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erinachu

erinachu

Joined May 2019

Just a girl who really loves books and biochemistry.
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Before I Fall | Lauren Oliver
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Book 8 of 2023 done! Two books read and six books listened to. I think the goal will be 12 books read and 24 in total for the year. This one was fine. There's a strong anti-bullying theme to the book but the ending feels a little flat. The main character has no chance to really make up for her actions.

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Book 7 of 2023 complete. I always, ALWAYS cry when I read Josie Silver books 😭 impatiently waiting for the next one, though I may just reread her others now.

Clwojick This one is on my list. Glad you enjoyed it! 💥 2y
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Lovelight Farms | B. K. Borison
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Book 6 of 2022 complete! ❤️ just like a hallmark Christmas movie, with a bit more than I bargained for.. 😅

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City of Bones | Cassandra Clare
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2023 week 4 wrap up!
📚 The Demon King: done! Love love love these books.
🎧 City of Bones: done! I always love the first book in this series. I'm trying to read the side stories this time.
📱 Before I Fall: 57% done
🎧 Lovelight Farms: 29%
📚 Recursion: 8%
This week's goals: ✅️✅️✅️
Next week's goals: read 75% of Before I Fall and finish Lovelight Farms 🌟

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City of Bones | Cassandra Clare
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As always, the first book is endearing and hooks you to the series that gets worse with each book... 🙄 did anyone else enjoy the Shadowhunters TV show while it lasted? Book 5 of 2023 done!

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The Demon King | Cinda Williams Chima
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So good! I swear Cinda Williams Chima is like the George R.R. Martin for YA novels. Book 4 of 2023 complete!

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The Demon King | Cinda Williams Chima
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2023 week 3 wrap up!
📚 The Demon King: 79% done
🎧 The City of Bones: 56% done
📱 Before I Fall: 23% done
This week's goals: ✅️❌️❌️
Next week's goals: finish the Demon King, finish City of Bones, and read 50% of Before I Fall 🌟

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Dark Matter | Blake Crouch
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2023 week 2 wrap up:
🎧 Dark Matter: done!
🎧 Atomic Habits: done!
📚 The Demon King: 50%
📱 Before I Fall: 18%
Last week's goals: ✅️✅️
This week's goals: read 75% of The Demon King, 50% of Before I Fall, and start and finish City of Bones 😁

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Book 3 of 2023 😁 I'll need to buy a copy of this one to refer back to. Lots of great things to ponder over and implement.

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Dark Matter | Blake Crouch
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Book 2 of 2023! It took me a couple of years to come back to this one but I'm super glad I did. A nice sci-fi book with an incredible message ❤️

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Midnight Sun | Stephenie Meyer
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2023 week one wrap up:
🎧 Midnight Sun: finished! Book 1 of 2023 😁
📚 The Demon King: 21%
🎧 Dark Matter: 10%
📱 Before I Fall: 9%
🎧 Atomic Habits: 3%
This week's goal: finish Dark Matter and reach 50% in The Demon King 🌟

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Eleanor and Park left me crushed. I couldn't even pick up a book for at least a month. Then my place in line for this book came up. I forced myself to listen to it, knowing that it would be a long wait until I could have the chance again. I'm so very glad that I did. This is honestly the best book I've ever read. Riley Sager's ability to twist the plot into something unrecognizable at the end is a true talent. 10/10. Everyone should read this.

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Eleanor and Park | Rainbow Rowell
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WHY DIDN'T ANYONE WARN ME WHEN I POSTED THE EXCERPT YESTERDAY? I'm ugly crying over here. This was the sweetest, most heart wrenching book I've ever read.

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The Last Black Unicorn | Tiffany Haddish
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So, so funny! This book should definitely be experienced as the audio version read by Tiffany Haddish. I laughed through the whole thing. 😂 #bookspinbingo is going really, really well this month. @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Looking great!! 4y
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Eleanor and Park | Rainbow Rowell
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AWWWWWW. MY LITTLE DEMISEXUAL PARK 😍😭

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A Storm of Swords | George R. R. Martin
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#bookspinbingo
In this installment, we witnessed the death of two sisters, one great and another absolutely crazy. To add further insult to injury, Catelyn didn't even remain dead. She doesn't even get to rest with her husband. 😭 But THANKFULLY Joffrey, the mad and mad king, is dead. Thank the gods! Both the Old and the New.

Also, Sansa's story line continues to break my heart. She is beauty, she is grace, and she is also very, very smart.

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A Storm of Swords | George R. R. Martin
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*John Mulaney voice* Why buy the cow when you can have the milk for free?

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The Library Book | Susan Orlean
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So good! Very well written and researched 😍 this is my #doublespin and third book for #bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 4y
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A Storm of Swords | George R. R. Martin
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#bookreport and #weeklyforecast
📚 The Golden Compass - done. Second book for #bookspinbingo and LOVED IT. I'm putting the second book on June's bookspinbingo card
📚 A Storm of Swords - 83% done. Just getting to Sansa's arrival in the Fingers. Can't believe that Tyrion's trial is STILL NOT OVER.
🎧The Library Book - 78% done. I normally don't read books like these but this one is very well written. #doublespin
🎧The Last Black Unicorn - up next

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A Storm of Swords | George R. R. Martin
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Not pictured: my chocolate almond milk shaken espresso 😋 reading while everyone naps between graduation and fancy dinner

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Brilliant. A wonderful adventure story about a girl who hates her parents, a mother who loves her dearly, and a father who just wants to kill God.

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#bookreport and #weeklyforecast
🎧 Big Summer - done. Enjoyed this, though the ending was rushed.
🎧 Tuesdays with Morrie - done. #bookspin and a pleasant read.
🎧 The Library Book - starting today. #doublespin
📚 The Golden Compass - 77% done. Enjoying it, but taking so long to read.
📚 A Storm of Swords - 78% done. I'm picking this one back up (almost a year later) during the long car ride to my brother's graduation this week.

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Tuesdays with Morrie | Mitch Albom
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Finished my #bookspin 😁 @TheAromaofBooks this one has been on my to be read list for a while. Glad the random number generator gave me this one this month. It was nice. A pleasant few hours spent contemplating what's important to you before you die. A nice reminder to slow down and enjoy your time.

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Tuesdays with Morrie | Mitch Albom
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Audio walk 😁☀️

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Big Summer: A Novel | Jennifer Weiner
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I loved the beginning, with the relationships between friends and lovers and families. I didn't like the second half. The twist was shocking and totally unexpected, but then as they started to figure out who did it, the book just seemed like a landslide. Conclusions were drawn that, honestly, didn't make sense with the information given. Jennifer Weiner knew how she wanted the book to end and had trouble conveying it in an organized way.

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Big Summer: A Novel | Jennifer Weiner
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#bookreport and #weeklyforecast
🎧 The Knockout Queen - done. Perfectly sad, and emotionally overwhelming.
📚 The Golden Compass - still 75% done. I haven't touched it at all this week 😓
🎧 Big Summer - 50% done. The curve right in the middle of the book was jarring. I thought this would be a nice book about friendship...
🎧 Tuesdays with Morrie - up next. #bookspin
🎧 The Library Book - up next. #doublespin

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"But sometimes when you are in a moment, it‘s so close to your face, reality, it‘s pressed up so close to you, that you just flinch, you react, and then your fate is decided, and all you have done was what you couldn‘t help doing, and yet your fate is decided. You‘ve done something that can‘t be taken back." This book was incredibly sad, with characters so developed I felt like I knew them. I don't have any words to describe how I'm feeling.

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This dog's face sums up my current feelings about this book. I love love love Bunny and Michael's friendship and interactions but spaced through it are Michael's obscene, vivid sex descriptions. I'm not opposed to LGBTQ+ sex. I'm opposed to how jarring it feels while listening. I've read and watched Game of Thrones and didn't feel so unsettled.

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#bookreport #weeklyforecast
🎧 The Last Time I Lied - done. Loved this book! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
📚 The Golden Compass - 75% done. Loving this one too. I watched the first season of the show, so I know what to expect.
🎧 The Knockout Queen- up next. Reading it because of Litsy, so let's see if I actually like it.

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OMG OMG. He's done it again. I loved every second of this. I can't get over how he twists and twists until the ending is not recognizable from the beginning.

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Got my #bookspinbingo card ready for May 😁

erinachu @TheAromaofBooks forgot to tag you! 4y
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 4y
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The Golden Compass | Philip Pullman
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Time to get back to this one 😍 its time to finish all of my half read books

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Prey | Michael Crichton
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I read this one SO FAST. It was so good. Very creepy and unnerving. Kept me guessing until the end. I love Michael Crichton's writing. He does sci-fi right.

EdnaC It‘s been years since I read this but I can still remember parts of it vividly. I loved it as well. 4y
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AMAZING. Terrifying. I couldn't out this one down. It gives you a sense of unease all the way through and has an incredible ending.

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I am at the edge of my seat with fear. Holy smokes this book is fantastic.

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😍😍 first book of 2021! This year's goal is 16 books and I'm off to a good start. Absolutely loved this. I love the Hunger Games books and I have so so many questions about Snow's life between the ending of this and the beginning of the original trilogy.

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UGHHHH. I NEED JOSIE SILVER TO WRITE MORE BOOKS RIGHT NOW. When I read this one, and One Day in December, I was so mystified by the characters. Like these are real people, and these books are biographies. I feel whole when I read this, and I feel a little empty now that it's done. ❤😭

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Midnight Sun | Stephenie Meyer
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This book was SO GOOD. My second favorite of the series. Edward is much more relatable than Bella, which is kind of the point right? He was a normal human before becoming a vampire, and he was a normal human after. I think the contrast between their minds really brings home the point that Bella was born to be something ~other~.

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My heart breaks for Snow. Can't you just admit you're in love with a girl you're about to send to slaughter? If she dies in a few days does your pride matter?

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Hey everyone. I've been MIA for a while. I'm working the 6 AM shift in the lab and I'm starting my PhD research, so life has been terribly hectic. Going to pick back up with reading with the tagged book that I got for my birthday ❤ 2 chapters in and I'm mesmerized by this world again and a relatable President Snow.

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My #bookspin list for July. Many of these are from my May list. I'm just replacing books as I read them 😁 The tagged book is book #1

ImperfectCJ Nice list! I found the tagged book very helpful in my parenting. 4y
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Stardust | Neil Gaiman
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#summerfun bingo 😁
The main character goes on a trip through Faerie to find a fallen star. I'll count that as a road trip 😉

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A Storm of Swords | George R. R. Martin
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#bookreport #weeklyforecast
🎧The Ten Thousand Doors of January - finished. Enjoyed.
🎧Stardust - finished. LOVED. Craving more like this one.
🎧The Woman in Cabin 10 - 20% finished. I already don't like the main character. Only 9 more hours of the audiobook to go 🙄
📚 A Storm of Swords - 46.4% finished. I am SO BEHIND. I may not finish for #bookspin .
Overall, my books for last week and this week have travelling themes. ❤

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Hi friends. I am in need of more fluff books. I haven't really read romance books before but in the past year I read the tagged book, Serious Moonlight, and the Music Shop. I need more right now 😭 any recommendations like these? Or if you have read these, are there more romance books that you have really enjoyed?

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Stardust | Neil Gaiman
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Such a cute little story ❤? just what I needed to get me out of the "just okay" book slump
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I almost forgot about #summerfun bingo! This book had a world that was mostly ocean, so it counts!

alisiakae 🙌 🙌 4y
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This one was okay. I enjoyed the older feel to the style of writing. Not like it was set in an older time, but as if the author wrote it a long time ago. The plot was a little hard to follow, but I somehow want more of it. There's more to this story.
Also, this counts for the Leo prompt of #readyoursign 8. Read a book with your spirit color (gold) the title or on the cover.
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A Storm of Swords | George R. R. Martin
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#bookreport #weeklyforecast
It has not been a good week for reading, but I finished watching Silicon Valley and Itaewon Class and had a successful protein purification 😁
📚 A Storm of Swords - 40.4% done. A little behind to finish for #bookspin but I'll catch up!
🎧 The Ten Thousand Doors of January - 18.4% done. I am not really liking this book so far. I hope it picks up.

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A book I picked because of the cover ❤ and with #readyoursign this will be number 9 on the Leo prompt list. Read a book with a character that is proud, bold, or ambitious.

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This was... interesting...ha. It was nice. I like books that follow characters through their lives and the characters felt real. I just didn't like them much. Jules should have been happy with the good man that she married. Someone who time and time again came back to her. Her only redeeming quality is that she did not run off with Ethan in the end.
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8little_paws Jules is a terribly self centered person and it was hard for me to spend this many pages with her LOL
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erinachu @8little_paws yes. She had a fine life. She was only dissatisfied with it because she was surrounded by people with more money than she had. So many people would kill to have a loving family and a good job 4y
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