7y
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The Girl Next Door | Jack Ketchum
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1. The Girl Next Door, because it's based on a true event, and the most frightening stories are those that are all too real.
2. The Green Inferno, if it's seen-the-whole-thing. But I have also seen parts of The Human Centipede, and it's equally depraved.
3. Accidently eating the foil and plastic square around my iron pill. It came close to doing me in until we finally sorted it out over three long weeks. Good thing I'm scrappy.
4. No tag.

Betty Wow, that foil and plastic! If you don't mind me asking, how'd you get it out? Surgery or via the natural way on the toilet? 7y
dragondrool Exploratory surgery. I ended up having a small bowel resection, appendectomy, and gallbladder out in one swell foop. It was quite the adventure. 7y
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@Bookworm83 Okay. So I did the how-fast-do-you-read thingie. I got 729 wpm. It goes on to tell me that if I could keep a steady pace, I could finish the Behemoth Which Shall Not Be Named in just 13 hours 26 minutes. Apparently it has no idea how sloggy the war parts are.

Bookworm83 I know, right? I did the speed test and it said I could finish in 20 hours 😂😂😂 7y
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Member of the Family | Dianne Lake
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I'm rather enjoying this one, though nothing beats Helter Skelter. I want to finish it up this weekend, though, since it's due the 31st, and I need to start Little Fires Everywhere, since we're starting a brand new book club at school and it's our inaugural book.

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I want to really like this, but I am halfway through and find myself forcing it, only to accomplish wheel spinning. Gonna do a super-rare bail on this one.

Mdargusch Sorry you are struggling. I loved this book. I had to finish to see what made those two creeps the way they were. 7y
dragondrool @Mdargusch It might well be that it just wasn't the right time for this book. I've got too many books yelling "pick me" at the moment, like they do. 7y
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Yep. Go to pick up one book on hold. End up with three tag-a-longs. There is no such thing as ever catching up. So much for finishing Still Life tonight. #nowwehaveatimecrunch

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I dropped off my books that were due soon. I wasn't going to grab anything else this trip. But the books...they call to me and jump into my grippy appendages!

RaimeyGallant Unavoidable. :) 7y
GypsyKat OMG! The Locke & Key series is so fantastic! 7y
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House of Echoes | Brendan Duffy
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Finally getting around to this one after shuffling it around TBR Mountain for a couplenof years now. I really like the cover of this one. A favorite kind of book for this time of year.

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So amazing, and the illustrations are absolutely fabulous. I may need my own copy.

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HEX | Thomas Olde Heuvelt
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This one was pretty great.

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The Special Ones | Em Bailey
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Weekend pickings...all new from our school library. Murder, cults, and something to do with leprosy. Perfect for the weekend before Halloween. I've also got Hex to finish. Haven't done much reading today, since my angry neck preferred binge-watching Stranger Things. Now that it's settling down I'm digging back in to The Special Ones for bedtime reading.

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Paperbacks from Hell | Grady Hendrix
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Hooray! My Barnes and Noble box arrived today! Unfortunately, my 20 percent off coupons didn't arrive until after I ordered these. But the bright side is also hooray...it just forces me to get MORE books with the coupons. 😃

8leagueboot This is such a good stack! 🎃 7y
dragondrool Thanks. I try. 7y
Bookworm83 Darn, you have to buy more books! 7y
dragondrool I did yesterday. I procured three Ray Bradburys (especially 100 stories) and the new Flavia book. And nope, I haven't started the Flavia series yet. For some reason my reading stack keeps getting away from me!😂 7y
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The Fireman | Joe Hill
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Finally getting to The Fireman. Maybe moving along with Hex. Queued up on my Kindle is One Dark Crown. So many choices!

Elisa I know, it‘s impossible to pick! 😁 such a lovely problem to have 😉 I‘m reading One Dark Throne right now, set aside another book to start it! 7y
dragondrool One Dark Throne was the winner. 7y
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Just a few pages in, and I'm pretty sure I'm going to absolutely, positively, desperately NEED to buy my own copy.

GA_Bookworm07 Ive seen others reading this and im wondering if its good 7y
dragondrool It's so much fun! 7y
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Then again...tonight seems like an excellent time to hang with Rocket and Groot.

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Reading this one tonight. I want to read Dear Fahrenheit 451, but can't pick it up at the library until Tuesday, since it's closed today and tomorrow. First world bookish problems.

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Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat | Patricia Williams, Jeannine Amber

I picked this based on a blurb I read somewhere, not realizing it was Ms. Pat from the Bob and Tom Show until I started it. I found it to be a quick and fascinating read.

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The Princess Diarist | Carrie Fisher
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I'm glad I nabbed it from the library and didn't buy it. Wishful Drinking was so much fun, so I had high hopes here. But they fizzled.

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Magpie Murders | Anthony Horowitz
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#fivestarpredictions Okay. I am being a rebel and putting six possibles here. I hemmed and hawed and then exercised my inherent right to share the book love. 😆 So there you go, @Bookworm83.

Laalaleighh Loved magpie murders! 7y
Bookworm83 Love it! I wish we lived closer so I could raid your bookshelves 😜 7y
dragondrool @Bookworm83 Imagine the book parties of three you, Cait, and I could muster up! 7y
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Then again...there is another half to my short stack. Navigating the between-books realm is hard when so many great choices are screaming, "Pick me!" All at once. In surround sound. Insistent little buggers.

Smrloomis 😂😂😂 7y
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Sing, Unburied, Sing | Jesmyn Ward
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Finished The Child earlier today. Time to dive into another book, likely from this short stack.

Bookworm83 I really enjoyed 7y
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