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one thing about the shadowhunter chronicles is that cassandra clare’s writing style and the way the main series intersect with the short stories means she does a LOT of retconning which is like….. sure whatever, you do you, but it does create an awful lot of inconsistency.

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donating my heavily annotated copy of house of leaves to the local library so that the person reading it gets a 5th layer of narrative to be confused by

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In these Hallowed Halls is done!

Was a fun read. Since there are a bunch of different authors (all short stories) there is a story for everyone.

I enjoyed the short story format and will probably be looking for other anthologies in the future.

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The Professor of Ontography by Helen Grant was really weird but also really good

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I’m thinking about Sorcery of Thorns (+ Mysteries of Thorn Manor) again 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

It’s so good I love Elisabeth and Nathaniel (and Silas)

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Was not a huge fan of M.L Rio’s “Weekend at Bertie’s” story from In these Hallowed Halls.

Anyway, I’m 78% of the way thru the book.

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When Emily Brontë wrote, “He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”

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Do you all keep reading/book journals? I like the idea of starting one but I think it might start to feel like homework and that I’d fall off of keeping it.

In a way, this blog is sort of my digital reading journal lol

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I’m so sorry but in the nicest way possible do yall actually read books or just read words??? Cause I’ve been seeing that trend of people not understanding how “snarled” and “eyes darkened” and “eyes softened” etc. was used in a book and like…

Genuinely, do yall just not have imagination?? Or not understand figurative language??? Also eyes do literally darken and soften have you not lived a life??? How do you read with no imagination? Is this how you get through so many books in one month - you simply don’t take the time the understand the words as they are read?

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It's all fun and games and laughing at BookTok until you can't get on AO3 anymore, as someone who likes both romance and fanfic.

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Ok, ‘The Ravages’ by Layne Fargo has been my favorite story from In These Hallowed Halls so far.

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Me: I love short stories!

Also me: why aren’t these stories longer

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Ok on one hand, I love being right and being able to predict things in books. But on the other hand, every time I predict a twist and it comes true I’m super disappointed.

(This is about ‘X House’ by J.T. Ellison from In These Hallowed Halls, btw. Started off good but the ending was very unsatisfying.)

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36% thru In These Hallowed Halls. I’m really enjoying the short story format.

Some stories are definitely more enjoyable (for me!) than others, but overall I’m enjoying all the stories in this book.

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I’m officially DNF-ing Foxglove. 😬 might revisit at another time, but right now it’s not holding my attention.

I’m on chapter 20, 44% in I think. To me that’s plenty of time to have tried a book and give up.

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Libby wth you say this is the unabridged audiobook but just jumped from ch. 19 to ch. 25 ??? Hello???

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The second I decide to stop reading Foxglove and my Libby audiobook rental of it becomes available lol

I’ll give it a second (or 3rd) chance and see if the audiobook can notice me to keep going.