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geardrops

geardrops

Joined May 2016

i write fiction and i write code
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Need to start posting here again. Let's Speak English was short and cute! I liked it :) Just little experiences while living abroad teaching English in Japan. No real narrative, just slice of life.

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Dark Triumph | Robin LaFevers
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I love this stupid series 💕

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Grave Mercy | Robin LaFevers
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Comfort reading this entire trilogy rn 💕

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As I Lay Dying | William Faulkner
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Loved it in high school, love it still.

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Bossypants | Tina Fey
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Mehso-so

It was okay. Some good stories but mostly felt kinda disconnected and just overall uninteresting.

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A reporter goes into North Korea undercover as a teacher. The subject matter and the stories she shares are heartbreaking, but she manages to write in such a way that I could keep reading without having to take breathers. Great book.

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Mehso-so

It started out really compelling, with this great thread of what happiness is "supposed" to look like for women versus what might make an individual woman happy, but then it went all Lifetime Original Film circa 1996 which was ultimately disappointing. Not a terrible book, but I felt let down.

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Ms. Marvel Vol. 1 | G Willow Wilson
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This comic is so cute and fun. I was reading it in single issues so I didn't know what made up the first volume. A nice and gentle introduction to Kamala and her life and her powers and her family. The comic only gets better from here. Love it 💕

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City of Blades | Robert Jackson Bennett
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Second in the Divine Cities series. Real talk I will read this author's grocery list. I am not a particularly impartial reviewer here. One of my favorite current authors.

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Runtime | S B Divya
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Mehso-so

A fun enough read and I appreciate that there were agender persons in the book but the one main agender character was kind of a villain? At least definitely an asshole. Kind of made me feel 😕

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These Broken Stars: A Starbound Novel | Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner
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Panpan

By the time the potentially interesting story showed up I was already so uninvested in the characters that I just couldn't get into it.

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These Broken Stars: A Starbound Novel | Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner
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By the time the potentially interesting story showed up I was already so uninvested in the characters that I just couldn't get into it.

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These Broken Stars: A Starbound Novel | Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner
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Book took 180 pages to ask this question. If it wasn't for a challenge, I probably would have bailed.

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Man in the High Castle | Philip K Dick
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Mehso-so

I mean a good book but wooowwwwww I did not remember it having that many racial epithets.

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These Broken Stars: A Starbound Novel | Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner
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Nine of the ten books I read in August. International travel makes for lots of dedicated reading time 📚👀

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Open Road Summer | Emery Lord
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I wanted to like this book but "I'm not like other girls" makes me roll my eyes. The only girl who wasn't mocked or villainized in this book was the bff. Bleh.

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Handmaid's Tale | Margaret Atwood
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So now when people reference Handmaid's Tale when talking about reproductive rights, now I'll understand the reference. Great book, if terrifying.

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Handmaid's Tale | Margaret Atwood
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So now when people reference Handmaid's Tale when talking about reproductive rights, now I'll understand the reference. Great book, if terrifying.

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The Cat who Could Read Backwards | Lilian Jackson Braun
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Mehso-so

Murder Mystery book for the Popsugar challenge. I liked these books as a kid because, well, cats. But wow it does not hold up. Ten year old me was easily impressed.

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Mehso-so

I feel like the ending was a little abrupt. Not that it was the wrong ending, it just wasn't delivered well. The book itself was fine, a solid debut, but I wanted a little more finesse.

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Enter Title Here | Rahul Kanakia
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I really enjoyed this book about a girl who is deeply unlikeable (although tbh I like her a lot) trying to write a novel as her "hook" to get into Stanford. No spoilers but I enjoyed how it played out and the way it ended.

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If you have read or are considering reading Memoirs of a Geisha, read this instead. Mineko Iwasaki narrates her life as a geisha and clears up a lot of the misconceptions of what a geisha is. Plus she sounds like kind of a baller.

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What a cute sweet contemporary romance. Perfect for laying in bed on a Sunday morning, sipping coffee and listening to Iron and Wine.

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Mehso-so

I loved this book in high school but wow certain aspects have not held up... Read for Popsugar Reading Challenge "a book you haven't read since high school."

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Mehso-so

For the 600+ page challenge (Popsugar Reading Challenge). It was... fine. Entertaining enough. Very "dude" though which made it less interesting. Skimmable, at least.

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Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace
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Bailedbailed

I just don't hate myself enough.

TheApesOfWrath 😂😂😂 8y
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Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace
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June reads for the popsugar reading challenge.

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Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace
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10% done with the Popsugar Reading Challenge item "a book longer than 600 pages." I can't tell yet if I like it or not.

zanylikethat I've read it and I enjoyed it in bursts. Sometimes it feels too dense almost on purpose but other times it's hilarious in its absurdity. I'm reading House of Leaves and I see why there's so many comparisons! 8y
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I enjoyed it, I liked Magnolia in the previous book and was glad to have a whole book of her. Hold Me was stronger, but this was still fun.

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Downside of ebooks: can't take stylish pictures of the cover! A picture of last month's Taylor Swift Vogue should hopefully be a sufficient substitute for Tiffany Schmidt's Break Me Like a Promise 🌟

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We Were Liars | E. Lockhart
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Well written, skillfully done, and the reveal was good (though maybe dragged a bit at points near the end).

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Mehso-so

I see what it wanted to do but it was a lot more telling than showing. Lacked finesse. Not bad but not great.

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I would so rather be reading and snuggling my cat but noooOOOOoooOOooo I have to edit still...

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Hilarious! I absolutely lost it at the Cormac McCarthy bit 😄

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Between the World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Incredible. Heartbreaking. He writes as if every paragraph is the last thing he might say to his son. This book should be required reading.

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Between the World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates
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"... the club of criminal justice has either failed at enforcing its good intentions or has succeeded at something much darker."

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Maestra | L S Hilton
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It's like if American Psycho and back issues of Vogue got together and hated you.

Shortstack Except instead of a slow downfall into a broken psychosis we get a snotty sociopath's rise which is far less interesting or compelling. I've got 2 hours left on the audiobook and not looking forward to it. 8y
geardrops I wish you could thumbs up a comment. 8y
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Raven Boys | Maggie Stiefvater
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Cheap cliffhanger ending had put me off from continuing the series. It's just aggravating. Why can't they just trust that their world and characters are compelling enough to make people come back for more?

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