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perfectsinner

Joined March 2019

Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/anorexorcist
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A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar
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Lily and the Octopus | Steven Rowley
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Everyone told me to get the tissues handy for this book, and they weren't wrong. I sobbed hard the last couple chapters. I needed a good cry, anyway, though, tbh.

marleed It‘s a beautiful love story even through 😭😭 5d
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Lily and the Octopus | Steven Rowley
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks This has been on my shelf forever! 2w
perfectsinner It's been on mine for quite a while also! 2w
marleed I love this book. It is a tearjerker (MC loves his dog) and not easy to read if you currently have an ailing long-loved pet. 2w
perfectsinner I was warned I would need tissues. 2w
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Found a way to borrow from more libraries on Libby from my library today and already put it to the test. I went from 3 small libraries to 12. I hope I picked a good one.

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Giving this a reread

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Finally starting my Christmas present

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Two non fiction books back-to-back? Guess I'm in that kind of mood.
Anyway, I'm gonna start this tonight. I saw the film and thought it was great. I hope the book is good, I've seen some reviews saying it's a bit dry.

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks My husband is reading this. We also saw the movie! 2mo
perfectsinner I loved the movie and I actually love physics. I don't understand it, but I've been obsessed with astrophysics, quantum mechanics, theoretical physics, etc. For several yrs now. I watch a lot of science YouTube, lol. I'm only 9% in, but so far not finding it to be a dry read at all 2mo
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This is pretty good so far. Heartbreaking, of course

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Station Eleven: A novel | Emily St. John Mandel
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Have wanted to read this for quite a while. I'm sick currently so can't concentrate on a physical book-- giving an audiobook a try.

BookmarkTavern Hope you feel better soon! 3mo
Graciouswarriorprincess Hope that you feel better soon! Hugs! 3mo
perfectsinner Thanks, me too! Hope this is a good choice. 3mo
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I couldn't figure how to link my Goodreads review of this, so here's a screenshot of what I wrote there. I really dislike Litsy's limiting review length, which is why I don't usually write one 😶😬

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670/776
Almost there! 😅

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I'm surprised how quickly I've been going thru this 700+ page book. Currently 594/776 pages
Hoping I can finish it this weekend, and it'll be the first book down of 2024... started it out with a banger, and a biggin.

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2023 wrap up. My lowest total since 2019. Most years I manage at least 50 books... I guess not 23... it was a struggle, in more ways than one...

SarahBookInterrupted I did 44 too this year and my goal was 52. I felt the same 2023 was a challenging year. Hopefully 2024 will be better for us both. Happy reading. 4mo
perfectsinner @SarahBookInterrupted thanks! I don't actually do the challenges-- haven't in many years, since I realized I got caught up in the #s game and ended up with a *bunch* of 2 star reads, books I didn't enjoy but felt compelled to finish... so now I just read to read, but still feel a little bummed about the final number 4mo
SarahBookInterrupted @perfectsinner I can see that. For the first time this year I looked up short book list to read at the end of the year, but thankfully I can‘t bring myself to read a book that I don‘t want to read when my TBR pile is so big. So, I discovered some really good short reads, but any larger books that I‘ve really wanted to read weren‘t even considered. I‘ll remember what you said this year and let my “goal” be really low for a desired book. 4mo
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Hear the Wind Sing | Haruki Murakami

"Lies are terrible things. One could say that the greatest sins afflicting modern society are the proliferation of lies and silence. We lie through our teeth, then swallow our tongues."---Haruki Murakami Hear The Wind Sing

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Used my gift card and bought PHM for my collection. I've already read it but didn't own it, so now I do ☺🤓 I will give it a reread in 2024

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The Librarianist: A Novel | Patrick DeWitt
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The truth was that people made him tired.

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Although we know the end of the maze holds death (and it is something I have not always known--- not long ago the adolescent in me thought death could happen only to other ), I see now that the path I choose through the maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being--- one of many ways---and knowing the paths I have followed and the ones left to take will help me understand what I am becoming."

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"But then, I can't blame him because he doesn't realize that finding out who I really am--- the meaning of my total existence involves knowing the possibilities of my future as well as my past, where I'm going as well as where I've been

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Finally going to start this. It's been on my want to reads list for quite a few years and I finally got a copy. I'm not sure I'm ready to get my heart broken 💔 but I know it's going to happen. I guess I better get the tissues handy. 🤧 😭

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Love Backman but this wasn't a hit for me. A little too fantastical, way too many Harry Potter references [I've never read them, don't come at me] and I guess it just wasn't really my kind of story. I've read and enjoyed most of his books and this one was just so-so. 2.5 stars

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An almost 600 pager? Count me in

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Camping, beautiful scenery, a great book
#happyplace #camping #River #books

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Can you tell I'm on vacation? 🤓📚
What Beauty There Is, Cory Anderson
My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry, Frederick Backman
The End of Always, Randi Davenport
8 Rules of Love, Jay Shetty
Old Babes in the Woods, Margaret Atwood
The King's Pleasure, Alison Weir

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Starting my Goodreads giveaway book today. I have really wanted to read this... wish I had won a physical copy, but beggars aren't choosers, especially now that it's so hard to win anything.
Also, happy bday, America 🇺🇸

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I just finished The Power by Naomi Alderman and now going to start this book by Bradbury. His works have been on my want to reads list for a while, as I've only read Fahrenheit 451.

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It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society

Bklover Great quote! 10mo
perfectsinner Agree 10mo
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Nature, Knight clarified, is brutal. The weak do not survive, and neither do the strong. Life is a constant, merciless fight that everyone loses.

The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

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Starting my second kindle book today. This has been on my want to reads list for a while. I see it's also pretty short, just a bit over 200 pages... so it shouldn't take me long to finish.

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The Cloisters | Katy Hays
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Checked this out yesterday from Libby.

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Woke up to see an email from Goodreads that I won a giveaway. I wish it was a physical book and not kindle, but that's ok. I'll take what I can get. I've really wanted to read this so I'm happy it's at least a book I'm really excited about. I don't enter them as often anymore since they changed the format... just seems like too much work

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The Immortals | Jordanna Max Brodsky
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I really enjoyed this. Might have to look into the rest of the series

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Giving this a shot
Another book I've always heard a lot about, but haven't read.

CarolynM Enjoy! 11mo
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Abandoned halfway through.

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I was going to check this out from my library because I had it tagged in Libby as a potential read but when I saw it was almost 900 pages, I went with the kindle version instead to save my hands
I'm no stranger to big books and I love them, but my arthritic hands do not any more.. so kindle version won out this time.

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The Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown
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Starting this.

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Angels & Demons | Dan Brown
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Starting this. I picked up the 3rd in the series from a used sale a few years back, so thought I should give the series a shot

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I've seen a lot about this book so when I found it at the library, I decided to finally check it out for myself.

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This book made me mad, even though as someone interested in physics, I already knew of A Einstein's poor reputation as a husband.

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I won this in a Goodreads giveaway and it's a great book. Easy to digest facts broken up by categories, and a very entertaining quick read.

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Decided to finish up the Miss Peregrine's series. I read the 5th book summer of last year so hopefully I remember things, as it's been a minute.
The 6th book of Ransom Riggs' Miss Peregrine's series: The Desolation of Devil's Acre.

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Demon Copperhead: A Novel | Barbara Kingsolver
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Finally!! 11 books so far this year, and my first 5 star read 😍

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Demon Copperhead: A Novel | Barbara Kingsolver
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I'm not sure why I was so on the fence about trying this book. I'm clocking over 100 pages a day, don't want to put it down. This might be my first 5 star book for the year 😊🥳

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Demon Copperhead: A Novel | Barbara Kingsolver
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Grabbed some books for the weekend in case my date doesn't work out

marleed Because a date with a book always works out! 14mo
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A 300 page book usually doesn't take me so long to finish. I either don't like suspense books, or at least not by this author.

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Other Birds: A Novel | Sarah Addison Allen
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Continuing my bookish weekend with my library books 📚 🤓❤

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Upsides to this book were that it featured a MC who has a disability, which goes against status quo, and that it's the first historical fiction book I've been able to read in a long time. There's the Circus Train, there are Nazis, there are secrets long kept and stories of not just survival, but determination and even a love story. This was a really enjoyable book for me.

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I stopped by my library because the book I'm reading is boring.
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The Circus Train by Amita Parikh
Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult
The Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen

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I was going to read something else but my Libby hold came in for this