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executivespooky

executivespooky

Joined June 2018

Goth scientist PhD student that loves beer, cats, historical fiction, and sp00ky books ⚰️🦇👻🎃
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4.75/5

This book was amazing! I was diverse and intriguing, kinda mysterious. Reminded me a lot of Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi. I think I was in a book slump and this got me out of it.

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"...Claire lived by the firm moral philosophy that one could never have too many pockets, too many books, or too much tea."

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I commissioned a custom book stamp for my ever-growing personal library and I love it 😭
I'm leaning hard into the goth librarian life

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On that Witcher train...
#currentlyreading #nowreading #thewitcher

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Good Omens | Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett
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Got my first Bookshop.org order yesterday, I'm so excited!

BookmarkTavern I love Good Omens! ❤️ 4y
executivespooky @ozma.of.oz it's been on my list for a long time! I can't wait to read it 4y
BookmarkTavern It is delightfully odd and one of my favorites! I hope you enjoy it! 4y
jessinikkip ?? everytime I see a copy of Good Omens I have to laugh about it with @anewton91 See, I had given away my copy to this little shop that lets you get a free book for every 3 you donate. So my wife starts talking about wanting to read it and while donating others goes "HEY! THERES A COPY!!! GET THAT!!!" So long story short, my own book came back home with us 4y
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Psycho | Robert Bloch
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The semester is finally over and although research never ends, I'll finally have time to read without class work

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I feel like I'm going to explode (grad school stress), but I'm still trying to read a little to keep my sanity. It's not going super great, but I'm trying.

BarbaraBB Good luck 👍🏼 4y
Crazeedi Stay calm and breathe ❤ I remember those days, you'll make it!! 4y
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Wowzah, apparently it's been 3 months since I last posted??? I hope y'all have had a good holiday season.
I was sick for pretty much all of Christmas break and am feeling crappy again today. Happy New Year's Eve 👍🏻
Thankfully I have my Gigi cat to keep me company, probably adopting her a friend soon cuz she's SO BORED/lonely since Gin passed 🤷🏻‍♀️

Reggie Hope you feel better and Happy New Year! 4y
executivespooky @Reggie thank you! Happy New Year! 🎉🎊 4y
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Probably shouldn't be reading a bummer book given my life right now, but here we go anyway 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Howdy, friends! Wow, I've been busy pretty much since Memorial Day.

Big trip to China, work trip two days after China, wrapping up one job and starting another. Also, I'm in grad school now!

I haven't been reading quite as much, but I'm still trucking along. This book is very cute so far, I love it

Reggie Wow, that‘s a lot going on! 4y
Texreader Whoa!! Slow down! 😉 Enjoy your trip! 4y
executivespooky @Texreader @Reggie I'm trying, things are only speeding up right now 😵 4y
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Pachinko | Min Jin Lee
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Boy howdy, it's been a while. Hi! I was traveling for fun and work for all of June and now I'm buckling down on house hunting before starting grad school next month. So much going on 😵

So excited to finally read this though. Bought it as a gift for someone a while back and read the first chapter before shipping it... I almost kept it 🙈 it's just as good as I remember!

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Panpan

Incredibly slow to start and was very hard to care about. Not my cup of tea. Not sure what all the hype was about. Almost certainly won't read the other books in the trilogy.

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Resurrectionists | Michael Patrick Hicks
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Grave robbers! Murder! Lovecraftian cosmic horror!
1780s NYC: cadaver dissection is illegal, but essential to medicine. Resurrectionists were hired to steal bodies. Black cemeteries were favored for body snatching. Salem is a free black man that earned his freedom fighting in the war. He's now fighting for families of the deceased. Salem gets entangled with cultist doctors and chaos ensues!
I received an ARC in exchange for an unbiased review.

LauraJ Yup! Gotta stack it. 📚 5y
RohitSawant Oo, sold! 5y
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Won an ARC of this and it is a weird one. I like it a lot so far!

LauraJ I like weird! 5y
executivespooky @LauraJ it's good! It's like post-revolution New York body snatching for medical cadaver dissection, but also Lovecraftian cosmic horror 5y
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Started this last night. I wasn't really sure what to expect, but I like it!

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Of Mice and Men | Steinbeck
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Rereading this gem, time to cry.

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Calypso | David Sedaris
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I've always heard great things about Mr. Sedaris, but for some reason never read his stuff. I'm finally doing it! #botm

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The Blood of Flowers: A Novel | Anita Amirrezvani
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Picture is unrelated, but makes me laugh 💖

This book was pretty good. The pace felt kinda slow at times, but the flow was pretty good and didn't feel like it dragged or was rushed. The unnamed protagonist is dynamic and grows throughout the story. She's strong, but flawed and not so perfect that she's not believable.
Also, I'll say it again: the narrator is perfection and I could listen to her rasp forever.

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Terra Nullius: a novel | Claire G. Coleman
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Two-book Tuesday 📚🍵👍🏻

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So excited to finally read this!

AmyG It‘s so good. 5y
executivespooky @AmyG loving it so far! 5y
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She wouldn't get up, so she's in the picture. #nowreading

Lauram 😻 5y
booklahoma She's so cute! And doing just what she wants 😺😻 5y
executivespooky @booklahoma always does, she's a spoiled brat, but I'd die for her. 5y
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Not quite a pick, but better than so-so. It's a so-so pick. Really interesting and tragic story about a legacy buried. I knew nothing of Milicent before, aside from what Mallory has said on RG. Her life was a wild ride. The "women have it rough" got old and a bit redundant for 300 pages. I had an issue with the insistence that Italians were white. In the early 20th century, Italians weren't white. Mil was among first generations to be "white."

Texreader 😻❤️❤️❤️ 5y
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The Blood of Flowers: A Novel | Anita Amirrezvani
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Can't remember where I got this recommendation, but it looks really good! I love the narrator, her voice is perfect.

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Finally digging into this 👻

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Alex and Eliza: A Love Story | Melissa de la Cruz
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Listening to this audiobook for the Book Riot challenge, "historical romance by an author of color"

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Hachi machi is this a dark book, especially for a children's book. Told by the ghost of a little boy, starting from before he died. Really good although the writing is a little juvenile, but the narrator is 10 years old, so I'm not bothered by it.

Texreader Tim Tingle was a good friend of mine back when I lived in Austin. When my son was in elementary school, Tim would come to San Antonio to read his books to all the classes. I‘d never miss it. He told his stories so well. 5y
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Looks like campus closed for a snow day tomorrow, even though it hasn't started snowing yet.
No work tomorrow! Yay!
Guess I'll stay up reading 🤷🏻‍♀️

📷: taken in the descent into the caldera at Yellowstone National Park, September 2017.

Lauram I love Yellowstone. It‘s such a beautiful place. 5y
executivespooky @Lauram I miss it 😭 5y
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Gigi pictured to offset depressing book feels.

Alright, here we go. This book is incredible. McGreal does a great job of reporting a complex, long-lived public health crisis that we all know of, but probably know very little about. He takes legalities and makes them interesting, enticing. My heart breaks for the victims, it truly is a tragedy. Chris is relatively objective and it's clear to see who is in the wrong, even without the emotion.

BookishMarginalia Gigi is adorable! 5y
executivespooky @BookishMarginalia I'll tell her you said so 😅 she's very chatty, so I'm sure she'll have a response for you! 5y
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My foster got adopted on Saturday and we all miss him a lot, sadly including one of my cats that got used to playing with him 😢

booklahoma That is sad. 😞 But yay for cats being adopted and the wonderful people that foster them in the meantime! 5y
executivespooky @booklahoma yeah, he was adopted by a friend of mine, so I know he's in a good home and can bug her for updates on my boy 💖 5y
AmyG How wonderful that you foster! 💕 5y
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Purrfectpages Bittersweet for sure 5y
executivespooky @Purrfectpages didn't cry when it was time to say goodbye though!! 5y
BookNAround We foster failed our kitten. There was no way I was going to be strong enough to let him go. I‘m working up the courage to try fostering again (I was so sad when our first foster went home—the kitten was only our second attempt). 5y
executivespooky @BookNAround he was my first, I'm shocked I didn't keep him. Lord knows I wanted to, he's got such a cool personality. Luckily he went to a friend, so I can keep up with his life. You can do it! Just think of all the lives you can help save! 5y
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Stolen from the Reading Glasses fb group 😂

SharonAlger *snort!* 5y
Caroline2 😂 5y
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Heavy topics require a kitty to lighten the mood.

BookwormAHN Cute kitty 💚 5y
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Why Kill the Innocent | C. S. Harris
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Mehso-so

Regency era mysterious death leads to a crazy investigation that is linked to English palace intrigue.
A decent story, though a lot of the dialogue felt a little robotic at times. Fun historical references and a genuinely surprising "who done it," I really wasn't sure how Jane died.
Nothing to write home about, but it was good book.

Purrfectpages Cute kitty! 5y
wanderinglynn So cute! ❤️🐱 5y
executivespooky @Purrfectpages @wanderinglynn he's my foster, but I've grown quite attached to him. He's a good reading buddy 5y
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wanderinglynn Are you potentially going to be a foster fail? 😉 Because he is a cutie. ❤️🐱 5y
executivespooky @wanderinglynn lmao maybe if I didn't already have 3 cats ☹️ 5y
Crazeedi Omgosh that kitty is too darlng! 5y
Texreader ❤️❤️❤️😻 5y
robinb I love this series...and such an adorable kitty! ❤️ 5y
executivespooky @robinb it's the first I've read, good to know they're enjoyable 5y
robinb @executivespooky I started at the beginning with this one and have enjoyed the progression. 5y
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Pandemic | Robin Cook
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Mehso-so

Underwhelming, not as much infectious disease as you'd expect from the title. More corporate conspiracy than disease fighting. Dialogue was lackluster and the character dynamics were relatively flat. Cook does do a good job of explaining molecular biology & immunology concepts for the layperson, but it read like a textbook at times. This is the first book I've read by him and while I'll give the others a try, I was not impressed with Pandemic.

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Why Kill the Innocent | C. S. Harris
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Regency era murder mystery + palace intrigue, it's pretty good so far.

Got this in a pagehabit box when I was still subscribed, just now getting around to it.

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4.5/5. The ending was strange and wasn't very fulfilling, but overall the story was great. Good pacing, decent characters, moral ambiguity. Would recommend. HOWEVER, I would NOT recommend to people that don't like graphic violence and gore, there is a lot and also pretty detailed accounts of post-mortem decomposition.

readinginthedark Your little fuzz ball blends with your shirt! 😆😍 5y
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This book is a southern/Appalachian noir and I am in 👏🏻 to 👏🏻 it 👏🏻

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Lose Well | Chris Gethard
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"Failing because you were too cool to try doesn't give you or the world shit."

readinginthedark Great quote! 5y
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Lose Well | Chris Gethard
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Found my boy's book at the library

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Haven't had much time to read the last few days because of this little foster baby. Look at this handsome boy!! 😍

TheSpineView Awwwww 5y
Crazeedi So precious, I couldn't foster because I'd end up with a dozen kitties...🙄 5y
executivespooky @Crazeedi this is my first one, I'm trying really really hard not to get super attached 5y
Crazeedi @executivespooky it's so neat that you're doing it, I just know my heart...I've had 6 at one point in my life😻 5y
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Reading a weird book.
In other news, my new kindle case is the cutest ever 💖

TheSpineView 💜 5y
Crazeedi Love your cover 5y
executivespooky @Crazeedi thanks! It's off Amazon 5y
Crazeedi @executivespooky oh boy, you would say Amazon my favorite place😍 5y
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Crazy Rich Asians | Kevin Kwan
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Branching out, having fun so far 🙂

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So excited for this 😁

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Devil's Day | Andrew Michael Hurley
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I'm about halfway through this book and it's still really slow, ugh

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Looking forward to this 👌🏻

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Into the Wild | Jon Krakauer
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Finally reading this, it's pretty good so far. Gigi is the best model 🦇

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Night | Elie Wiesel
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Made it through all of my education thus far without reading this and oh boy, was I missing out. This story is incredibly well written and heartwrenchingly sad, all the more because it is a memoir and not fiction. I cannot fathom the depths of despair that victims suffered, but as Elie famously said "for the living and the dead, we must bear witness."

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Hot buttered rum and a book. Great way to spend Sunday afternoon 🥃📙

keys_on_fire That sounds phenomenal! 5y
executivespooky @keys_on_fire I'd highly recommend it! 5y
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When you read your ARC two months after the book goes on sale... 🙈

abookishbutterfly I promised myself I would start reading the ARC I received yesterday by the end of the week because I have been guilty of this, too! 5y
executivespooky @Butterflyamore I feel so bad! I have so many "please read and review" books that I got overwhelmed and just let my library hold list take over. I'm glad I'm not the only one! 5y
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Man, this one really fucks with you. Is it the apocalypse? Are they full of shit? A little girl, Wen, is on vacation at a remote cabin with her two dads when four strangers show up preaching the end of days. One of their little family must be sacrificed to stop the apocalypse. Chaos ensues.
NOT recommended for sensitive parents and people upset by bad things happening to children.

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Very creepy, but I'm not cruising through like I thought I would.

elyseh What did you think? I kind of hated this book lol 5y
executivespooky @elyseh I didn't love it tbh. There were parts I really liked, but overall it was just ok 5y
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