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Imminent Defenestrations
I had never seen this quote before today.
So, I’m not saying I disagree but if I gave you a book as a present this year I was … unaware of any implications … 📚💙
November 7, 2025 at 1:53 PM
At times beautiful and sometimes Impenetrable, this book definitely leaves an impression.

Perhaps the most difficult book I’ve read this year, it has short stories that I loved and short asides that left me scratching my head. 4⭐️📚💙
October 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
At times beautiful and sometimes Impenetrable, this book definitely leaves an impression.

Perhaps the most difficult book I’ve read this year, it has short stories that I loved and short asides that left me scratching my head. 4⭐️.
October 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Dan Jones has become a must read historian. He tells great stories, filling in the white space between the lines. I loved this. 4⭐️
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September 25, 2025 at 1:15 AM
50 pages in and I am self aware enough to pause and wonder
…”is this love”?
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September 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Sometimes I wish I could stick to just one book at a time but then I’m like naw shut up brain let’s try out first ever
Polish book.
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September 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
À fine pastiche of sci fi elements from à number of other sci fi realms artfully seen together. Better than the first book, but still a slow read, the series feels like it is finally poised to really payoff the buildup. 4⭐️
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September 11, 2025 at 12:29 AM
What should I do?

Dive immediately into another McCarthy?

Or

Savour him. Leave the next one till next Christmas?

I kind of want to be like Desmond from Lost with his last remaining Dickens …
#LOST 💙📚
August 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM
No Country For Old Men
5⭐️
Book 26 of 2025
And my 6th McCarthy novel - reinforcing him firmly as one of my favourite authors of all time.
August 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Ambitious and far reaching, this is a series that has set a lofty goal. Not the least because of the clear influence from sci fi giants like Dune and thé Book of the New Sun.💙📚🪐
August 16, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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August 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Book 25 of 2025 for me - Era of Ruin.
The final FINAL (no, really this time!) book in the Horus Heresy/ Siege of Terra.

It’s nice. It lets some of the authors return to characters and stories and give them some of the wrap ups they deserve. Enjoyable. 4⭐️
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August 3, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The Poppy War #1 - R.F.Kuang.
OOOoof.
That was rough. This was the closest I've come to a DNF this year.

I have heard this recommended many times from a number of booktube & #booksky sources. Please know I will be judging you based on this going forward. ;)

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August 2, 2025 at 8:14 PM
It’s really more the same. Which isn’t bad.
3 ⭐️ book
5⭐️ enjoyment
I love Princess Donut.
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August 1, 2025 at 1:38 AM
July 23, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Historical manga done well. This series is very cool.
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July 9, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Gave StoryGraph a try
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Pretty cool.
July 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Completed book 20 of 2025!
The Dungeon Anarchists Cookbook by Matt Diniman. (Book 3 of the Dungeon Crawler Carl series)
3⭐️
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July 5, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Finished Martyr! By Kaveh Akbar this morning and have been thinking about it since.

It feels like it *should* be an incredibly timely story, but it’s not. It is full of beautiful prose and I was really digging it for about 4/5 of the book and then we hit the mud and bogged down hard. 💙📚
June 23, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I am about halfway through my 19th book of the year and if it keeps going like this, it will be the best thing I’ve read on that list.
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June 21, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Finished If It Bleeds by the Maestro, on a beautiful sunny morning on the back deck. 📚💙
June 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Grade 8 graduation. On to high school. Good luck bud.
June 17, 2025 at 1:59 AM
When you find out the Stephen King book you’re reading is actually part of a bigger series and you’ve read them out of order …. You have to pause and go back 📚💙
Pausing If it Bleeds - After putting Holly back on the shelf - to read the Outsider.
June 1, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Today’s reading 💙📚❤️📚

Recommend both!
May 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Book 15 of 2025
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
By Stephen Graham Jones
May 12, 2025 at 11:04 AM