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khooliha

Joined September 2016

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The Spite House: A Novel | Johnny Compton

Hey Eric, do you not want to talk to a reporter about what happened at the house or do you want to intimidate a librarian into telling you about what happened at the house? I feel you should pick one.

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Devil in Winter | Lisa Kleypas
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A much better outing for me than Dreaming of You, even if Ivo Jenner bites it. I don't have the love for Kleypas that some do, but I'm glad to have not disliked another one from her.

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Devil in Winter | Lisa Kleypas

Hey, Ivo Jenner! My favorite guy from Dreaming of You! Oh no, you're dying???

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BIG ups to this indie store I ordered this from shipping it early so that I could inhale it in less than 24 hours. Good stuff! At least my second favorite of the books of hers I've read.

CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian Beautiful cover! 1mo
khooliha @CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian Her past 2 books have had a pre-order campaign with Love's Sweet Arrow where you get a bonus cover - they both great! 1mo
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Johnny, you were going to get married without mentioning your deceased brother?? You're wild for this one!

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The BREATH I just sucked in when Matthew takes Athena's glasses to clean them! That's so intimate, dude!!!

khooliha Marked as a spoiler because this book isn't out yet? Thanks for sending it early, indie book store! 1mo
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Finding Gene Kelly | Torie Jean
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Sitting here at working, thinking about coming home to having to read this book and thinking Ugh is a real dnf thought, so goodbye!

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Finding Gene Kelly | Torie Jean

BOY this lady isn't very smart

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Finding Gene Kelly | Torie Jean

I don't know if this was written after the Chris Evans will play Gene Kelly in a biopic news, but it does cast him in a fantasy about a remake of An American in Paris and: Chris Evans Doesn't Have Gene Kelly Energy

khooliha I will be saying this until this movie doesn't come out 2mo
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Cat Sebastien just -hits- for me, and this thing hit. Plot? Almost nonexistent. Vibes? Off the charts.

khooliha The Cabot novellas are, canonically, crying-in-sweaters books, and I adore them for it 2mo
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Whalefall: A Novel | Daniel Kraus
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A soft sort of pick, because it's a propulsive read, very effective in that way, but man, fuck that dad. Fuck him.

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Whalefall: A Novel | Daniel Kraus

Okay, he has an explanation for the lack of italics in the acknowledgements but I Do Not Understand It. The language became special to you, so it deserves to be unitalicized??

julesG That's a weird explanation. 2mo
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Whalefall: A Novel | Daniel Kraus

There haven't been too many yet, but to not italicize the scientific names is driving me nuts.

julesG Ugh! I can relate 2mo
khooliha @julesG The author is coming to our book club and I am probably going to ask about this choice 2mo
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Our Share of Night | Mariana Enriquez
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It's very weird to come out of a nearly 600 page book and just feel entirely neutral about it. Mostly I'm just relieved that I get to read something else now.

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"Too much inclined to passive goodwill" - have you met yourself, Severian??

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Thankful for Hoopla and audiobooks today, as I feel like shit but also I need to read this book that Is Not Grabbing me. I won't bail, because I really do want to keep up with Shelved by Genre, but if they weren't covering this book I'd let Severian's space travel remain a mystery.

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Not as engaging as the first half of this saga, it's not like these two books are bad, but Citadel of the Autarch just didn't engage me the way the other books did. Severian, you are forever a little freak to me.

JLaurenceCohen But what did you think of the twist that [redacted] is Severian's [redacted]? 3mo
khooliha @JLaurenceCohen it made me SO MAD. Too much freak juice, Severian! 3mo
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The Dark Fraction, eh? Good one. (Opening Barker, closing King, don't know if the skeleton center is anyone specific)

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What Happened Was Impossible? It sure was!

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A Power Unbound | Freya Marske
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I had other plans for my 3 day weekend, but there are no regrets. Good book, good trilogy, can't wait to revisit it. (I'm fascinated to be reminded how Jack plays in the first one - I remember hating him. Sorry, Jack! You are a prick, though!).

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A Long Time Dead | Samara Breger
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I love these vampires, I love this book

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Q-in-Law | Peter David

I think this book is mostly pretty bad, but the deliciousness of Picard telling Q that passionate hate usually also indicates passionate love - my dude, are you hearing yourself? Talking to you most *ahem* hated guy??

khooliha Of course, this book doesn't know that queerness is real, so it misses the tasty treat too. 4mo
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"I can tell the women I've fucked apart, I promise."
Severian, you absolute freak, the book is nearly over and also, since you feel you have to state it, I'm not sure I believe you

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This series casually dropping things like vivimancers, the opposite of necromancers (dead people who can summon the living who are, in turn, capable of summoning the dead back to life), is why it's cool.

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The Shepherd's Crown | Terry Pratchett
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It's a strange book, it's a lovely skeleton with some parts fleshed out in a way that tricks you into thinking you'll get to read new Discworld books forever. I think it's a fitting end, even if it's not a goodbye.
#OokBOokClub

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The Shepherd's Crown | Terry Pratchett
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why won't they call that boy a witch
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julesG Good question. 6mo
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The Shepherd's Crown | Terry Pratchett
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I knew about the death in this book (it was inadvertently spoiled for me years ago) but I didn't know how -early- it would be. Seeing the world think and mourn is hitting me hard.
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julesG Same! I hate it. I knew it was coming. 6mo
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The Shepherd's Crown | Terry Pratchett

Well, I guess the time has come.
This already feels unfinished/unpolished, but unlike Raising Steam (which pushed me away), this one more feels like a fable so far - I think this will work, for a witch story especially.
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julesG I'm still not ready. I don't want to have read them all. 6mo
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Whoops, finished this last week and forgot to review! A weird book, I grew to enjoy it more and more, even if I don't always get how this Urth connects to ours. But texts don't exist to be solved, so that's fine. (Also, I recommend the podcast Shelved By Genre, who put forth that thesis.)

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Hex | Thomas Olde Heuvelt
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Another book club pick, this book is Fine but I don't think it really works. Way too much wind up for not enough pitch.

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Sometimes a book is trying to be horrific but then it says "Four hundred children flew into the air as if they had been shot from catapults." and there's nothing to do but laugh.

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Untitled | Unknown

Signed up for a new book box that promises adult queer reads, it finally gets here today... and I got one of the wrong books, a YA novel, I think. I am now sitting with my disappointment.

khooliha I think/hope they will fix it! And this shipping error may ultimately mean I just get a bonus book! But right this second I'm bummed. 7mo
khooliha No bonus book, but the proper one will be sent soon. Only 1 hour of being bummed out. 7mo
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We Could Be So Good | Cat Sebastian

Going to see Some Like It Hot in a romance novel, great choice!

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Not going to review this one simply because I did not read it in an ideal way and also: what is there to say about it? If you like Ligotti it is A Lot of Ligotti; if you're new to Ligotti I'd probably say find something of his in another anthology? The stories are pretty similar, tonally and image-wise.

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Tag yourself, I'm the one who glistens horribly like a rainbow of insects

Michael_Gee 😝 I love your humor 8mo
khooliha @Michael_Gee Thank you! I have fun. 8mo
holarosarita I definitely move with a particular creeping motion 7mo
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Untitled | Unknown
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Today I pre-ordered a book coming out a year from now because I saw this cover and thought "she's hot"
(The book is The Hades Calculus by Maria Ying)

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The last time I watched and talked about Psycho I noticed this very thing, and I am shocked to see it mentioned here because he's right: nobody ever brings this part up

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I love: them
(And I love how much this author loves Some Like It Hot)

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Even reading a 2 page description/discussion of It's A Wonderful Life life is enough to make me cry, sap that I am.

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Funny Guy | Emma Barry

One of the leads of this book calling Face/Off ridiculous and saying that's a bad thing????

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The Salt Grows Heavy | Cassandra Khaw
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My back hurts, so I'm sitting on the couch and reading and basically nothing else. Mermaid goes chomp.

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Haven't finished the book, so maybe I'm wrong, but I do wish that the first thing I thought of when reading that Anthony died wasn't "obviously he is in the Hermes Society and has faked his death."

julesG That was very predictable. 11mo
ju.ca.no It really was obvious 🙈 10mo
E.Bolhafner Agreed. There were no surprises here. Lots of foreshadowing and the message was sledgehammer-ed throughout. If you didn‘t know about colonialism, appropriation, and micro aggressions prior to reading this you didn‘t pay attention in history class. 10mo
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University boy* for a university book.

*note: did not graduate university

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Zombie | Joyce Carol Oates
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Got until May 1st to figure out enough ways to say "it's boring" to fill a book club.

Michael_Gee What. Boring? 8mo
khooliha @Michael_Gee I just didn't like this one! It was too repetitive for my taste. 8mo
Michael_Gee @khooliha omg. I thought it was so disturbing. Fuck u til u “bleed blue guts” is a line that fascinates and haunts me. I thought her detached voice really worked for this story. Ugh, it‘s so gross and upsetting! How was your book club discussion? 8mo
khooliha @Michael_Gee Some people were really into it, disturbed in the way you were. I think I was well in the minority on this one. 8mo
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Another thing I mulled over as I read the book was the link consistently drawn between reading and moving on to reading nonfiction. I read a good bit, but don't often touch nonfiction. I just don't think it's as direct a path as described. (Of course, my day job is scientist and maybe that skews the results?)
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julesG It might be that scientists read a lot of NF on a daily basis. 11mo
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Don't know if organizing this collection differently would mask the repetition? I liked this collection fine, but didn't love it.
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julesG You've finished already!!! I mislaid my copy. 🙈🙈🙈 11mo
khooliha @julesG Oh no! I hope you find it. (I have a workshop I'm helping run coming up and I got nervous about getting my required reading done - I'm currently reading my book club book Way Too Early.) 11mo
julesG I'll dig it up, I'm sure. 11mo
julesG Good luck with the workshop! 11mo
khooliha @julesG Thank you! 11mo
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Love to find out Sir Terry was a DVD guy!
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Seeing Pratchett takes a side swipe at theme parks: ☹️
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It's me, I'm the one who finds comfort in body horror. This is a fun anthology! Read trans fiction always.