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mim wants to read 'Make Sure You Die Screaming'

Sat, 07 Jun 2025 12:22:44 -0700

mim wants to read Make Sure You Die Screaming by Zee Carlstrom

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Sat, 07 Jun 2025 11:58:59 -0700

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Reinout wants to read The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht

mim started reading 'The Secret Lives of Church Ladies'

Fri, 06 Jun 2025 07:01:10 -0700

mim started reading The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw

mim added 'The Lie Tree'

Fri, 06 Jun 2025 05:28:56 -0700

mim gave 4 stars to The Lie Tree (Paperback) by Frances Hardinge
bookshelves: ficiton-ya, fantasy, historical
me personally i love it when a ya book ends and the teen protagonist is still kind of morally dodgy. and i love liars and manipulators and revenge-driven characters. so i had a good time! incredibly satisfying story climax, and though the very last few pages risk being a little corny the aforementioned moral dodginess mostly rescues it. this is not my strongest ever four, and i did like hardinge's cuckoo song more, but nevertheless--very fun experience.

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Fri, 06 Jun 2025 00:29:56 -0700

mim liked Sarah's review of Frankenstein: The 1818 Text:

"4.25/5 stars for this classic that I am surprised I had not read yet. It is, after all, the beginning of science fiction, a genre I love! I heartily recommend this edition as well. Reading the author's original text is always preferable for me. Here's to catching up on more classics this year!"

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Fri, 06 Jun 2025 00:29:49 -0700

mim liked Diandra's review of Unhinged:

"genuinely read this for the giggles. no notes."

mim made a comment on mim’s status

Tue, 03 Jun 2025 11:25:37 -0700

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Reinout wrote: "Please tell me this book is about a tree that lies"

so tragically, no. however! it is about a tree that you can tell lies to, and if you're very good at lying the tree bears a fruit that you can eat to receive Powerful Visions of the truth. maybe the tree needs better pr actually.

mim is 40% done with The Lie Tree

Fri, 30 May 2025 10:33:43 -0700

mim is 40% done with The Lie Tree.
mim wrote: 40% in, our narrator has just learned of the concept of The Lie Tree <3

mim is currently reading 'The Lie Tree'

Wed, 28 May 2025 03:28:43 -0700

mim is currently reading The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge

mim added 'Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea'

Sun, 25 May 2025 08:33:22 -0700

mim gave 5 stars to Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea (Paperback) by Sarah Pinsker
bookshelves: short-stories, sci-fi, fiction-not-ya, fantasy, lgbtq
rounding up very slightly as a 4 star would just not be doing this--or my emotional response to it--any sort of justice. the individual stories are all good-to-fantastic (even the few that didn't quite hit for me are still really solid) AND are also more than the sum of its parts when taken together; though there's no plot link between the stories, they've very thematically cohesive, with memory, music, and cultural legacy being revisited across stories, among other things. and it's just a fun collection to read--pinsker has a bunch of cool (mostly scifi) concepts, and knows how to stick the landing very consistently. my top 3 would probably be 'in joy, knowing the abyss behind', 'wind will rove', and 'and then there were (n-one)', but there truly isn't a bad story in the bunch. highly recommended.