What book are you reading or just read?

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The Office BFFs - Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey.

I gave this 4 stars (really liked it).

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5 Minute Therapy - Sarah Crosby.

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5 Minute Therapy - Sarah Crosby.

I gave this 2 stars (it was ok).

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The Last House On Needless Street - Catriona Ward.

I gave this 3 stars (liked it).

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The Light Between Oceans - M. L Stedman.

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Good luck with your challenge.

Thanks Lindsay! :)

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Oh goodness that looks like a tricky challenge Lucy! Number 2 is hilarious, 34 is such a barmy category - as if there's a goodreads list for that! Also I think you should up the challenge level and make it a doubly-landlocked country :P

Also if you want suggestions for 39 I'd be happy to make some!

I basically hyperfocused on picking books for this list while going through Horror Xmas Breakup. 34 was so hard - but there is actually a list! There's lists for most of them: https://www.the52book.club/2024-goodreads-lists/

But I found that for a lot of them, the setting was only partly in a landlocked country! I read The Rules Do Not Apply - which was delightfully sad and gay which was just what my sad gay bum needed, but it's mostly set in the US.

Re: 39, I am def taking recs! :) The one I've got on there for now is Crippled by Frances Ryan. I've followed her for a long time and been meaning to read her book, and a friend recommended it too so I put it on the list, but I wanted to read it before they recommended it so it feels like cheating! XD

[Indigo.]

Currently reading A Still Life by Josie George: prompt #4 of the 52 Book Club Challenge: lowercase letters on the spine (the paperback edition has the title all in lowercase).

Atm I'm kind of reading things on the topics of disability, illness, finding joy in the mundane, and coping with loss. Since my life kind of got blown up by a cyclone. It's been so cathartic to read about experiences similar to mine.

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The Light Between Oceans - M. L Stedman.

I gave this 3 stars (liked it).

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The Children On The Hill - Jennifer McMahon.

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"Fat and Queer"

I gave this 4 stars. I've also finished "No Big Deal" by Bethany Rutter and gave it four stars too.

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Atm I'm kind of reading things on the topics of disability, illness, finding joy in the mundane, and coping with loss. Since my life kind of got blown up by a cyclone. It's been so cathartic to read about experiences similar to mine.

Reading can be so powerful!

I'm afraid I don't think I've read anything recently on those topics so my recommendations for prompt #39 may need to be dismissed! But just in case, here's a couple encompassing an eccentric range of topics!
James Acaster- Classic Scrapes
Anna Dahlqvist - It's Only Blood
Essie Dennis - queer body power
Reni Eddo-Lodge - Why I'm No Longer Talking To White People About Race

Let me know if you check any of them out but no offence taken if you don't!

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The Children On The Hill - Jennifer McMahon.

I gave this 3 stars (liked it).

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In Our Mad And Furious City - Guy Gunaratne.

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I've gone all highbrow and am now reading The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

[Pi.R^2]

Oh goodness! That sounds way above my intellect level! Especially since I came here to report that I’ve just finished a YA novel :P. ‘Toxic’ by Natasha Devon, which I gave five stars but I don’t really know how I’m differentiating between 4 & 5??

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If you hover over the stars on Goodreads it tells you what they mean. 4 is really liked it and 5 is it was amazing. I rarely give things 5 stars because of the description.

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In Our Mad And Furious City - Guy Gunaratne.

Had to give up on this. The accent used was annoying and it also read like a long poem. I like poetry but not a full book of one long poem.

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We Know You Know - Erin Kelly.

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girls like girls by hayley kiyoko

its awesome so far

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I read a few books each year but rarely post in here because the kind of books I read will link me to here as i am considered an expert in the genre. I set myself a goal to read 6 books this year on good reads. I have a book related blog and my goal is to update it more this year. I started reading a book last night however.