keerit &#x1faa9;&#x1f352;&#x1fa90;&#x1fa70;&#x1f48c;&#x1f337; (reading slump)'s bookshelf: read en-US Fri, 02 May 2025 11:21:46 -0700 60 keerit &#x1faa9;&#x1f352;&#x1fa90;&#x1fa70;&#x1f48c;&#x1f337; (reading slump)'s bookshelf: read 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)]]> 26032825 Of course I want to be like them. They’re beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. They will live forever.

And Cardan is even more beautiful than the rest. I hate him more than all the others. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe.

Jude was seven when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. But many of the fey despise humans. Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King.

To win a place at the Court, she must defy him–and face the consequences.

As Jude becomes more deeply embroiled in palace intrigues and deceptions, she discovers her own capacity for trickery and bloodshed. But as betrayal threatens to drown the Courts of Faerie in violence, Jude will need to risk her life in a dangerous alliance to save her sisters, and Faerie itself.]]> 370 Holly Black 0316310271 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 currently-reading 4.01 2018 The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
author: Holly Black
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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]]> Caraval (Caraval, #1) 27883214 A legendary competition.
A mesmerizing romance.
An unbreakable bond
between two sisters.

Scarlett Dragna has never left the tiny island where she and her sister, Tella, live with their powerful, and cruel, father. Now Scarlett’s father has arranged a marriage for her, and Scarlett thinks her dreams of seeing Caraval—the faraway, once-a-year performance where the audience participates in the show—are over.

But this year, Scarlett’s long-dreamt-of invitation finally arrives. With the help of a mysterious sailor, Tella whisks Scarlett away to the show. Only, as soon as they arrive, Tella is kidnapped by Caraval’s mastermind organizer, Legend. It turns out that this season’s Caraval revolves around Tella, and whoever finds her first is the winner.

Scarlett has been told that everything that happens during Caraval is only an elaborate performance. Nevertheless she becomes enmeshed in a game of love, heartbreak, and magic. And whether Caraval is real or not, Scarlett must find Tella before the five nights of the game are over or a dangerous domino effect of consequences will be set off, and her beloved sister will disappear forever.

Welcome, welcome to Caraval . . . beware of getting swept too far away.]]> 407 Stephanie Garber 1250095255 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 3.97 2016 Caraval (Caraval, #1)
author: Stephanie Garber
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Brightest Light of Sunshine (The Brightest Light, #1)]]> 63831009
Determined to walk away from a traumatic past, 22-year-old Grace Allen feels ready to take the next step in her healing journey—dipping a toe into the dating pool. Although she should probably start by making a friend or two, right?

Samuel ‘Cal� Callaghan isn’t who she had envisioned as her first male friend in� well, forever. With an intimidating build, tattoos everywhere, eight years her senior, and a little sister under his care, the last thing she expected was to warm up to him so easily. As their friendship evolves, Grace can’t help but wonder if Cal is exactly who she’s been looking for all this time.

Cal can’t afford to lose sight of his priorities—making sure his tattoo parlor thrives and taking care of his little sister. Especially the latter. He wants to make sure 4-year-old Maddie has a healthy and happy childhood despite their mother going off the rails and her father’s blatant neglect. There’s certainly no room for love in his life right now. But when a sweet blonde with a veiled past breaks down his walls, he finds it difficult to stick to his guns.

CONTENT NOTES: This book contains themes of sexual assault (there are no explicit scenes depicting sexual assault), profanity, alcoholism, and explicit sexual content. Recommended for 18+.]]> 412 Lisina Coney keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 3.83 2023 The Brightest Light of Sunshine (The Brightest Light, #1)
author: Lisina Coney
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2023
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]]> The Pretender 229733549 One of Literary Hub and The Today Show's Most Anticipated Release of 2025.

A sweeping historical novel in the vein of Hilary Mantel and Maggie O’Farrell set during the time of the Tudors� ascent, The Pretender is a rollicking portrait of British monarchy and life within the court.

In 1480 John Collan’s greatest anxiety is how to circumvent the village’s devil goat on the way to collect water. But the arrival of a well-dressed stranger from London upends his life John is not John Collan, not the son of Will Collan, but the son of the long-deceased Duke of Clarence, hidden in the countryside after a brotherly rift over the crown, and because Richard III has a habit of disappearing his nephews. Removed from his humble origins, sent to Oxford to be educated in a manner befitting the throne’s rightful heir, John is put into play by his masters, learning the rules of etiquette in Burgundy and the machinations of the court in Ireland, where he encounters the intractable Joan, the delightfully strong-willed and manipulative daughter of his Irish patrons, a girl imbued with both extraordinary political savvy and occasional murderous tendencies. Joan has two paths available her—marry, or become a nun. John’s choices are similarly he will either become King, or die in battle. Together they form an alliance that will change the fate of the English monarchy.

Inspired by a footnote to history—the true story of the little known Lambert Simnel, who was a figurehead of the 1487 Yorkist rebellion and ended up working as a spy in the court of King Henry VII�The Pretender is historical fiction at its finest, a gripping, exuberant, rollicking portrait of British monarchy and life within the court, with a cast of unforgettable heroes and villains drawn from fifteenth century England. A masterful new work from a major new author.]]> 496 Jo Harkin 1039056695 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 0.0 2025 The Pretender
author: Jo Harkin
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]]> Carrie Soto Is Back 60462183
But six years after her retirement, Carrie finds herself sitting in the stands of the 1994 US Open, watching her record be taken from her by a brutal, stunning player named Nicki Chan.

At thirty-seven years old, Carrie makes the monumental decision to come out of retirement and be coached by her father for one last year in an attempt to reclaim her record. Even if the sports media says that they never liked the Battle-Axe anyway. Even if her body doesn't move as fast as it did. And even if it means swallowing her pride to train with a man she once almost opened her heart to: Bowe Huntley. Like her, he has something to prove before he gives up the game forever.

In spite of it all, Carrie Soto is back, for one epic final season. In this riveting and unforgettable novel, Taylor Jenkins Reid tells her most vulnerable, emotional story yet.

In this powerful novel about the cost of greatness, a legendary athlete attempts a comeback when the world considers her past her prime--from the New York Times bestselling author of Malibu Rising.]]> 384 Taylor Jenkins Reid 0385695799 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 5 4.25 2022 Carrie Soto Is Back
author: Taylor Jenkins Reid
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2022
rating: 5
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]]> Face Off (D.C. Stars, #1) 213779197
Maverick Miller is the best player in the league, but he’s never had a winning record. Team captain and desperate to turn things around, he agrees to play nice with the fiery new left-winger even though they’re total opposites.

After a night where the tension between them reaches a tipping point and they fall in bed together, Emmy and Maverick vow it was only one time. Just once to get it out of their systems so they can play better and help their team.

It doesn’t mean anything. She doesn’t date hockey players. He’s a notorious playboy who doesn’t date. Period.

Except� what should’ve been just once happens again, then again. They tell each other their friends with benefits arrangement is only for the season, but despite facing off on the ice, behind closed doors, the pair is nothing but fire.]]> 450 Chelsea Curto keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 4.13 2024 Face Off (D.C. Stars, #1)
author: Chelsea Curto
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Fearless (The Powerless Trilogy, #3)]]> 214907249 OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD. THE SIZZLING FINALE TO THE NO 1 BESTSELLING ROMANTASY PHENOMENON!
�
Praise for
‘Nothing short of epic’Rosie Talbot, bestselling author ofSixteen Souls
‘A thrilling fantasy with the most delicious slow-burn romance� M.A. Kuzniar, bestselling author ofMidnight in Everwood
‘[A] titillating debut’�Publishers Weekly
‘A masterpiece’�ŷ Reader Review
‘Everyone needs to read it’�TikTok Review
‘The BEST book I’ve read’�NetGalley Reader Review
‘A sizzling slice of fantasy romance’�Booksellers Review

PaedynGray and Kai Azer return to the Kingdom of Ilya...�
�
And Paedyn hasa life-altering choice to make.Whatever she decides willdetermineher fate –and the fate of those around her –forever.�
�
In theultimate battle of love and loyalty, who wins?

Be swept away by the conclusion to the smash hit,dagger-to-the-throatromantasy trilogy.

Follow Lauren Roberts on TikTok and Instagram @LaurenRobertsLibrary
]]> 604 Lauren Roberts keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 4 (3.5 stars)]]> 4.27 2025 Fearless (The Powerless Trilogy, #3)
author: Lauren Roberts
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2025
rating: 4
read at: 2025/04/29
date added: 2025/04/29
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review:
lauren roberts WHEN I CATCH YOU it’s ON SIGHT
(3.5 stars)
]]> <![CDATA[Better Than the Movies (Better Than the Movies, #1)]]> 55710822 In this rom-com about rom-coms, in the spirit of Kasie West and Jenn Bennett, a hopeless romantic teen attempts to secure a happily-ever-after moment with her forever crush, but finds herself reluctantly drawn to the boy next door.

Perpetual daydreamer Liz Buxbaum gave her heart to Michael a long time ago. But her cool, aloof forever crush never really saw her before he moved away. Now that he’s back in town, Liz will do whatever it takes to get on his radar - and maybe snag him as a prom date - even befriend Wes Bennet.

The annoyingly attractive next-door neighbor might seem like a prime candidate for romantic-comedy fantasies, but Wes has only been a pain in Liz’s butt since they were kids. Pranks involving frogs and decapitated lawn gnomes do not a potential boyfriend make. Yet, somehow, Wes and Michael are hitting it off, which means Wes is Liz’s in.

But as Liz and Wes scheme to get Liz noticed by Michael so she can have her magical prom moment, she’s shocked to discover that she likes being around Wes. And as they continue to grow closer, she must reexamine everything she thought she knew about love - and rethink her own ideas of what happily ever after should look like.]]> 356 Lynn Painter 1534467629 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 currently-reading 4.28 2021 Better Than the Movies (Better Than the Movies, #1)
author: Lynn Painter
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2021
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]]> A Song to Drown Rivers 203578730 Her beauty hides a deadly purpose.

Xishi’s beauty is seen as a blessing to the villagers of Yue—convinced that the best fate for a girl is to marry well and support her family. When Xishi draws the attention of the famous young military advisor, Fanli, he presents her with a rare opportunity: to use her beauty as a weapon. One that could topple the rival neighboring kingdom of Wu, improve the lives of her people, and avenge her sister’s murder. All she has to do is infiltrate the enemy palace as a spy, seduce their immoral king, and weaken them from within.

Trained by Fanli in everything from classical instruments to concealing emotion, Xishi hones her beauty into the perfect blade. But she knows Fanli can see through every deception she masters, the attraction between them burning away any falsehoods.

Once inside the enemy palace, Xishi finds herself under the hungry gaze of the king’s advisors while the king himself shows her great affection. Despite his gentleness, a brutality lurks and Xishi knows she can never let her guard down. But the higher Xishi climbs in the Wu court, the farther she and Fanli have to fall—and if she is unmasked as a traitor, she will bring both kingdoms down.]]> 325 Ann Liang 1250289467 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 3.84 2024 A Song to Drown Rivers
author: Ann Liang
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 3.84
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]]> <![CDATA[Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow]]> 58784475 In this exhilarating novel, two friends—often in love, but never lovers—come together as creative partners in the world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality.

On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn't heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster, Ichigo. Overnight, the world is theirs. Not even twenty-five years old, Sam and Sadie are brilliant, successful, and rich, but these qualities won't protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of their hearts.

Spanning thirty years, from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Venice Beach, California, and lands in between and far beyond, Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is a dazzling and intricately imagined novel that examines the multifarious nature of identity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love. Yes, it is a love story, but it is not one you have read before.]]> 401 Gabrielle Zevin 0735243344 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 4.12 2022 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
author: Gabrielle Zevin
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2022
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]]> Everything, Everything 18692431
But then one day, a moving truck arrives. New next door neighbors. I look out the window, and I see him. He’s tall, lean and wearing all black—black t-shirt, black jeans, black sneakers and a black knit cap that covers his hair completely. He catches me looking and stares at me. I stare right back. His name is Olly. I want to learn everything about him, and I do. I learn that he is funny and fierce. I learn that his eyes are Atlantic Ocean-blue and that his vice is stealing silverware. I learn that when I talk to him, my whole world opens up, and I feel myself starting to change—starting to want things. To want out of my bubble. To want everything, everything the world has to offer.

Maybe we can’t predict the future, but we can predict some things. For example, I am certainly going to fall in love with Olly. It’s almost certainly going to be a disaster.]]> 312 Nicola Yoon 0553496646 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 4 say sike rn. 3.96 2015 Everything, Everything
author: Nicola Yoon
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2015
rating: 4
read at: 2025/04/26
date added: 2025/04/27
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say sike rn.
]]> The Poet X 33294200 Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing New York Times-bestselling novel-in-verse by an award-winning slam poet, about an Afro-Latina heroine who tells her story with blazing words and powerful truth.

Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking.

But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers—especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who her family can never know about.

With Mami’s determination to force her daughter to obey the laws of the church, Xiomara understands that her thoughts are best kept to herself. So when she is invited to join her school’s slam poetry club, she doesn’t know how she could ever attend without her mami finding out. But she still can’t stop thinking about performing her poems.

Because in the face of a world that may not want to hear her, Xiomara refuses to be silent.]]> 368 Elizabeth Acevedo keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 4.37 2018 The Poet X
author: Elizabeth Acevedo
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 4.37
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]]> What We Owe to Each Other 278553
Scanlon bases his contractualism on a broader account of reasons, value, and individual well-being that challenges standard views about these crucial notions. He argues that desires do not provide us with reasons, that states of affairs are not the primary bearers of value, and that well-being is not as important for rational decision-making as it is commonly held to be. Scanlon is a pluralist about both moral and non-moral values. He argues that, taking this plurality of values into account, contractualism allows for most of the variability in moral requirements that relativists have claimed, while still accounting for the full force of our judgments of right and wrong.]]> 432 T.M. Scanlon 067400423X keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 3.84 1999 What We Owe to Each Other
author: T.M. Scanlon
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 3.84
book published: 1999
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]]> Giovanni’s Room 406235 178 James Baldwin keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 5 sitting-in-a-tree-d-y-i-n-g or you could’ve just shot me 4.40 1956 Giovanni’s Room
author: James Baldwin
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 4.40
book published: 1956
rating: 5
read at: 2025/04/02
date added: 2025/04/18
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or you could’ve just shot me
]]> I Hope This Doesn't Find You 124932739 I Hope This Doesn't Find You is Never Have I Ever meets To All the Boys if Lara Jean wrote hate emails instead of love letters.

Sadie Wen is perfect on paper: school captain, valedictorian, and a "pleasure to have in class." It’s not easy, but she has a trick to keep her model-student smile plastered on her face at all times: she channels all her frustrations into her email drafts. She'd never send them of course -- she'd rather die than hurt anyone's feelings -- but it's a relief to let loose on her power-hungry English teacher or a freeloading classmate taking credit for Sadie's work.

All her most vehemently worded emails are directed at her infuriating cocaptain, Julius Gong, whose arrogance and competitive streak have irked Sadie since they were kids. "You're attention starved and self-obsessed and unbearably vain . . . I really hope your comb breaks and you run out of whatever expensive hair products you've been using to make your hair appear deceptively soft..."

Sadie doesn't have to hold back in her emails, because nobody will ever read them... that is, until they're accidentally sent out.

Overnight, Sadie’s carefully crafted, conflict-free life is turned upside down. It's her worst nightmare -- now everyone at school knows what she really thinks of them, and they're not afraid to tell her what they really think of her either. But amidst the chaos, there's one person growing to appreciate the "real" Sadie -- Julius, the only boy she's sworn to hate...]]> 320 Ann Liang 1338827154 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 5 secret-gardens-in-my-mind ANN LIANG OH MY GOD 4.17 2024 I Hope This Doesn't Find You
author: Ann Liang
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2024
rating: 5
read at: 2025/04/08
date added: 2025/04/18
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ANN LIANG OH MY GOD
]]> Daydream (Maple Hills, #3) 198647119
Halle may not have the romantic pursuits of her favorite fictional leads, but she’s an academic superstar, and when she hears about Henry’s problems with his class reading material, she offers to help. But being a private tutor isn’t exactly ideal given her own studies, job and the novel she’s trying to write. New experiences are the key to beating her writer’s block, though, and Henry’s promising to be the one to give them to her.

They just need to stick to their rulebook. Oh, and not fall in love.

18+ content]]> 448 Hannah Grace keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 5 im-having-his-baby ILOVEHENRYTURNER! 3.98 2024 Daydream (Maple Hills, #3)
author: Hannah Grace
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2024
rating: 5
read at: 2025/03/16
date added: 2025/04/18
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ILOVEHENRYTURNER!
]]> Wild Reverence 222376906
Ten years ago, Vincent of Beckett wrote to Matilda on the darkest night of his life―begging the goddess he befriended in dreams to help him. When his request went unanswered, Vincent moved on, becoming the hardened, irreverent lord of the river who has long forgotten Matilda. That is, until she comes tumbling into his bedroom window with a letter for him.

As Fate would have it, Matilda and Vincent were destined to find each other beyond dreams. There may be a chance for Matilda to rewrite the blood-soaked ways of the gods, but at immense sacrifice. She will have to face something she fears even more than losing her magic: to be vulnerable, and to allow herself to finally be loved.]]> 544 Rebecca Ross 1250373352 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 4.65 2025 Wild Reverence
author: Rebecca Ross
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 4.65
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]]> <![CDATA[Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence]]> 39089024
In a witty, irreverent op-ed piece that went viral, Kristen Ghodsee argued that women had better sex under socialism. The response was tremendous � clearly she articulated something many women had sensed for the problem is with capitalism, not with us.

Ghodsee, an acclaimed ethnographer and professor of Russian and East European Studies, spent years researching what happened to women in countries that transitioned from state socialism to capitalism. She argues here that unregulated capitalism disproportionately harms women, and that we should learn from the past. By rejecting the bad and salvaging the good, we can adapt some socialist ideas to the 21st century and improve our lives.

She tackles all aspects of a woman's life - work, parenting, sex and relationships, citizenship, and leadership. In a chapter called " Like Men, But Cheaper," she talks about women in the workplace, discussing everything from the wage gap to harassment and discrimination. In "What To Expect When You're Expecting Exploitation," she addresses motherhood and how "having it all" is impossible under capitalism.

Women are standing up for themselves like never before, from the increase in the number of women running for office to the women's march to the long-overdue public outcry against sexual harassment. Interest in socialism is also on the rise -- whether it's the popularity of Bernie Sanders or the skyrocketing membership numbers of the Democratic Socialists of America. It's become increasingly clear to women that capitalism isn't working for us, and Ghodsee is the informed, lively guide who can show us the way forward.]]> 240 Kristen R. Ghodsee 1568588909 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 3.99 2018 Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
author: Kristen R. Ghodsee
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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]]> A Little Life 22822858
Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride.Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is Jude himself, by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body scarred by an unspeakable childhood, and haunted by what he fears is a degree of trauma that he’ll not only be unable to overcome—but that will define his life forever.]]> 720 Hanya Yanagihara 0385539258 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 4.28 2015 A Little Life
author: Hanya Yanagihara
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Way I Used to Be (The Way I Used to Be, #1)]]> 23546634
But Eden can’t turn back time. So she buries the truth, along with the girl she used to be. She pretends she doesn’t need friends, doesn’t need love, doesn’t need justice. But as her world unravels, one thing becomes clear: the only person who can save Eden � is Eden.]]> 385 Amber Smith keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 4.14 2016 The Way I Used to Be (The Way I Used to Be, #1)
author: Amber Smith
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2016
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]]> <![CDATA[How to Suppress Women's Writing]]> 1047343 The Female Man, a provocative survey of the forces that work against women who dare to write.

"She didn't write it. She wrote it but she shouldn't have. She wrote it but look what she wrote about. She wrote it but she isn't really an artist, and it isn't really art. She wrote it but she had help. She wrote it but she's an anomaly. She wrote it BUT..."

How to Suppress Women's Writing is a meticulously researched and humorously written "guidebook" to the many ways women and other "minorities" have been barred from producing written art. In chapters entitled "Prohibitions," "Bad Faith," "Denial of Agency," Pollution of Agency," "The Double Standard of Content," "False Categorization," "Isolation," "Anomalousness," "Lack of Models," Responses," and "Aesthetics" Joanna Russ names, defines, and illustrates those barriers to art-making we may have felt but which tend to remain unnamed and thus insolvable.]]> 160 Joanna Russ 0292724454 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 4.32 1983 How to Suppress Women's Writing
author: Joanna Russ
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average rating: 4.32
book published: 1983
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]]> <![CDATA[Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer]]> 219484513 Actress and content creator Dylan Mulvaney’s honest account of her journey through girlhood

When Dylan Mulvaney came out as a woman online, she was a viral sensation almost overnight, emerging as a trailblazing voice on social media. Dylan’s personal coming-out story blossomed into a platform for advocacy and empowerment for trans people all over the world. Through her “Days of Girlhood� series, she connected with followers by exploring what it means to be a girl, from experimenting with makeup to story times to spilling the tea about laser hair removal, while never shying away from discussing the transphobia she faced online. Nevertheless, she was determined to be a beacon of positivity.

But shortly after she celebrated day 365 of being a girl, it all came screeching to a halt when an innocuous post sparked a media firestorm and right-wing backlash she couldn’t have expected. Despite the vitriolic press and relentless paparazzi, Dylan was determined to remain loud and proud.

In Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer, Dylan pulls back the curtain of her “It Girl� lifestyle with a witty and intimate reflection of her life pre- and post-transition. She covers everything from her first big break in theater to the first time her dad recognized her as a girl to how she handled scandals, cancellations, and . . . tucking. It’s both laugh-out-loud funny and powerfully honest—and is a love letter to everyone who stands up for queer joy.]]> 266 Dylan Mulvaney 141977039X keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 4.11 2025 Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer
author: Dylan Mulvaney
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 4.11
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]]> <![CDATA[A Million Kisses in Your Lifetime (Lancaster Prep, #2)]]> 60306208
Beautiful.
Smart.
Sweet.
Innocent.

At Lancaster Prep, the girls love her. They all want to be her friend. Only I see Wren for who she really is.

A repressed little virgin who keeps her feelings locked up so tight she’s probably close to bursting. She thinks she’s above us all.

Even me.

I shouldn’t be drawn to her. She’s not my type.

Until we’re forced to work together in class and realize we might have more things in common than we originally thought. Soon enough I find myself completely obsessed. I will do anything for this girl to make her fall in love with me.

Anything.]]> 552 Monica Murphy keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 3.73 2022 A Million Kisses in Your Lifetime (Lancaster Prep, #2)
author: Monica Murphy
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Rule Number Five (Rule Breaker, #1)]]> 201573930
My 5 simple rules for hooking up keep me from being distracted. And now I’m so close to landing my dream internship. Nothing is going to make me break them.

Even a protective hockey player with clear grey eyes, a sharp jaw, and a body that makes my breath catch.

Until Jax wins a bet and one kiss has me breaking them all.
TROPES:

Slowburn
He Falls First
Friends with benefits
Jealousy
Mutual pinning]]> 396 Jessa Wilder keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 3.78 2023 Rule Number Five (Rule Breaker, #1)
author: Jessa Wilder
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2023
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]]> <![CDATA[Addicted to You (Addicted, #1)]]> 55475442 Fans of Gossip Girl, Friends, and Euphoria will devour this edgy new adult romance set in a world of lust, fame, swoon-worthy men, and friendships that run deeper than blood.

She’s addicted to sex. He’s addicted to booze…the only way out is rock bottom.

No one would suspect shy Lily Calloway’s biggest secret. While everyone is dancing at college bars, Lily stays in the bathroom. To get laid. Her compulsion leads her to one-night stands, steamy hookups and events she shamefully regrets. The only person who knows her secret happens to have one of his own.

Loren Hale’s best friend is his bottle of bourbon. Lily comes at a close second. For three years, they’ve pretended to be in a real relationship, hiding their addictions from their families. They’ve mastered the art of concealing flasks and random guys that filter in and out of their apartment.

But as they sink beneath the weight of their addictions, they cling harder to their destructive relationship and wonder if a life together, for real, is better than a lie. Strangers and family begin to infiltrate their guarded lives, and with new challenges, they realize they may not just be addicted to alcohol and sex.

Their real vice may be each other.

New Adult Romance recommended for readers 18+ for mature content]]> 335 Krista Ritchie keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 3.69 2013 Addicted to You (Addicted, #1)
author: Krista Ritchie
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 3.69
book published: 2013
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]]> Pale Fire 7805
Nabokov's darkly witty, richly inventive masterpiece is a suspenseful whodunit, a story of one-upmanship and dubious penmanship, and a glorious literary conundrum.

Part of a major new series of the works of Vladimir Nabokov, author of Lolita and Pale Fire, in Penguin Classics.]]> 246 Vladimir Nabokov keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 4.17 1962 Pale Fire
author: Vladimir Nabokov
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 4.17
book published: 1962
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Housemaid's Secret (The Housemaid, #2)]]> 62848145 As he continues showing me their incredible penthouse apartment, I have a terrible feeling about the woman behind closed doors. But I can't risk losing this job � not if I want to keep my darkest secret safe . . .

It's hard to find an employer who doesn't ask too many questions about my past. So I thank my lucky stars that the Garricks miraculously give me a job, cleaning their stunning penthouse with views across the city and preparing fancy meals in their shiny kitchen. I can work here for a while, stay quiet until I get what I want. It's almost perfect. But I still haven't met Mrs Garrick, or seen inside the guest bedroom. I'm sure I hear her crying. I notice spots of blood around the neck of her white nightgowns when I'm doing laundry. And one day I can't help but knock on the door. When it gently swings open, what I see inside changes everything...

That's when I make a promise. After all, I've done this before. I can protect Mrs. Garrick while keeping my own secrets locked up safe. Douglas Garrick has done wrong. He is going to pay. It's simply a question of how far I'm willing to go...]]> 318 Freida McFadden 1837901317 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 4.21 2023 The Housemaid's Secret (The Housemaid, #2)
author: Freida McFadden
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Reckless (Chestnut Springs, #4)]]> 108518990 Theo Silva. Rowdy bull rider. Notorious ladies� man. Scorching hot trouble wrapped up in a drool-worthy package.

And he’s looking at me like I might be his next meal.

But I’m almost free of my toxic marriage and have sworn off men entirely. So all I see when I look back is temptation served up with a heaping side of heartbreak.

The man is hard to trust—and even harder to resist.

Make that impossible. Because Theo is persistent. And no matter how hard I try to freeze him out, he melts my icy exterior and pulls apart all my defenses.

Over a drink in a small town bar, I blurt out my deepest, darkest secrets. Then I spend the singular hottest night of my life with him.

He worships my body. He makes me blush. I come alive beneath his hands.

Then I tell him to forget it ever happened. I want simple, and with him it all feels complicated.

It was supposed to be a one-time thing.

A secret.

But that little plus sign is going to make this secret impossible to keep.]]> 466 Elsie Silver keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 4.38 2023 Reckless (Chestnut Springs, #4)
author: Elsie Silver
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 4.38
book published: 2023
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does anyone know if i have to read the other three books before this one or does it not matter? because someone recommended this book to me and i’m not sure
]]> <![CDATA[The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1)]]> 60556912
Every day I clean the Winchesters� beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor.

I try to ignore how Nina makes a mess just to watch me clean it up. How she tells strange lies about her own daughter. And how her husband Andrew seems more broken every day. But as I look into Andrew’s handsome brown eyes, so full of pain, it’s hard not to imagine what it would be like to live Nina’s life. The walk-in closet, the fancy car, the perfect husband.

I only try on one of Nina’s pristine white dresses once. Just to see what it’s like. But she soon finds out� and by the time I realize my attic bedroom door only locks from the outside, it’s far too late.

But I reassure myself: the Winchesters don’t know who I really am.

They don’t know what I’m capable of�

An unbelievably twisty read that will have you glued to the pages late into the night. Anyone who loves The Woman in the Window, The Wife Between Us and The Girl on the Train won’t be able to put this down!]]> 329 Freida McFadden 1803144378 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 4 rtc]]> 4.31 2022 The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1)
author: Freida McFadden
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 4.31
book published: 2022
rating: 4
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date added: 2025/03/11
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i read this book in one sitting. it's 2 a.m.. my mind is broken
rtc
]]> <![CDATA[Lessons In Faking (Hall Beck University, #1)]]> 210989710 480 Selina Mae keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 3.82 2024 Lessons In Faking (Hall Beck University, #1)
author: Selina Mae
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 3.82
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]]> <![CDATA[Rival Darling (The Darling Devils, #1)]]> 210316181 A sweet young adult hockey romance.She's got one never date a jock. He'll do whatever it takes to break it.

When seventeen-year-old Violet is left heartbroken by the captain of her school’s ice hockey team, she vows to never date a jock again. But, in an attempt to prove she’s moved on, she turns to the most unlikely person—her ex’s biggest rival, the notorious captain of the Ransom Devils.Reed Darling is gorgeous, mysterious and intimidating, both on and off the ice. Wild rumors constantly circulate about him, and the only thing people love to talk about more than his hockey skills are his exploits as a ruthless heartbreaker and bad boy. Who better to serve as Violet’s fake boyfriend until her ex gets the message, right?But despite the intense rivalry between their two schools and Reed’s infamous reputation, Violet soon starts to wonder if there’s more to him than the gossip suggests. And while she tries her best to control their ‘relationship� with a list of strict guidelines, Reed has other ideas. He’s set his sights on winning her over and is determined to show Violet he’s not the guy everyone thinks he is.She should have known better than to make a deal with a devil because this one is going to break all her rules.]]> 372 Alexandra Moody 0645816868 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 3.77 Rival Darling (The Darling Devils, #1)
author: Alexandra Moody
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 3.77
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]]> <![CDATA[Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men]]> 41104077
Celebrated feminist advocate Caroline Criado Perez investigates the shocking root cause of gender inequality and research in Invisible Women�, diving into women’s lives at home, the workplace, the public square, the doctor’s office, and more. Built on hundreds of studies in the US, the UK, and around the world, and written with energy, wit, and sparkling intelligence, this is a groundbreaking, unforgettable exposé that will change the way you look at the world.]]> 448 Caroline Criado Pérez 1419729071 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 4.35 2019 Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
author: Caroline Criado Pérez
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 4.35
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot]]> 36687229 267 Mikki Kendall keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 4.37 2020 Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
author: Mikki Kendall
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 4.37
book published: 2020
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]]> Say a Little Prayer 214268970 A wry, heartfelt tale of a teen who's taking her church camp by storm—one deadly sin at a time.

Riley quietly left church a year ago when she realized there was no place for a bi girl in her congregation. But it wasn’t until the pastor shunned her older sister for getting an abortion that she really wanted to burn it all down.

It’s just her luck, then, that she’s sent to the principal’s office for slapping a girl talking smack about her sister—and in order to avoid suspension, she has to spend spring break at church camp. The only saving grace is that she’ll be there with her best friend, Julia. Even if Julia’s dad is the pastor. And he’s in charge of camp. But Riley won’t let a technicality like “repenting� get in the way of her true mission. Instead of spending the week embracing the seven heavenly virtues, she decides to commit all seven deadly sins. If she can show the other campers that sometimes being a little bad is for the greater good, she could start a righteous revolution! What could possibly go wrong? Aside from falling for the pastor’s daughter . . .]]> 320 Jenna Voris 0593692748 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 4.09 2025 Say a Little Prayer
author: Jenna Voris
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 4.09
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]]> <![CDATA[Reckless (The Powerless Trilogy, #2)]]> 183086339
After surviving the Purging Trials, Ordinary-born Paedyn Gray has killed the King, and kickstarted a Resistance throughout the land. Now she’s running from the one person she had wanted to run to.

Kai Azer is now Ilya’s Enforcer, loyal to his brother Kitt, the new King. He has vowed to find Paedyn and bring her to justice.

Across the deadly Scorches, and deep into the hostile city of Dor, Kai pursues the one person he wishes he didn’t have to. But in a city without Elites, the balance between the hunter and hunted shifts � and the battle between duty and desire is deadly.

Be swept away by this kiss-or-kill romantasy trilogy taking the world by storm.]]> 396 Lauren Roberts keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 5 im-having-his-baby
pre-review: ?????? FLABBERGASTED. I HATE KITT AZER!!! (4.5 stars)]]> 4.07 2024 Reckless (The Powerless Trilogy, #2)
author: Lauren Roberts
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2024
rating: 5
read at: 2025/02/14
date added: 2025/02/15
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pre-read: i'm so excited and so scared to read this

pre-review: ?????? FLABBERGASTED. I HATE KITT AZER!!! (4.5 stars)
]]> American Betiya 55801316
Rani Kelkar has never lied to her parents, until she meets Oliver. The same qualities that draw her in--his tattoos, his charisma, his passion for art--make him her mother's worst nightmare.

They begin dating in secret, but when Oliver's troubled home life unravels, he starts to ask more of Rani than she knows how to give, desperately trying to fit into her world, no matter how high the cost. When a twist of fate leads Rani from Evanston, Illinois to Pune, India for a summer, she has a reckoning with herself--and what's really brewing beneath the surface of her first love.

Winner of the SCBWI Emerging Voices award, Anuradha Rajurkar takes an honest look at the ways cultures can clash in an interracial relationship. Braiding together themes of sexuality, artistic expression, and appropriation, she gives voice to a girl claiming ownership of her identity, one shattered stereotype at a time.]]> 368 Anuradha D. Rajurkar keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 3.81 2021 American Betiya
author: Anuradha D. Rajurkar
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2021
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]]> <![CDATA[Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World]]> 217441464
Not long ago, the celebrated activist and public intellectual Naomi Klein had just such an experience―she was confronted with a doppelganger whose views she found abhorrent but whose name and public persona were sufficiently similar to her own that many people got confused about who was who. Destabilized, she lost her bearings, until she began to understand the experience as one manifestation of a strangeness many of us have come to know but struggle to define: AI-generated text is blurring the line between genuine and spurious communication; New Age wellness entrepreneurs turned anti-vaxxers are scrambling familiar political allegiances of left and right; and liberal democracies are teetering on the edge of absurdist authoritarianism, even as the oceans rise. Under such conditions, reality itself seems to have become unmoored. Is there a cure for our moment of collective vertigo?

Naomi Klein is one of our most trenchant and influential social critics, an essential analyst of what branding, austerity, and climate profiteering have done to our societies and souls. Here she turns her gaze inward to our psychic landscapes, and outward to the possibilities for building hope amid intersecting economic, medical, and political crises. With the assistance of Sigmund Freud, Jordan Peele, Alfred Hitchcock, and bell hooks, among other accomplices, Klein uses wry humor and a keen sense of the ridiculous to face the strange doubles that haunt us―and that have come to feel as intimate and proximate as a warped reflection in the mirror.

Combining comic memoir with chilling reportage and cobweb-clearing analysis, Klein seeks to smash that mirror and chart a path beyond despair. Doppelganger What do we neglect as we polish and perfect our digital reflections? Is it possible to dispose of our doubles and overcome the pathologies of a culture of multiplication? Can we create a politics of collective care and undertake a true reckoning with historical crimes? The result is a revelatory treatment of the way many of us think and feel now―and an intellectual adventure story for our times.]]> 416 Naomi Klein 1039006914 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 5 nonfiction 4.23 2023 Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
author: Naomi Klein
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2023
rating: 5
read at: 2025/02/09
date added: 2025/02/09
shelves: nonfiction
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i think this book made me smarter
]]> <![CDATA[These Violent Delights (These Violent Delights, #1)]]> 50892212
A blood feud between two gangs runs the streets red, leaving the city helpless in the grip of chaos. At the heart of it all is eighteen-year-old Juliette Cai, a former flapper who has returned to assume her role as the proud heir of the Scarlet Gang—a network of criminals far above the law. Their only rivals in power are the White Flowers, who have fought the Scarlets for generations. And behind every move is their heir, Roma Montagov, Juliette’s first love…and first betrayal.

But when gangsters on both sides show signs of instability culminating in clawing their own throats out, the people start to whisper. Of a contagion, a madness. Of a monster in the shadows. As the deaths stack up, Juliette and Roma must set their guns—and grudges—aside and work together, for if they can’t stop this mayhem, then there will be no city left for either to rule.

Perfect for fans of The Last Magician and Descendant of the Crane, this heart-stopping debut is an imaginative Romeo and Juliet retelling set in 1920s Shanghai, with rival gangs and a monster in the depths of the Huangpu River.]]> 449 Chloe Gong 1534457690 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read, physical-tbr 3.82 2020 These Violent Delights (These Violent Delights, #1)
author: Chloe Gong
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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i can’t wait for school to be done so i have time to read this!!!
]]> <![CDATA[(Sorry I Was Miles Away) In the Year of Romance]]> 220494350 42 poems. 64 Lucas Jones keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 4.08 (Sorry I Was Miles Away) In the Year of Romance
author: Lucas Jones
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 4.08
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]]> <![CDATA[Powerful (The Powerless Trilogy, #1.5)]]> 203840597
Adena and Paedyn have always been inseparable. Fate brought them together when they were young, but friendship ensured they would always protect each other and the home they built in the slums of Loot. But now Paedyn—an Ordinary—has been selected for the Purging Trials, which means almost certain death.

Now alone in Loot, Adena must fend for herself. After attempting to steal, she's rescued by a mysterious man from the market. Mak's shadowy past and secretive power set him apart from the other low-level Elites of Loot. And as the pair team up to see their loved ones before the Trials, the quest tests their loyalty, their love, and their lives.]]> 272 Lauren Roberts keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 4.13 2024 Powerful (The Powerless Trilogy, #1.5)
author: Lauren Roberts
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Blood of Hercules (Villains of Lore, #1)]]> 216595852
I'm just a girl. And it turns out, I'm Hercules.

I'm struggling to survive in a Titan infested world where Spartans, immortals from twelve royal families who have god-like powers and obscene wealth, rule over all. A shy-stammering foster child with nothing, I keep my head down, cover my scars, and focus on excelling in school. At least, I try to. Then it happens.

My blood test reveals I'm part of the powerful elite. I'm one of them. A Spartan.

Forced to attend the Spartan War Academy, I undergo the most harrowing test of all time to see if I have what it takes to be an immortal. There's just a few problems. Achilles and Patro are my scary mentors. Kharon, the ferryman of death, and Augustus, the son of war, are my terrifying professors. Also, I'm pretty sure either someone's stalking me everywhere I go, or my sanity's slipping––I have a bad feeling both are true.

I'm surrounded by Villains and they're smothering me with their hate, obsession, and dark possessiveness. Too bad for them, they have no clue just who they're messing with.




]]> 496 Jasmine Mas keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 3.84 2024 Blood of Hercules (Villains of Lore, #1)
author: Jasmine Mas
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Christmas in Coconut Creek (Dirty Delta, #1)]]> 174057728
When Colorado elementary school teacher Ophelia Brody decides to ditch her divorced family for a Christmas in the sunshine state with her college roommate, she doesn’t expect a mile high meet cute to tailspin the entire trip.

Frankie Casado is cocky, he’s presumptuous, he’s shameless—and he’s just the right distraction from her depressing, fruitless dating life back home for a few weeks. It just so happens the retired fighter pilot is in somewhat of a rut of his own, and the circumstances around their coincidental meeting and unavoidable physical attraction are the perfect excuse for a festive fling.

The rules are simple: Ophelia teaches him how to date again, and Frankie shows her exactly what she should be demanding behind closed doors. Friends with benefits until the ball drops in the New Year.

But a little bit of long-lost Christmas magic just might find a way to stir up more than their complicated pasts.]]> 418 Karissa Kinword keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 4.11 2023 Christmas in Coconut Creek (Dirty Delta, #1)
author: Karissa Kinword
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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]]> Thrum 210835673 Meg Smitherman keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 3.93 2024 Thrum
author: Meg Smitherman
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 3.93
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]]> Beneath The Wildflower 213418551 713 Rosaline Jackson 1917281498 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 3.92 Beneath The Wildflower
author: Rosaline Jackson
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 3.92
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]]> 2025 on ŷ 216825549 2025 on ŷ should make an interesting and varied catalogue of books to inspire other readers in 2026.

For those of you who don't like to add titles you haven't actually 'read', you can place 2025 on ŷ on an 'exclusive' shelf. Exclusive shelves don't have to be listed under 'to read', 'currently reading' or 'read'. To create one, go to 'edit bookshelves' on your 'My Books' page, create a shelf name such as 'review-of-the year' and tick the 'exclusive' box. Your previous and future 'reviews of the year' can be collected together on this dedicated shelf.

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average rating: 4.71
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]]> Atmosphere 220817728 From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s Space Shuttle program about the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits.

Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA’s Space Shuttle program. Suddenly, Joan burns to be one of the few people to go to space.

Selected from a pool of thousands of applicants in the summer of 1980, Joan begins training at Houston’s Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates: Top Gun pilot Hank Redmond and scientist John Griffin, who are kind and easy-going even when the stakes are highest; mission specialist Lydia Danes, who has worked too hard to play nice; warm-hearted Donna Fitzgerald, who is navigating her own secrets; and Vanessa Ford, the magnetic and mysterious aeronautical engineer, who can fix any engine and fly any plane.

As the new astronauts become unlikely friends and prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a passion and a love she never imagined. In this new light, Joan begins to question everything she thinks she knows about her place in the observable universe.

Then, in December of 1984, on mission STS-LR9, everything changes in an instant.

Fast-paced, thrilling, and emotional, Atmosphere is Taylor Jenkins Reid at her best: transporting readers to iconic times and places, with complex protagonists, telling a passionate and soaring story about the transformative power of love, this time among the stars.]]> 352 Taylor Jenkins Reid 0593158717 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read, 2025-releases 4.45 2025 Atmosphere
author: Taylor Jenkins Reid
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 4.45
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]]> I Am Not Jessica Chen 61374793
Now trapped inside Jessica’s body, with access to Jessica’s most private journals and secrets, Jenna soon discovers that being the top student at the elite, highly competitive Havenwood Private Academy isn’t quite what she imagined. Worse, as everyone—including her own parents—start having trouble remembering who Jenna Chen is, or if she ever even existed, Jenna must decide if playing the role of the perfect daughter and student is worth losing her true self forever.]]> 320 Ann Liang 133552312X keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read, 2025-releases 4.08 2025 I Am Not Jessica Chen
author: Ann Liang
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 4.08
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]]> The Princess Knight 62792284 A princess desperate to win back the prince who broke her heart follows him to his kingdom's prestigious military academy—and in doing so, falls in love, saves the realm, and continues to look fabulous in this delightful debut fantasy.

Domhnall and Clía are an ideal match—or so everyone says. They are prince and princess of neighboring kingdoms. An alliance the gods will smile on. Until Domhnall ruins everything by refusing to propose.

Heartbroken but determined, Clía makes the perfect plan: Follow Domhnall to Caisleán Cósta, the military academy he’s attending. Show she can protect her kingdom. Secure the betrothal. Sure, the castle has a brutal reputation. But how hard can dueling really be?

Warrior Ronan promised himself he’d never lose his focus. He fought and sacrificed for his place at Caisleán Cósta, and he has no time for blonde princesses who waltz intro arenas like they’re attending a ball. Even if she and her otter-like pet are…well, cute.

He doesn’t want to be intrigued by Clía. But her hunger to prove herself is something he understands. He tells himself there’s no harm training her. Even if his heart does race around her. Even if Domhnall is his best friend.

But as they say, love is a battlefield—and unfortunately for them all, a very real war is looming on the horizon. It’s a fight that will threaten all their kingdoms…and test all their hearts.]]> 400 Cait Jacobs 0063321157 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read, 2025-releases 3.92 2025 The Princess Knight
author: Cait Jacobs
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 3.92
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]]> Great Big Beautiful Life 218559595 Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve in this dazzling and sweeping new novel from Emily Henry.

Alice Scott is an eternal optimist still dreaming of her big writing break. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud. And they’re both on balmy Little Crescent Island for the same reason: To write the biography of a woman no one has seen in years--or at least to meet with the octogenarian who claims to be the Margaret Ives. Tragic heiress, former tabloid princess, and daughter of one of the most storied (and scandalous) families of the 20th Century.

When Margaret invites them both for a one-month trial period, after which she’ll choose the person who’ll tell her story, there are three things keeping Alice’s head in the game.

One: Alice genuinely likes people, which means people usually like Alice—and she has a whole month to win the legendary woman over.

Two: She’s ready for this job and the chance to impress her perennially unimpressed family with a Serious Publication

Three: Hayden Anderson, who should have no reason to be concerned about losing this book, is glowering at her in a shaken-to-the core way that suggests he sees her as competition.

But the problem is, Margaret is only giving each of them pieces of her story. Pieces they can’t swap to put together because of an ironclad NDA and an inconvenient yearning pulsing between them every time they’re in the same room.

And it’s becoming abundantly clear that their story—just like the tale Margaret’s spinning—could be a mystery, tragedy, or love ballad…depending on who’s telling it.]]> 432 Emily Henry keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read, 2025-releases 4.14 2025 Great Big Beautiful Life
author: Emily Henry
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 4.14
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i just KNOW this book will change my life
]]> Not Quite Dead Yet 220223963 The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder—now a hit Netflix series—returns with her first novel for adults: a twisty thriller about a young woman trying to solve her own murder.

In seven days Jet Mason will be dead.

Jet is the daughter of one of the wealthiest families in Woodstock, Vermont. Twenty-seven years old, she’s still waiting for her life to begin. I’ll do it later, she always says. She has time.

Until Halloween night, when Jet is violently attacked by an unseen intruder.

She suffers a catastrophic head injury. The doctor is certain that within a week, the injury will trigger a deadly aneurysm.

Jet has never thought of herself as having enemies. But now she looks at everyone in a new light: her family, her former best friend turned sister-in-law, her ex-boyfriend.

She has at most seven days, and as her condition deteriorates she has only her childhood friend Billy for help. But nevertheless, she’s absolutely determined to finally finish something:

Jet is going to solve her own murder.]]> 400 Holly Jackson 059397705X keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read, 2025-releases 4.31 2025 Not Quite Dead Yet
author: Holly Jackson
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 4.31
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]]> 2024 on ŷ 195342176 2024 on ŷ should make an interesting and varied catalogue of books to inspire other readers in 2025.

For those of you who don't like to add titles you haven't actually 'read', you can place 2024 on ŷ on an 'exclusive' shelf. Exclusive shelves don't have to be listed under 'to read', 'currently reading' or 'read'. To create one, go to 'edit bookshelves' on your 'My Books' page, create a shelf name such as 'review-of-the year' and tick the 'exclusive' box. Your previous and future 'reviews of the year' can be collected together on this dedicated shelf.

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author: Various
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 4.15
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]]> <![CDATA[Lights Out (Into Darkness, #1)]]> 201017011 “I don’t need another kink.�

That thought pops into my head whenever I pull up my favorite social media app, but alas, every time I scroll, I learn something new about myself, and another one is born. And yes, I know I’m responsible for what the algorithm shows me, but I’m trying to ignore that fact.

Lately, my feed has been dominated by masked men. I’ve favorited videos with them dressed in full cosplay, decked out in futuristic military apparel, and wrapped up like ghouls.

But more than anything else, my FYP is filled with shirtless men wearing ghost masks. Bonus points if they’re heavily tattooed, wielding a knife, or covered in fake blood. At night, I dream about being chased by them, of them catching me and doing deliciously dark things to my more than willing body.

I never could have guessed that by sending one drunken text, those dreams would become my new reality.

Lights Out is a fast-paced dark romance with a morally grey male lead. Some themes and scenes may be disturbing to readers. Please check the TWs at the beginning of the book. ]]> 338 Navessa Allen keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 4.16 2024 Lights Out (Into Darkness, #1)
author: Navessa Allen
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 4.16
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rating: 0
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]]> Red Queen (Red Queen, #1) 22328546 This is a world divided by blood—red or silver.

The Reds are commoners, ruled by a Silver elite in possession of god-like superpowers. And to Mare Barrow, a seventeen-year-old Red girl from the poverty-stricken Stilts, it seems like nothing will ever change.

That is until she finds herself working in the Silver Palace. Here, surrounded by the people she hates the most, Mare discovers that, despite her red blood, she possesses a deadly power of her own. One that threatens to destroy the balance of power.

Fearful of Mare's potential, the Silvers hide her in plain view, declaring her a long-lost Silver princess, now engaged to a Silver prince. Despite knowing that one misstep would mean her death, Mare works silently to help the Red Guard, a militant resistance group, and bring down the Silver regime.

But this is a world of betrayal and lies, and Mare has entered a dangerous dance—Reds against Silvers, prince against prince, and Mare against her own heart.]]> 388 Victoria Aveyard 0062310631 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 3.98 2015 Red Queen (Red Queen, #1)
author: Victoria Aveyard
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games, #4)]]> 62804258 Four brothers. Two missions. One explosive read. Jennifer Lynn Barnes returns to the world of her #1 bestselling Inheritance Games trilogy, and the stakes have never been higher.

Grayson Hawthorne was raised as the heir apparent to his billionaire grandfather, taught from the cradle to put family first. Now the great Tobias Hawthorne is dead and his family disinherited, but some lessons linger. When Grayson’s half-sisters find themselves in trouble, he swoops in to do what he does best: take care of the problem—efficiently, effectively, mercilessly. And without getting bogged down in emotional entanglements.

Jameson Hawthorne is a risk-taker, a sensation-seeker, a player of games. When his mysterious father appears and asks for a favor, Jameson can’t resist the challenge. Now he must infiltrate London’s most exclusive underground gambling club, which caters to the rich, the powerful, and the aristocratic, and win an impossible game of greatest stakes. Luckily, Jameson Hawthorne lives for impossible.

Drawn into twisted games on opposite sides of the globe, Grayson and Jameson—with the help of their brothers and the girl who inherited their grandfather’s fortune—must dig deep to decide who they want to be and what each of them will sacrifice to win.]]> 480 Jennifer Lynn Barnes 0316480770 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 5
holding space for grayson hawthorne ]]> 3.90 2023 The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games, #4)
author: Jennifer Lynn Barnes
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2023
rating: 5
read at: 2024/12/07
date added: 2024/12/25
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just binge read this whole thing in three hours�

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]]> Collide (Off the Ice #1) 197306586 She’s an honors student with ambitious graduate school plans and he’s a jock with only hockey on his mind, but once their worlds collide, their connection is hot enough to melt an ice rink.

An ultimatum from Summer Preston’s thesis advisor thrusts her into an unexpected collision with the hockey team’s captain, Aiden Crawford. She’s caught between conflicting desires of fulfilling her lifelong dream of becoming a sport psychologist and staying as far away as possible from the god-awful sport. And once she meets Aiden—well, let’s just say he confirms all her worst assumptions about hockey players.

Being the captain of the college hockey team has its perks, except when a reckless mistake by Aiden’s team threatens to jeopardize their entire season. As punishment, Aiden’s coach nominates him as the subject of a student research project. Participating is the last thing he wants to do, especially since the girl leading the project looks like she could wield his skates as a weapon.

Summer can’t stand Aiden’s blasé approach to life, and Aiden doesn’t understand why she’s twenty years old with a twenty-five-year plan. But their bickering soon turns to bantering—and once they let their guards down, there’s nothing to check their feelings.]]> 395 Bal Khabra keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 5 3.78 2023 Collide (Off the Ice #1)
author: Bal Khabra
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2023
rating: 5
read at: 2024/12/25
date added: 2024/12/25
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pre read: got this for my birthday and i’m sooo excited to read!!!
]]> <![CDATA[We Can't Keep Meeting Like This]]> 55710755 A wedding harpist disillusioned with love and a hopeless romantic cater-waiter flirt and fight their way through a summer of weddings.

Quinn Berkowitz and Tarek Mansour’s families have been in business together for years: Quinn’s parents are wedding planners, and Tarek’s own a catering company. At the end of last summer, Quinn confessed her crush on him in the form of a rambling email—and then he left for college without a response.

Quinn has been dreading seeing him again almost as much as she dreads another summer playing the harp for her parents� weddings. When he shows up at the first wedding of the summer, looking cuter than ever after a year apart, they clash immediately. Tarek’s always loved the grand gestures in weddings—the flashier, the better—while Quinn can’t see them as anything but fake. Even as they can’t seem to have one civil conversation, Quinn’s thrown together with Tarek wedding after wedding, from performing a daring cake rescue to filling in for a missing bridesmaid and groomsman.

Quinn can’t deny her feelings for him are still there, especially after she learns the truth about his silence, opens up about her own fears, and begins learning the art of harp-making from an enigmatic teacher.

Maybe love isn’t the enemy after all—and maybe allowing herself to fall is the most honest thing Quinn’s ever done.]]> 336 Rachel Lynn Solomon 1534440275 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 3.50 2021 We Can't Keep Meeting Like This
author: Rachel Lynn Solomon
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 3.50
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]]> Scorpion (The Exodus) 215273966
The fall from grace hurt.

I was one of the few specialist snipers in the military who is a woman. I made a name for myself. Set records.

But death has a way of changing everyone.

The descent from Special Forces, to dirty fighting pits, to becoming a bodyguard for the man whose heart I broke, I never thought I’d stop drowning.

One night is all it took for everything to change.

One shot is all I need.

My name is Zalak Bhatia. They call me Scorpion.


*This book is set in a shared world with authors Lauren Biel, Dana LeeAnn, Harleigh Beck, Amber Nicole, Willow McQuerry, Jenn Bullard, Kinsley Kincaid, and Ann-Marie Davis.*]]> 246 Avina St. Graves 0473718324 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 3.62 Scorpion (The Exodus)
author: Avina St. Graves
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 3.62
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]]> Bright Young Women 101124639
The survivors, including key witness Pamela Schumacher, will be forever changed by this night. They have all become victims. But they tell their perspectives here, they remain masters of their stories. And they hunt the perpetrator on their own - against resistance from the justice system and the police; against public opinion, which idolizes the serial killer.]]> 384 Jessica Knoll 1501153226 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 3.99 2023 Bright Young Women
author: Jessica Knoll
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 3.99
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]]> The Age of Innocence 58046803
Newland Archer, an eligible young man of the establishment is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, a pretty ingénue, when May's cousin, Countess Olenska, is introduced into their circle. The Countess brings with her an aura of European sophistication and a hint of scandal, having left her husband and claimed her independence.

Her sorrowful eyes, her tragic worldliness and her air of unapproachability attract the sensitive Newland and, almost against their will, a passionate bond develops between them. But Archer's life has no place for passion and, with society on the side of May and all she stands for, he finds himself drawn into a bitter conflict between love and duty.]]> 333 Edith Wharton keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 4.21 1920 The Age of Innocence
author: Edith Wharton
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 4.21
book published: 1920
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)]]> 236093 Come along, Toto, she said. We will go to the Emerald City and ask the Great Oz how to get back to Kansas again.

Swept away from her home in Kansas by a tornado, Dorothy and her dog Toto find themselves stranded in the fantastical Land of Oz. As instructed by the Good Witch of the North and the Munchkins, Dorothy sets off on the yellow brick road to try and find her way to the Emerald City and the Wizard of Oz, who can help her get home. With her companions the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion, Dorothy experiences an adventure full of friendship, magic and danger. A much-loved children's classic, The Wizard of Oz continues to delight readers young and old with its enchanting tale of witches, flying monkeys and silver shoes.

]]> 154 L. Frank Baum 0140621679 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 4.00 1900 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)
author: L. Frank Baum
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1900
rating: 0
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just watched wicked and i am now extremely compelled to read this entire series
]]> Firekeeper’s Daughter 52346471
After Daunis witnesses a shocking murder that thrusts her into a criminal investigation, she agrees to go undercover. But the deceptions—and deaths—keep piling up and soon the threat strikes too close to home. How far will she go to protect her community if it means tearing apart the only world she’s ever known?]]> 496 Angeline Boulley keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 5 read-for-school 4.32 2021 Firekeeper’s Daughter
author: Angeline Boulley
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 4.32
book published: 2021
rating: 5
read at: 2024/12/11
date added: 2024/12/11
shelves: read-for-school
review:
oh my god. this was genuinely AMAZING. i was kinda bored in the first 80 or so pages but i kept reading and� i’m so glad i did. this turned out to be one of the best mysteries i’ve EVER read. with every page i turned, there was a new twist, and i was so enthralled. the writing is just so good too. the metaphors, the imagery, the symbolism, the indigenous rep??? it was so beautiful. i could NEVER have guessed the twists at the end. full rtc!
]]> <![CDATA[The Wrath and the Dawn (The Wrath and the Dawn, #1)]]> 18798983 One Life to One Dawn.

In a land ruled by a murderous boy-king, each dawn brings heartache to a new family. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, is a monster. Each night he takes a new bride only to have a silk cord wrapped around her throat come morning. When sixteen-year-old Shahrzad's dearest friend falls victim to Khalid, Shahrzad vows vengeance and volunteers to be his next bride. Shahrzad is determined not only to stay alive, but to end the caliph's reign of terror once and for all.

Night after night, Shahrzad beguiles Khalid, weaving stories that enchant, ensuring her survival, though she knows each dawn could be her last. But something she never expected begins to happen: Khalid is nothing like what she'd imagined him to be. This monster is a boy with a tormented heart. Incredibly, Shahrzad finds herself falling in love. How is this possible? It's an unforgivable betrayal. Still, Shahrzad has come to understand all is not as it seems in this palace of marble and stone. She resolves to uncover whatever secrets lurk and, despite her love, be ready to take Khalid's life as retribution for the many lives he's stolen. Can their love survive this world of stories and secrets?]]> 416 Renée Ahdieh 0399171614 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 4.05 2015 The Wrath and the Dawn (The Wrath and the Dawn, #1)
author: Renée Ahdieh
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[TJ Powar Has Something to Prove]]> 58321796 A charming rom-com about high school debater TJ Powar who—after becoming the subject of an ugly meme—makes a resolution to stop shaving, plucking, and waxing, and prove that she can be her hairy self and still be beautiful…but soon finds this may be her most difficult debate yet. Perfect for fans of Netflix’s Never Have I Ever.

When TJ Powar—a pretty, popular debater—and her cousin Simran become the subject of a meme: with TJ being the “expectation� of dating an Indian girl and her Sikh cousin who does not remove her body hair being the “reality”—TJ decides to take a stand.

She ditches her razors, cancels her waxing appointments, and sets a debate resolution for herself: “This House Believes That TJ Powar can be her hairy self, and still be beautiful.� Only, as she sets about proving her point, she starts to seriously doubt anyone could care about her just the way she is—even when the infuriating boy from a rival debate team seems determined to prove otherwise.

As her carefully crafted sense of self begins to crumble, TJ realizes that winning this debate may cost her far more than the space between her eyebrows. And that the hardest judge to convince of her arguments might just be herself.]]> 368 Jesmeen Kaur Deo 0593403398 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 4.34 2022 TJ Powar Has Something to Prove
author: Jesmeen Kaur Deo
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Story of Us (Coates Academy #1)]]> 212182009
But when Isaac doesn't turn up on their seventeenth birthday and the two break up, Violet is left heartbroken and all of their plans for the future disappear.

Isaac attempts to reconnect all summer break, but as their last year of school begins, Violet refuses to listen.

Their final year already has enough challenges as they both contemplate their future, but the biggest challenge comes when Violet and Isaac are forced to work on a project together.

Is this a chance for the two to rekindle their relationship that's been years in the making, or will they go their separate ways when the final school bell rings?]]> 380 Zarin Madiyha keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 3.60 The Story of Us (Coates Academy #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Calm Within the Storm: A Pathway to Everyday Resiliency]]> 56649350
Robyne Hanley-Dafoe learned resilience from the ground up - not just as an accomplished university researcher, but first by overcoming mental illness, the stigma of being a high-school dropout, and almost dying in a car crash at age sixteen. Here, she presents an attainable model for everyday resilience, which everyone can use to feel more grounded and capable - and not beat themselves up in the process for not being "tough enough" in the first place.

Robyne believes that the language around resilience as "fighting" or being "tougher" is misguided; learning happens when we feel safe and trust, and fear and shame do not promote growth or change. In Awakened Resiliency, Robyne maps out a kinder approach to taking on the challenges of life and developing authentic self-alignment.

Robyne focuses on personal development practices that are research informed, sustainable, and attainable. She identifies the obstacles that derail us and keep us stuck, wondering - Why does life feel so hard? Why do so many of us seem to live in a constant state of strife and chaos?

Robyne has identified five interconnected pillars that are universal across cultures and backgrounds: Belonging, Perspective, Acceptance, Hope and Humour. These pillars form a person's capacity for resilient behaviours, despite life''s challenges. She then introduces you to the Resiliency Trajectory Model by showing you resiliency in action, through stories, research and practical strategies.

Blending the grounded science of classic books on resiliency like Grit . by Angela Lee Duckworth and Resilient by Rick Hanson, with the warmth and psychological insight of Brene Brown''s Gifts of Imperfection, this book offers a refreshing take on everyday practices that support resiliency. Robyne shows the reader that you are truly capable, and that being okay (rather than better) is enough.]]> 208 Robyne Hanley-Dafoe 1989603874 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 4.25 Calm Within the Storm: A Pathway to Everyday Resiliency
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]]> Good Material 198688460 Andy loves Jen. Jen loved Andy. And he can't work out why she stopped.

Now he is. . .

Without a home

Waiting for his stand-up career to take off

Wondering why everyone else around him seems to have grown up while he wasn't looking

Set adrift on the sea of heartbreak, Andy clings to the idea of solving the puzzle of his ruined relationship. Because if he can find the answer to that, then maybe Jen can find her way back to him. But Andy still has a lot to learn, not least his ex-girlfriend's side of the story�

In this sharply funny and exquisitely relatable story of romantic disaster and friendship, Dolly Alderton offers up a love story with two endings, demonstrating once again why she is one of the most exciting writers today, and the true voice of a generation.]]> 319 Dolly Alderton 059380130X keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 3.74 2023 Good Material
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]]> Fun for the Whole Family 216522634 A breathtaking, joy-filled novel about the people we love, the secrets we keep, and the enduring power of family, from the bestselling author of The Unsinkable Greta James.

The four Endicott siblings—Gemma, Connor, Roddy, and Jude—were once inseparable, a bond created by the absence of their dazzling, mercurial mother, who would return for a few weeks each summer to whisk them off on sprawling road trips around the country.

Decades later, the unthinkable has happened: the Endicotts haven’t spoken in years . . . until an out-of-the-blue text arrives from Jude, now a famous actress, summoning them to a small town in North Dakota. They’re each at a crossroads: Gemma, who put her own ambitions aside to raise the others, now isn’t sure if she wants to be a mother herself; Connor, a celebrated novelist, is floundering after his recent divorce and suffering from an epic case of writer’s block; and Roddy, at the tail end of a professional soccer career, is dangerously close to losing his future husband for the chance at one last season.

Jude is the only Endicott who seems to have it all together—but appearances can be deceiving. As the weekend unfolds, and the siblings wrestle with their shared past and uncertain futures, they’ll discover that Jude has been keeping three secrets . . . each of which could change everything.

A captivating journey and an ode to forgiveness that takes readers across all fifty states, Fun for the Whole Family brims with heart and resonates long after the final page.]]> 368 Jennifer E. Smith 0593358309 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 4.17 2025 Fun for the Whole Family
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]]> My December Darling 218137764 A small-town Christmas novella by the New York Times bestselling author of LAKEFRONT BILLIONAIRES series that will make you want to pack your bags and spend the holiday in Lake Wisteria.

Catalina
Playing the part of my sister’s maid of honor is easy even if she’s marrying my ex.
But playing nice with the best man? An impossible task given our history.
Sure, Luke Darling may be suspiciously kind, incredibly handsome, and stubborn to a fault, but regardless of how hard he tries to make me see otherwise, I’m not interested.
It’s on me to remind him that he’s my ex-boyfriend’s best friend.
And the one I’m secretly starting to wish I met first.

Luke
My job as the best man is a simple one, except for one minor issue.
I’ve spent so much time avoiding my best friend’s ex that I didn’t consider what could happen if I started craving Catalina Martinez’s company instead.
She is only in Lake Wisteria for the winter wedding, but her January departure date won’t stop me from pursuing her.
Getting her to date me would be nothing short of a Christmas miracle, but I’m determined to make her mine.
‘Tis the season to fall in love…even if I’m the only one taking the risk.

My December Darling is a 50,000 word, Christmas-themed romance between a grumpy maid of honor and an outgoing best man who chases after what he wants. ]]> 252 Lauren Asher 1964990025 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 3.72 2024 My December Darling
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]]> Neferura 136276903 368 Malayna Evans 1728278724 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read, physical-tbr 3.58 2024 Neferura
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]]> Frankenstein 801675 Librarian note: Alternate covers for this ISBN can be found here and here.

Begun when the author was only eighteen and conceived from a nightmare, Frankenstein is the deeply disturbing story of a monstrous creation which has terrified and chilled readers since its first publication in 1818. The novel has thus seared its way into the popular imagination while establishing itself as one of the pioneering works of modern science fiction.]]> 201 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 5 3.77 1818 Frankenstein
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]]> Forgetting The Play 212168075 582 Addison Ellison keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 4.50 Forgetting The Play
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]]> <![CDATA[This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate]]> 21913812
In her most provocative book yet, Naomi Klein, author of the global bestsellers Shock Doctrine and No Logo, exposes the myths that are clouding climate debate.

You have been told the market will save us, when in fact the addiction to profit and growth is digging us in deeper every day. You have been told it's impossible to get off fossil fuels when in fact we know exactly how to do it—it just requires breaking every rule in the 'free-market' playbook. You have also been told that humanity is too greedy and selfish to rise to this challenge. In fact, all around the world, the fight back is already succeeding in ways both surprising and inspiring.

It's about changing the world, before the world changes so drastically that no one is safe. Either we leap—or we sink. This Changes Everything is a book that will redefine our era.]]> 566 Naomi Klein 1451697384 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 4.15 2014 This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
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]]> <![CDATA[Love in the Time of Serial Killers]]> 59722215
PhD candidate Phoebe Walsh has always been obsessed with true crime. She’s even analyzing the genre in her dissertation—if she can manage to finish writing it. It’s hard to find the time while she spends the summer in Florida, cleaning out her childhood home, dealing with her obnoxiously good-natured younger brother, and grappling with the complicated feelings of mourning a father she hadn’t had a relationship with for years.

It doesn’t help that she’s low-key convinced that her new neighbor, Sam Dennings, is a serial killer (he may dress business casual by day, but at night he’s clearly up to something). It’s not long before Phoebe realizes that Sam might be something much scarier—a genuinely nice guy who can pierce her armor to reach her vulnerable heart.]]> 336 Alicia Thompson 0593438663 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 3.27 2022 Love in the Time of Serial Killers
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]]> The Alchemist 18144590 The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations.

Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure. His quest will lead him to riches far different—and far more satisfying—than he ever imagined. Santiago's journey teaches us about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, recognizing opportunity and learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, most importantly, following our dreams.]]> 182 Paulo Coelho 0062315005 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 4.01 1988 The Alchemist
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]]> <![CDATA[Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve]]> 195791316 256 Drew Afualo 0374614059 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 4.33 2024 Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve
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]]> <![CDATA[Make It Make Sense: From Shit You Should Care About's Lucy Blakiston and Bel Hawkins]]> 211888922 The debut book from the authors behind the global media sensation Shit You Should Care About.

Shit You Should Care about was launched as a WordPress blog by three best friends in the back of a political science lecture. Today it's a global ecosystem of content - two podcasts, 3.5 million Instagram followers and a daily newsy. They are your culture vultures, news agents and (reluctant) agony aunts all rolled into one.

MAKE IT MAKE SENSE is a collage of cultural analysis, anecdotes, personal essays, poems and lists, interplayed like a conversation between friends. So sharp they'll make you wince, so honest that you might feel uncomfortable with what's reflecting back at you, so funny you'll want to take a photo and send it to your best friend.

It's the bedside table essential for women who've felt their way through life and want that experience reflected back at them. When everything feels like it's whooshing away in an endless scroll, MAKE IT MAKE SENSE holds the answers (or questions) to what to do with all these big feelings.]]> 279 Lucy Blakiston 073365195X keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 4.16 Make It Make Sense: From Shit You Should Care About's Lucy Blakiston and Bel Hawkins
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]]> Things Will Calm Down Soon 212928711 Welcome to the hectic world of beauty and business in this highly relatable novel following a talented hair stylist turned entrepreneur who is juggling family dramas, workplace near-catastrophes and relationship crises. Things will calm down soon ... right?

Hair stylist Kit Cooper is at the top of her game. She does the shows in Milan and Paris, tends to pop stars and celebrities, and has styled enough campaigns and magazine covers to last a lifetime. But Kit is ambitious. Restless. She can't help what's next?

One day, frustrated she can't find the perfect product for a look, she wonders ... could she make it herself?

THINGS WILL CALM DOWN SOON takes Kit from idea to founder of a highly successful hair-care company. Amid spreadsheets, influencers, product launches and a parade of potential investors, Kit is juggling an eager young team, needy family members, a charismatic but unreliable romantic partner, single parenting and far too many school WhatsApp messages. She is certain, positive, things will calm down soon, because how can life possibly keep going at this pace?

As the founder of Go-To Skincare, Zoe Foster Blake has learned a lot in her decade of business. THINGS WILL CALM DOWN SOON blends her love of fiction with the knowledge she has acquired in business, entrepreneurship, and mergers and acquisitions. Part entertainment, part founder insight, THINGS WILL CALM DOWN SOON is an entirely new breed of illuminating storytelling.]]> 0 Zoë Foster Blake 1761189948 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 3.55 Things Will Calm Down Soon
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]]> Didion and Babitz 207293782 Joan Didion is revealed at last in this outrageously provocative and profoundly moving new work on the mutual attractions—and mutual antipathies—of Didion and Didion’s fellow literary titan, Eve Babitz. “Could you write what you write if you weren’t so tiny, Joan?� —Eve Babitz, in a letter to Joan Didion, 1972 Eve Babitz died on December 17, 2021. Found in a closet in the back of an apartment full of wrack, ruin, and filth was a stack of boxes packed by her mother decades before. These boxes were pristine, the seals of duct tape unbroken. journals, photos, scrapbooks, manuscripts, letters. inside a lost world. This world turned for a certain number of years in the late sixties and early seventies, and was centered on a two-story house rented by Joan Didion and her husband, writer John Gregory Dunne, in a down-at-heel section of Hollywood. 7406 Franklin Avenue, a combination salon-hotbed-living end where writers and artists mixed with movie stars, rock n� rollers, drug trash. 7406 Franklin Avenue was the making of one great American Joan Didion, cool and reserved behind her oversized sunglasses and storied marriage, a union as tortured as it was enduring. 7406 Franklin Avenue was the breaking and then the remaking—and thus the true making—of another great American Eve Babitz, goddaughter of Igor Stravinsky, nude of Marcel Duchamp, consort of Jim Morrison (among many, many others), who burned so hot she finally almost burned herself alive. The two formed a complicated a friendship that went bad, amity turning to enmity; a friendship that was as rare as true love, as rare as true hate. Didion, in spite of her confessional style, her widespread fame, is so little known or understood. She’s remained opaque, elusive. Until now. With deftness and skill, journalist Lili Anolik uses Babitz—Babitz’s brilliance of observation, Babitz’s incisive intelligence, and, most of all, Babitz’s diary-like letters—as the key to unlocking the mighty and mysterious Didion.]]> 352 Lili Anolik 1668065487 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 3.21 2024 Didion and Babitz
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]]> Beartown (Beartown, #1) 33413128
People say Beartown is finished. A tiny community nestled deep in the forest, it is slowly losing ground to the ever encroaching trees. But down by the lake stands an old ice rink, built generations ago by the working men who founded this town. And in that ice rink is the reason people in Beartown believe tomorrow will be better than today. Their junior ice hockey team is about to compete in the national semi-finals, and they actually have a shot at winning. All the hopes and dreams of this place now rest on the shoulders of a handful of teenage boys.

Being responsible for the hopes of an entire town is a heavy burden, and the semi-final match is the catalyst for a violent act that will leave a young girl traumatized and a town in turmoil. Accusations are made and, like ripples on a pond, they travel through all of Beartown, leaving no resident unaffected.

Beartown explores the hopes that bring a small community together, the secrets that tear it apart, and the courage it takes for an individual to go against the grain. In this story of a small forest town, Fredrik Backman has found the entire world.]]> 432 Fredrik Backman keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 4.27 2016 Beartown (Beartown, #1)
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]]> Bad Cree 60839741 In this gripping debut tinged with supernatural horror, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a perilous journey of self-discovery that ultimately forces her to confront the toll of a legacy of violence on her family, her community and the land they call home.

When Mackenzie wakes up with a severed crow's head in her hands, she panics. Only moments earlier she had been fending off masses of birds in a snow-covered forest. In bed, when she blinks, the head disappears.

Night after night, Mackenzie's dreams return her to a memory from before her sister Sabrina's untimely death: a weekend at the family's lakefront campsite, long obscured by a fog of guilt. But when the waking world starts closing in, too--a murder of crows stalks her every move around the city, she wakes up from a dream of drowning throwing up water, and gets threatening text messages from someone claiming to be Sabrina--Mackenzie knows this is more than she can handle alone.

Traveling north to her rural hometown in Alberta, she finds her family still steeped in the same grief that she ran away to Vancouver to escape. They welcome her back, but their shaky reunion only seems to intensify her dreams--and make them more dangerous.

What really happened that night at the lake, and what did it have to do with Sabrina's death? Only a bad Cree would put their family at risk, but what if whatever has been calling Mackenzie home was already inside?]]> 259 Jessica Johns 0385548699 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 3.91 2023 Bad Cree
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]]> Indian Horse 11994903

With compassion and insight, author Richard Wagamese traces through his fictional characters the decline of a culture and a cultural way. For Saul, taken forcibly from the land and his family when he’s sent to residential school, salvation comes for a while through his incredible gifts as a hockey player. But in the harsh realities of1960s Canada, he battles obdurate racism and the spirit-destroying effects of cultural alienation and displacement.Indian Horseunfolds against the bleak loveliness of northern Ontario, all rock, marsh, bog and cedar. Wagamese writes with a spare beauty, penetrating the heart of a remarkable Ojibwayman.]]> 221 Richard Wagamese 1553654021 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 4.39 2012 Indian Horse
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]]> Five Little Indians 52214103
Alone and without any skills, support or families, the teens find their way to the seedy and foreign world of Downtown Eastside Vancouver, where they cling together, striving to find a place of safety and belonging in a world that doesn’t want them. The paths of the five friends cross and crisscross over the decades as they struggle to overcome, or at least forget, the trauma they endured during their years at the Mission.

Fuelled by rage and furious with God, Clara finds her way into the dangerous, highly charged world of the American Indian Movement. Maisie internalizes her pain and continually places herself in dangerous situations. Famous for his daring escapes from the school, Kenny can’t stop running and moves restlessly from job to job—through fishing grounds, orchards and logging camps—trying to outrun his memories and his addiction. Lucy finds peace in motherhood and nurtures a secret compulsive disorder as she waits for Kenny to return to the life they once hoped to share together. After almost beating one of his tormentors to death, Howie serves time in prison, then tries once again to re-enter society and begin life anew.

With compassion and insight, Five Little Indians chronicles the desperate quest of these residential school survivors to come to terms with their past and, ultimately, find a way forward.]]> 304 Michelle Good 1443459194 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 4.47 2020 Five Little Indians
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]]> The Kite Runner 77203 371 Khaled Hosseini 159463193X keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 4.34 2003 The Kite Runner
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]]> Educated 35133922
Her father forbade hospitals, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and concussions, even burns from explosions, were all treated at home with herbalism. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education and no one to intervene when one of Tara's older brothers became violent.

Then, lacking any formal education, Tara began to educate herself. She taught herself enough mathematics and grammar to be admitted to Brigham Young University, where she studied history, learning for the first time about important world events like the Holocaust and the civil rights movement. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she'd traveled too far, if there was still a way home.

Educated is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty and of the grief that comes with severing the closest of ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one's life through new eyes and the will to change it.]]> 352 Tara Westover 0399590501 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 4.46 2018 Educated
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]]> <![CDATA[Keeping 13 (Boys of Tommen, #2)]]> 146943394 667 Chloe Walsh 1728299985 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 currently-reading, on-pause 4.51 2018 Keeping 13 (Boys of Tommen, #2)
author: Chloe Walsh
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]]> <![CDATA[Binding 13 (Boys of Tommen, #1)]]> 146943294 626 Chloe Walsh 1728299950 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 5 rtc like ACTUALLY rtc (i keep saying this but i’m fr this time)]]> 4.45 2018 Binding 13 (Boys of Tommen, #1)
author: Chloe Walsh
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average rating: 4.45
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rating: 5
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OH EM GEE
rtc like ACTUALLY rtc (i keep saying this but i’m fr this time)
]]> Funny Story 194802722 A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry.

Daphne always loved the way her fiancé, Peter, told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it... right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra.

Which is how Daphne begins her new story: stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children’s librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra’s ex, Miles Nowak.

Scruffy and chaotic—with a penchant for taking solace in the sounds of heart break love ballads—Miles is exactly the opposite of practical, buttoned-up Daphne, whose coworkers know so little about her they have a running bet that she’s either FBI or in witness protection. The roommates mainly avoid one another, until one day, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship and a plan. If said plan also involves posting deliberately misleading photos of their summer adventures together, well, who could blame them?

But it’s all just for show, of course, because there’s no way Daphne would actually start her new chapter by falling in love with her ex-fiancé’s new fiancée’s ex... right?]]> 400 Emily Henry keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 5
i need the paperback to come out right this second ]]> 4.21 2024 Funny Story
author: Emily Henry
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2024
rating: 5
read at: 2024/10/24
date added: 2024/10/24
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i need the paperback to come out right this second
]]> <![CDATA[Famous Last Words (The New York Thunder #1)]]> 215819920 hard.

Offered one last chance to play on the worst team in the league, the New York Thunder, Robbie knows he has to fix his reputation in order to prove to his coaches and league officials that he’s no longer the infamous bad boy of hockey.

With her job on the line, New York City real estate agent, Fran Keller, needs a sale before she loses her one and only listing.

When she receives a last-minute viewing request, Fran is prepared to do just about anything to secure a signed deal sheet. That is until she opens the door to Robbie Mason, her old high school nemesis.

Fran needs to sell a six-million-dollar apartment to keep her job.

Robbie needs a place to live, and just so happens to have six-million bucks to spend.

It’s the perfect plan. Robbie buys the apartment and, in exchange, Fran pretends to be his girlfriend. Because what better way to prove that he’s cleaned up his act than by settling down with a nice, young career-driver woman?

And, besides, who better to fake a relationship with that someone you can’t stand?

Yeah, right�. Famous Last Words.]]> 380 Shann McPherson keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 4.23 2024 Famous Last Words (The New York Thunder #1)
author: Shann McPherson
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/10/19
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]]> Not in My Book 203194039 The Hating Game meets Beach Read in this sexy and hilarious contemporary romance from a debut Peruvian-Tennessean voice.

Rosie, an idealistic and passionate Peruvian-American who has grown up without strong ties to her culture, leaves her Tennessee hometown to pursue her dream of making it in New York as a writer. But her plan is derailed when she ends up in class with her arch-nemesis and ex-crush, Aiden Huntington—an obnoxious, surly, and gorgeous literary fiction writer who doesn’t have much patience for the romance genre, or for Rosie.

Rosie and Aiden regularly go to verbal battle in workshop until their professor reaches her breaking point. She allows them to stay in her class on one condition: they must co-write a novel that blends their genres.

The reluctant writing duo can’t help but put pieces of themselves into their accidentally steamy novel, and as they slowly get to know each other, they try to put their differences aside. Meanwhile, their manuscript-in-progress provides an outlet for them to confess their feelings—and explore their attraction toward each other.

When Rosie and Aiden find themselves competing against each other for a potentially career-changing opportunity, the flames of old rivalry reignite, and their once-in-a-lifetime love story is once again at risk of being shelved—unless they can find a way to end the book on their own terms.]]> 320 Katie Holt 1639109757 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 3.80 2024 Not in My Book
author: Katie Holt
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/10/03
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]]> Spring Fling 215583253
Spring is in the air and Mylie has everything she could ever want: her tackle shop is thriving and employs a third of Clay Creek, Arkansas, and she lives with her beloved Granny and little sister Cassie, who both keep her on her toes. As tourists pour into town for the annual fishing tournament, Mylie is in her element and ready to bring her all-women team to victory.

After moving to Chicago, Ben never thought he would return to Clay Creek. But with both his grandfather and mother gone, he’s left to deal with their estate. His plan is simple: come in quietly, fix up his lakeside childhood home, sell it quickly, and get out. He underestimates how quickly his arrival will stir up the local gossip, and how intensely his unresolved feelings for Mylie, his childhood best friend, will resurface.

Amid the buzz of competition and the rhythm of small-town life, Mylie and Ben find themselves unable to ignore their shared history. They tentatively explore a future together, despite the impending sale of Ben’s house and Mylie’s insistence on staying put in Clay Creek. Flings are easier said than done, and Mylie and Ben will have to address their clashing lifestyles before their feelings get away from them.

Told with Annie England Noblin’s signature wit, cozy charm, and a dash of spice, Spring Fling is the perfect friends-to-lovers read.]]> 304 Annie England Noblin 0063222280 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 3.38 Spring Fling
author: Annie England Noblin
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 3.38
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]]> <![CDATA[Worth Every Penny (Hawkston Billionaires #1)]]> 215002215 She hates him, but he wants her.
And he always gets what he wants.

Kate Lansen

Everything was fine until the day he walked back into my life. Tall, dark, handsome and with billions in the bank. That’s Nico Hawkston to a T.

By any measure, he should be irresistible. But I'll never go there because Nico is my brother’s best friend.

He’s also the man who caused my father’s death.

When my brother informs me he’s selling our family company to Nico, I’m more than a little pissed off.

If Nico thinks I’m another woman who’ll roll over and do exactly what he wants, he’s sorely mistaken.

Nico Hawkston

It’s no secret that most things come easy to the Hawkston brothers.

But not Kate Lansen. My best friend’s little sister.

Gorgeous, off-limits, and holding a grudge like a pro. She hates me, but I’m determined to have her, one way or another.

And Hawkston men always get what they want.

Worth Every Penny is a standalone, full-length sizzling office enemies-to-lovers romance starring a billionaire male lead and a feisty younger heroine.

Perfect for fans of TL Swan, Catharina Maura and Ana Huang. ]]> 441 Rae Ryder keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 4.07 Worth Every Penny (Hawkston Billionaires #1)
author: Rae Ryder
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 4.07
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rating: 0
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]]> All Rhodes Lead Here 57605091 572 Mariana Zapata keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 4.24 2021 All Rhodes Lead Here
author: Mariana Zapata
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/09/17
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]]> <![CDATA[In a Different Key: The Story of Autism]]> 25430558 In a Different Key tells the extraordinary story of this often misunderstood condition, and of the civil rights battles waged by the families of those who have it. Unfolding over decades, it is a beautifully rendered history of ordinary people determined to secure a place in the world for those with autism—by liberating children from dank institutions, campaigning for their right to go to school, challenging expert opinion on what it means to have autism, and persuading society to accept those who are different.

It is the story of women like Ruth Sullivan, who rebelled against a medical establishment that blamed cold and rejecting “refrigerator mothers� for causing autism; and of fathers who pushed scientists to dig harder for treatments. Many others played starring roles too: doctors like Leo Kanner, who pioneered our understanding of autism; lawyers like Tom Gilhool, who took the families� battle for education to the courtroom; scientists who sparred over how to treat autism; and those with autism, like Temple Grandin, Alex Plank, and Ari Ne’eman, who explained their inner worlds and championed the philosophy of neurodiversity.

This is also a story of fierce controversies—from the question of whether there is truly an autism “epidemic,� and whether vaccines played a part in it; to scandals involving “facilitated communication,� one of many treatments that have proved to be blind alleys; to stark disagreements about whether scientists should pursue a cure for autism. There are dark turns too: we learn about experimenters feeding LSD to children with autism, or shocking them with electricity to change their behavior; and the authors reveal compelling evidence that Hans Asperger, discoverer of the syndrome named after him, participated in the Nazi program that consigned disabled children to death.<]]> 688 John Donvan 0307985679 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 4.29 2016 In a Different Key: The Story of Autism
author: John Donvan
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/09/13
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]]> The Bell Jar 6514 294 Sylvia Plath 0571268862 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 0 to-read 4.05 1963 The Bell Jar
author: Sylvia Plath
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1963
rating: 0
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]]> All the Bright Places 18460392 The Fault in Our Stars meets Eleanor and Park in this exhilarating and heart-wrenching love story about a girl who learns to live from a boy who intends to die.

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Elle Fanning!

Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself. But each time, something good, no matter how small, stops him.

Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her Indiana town and her aching grief in the wake of her sister’s recent death.

When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school, it’s unclear who saves whom. And when they pair up on a project to discover the “natural wonders� of their state, both Finch and Violet make more important discoveries: It’s only with Violet that Finch can be himself—a weird, funny, live-out-loud guy who’s not such a freak after all. And it’s only with Finch that Violet can forget to count away the days and start living them. But as Violet’s world grows, Finch’s begins to shrink.

This is an intense, gripping novel perfect for fans of Jay Asher, Rainbow Rowell, John Green, Gayle Forman, and Jenny Downham from a talented new voice in YA, Jennifer Niven.]]> 388 Jennifer Niven 0385755880 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 5 4.11 2015 All the Bright Places
author: Jennifer Niven
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2015
rating: 5
read at: 2022/03/08
date added: 2024/09/12
shelves: comfort-books, secret-gardens-in-my-mind, sitting-in-a-tree-d-y-i-n-g
review:
this book made me ugly cry oh goodness
]]> <![CDATA[The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo]]> 32620332
Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband has left her, and her professional life is going nowhere. Regardless of why Evelyn has selected her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career.

Summoned to Evelyn’s luxurious apartment, Monique listens in fascination as the actress tells her story. From making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to her decision to leave show business in the �80s, and, of course, the seven husbands along the way, Evelyn unspools a tale of ruthless ambition, unexpected friendship, and a great forbidden love. Monique begins to feel a very real connection to the legendary star, but as Evelyn’s story nears its conclusion, it becomes clear that her life intersects with Monique’s own in tragic and irreversible ways.]]> 389 Taylor Jenkins Reid 1501139231 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 5 4.39 2017 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
author: Taylor Jenkins Reid
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 4.39
book published: 2017
rating: 5
read at: 2022/12/18
date added: 2024/09/12
shelves: secret-gardens-in-my-mind, comfort-books, sitting-in-a-tree-d-y-i-n-g
review:
when i die put this book in the grave with me
]]> Duplicity [h.s] 55679899
"It's the least of my problems." I murmur with my own between my lips, proceeding to feel the stagnant debris fill my throat when I suck delicately.

He exhales a chuckle of cynical amusement, his footsteps getting every step clearer and closer to my eardrums until I felt body heat radiate against my back.

"And why is that?" His tone whispers against my ear, intimidating me as I saw his hands grip the railing in front of my body.

"Because you'll be the one to kill me first."


// Aven Brooks is hired to take photos for the world-renown punk rock band known today as Duplicity; hoping the experience gets her into her most elite dreamed university. But when her lenses accidentally capture more than just sound checks and live performances, she comes to a horrifying discovery that Duplicity is anything but a rock band.

Now she's terrified, and trapped.]]> Happydays1d keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 5 pretend you didn’t see this 4.71 Duplicity [h.s]
author: Happydays1d
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 4.71
book published:
rating: 5
read at: 2023/08/01
date added: 2024/09/12
shelves: fanfiction, im-having-his-baby, comfort-books, sitting-in-a-tree-d-y-i-n-g
review:
pretend you didn’t see this
]]> <![CDATA[As Good As Dead (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #3)]]> 56905097 The finale to A Good Girl's Guide to Murder series. By the end of this mystery series, you'll never think of good girls the same way again...

Pip is about to head to college, but she is still haunted by the way her last investigation ended. She’s used to online death threats in the wake of her viral true-crime podcast, but she can’t help noticing an anonymous person who keeps asking her: Who will look for you when you’re the one who disappears?

Soon the threats escalate and Pip realizes that someone is following her in real life. When she starts to find connections between her stalker and a local serial killer caught six years ago, she wonders if maybe the wrong man is behind bars.

Police refuse to act, so Pip has only one choice: find the suspect herself—or be the next victim. As the deadly game plays out, Pip discovers that everything in her small town is coming full circle... and if she doesn’t find the answers, this time she will be the one who disappears...]]> 500 Holly Jackson 0593379853 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 5 4.20 2021 As Good As Dead (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #3)
author: Holly Jackson
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2021
rating: 5
read at: 2023/09/10
date added: 2024/09/12
shelves: secret-gardens-in-my-mind, im-having-his-baby, sitting-in-a-tree-d-y-i-n-g
review:

]]> Malibu Rising 55404546 Four famous siblings throw an epic party to celebrate the end of the summer. But over the course of twenty-four hours, their lives will change forever.

Malibu: August, 1983. It’s the day of Nina Riva’s annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, the talented surfer and supermodel; brothers Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer, the other a renowned photographer; and their adored baby sister, Kit. Together, the siblings are a source of fascination in Malibu and the world over—especially as the offspring of the legendary singer, Mick Riva.

The only person not looking forward to the party of the year is Nina herself, who never wanted to be the center of attention, and who has also just been very publicly abandoned by her pro tennis player husband. Oh, and maybe Hud—because it is long past time to confess something to the brother from whom he’s been inseparable since birth.

Jay, on the other hand, is counting the minutes until nightfall, when the girl he can’t stop thinking about promised she’ll be there.

And Kit has a couple secrets of her own—including a guest she invited without consulting anyone.

By midnight the party will be completely out of control. By morning, the Riva mansion will have gone up in flames. But before that first spark in the early hours before dawn, the alcohol will flow, the music will play, and the loves and secrets that shaped this family’s generations will all come bubbling to the surface.

Malibu Rising is a story about one unforgettable night in the life of a family: the night they each have to choose what they will keep from the people who made them... and what they will leave behind.]]> 369 Taylor Jenkins Reid 1524798657 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 5 this was so beautiful 4.02 2021 Malibu Rising
author: Taylor Jenkins Reid
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2021
rating: 5
read at: 2023/09/27
date added: 2024/09/12
shelves: comfort-books, secret-gardens-in-my-mind, sitting-in-a-tree-d-y-i-n-g
review:
this was so beautiful
]]> Book Lovers 58690308 One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming....

Nora Stephens� life is books—she’s read them all—and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby.

Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters� trip away—with visions of a small-town transformation for Nora, who she’s convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. But instead of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding editor from back in the city. It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that they’ve met many times and it’s never been cute.

If Nora knows she’s not an ideal heroine, Charlie knows he’s nobody’s hero, but as they are thrown together again and again—in a series of coincidences no editor worth their salt would allow—what they discover might just unravel the carefully crafted stories they’ve written about themselves.]]> 377 Emily Henry 0593334833 keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump) 5 this book was INSANELY good. i didn’t think it was possible for a character to be so relatable. emily henry must’ve reached into my brain and pulled out my inner thoughts when developing nora’s character. SHE’S SO ME!!!
nora and charlie’s relationship was everything to me. EVERYTHING. i need someone who cares for me the way charlie cares about nora ]]> 4.09 2022 Book Lovers
author: Emily Henry
name: keerit 🪩🍒🪐🩰💌🌷 (reading slump)
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2022
rating: 5
read at: 2023/12/15
date added: 2024/09/12
shelves: comfort-books, secret-gardens-in-my-mind, im-having-his-baby, sitting-in-a-tree-d-y-i-n-g
review:
first of all, AAAAAAA
this book was INSANELY good. i didn’t think it was possible for a character to be so relatable. emily henry must’ve reached into my brain and pulled out my inner thoughts when developing nora’s character. SHE’S SO ME!!!
nora and charlie’s relationship was everything to me. EVERYTHING. i need someone who cares for me the way charlie cares about nora
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