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a solid visual representation of me in a bookstore

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Is it really a tickle scene if the person being tickled doesn't laugh? I don't think it is. Come on The Dragon Prince, you have mentioned tickling more than once now and you had the perfect opportunity.

It would have been interesting to see Callum laughing while being tickled by small elf children.

I guess he did say he was "tickle proof" so what did I expect? I expected that he was lying.

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Books to be read after I finish my library books

Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky- I was wondering I was going to get this book in my possession. I am borrowing this book from my parents. I am interested in what this book will be like. I am eager to read how the spiders and humans coexist together.

Persephone Station by Stina Leicht- I don't know anything about this book. I saw it on a coffee table at my parents house and I thought it looked interesting and fun. I was told it was for me to read which is good.

The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society by C. M. Waggoner- This book looked interesting. I bought this book randomly because I was buying a book for my brother for Christmas and I needed to spend a certain amount of money to get free shipping. This book has an awesome name. Very wordy but its entertaining.

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Books I recently checked out of the library

Hollow Kingdom: A Novel by Kira Jane Buxton- I think I found this by browsing the local library's catalogue. I thought a crow being the main character was a fun idea. Especially if he is trying to navigate the world during a zombie apocalypse (I think it's a zombie apocalypse) with a dog. I am currently reading it and it's entertaining.

Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky- I have read Children of Time and when I saw this book was available at the library I decided to read it. It sounds fun. And John Scalzi (one of my favorite authors) seems to like it according to the book blurbs.

Kill the Farm Boy by Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne- This book sounded fun. I like the idea of it. I forget how I found out about it. Probably by browsing the library catalogue.

The Other Valley: A Novel by Scott Alexander Howard- I think this was recommended to me by goodreads. East being the future and to the west is the past is a neat idea.

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the wicked movie teaches important moral lessons like "be bisexual in college" and "don't trust politicians" and "if you push someone who's in a wheelchair without their permission, someone might throw a bench at your head with their mind"

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During the holiday season

Someone: Hey do you want to watch Elf?

Me: *Thinks about the tickle scenes*

Me: No.

Someone: Why? Do you hate the movie?

Me: *Thinks about how I don't want to excuse myself when the scenes come on*

Me: No. I just don't feel like it.

And or

Someone: Hey do you want to watch Scrooged?

Me: *thinks about how excusing myself twice in so little a time might be weird*

Me: Uhh?

Someone: *puts it on*

Me: *tries not react at all when the tickle scene comes on*

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2024 reads / storygraph

Celestial Monsters

book 2 in a YA fantasy duology set in a modern Latinx fantasy world, where demigod children compete to become the sunbearer, to renew the sun’s magic

but after it went wrong and the world is plunged into darkness, they have to travel across the land to try and find a way to stop the apocalypse before it’s too late, fighting monsters and discovering more about their world

trans MC, m/m

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LIBRARY WRAPPED

You checked out... probably some stuff? Thanks for doing that :)

Used our wifi maybe? For something?

Look we actually don't know what genres you read or how many times you renewed Gender Queer.

We don't want to know.

Our gift to you is privacy.

Take it.

Be free.

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Books I recently checked out of the library

Finlay Donovon is Killing It by Elle Cosimano- Sometimes I like to check out books that aren't science fiction or fantasy like. Just to see if I will like something else. This is a mystery book. It's a murder mystery. I read it already. Not going to continue the series is all I'm going to say here.

Womb City by Tlotlo Tsamaase- Cyperpunk is quite interesting to read. I am currently reading this book. It has a lot to say. It's an extremely fucked up book. I've read a lot of dystopian YA and this feels so real. It's got elements of Get Out and Handmaiden's Tale. Also there's some Minority Report in there.

All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders- I have read another book by Charlie Jane Anders and so I thought I would give this a try.

Machine by Elizabeth Bear- I have read Ancestral Night and I thought this was a sequel. It takes place in the same universe which is good enough for me.

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Books read in November 2024

November was a shitty month. I'm surprised I even read at all. There were times I wasn't reading at all.

-Big Time by Ben H. Winters started November 1, 2024 and finished November 2, 2024- 4/5 stars. A middle aged mother getting involved in something because of the extreme need to save a woman she saw in a picture. That’s a good reason to get involved. It was a pretty good book. Time shenanigans were happening in this book. The idea of someone’s time being grafted onto someone else is pretty interesting. Only a middle aged white man would take this to the extreme when his wife dies. Reminds me of what Kingpin was trying to do in the Spiderverse movie. 

-Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor started November 3, 2024 and finished November 5, 2024- 4.5/5 stars. Aliens have landed and they are in the ocean. Three people with names that start with the letter A are helping the alien. People are pissed. Lots of fighting. Lots of racism. Feels very real to what would happen in real life. Pretty good book. Kind of depressing though. 

-A Restless Truth by Freya Marske started November 8, 2024 and finished November 11, 2024- 4.5/5 stars. Murder mystery on a boat. You know at first I wasn’t sure how Maud was going to do anything as she didn’t seem all that clever. But actually she was clever in her own way. Love the magic system in this book. I like the world too. Her relationship with Violet was pretty interesting to read. 

-A Power Unbound by Freya Marske started November 11, 2024 and finished November 14, 2024- 4/5 stars. This series is so interesting. The relationship between Hawthorn and Alan is pretty unconventional. I don’t think I like enemies to lovers? This book trilogy has such a good storyline with the binding and such. 

-Stiletto by Daniel O’Malley started November 15, 2024 and finished November 19, 2024- 4/5 stars. This book was way too long. It didn’t need these extra chapters of the complete history of the grafters and such. It was interesting but unnecessary. Still a good book though. I don’t think the third book is at the library so oh well. 

-The Adventures of Amina Al-Siraf by Shannon Chakraborty started November 20, 2024 and finished November 23, 2024- 5/5 stars. This book is amazing. I quite enjoyed it. I liked reading about the pirate captain reuniting with her old crew and doing one last job. This book became a lot more interesting when her magical demon/trickster god still husband came into the picture. Kind of wish magical things were shown earlier so when she landed on the weird island with the bird people it wasn’t such a jumpscare. I love how she handled the job at the end. I love that her daughter joins her at the end. 

-Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente started November 24, 2024 and finished November 26,2024-3/5 stars. I like the idea of this book. Essentially eurovision in space but with the aliens and the threat of annihilation of the human race. I thought most of the book was going to be the competition but it wasn’t. It was mostly talking about the past events. I like the descriptions of the alien races though. By the time the human duo make it to the competition it's over half way through the book. Also I don’t like how long the sentences are in this book. It’s like the author is trying to sound smart or something. It feels pretentious at times.  Not going to read the sequel. 

-Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen started November 26, 2024 and finished November 28, 2024- 4/5 stars. This book is a character driven book and its characters are quite interesting to read about. There was enough weird magic stuff to keep me interested. I enjoyed the read quite a bit. 

-The Lesson by Cadwell Turnbull tarted November 28, 2024 and finished November 29, 2024- 3/5 stars. It’s all one giant metaphor. It was good to read. Kind of depressing though. Wished I didn’t read it so close to Lagoon. Interesting ending. Too many characters to keep track of and they are all related to each other in some ways. Probably because they lived on an island.

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kiss me goodbye, I'm defying gravity

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Watching the Wicked movie

Me: Fiyero better stop dancing/stomping on those books!

Me: No wonder the librarian is pissed!

Me: I bet all librarians hate Fiyero.

Me: You are not even going to pick them up off of the floor?

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Books I recently checked out of the library

The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty- I have wanted to read this book for a while now. It's just it wasn't always at the library and I was sure it was never going to come back. People online have said this book was good and someone at my work said that they loved this book. I am currently reading it. It's good so far.

Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente- I think I saw this book on the shelf one day and I thought it sounded fun.

The Lesson by Cadwell Turnbull- Pretty sure this was recommended to me by goodreads.

Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen- Same as above. Also I occasionally do need to read fiction.

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I work at a library. I was given a task to peel off the "this book can be only checked out for two weeks" sticker and put a red dot above the blue dot on the book.

During this task, I was able to look at the books. I found two that seemed like books I would enjoy so I put them on my reading list.

One of the books was called Escape Velocity by Victor Manibo and I would be interested to read that as I read The Sleepless by this author.

The other book was called When Among Crows by Veronica Roth. Of course I read the Divergent series when I was younger but Veronica Roth also writes aimed for adults which is cool. Like Poster Girl. That was entertaining to read.

I have no idea when I will read these books. It's nice that they exist though