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Grey Reads For Mental Health Awareness // Love Doesn’t Cure All (Thank Fuck For That) – Made You Up

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Title: Made You Up Author: Francesca Zappia Publisher: Green Willow Books Age: YA Genre: Contemporary, Romance Released: May 19th, 2015 Content Warnings: Pedophilia, physical parental abuse, controlling parents, spousal abuse, bullying, Nazi jokes and jokes about suicide Representation: Paranoid schizophrenia, poverty, Alexithymia

Synopsis*: Alex fights a daily battle to figure out the difference between reality and delusion. Armed with a take-no-prisoners attitude, her camera, a Magic 8-Ball, and her only ally (her little sister), Alex wages a war against her schizophrenia, determined to stay sane long enough to get into college. She’s pretty optimistic about her chances until classes begin, and she runs into Miles. Didn’t she imagine him? Before she knows it, Alex is making friends, going to parties, falling in love, and experiencing all the usual rites of passage for teenagers. But Alex is used to being crazy. She’s not prepared for normal.

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Book Review // Girl Made of Stars – I Am Broken

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Grey Reads // Bloody Moors & Candy Castles – The Wayward Children 2 & 3

Me at my Therapist: My paranoia is acting up again My Therapist: Why? Me: throws Made You Up on his desk Me: Because of this fucking book Therapist: Me: I want to be buried with it

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“Thank you,” the lobster said. “You’re welcome,” I replied. I dropped it on the ground.

When I saw that it was Mental Health Awareness Month I wanted to make sure I read at least one book with mental health representation this month.

Made You Up is a book that has been on my TBR for years and I just haven’t gotten around to picking it up yet.

Well, that is, until I saw it at the library while I was looking for books on Hysteria. I was planning on reading something else but I realised this was the book I needed to read this month.

So why did I feel it was so important for me to read this book?

Sometimes I think people take reality for granted. I mean like how you can tell the difference between a dream and real life. When you’re in the dream you may not know it, but as soon as you wake up, you know that your dream was a dream and whatever happened in it, good or bad, wasn’t real. Unless we’re in the Matrix, this world is real, and what you do in it is real, and that’s pretty much all you ever need to know. People take that for granted.

I’m about to get hella personal, but honestly what’s new???

My great uncle had schizophrenia. I never got to meet him, in fact no one from my generation did, I’m not even sure if my mum and her siblings ever did?? He killed himself quite young and it left a gaping hole within the family.

So, I’ve basically been worried since I was teen that myself or my little brother might end up with it. The fear is real, and I think it was worse the less I knew about it.

This isn’t my only experience with the illness. My aunt married a man who’s schizophrenic, though I never really saw him all that much. My mum has been a church counselor to several people with schizophrenia, with one of them staying with us for a brief period of time.

It’s a thing I have had probably more experience with than most but was still something I never 100% understood.

I don’t know why I felt now was finally the time to face this fear, but I’ve been doing a lot of facing things I’ve not felt ready for recently and so why not this too?

Was that Blue Eyes? I grabbed the Magic 8 Ball and rubbed the scuff mark as I looked down into its round window. Better not tell you now. Evasive little bitch.

Made You Up follows Alex, a paranoid schizophrenic teen, at her new school. Armed with her camera and perimeter checks, she’s trying her best to determine whether the things she’s seeing are real or not. But as she makes friends, and enemies, it’s becoming harder and harder for Alex to tell.

Especially when she thinks she might have found the smart, blue-eyed boy from her childhood, the same boy she had convinced herself was part of a hallucination involving a yoo-hoo and lobster tank.

Now, Alex can’t be sure if anything from her past, or present is real but maybe she’s found someone who she can trust to tell her.

“He knew who Acamapichtli was,” I added after a second. “Along with most of the other Aztec emperors. And the Tlatocan.” Dad’s approving noise rose an octave. “And I’m pretty sure he can speak German.” Dad smiled. “That all?” My face heated up again at the look he gave me. As if I liked Miles. As if I wanted to think about him. Just thinking about his stupid face and his stupidly blue eyes turned me into the most confused person on the planet. “No,” I said, burrowing into my blanket. “He can also take a hit.”

I loved like all of the characters in this book.

I love Alex, she was so real for me, through the entire book and her fears are a lot of the same ones I have myself. She’s whip smart and she’s not afraid to stand up for herself, even when it feels like the whole world is against her. I’ve never identified with a character when it came to my paranoia, and I will forever be grateful to Zappia for that.

And Miles. My sharp edged, intelligent and emotional, Miles. I love him. I don’t care that everyone thinks he’s a dick because I love him and I get it. I get struggling to understand people’s emotions and how that can make you cold and callous. That it can make people think you feel no emotion at all. Being forced to be an adult far sooner than any kid ever should. I would, quite frankly, protect Miles with my life.

The more she talked, the more I realized that June knew history. Not the history my parents were having an affair with, but personal histories. She learned the events that made up a person’s life, and she used them to understand why they did the things they did. Miles knew words. She knew people.

What most surprised me was how the mean girl trope was handled. As soon as I get a sniff of a mean girl in a book, I want to throw it at a wall. I’m over it, it’s tired and dangerous and sexist and I hate it. But!!! Zappia actually gave this trope the nuance and complexity it deserves.

There are so many things to love in this book. There’s found family, and fantastic neurodiverse rep. And there isn’t a love cures all bullshit ending, there isn’t even an “I’m going to come off my meds even though it’s a terrible idea�� plot device. There were so many twist and turns, my head was spinning. Plus there’s loads of fun hi-jinks and a python! Guys, there’s a fucking python.

Made You Up is so engaging and captivating, and all the other synonyms for a book I. DID. NOT. WANT. TO. PUT. DOWN. I haven’t been pulled into a book this deep and quickly in ages!

I laughed when I remembered Tucker bringing up the bridge earlier. The Red Witch? The one who gutted travelers, coated herself in their blood, and screamed like a banshee? No, I wasn’t scared of her. The nighttime might have made everything upside down, inside out, scary as hell, but not to me. The baseball bat clink-clink-clinked as I walked toward Red Witch Bridge. I was the scariest thing out here tonight.

I was right, in thinking that this was the book for me to read this month because it was brilliant and educational! I came away knowing more than I did going in.

I laughed and cried and realised how much I identified with Alex. Not the hallucinations part of schizophrenia, but her paranoia. God did I feel it in my soul.

I do suffer from paranoia thanks to PTSD. So I get it. Most of my paranoia surrounds relationships and other people, and when it’s at it’s worse, myself. I can tell when it’s getting bad, and I’ll actively try and make sure it doesn’t affect my decisions but it’s hard to tell what is intuition and what’s just plain paranoia.

My paranoia turns on other people, it turns on my memories, it turns on myself. I second guess everything, my choices, my feelings, my thoughts. There’s a reason I’m so indecisive.

I don’t know if I can ever capture the feelings well. For all the words I have at my disposal, it’s hard to find the ones that fit, in this instance.

And I’ve not really found anything that captures it for me. But this book? This book did it for me. It wasn’t in beautiful prose, like I had expected. No it was more real than that. It was in Alex’s actions. It was in her doubts. It was in the slow build of her feelings and thoughts. This book held my hand and showed me I wasn’t alone.

Tears filled my mother’s eyes. “You have no right to come in my house and tell me how to treat my daughter!” “Oh, really? Because I know terrible parents, and you’re one of them!”

The only small complaint I have is that the ending just kind of . . . fell off.

There was all this fantastic build up and full speed momentum and then once that was gone, the book ran out of steam.

I don’t know, it’s a fine ending, it’s just not quite what I would have chosen. But I mean, after everything else this book gave me, I find it hard to be disappointed.

“Do you do this all the time?” he asked. “No,” I said. “Just today.” He smiled.

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Bookish Bits // Series TBR – Extra Down the TBR Hole

Bookish Bits // Library Love – 2018

Bookish Bits // I’m Finally Participating in A Readathon and Challenge! – Late-A-Thon + January Jam Jar

Will I Ever Read A Better Mental Illness Rep Book Again? Probably Not.

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patheticphallacy · 5 years ago

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Contemporary-a-thon is hosted by Chelsea, Julie and Natasha and pushes you to read contemporary novels throughout the week. It’s taking place between February 10th and February 16th, and I am very excited to take part.

Generally I don’t read things based on genre, I’m very much someone who goes with the flow, so I’m excited to finally be taking part properly in this read-a-thon! Usually I’m at University when this is taking place, it’s all very new for me actually having time to read.

Of course I’ll be attempting to follow the challenges that are set (I do love a good challenge), and I’ll be attempting to read at least three books, and five comics/manga volumes!

TBR: Challenges

1. Read a contemporary with green on the cover

~Wilder Girls by Rory Power

~My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

2. Read a contemporary from a new to you author

~The Devouring Gray by Christine Lynn Herman

~Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton

~My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

3. Read a diverse contemporary

~A Silent Voice Volume 1 by Yoshitoki Oima

~Kappa Quartet by Daryl Qilin Yam

4. Read a backlist contemporary (something that has been on your TBR for over a year)

~Giant Days Volume 11 by John Allison

~The Devouring Gray by Christine Lynn Herman

5. Read a dark/hard hitting contemporary

~Orange Volume 1 by Ichigo Takano

~Bunny by Mona Awad

~The End of Loneliness by Benedict Wells

~The House We Grew Up In by Lisa Jewell

6. Read a contemporary with an illustrated cover

~Our Dining Table by Ori Mita

~Heartstopper Volume 3 by Alice Oseman

7. Read a contemporary that is beloved by a member of the book community (and shout out the creator!)

~Fleabag: The Scriptures by Phoebe Waller-Bridge (the TV show is beloved by many members of the book community, including Chelsea, who is one of the hosts! I feel like reading the scripts counts.)

~Normal People by Sally Rooney (honestly highly praised by a lot of people I follow on book Twitter, including Barry Pierce and Jasmine from Jasmine’s Reads!)

I don’t think I’ll read all of these, but it’s my goal to read at least half of what I’ve put on here. I have a week off work, so finger’s crossed!

Thank you for reading❤

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Contemporary-A-Thon Round 6 TBR! Contemporary-a-thon is hosted by Chelsea, Julie and Natasha and pushes you to read contemporary novels throughout the week.

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casualarsonist · 8 years ago

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Far Cry 4 review

I'm gonna begin this review in the same way I begin all my Far Cry reviews - by talking about Far Cry 2. Far Cry 2 was not a perfect game. It's story was very limited, and thus the context and motivation for your actions were lacking. It's saddled with a number of half-implemented mechanics, and fully-implemented but frustrating and repetitive mecahnics. However, it was laden with an incredible atmosphere, a genuinely reactive world, and (most amazingly) the landscape of the game felt real, not built. You felt like you were actually watching the setting African sun filtering through the dust and the trees as it fell over the still river water at dusk. It's a mental image that I cannot forget. Now there's a few reasons I bring up FC2. A lot of people don't enjoy it. and I get that. It can be frustrating and it's not the most accessible or guided experience. BUT, what it does do is it plops the player in a big sandbox, gives them limited resources and intelligent and dangerous enemies, and says 'make your own story'. And because the game refuses to spoon-feed the player, and in that need for the player to adapt to the changing circumstances around them, FC2 allowed a constant creation of 'this one time when I was playing Far Cry 2...' moments. It aschewed OTT collect-a-thon busywork. It aschewed the asinine tower-climbing that has become that crumbling pillar upon which Ubisoft's games stand. It gave the player a bunch of rather vague mission parameters, a jungle, some fire, some deadly enemies, and a bunch of fairly underpowered weapons and said 'good luck'. And it was exhilirating. It was exhilirating to be forced into a cat-and-mouse stealth battle with a number of men whose clothes matched the surroundings. I was exhilirating to be unable to flush them out of hiding because you were in green grass and green grass won't burn. It was exhilirating to have to use your hearing to locate enemies because you're under a canopy and it's too dark to see them. It was exhilirating having to turn your eyes away from the road to look at your map only to look back at the road and see an enemy vehicle coming your way, knowing that if you don't get to your gun fast enough that you might die. It tested your skills as a player. It forced you to focus and made a man out of those that took the gunplay for granted. Then came FC3. And all of a sudden the HUD was filled with markers and minimaps and text, and you could see enemies through walls, and the map was littered with garbage that you had to collect or else you wouldn't get the achievement that said you collected all the garbage, and the entire map was the same and recognising your location by it's appearance was all but impossible (but that didn't matter because you had GPS to hold your hand), and the enemies all wore the same bright primary colour because there's nothing more tactical than making yourselves visible from the moon, and once you cleared an enemy stronghold they were gone for good and you'd effectively progressed by making the map less fun. Hurrah? I was excited for Far Cry 3. I lined up to play a pre-release build at a video game convention, and I bought it and played it and finished it and it was okay. And then a few years later I got a better graphics card and I reinstalled it, and I uninstalled it again within 2 hours because once you've finished it, going back is like returning to the second grade. And then Far Cry 4 was released. And I didn't get it. Because it was more of the same, wasn't it? Because I was bored by FC3 and the obnoxious characters and the obnoxious hand-holding. For the record, I suck at Dark Souls - I'm not the world's best player and I don't relish a punishing experience - but the 'winning formula' that Ubisoft had struck upon with FC3 failed to capture my imagination. I didn't hate it. I still remember the first time I played it through. But the gameplay failed to challenge, and the story failed to engage, so the game itself failed to give me a reason to return. But I love the series because of its potential. Because even when it was Crytek property I loved the conceit - an open-world (of sorts) FPS sandbox in an exotic locale. I loved that at one point Ubi had created a set of reactive mechanics that, together, created an experience that was greater than the sum of it's parts. So I bought FC4 (on sale of course). And...it was fun. At least, the first play through was fun. The hand-holding wasn't as obnoxious, the game looked better than FC3, the characters still grated, but the story wasn't COMPLETELY devoid of heart. The game was still using collectibles as a substitute for meaningful content, but at least those collectibles unlocked weapons for you to use. The game was full of predators that add a degree of unpredictability to the game that I felt was severely lacking in the 3rd installment, and your plans for stealth can often go awry when a stroppy leopard stumbles into the mix. The enemy strongholds can be reset, or contested, which means that danger is never ENTIRELY eliminated from the equation. It's a better game. It's fun. Upon replaying you can fly over the land and see how uniform it really is. Lacking still is variety in the terrain. The landscape is little but a bunch of locations connected by a series of roads, with nothing much that stands out in between. This place is not lived in, it's not real. It's a 2D game board on a table with a carboard prop every 5 squares, and a bunch of plastic army men stationed here and there. The enemies are still painted day-glo, just in case you forget where to shoot, and most of the missions involve going somewhere, killing something, and/or collecting something else. There's a re-hash of the FC3 mission in which you can burn a bunch of plants, and there's a single contemporary song in there somewhere, because feelings are like cold hard numbers, and Ubisoft have a steadfast belief in the simple arithmatic formula of 2 x (memorable moment) = 2 memorable moments. There's also a bunch of side-missions that involve taking drugs, because that was a thing they did in a different game that people bought. But...it's fun.

TL;DR - Far Cry 4 is easy to pick up and play and you're rarely far from a firefight. There's enough unpredictability to make it feel a little different each time you play. It's got a little more lustre in it than FC3 the second time round. It's no FC2, and it's still adhering strictly to Ubisoft's slogan of 'video game, the video game', but it's almost, ALMOST, a compromise between the accessibility of FC3 and the dynamic engagements of FC2. It's not a bad game. It's not a game-changer, but did you expect that? Get it cheap.

7/10

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useyourrwords · 6 years ago

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Down the TBR Hole // – To Read Soon – Part 2/4

It’s Down the TBR Hole Time Again!

I mean honestly, at this point, when isn’t it???

Today we’re back with my To Read Soon Shelf!

Slowly, but surely, I will have defeated my TBR and will rule them all!

I swear, I am never going to let it get out of hand like this AGAIN!

If you would like to buy any of the following books please consider using my Book Depository Affliate link!

Added November 2016

1.│My Lady Jane│The Lady Janies #1│Nov 2016│ I added this because…This sounds like some nice light fluff and sometimes that’s all you really need. Stay or Go? Stay!

2.│This is Our Story│Ashley Elston│Nov 2016│ I added this because…I’m really digging the mystery thrillers lately and am thanking my past self for adding them, at least occasionally, to my TBR in the past. Stay or Go? Go! Unfortunately this one doesn’t like that it’s as good as I would probably go in hoping it would be.

3.│The Arsonist│Stephanie Oakes│Nov 2016│ I added this because…I was in it for the mystery thriller and that cover. Stay or Go? Go! I was out of it for basically everything else.

4.│The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly│Stephanie Oakes│Nov 2016│

│ I added this because…“You’re in a cult, call your dad!”Oh wait. What do you do when your dad is in the cult???? Stay or Go? Stay!

5.│Little Peach│Peggy Kern│Nov 2016│

│ I added this because…My mum’s ideal career would be helping kids escape sex slavery/prostitution so I feel like I definitely need to read this so that if it’s good I can recommend it to her, especially since she only ever reads books I tell her to read now. Stay or Go? Stay!

6.│All the Light We Cannot See│Anthony Doerr│Nov 2016│ I added this because…Everybody has read and loved it and I probably should too. But am I actually ever going to? No, probably not. Stay or Go? Go!

7.│You in Five Acts│Una LaMarche│Nov 2016│ I added this because…Sounded like a call new spin on contemporary. Stay or Go? Go! Yeah, I’m never gonna get around to it.

8.│Soulmates│Holly Bourne│Nov 2016│ I added this because…I love Holly Bourne’s books and I will get to this one. Probably. Stay or Go? Go! Listen, I have loved all of her other books but there’s clearly a reason why I still haven’t picked this one up and it’s probably because it’s the one I’m least likely to enjoy and it focuses on romance more than the others and blah. I’m sorry I gotta be strict with myself.

9.│All American Boys│Jason Reynolds│Nov 2016│

│ I added this because…This sounds interesting and like a good critique on racial profiling. Stay or Go? Go! Look, I have a lot of books on my TBR and a very shitty memory and yet I can remember just about everyone, they stay on my radar for the most part. This one has not, like at all. When I clicked on the title and couldn’t remember adding, and thought it was about something wildly different. I don’t even know how i came across it because although I have friends who have read and reviewed it, they’re none of the people who usually sway me to pick up a book, so I think I’m just gonna give this one a miss.

10.│What We Saw│Aaron Hartzler│ I added this because…Its another rape narrative, this time told from the friends POV which I think will be interesting. And it’s based on a real life case. Stay or Go? Stay!

11.│Dreamland Burning│Jennifer Latham│

│ I added this because…I go through history phases and this was one of them. Stay or Go? Go!

12.│One│Sarah Crossan│ I added this because…I have a lot of twins in my family! There’s 3 sets just in my generation and I have aunts who are twins as well. My mum believes she would have had twins if she hadn’t stopped at 2 kids (She was hoping to have twins the first time round so she could do pregnancy just the once). But we don’t have any conjoined twins so I was curious to read about them. Stay or Go? Go! I’m not really too interested anymore.

13.│Even this Page is White│Vivek Shraya│

│ I added this because…I really love poetry and I love the title of this one! Stay or Go? Moved to my Poetry shelf.

14.│A Monster Calls│Patrick Ness│ I added this because…Basically everyone has read this and almost everyone has loved it and I really should get around to it soon! Stay or Go? Stay!

Past Down The TBR Hole

Down the TBR Hole 1.12 // Unreleased – Part 3/4 2019 Month Release Unknown

Down the TBR Hole // Unreleased – Part 4/4: 2020 & Beyond

Down the TBR Hole // To Read Soon – Part 1/4

Added December 2016

15.│It’s Kind of a Funny Story│Ned Vizzini│

│ I added this because…I tend to gravitate towards psychiatric hospital narratives. Stay or Go? Go!

16.│I Hunt Killers│Jasper Dent #1│Barry Lyga│ I added this because…Um!!!! This is about the son of an infamous serial killer, who used to bring his son to work with him! That sounds bloody brilliant (I am not ashamed of the word play, not even a little)!!! Stay or Go? Stay!

17.│Split│Swati Avasthi│

│ I added this because…As someone who has lived through different kinds of abuse throughout my life, I tend to pick up abuse narratives because it makes me feel less alone. Stay or Go? Go! This one is too hard for me to get a hold of.

18.│Sabriel│Abhorsen #1│Garth Nix│ I added this because…This is a well loved and read book! Stay or Go? Go! If I am honest with myself, I’m never going to get around to picking this up. Also I just listened to talk Garth Nix did and was so bored I could cry.

19.│Alif the Unseen│G. Willow Wilson│

│ I added this because…HACKERS! Stay or Go? Stay!

20.│Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine│Gail Honeyman│ I added this because…People seem to really love it! I am starting to see this is too often the only reason i add things to my TBR. Stay or Go? Go! I’ll catch the film when it comes out instead.

21.│The Secret Science of Magic│Melissa Keil│ I added this because…This just sounds super cute okay??? Stay or Go? Go! Look at me being strict with myself!

22.│Faking Normal│Faking Normal #1│Courtney C. Stevens│

│ I added this because…This another rape narrative. Stay or Go? Go! I think I’m going to give this one a miss.

23.│Modern Monsters│Kelley Work│ I added this because…I will add just about any book with the word monsters in the title to my TBR. Stay or Go? Go!

24.│Promiscuous│Isobel Irons│ I added this because…This seemed interesting enough to begin with. Stay or Go? Go!

25.│The Pain Eater│Beth Goobie│

│ I added this because…This is another rape narrative that sounds really interesting. Stay or Go? Stay!

26.│Eliza and Her Monsters│

│ I added this because…It’s about fandom, anxiety and being a child of the internet. Stay or Go? Stay!

27.│Made You Up│Francesca Zappia│

│ I added this because…My mum has helped several people with schizophrenia in the past, and I think it’s something close to her heart because my great uncle had schizophrenia and committed suicide. It’s a deep fear of mine that I’ll start showing the symptoms. It’s an even deeper fear of mine that it will start presenting itself in my brother after a life of heavy drug use because he’s already a very paranoid person and I’m worried about whether it’s something he could live with. So when I saw this book on Goodreads, I was drawn to it. I still am. Stay or Go? Stay!

28.│Allegedly│Tiffany D. Jackson│

│ I added this because…This sounds incredibly fascinating. Stay or Go? Stay!

29.│American Street│

│ I added this because…This is an immigrant narrative, again, fucking relevant af. Stay or Go? Stay!

30.│Salt│Nayyirah Waheed│

│ I added this because…I really like poetry. Stay or Go? Go! Going to give this one a miss.

31.│Rhapsodic│The Bargainer #1│Laura Thalassa│Dec 2016│ I added this because…It sounded interesting enough. Bit like ACOTAR? Stay or Go? Go!

32.│Not a Drop to Drink│Not a Drop to Drink #1│Mindy McGinnis│ I added this because…This sounded like a new spin on the dystopian genre. Stay or Go? Go!

33.│Good Me, Bad Me│Ali Land│ I added this because…This sounds like the mother/daughter equivalent of I Hunt Killers. Stay or Go? Stay!

Past Grey Reads

Book Review // Everything Leads To You – A Quite Love Story

Book Review // Girl Made of Stars – I Am Broken

Grey Reads // Everything’s On Fire and I Couldn’t Be Happier – Girls of Paper and Fire

Added January 2017

34.│Norse Mythology│Neil Gaiman│ I added this because…I love mythology! Stay or Go? Stay!

35.│Between the World and Me│Ta-Nehisi Coates│

│ I added this because…Described as important and good makes this my kind of memoir. Stay or Go? Moved to my Memoir Shelf.

36.│The Bear and the Nightingale│Winternight Trilogy #1│Katherine Arden│ I added this because…Again this is one I added because everyone has read it and almost everyone loves it only this time I think it’s worth holding on to. Stay or Go? Stay!

37.│Red Sister│Book of the Ancestor #1│Mark Lawrence│ I added this because…“I was born for killing – the gods made me to ruin.” Stay or Go? Stay!

38.│A List of Cages│Robin Roe│

│ I added this because…Pretty sure I added this just for the ADHD rep back when I wasn’t sure if I have it or not (I do). Stay or Go? Go! It’s not really enough to get me to pick this up.

39.│Paper Butterflies│Lisa Heathfield│

│ I added this because…Another abuse narrative that sounds super interesting. Stay or Go? Stay!

40.│The Name of the Wind│The Kingkiller Chronicle #1│Patrick Rothfuss│ I added this because…Again, everyone has read it, everyone loves. Stay or Go? Stay! Fine I’ll read it. When you’re fave author rates it 5 stars, you gotta.

41.│Dreadnought│Nemesis #1│April Daniels│

│ I added this because…Queer superheroes! Stay or Go? Stay!

Added February 2017

42.│Strange the Dreamer│Strange the Dreamer #1│Laini Taylor│ I added this because…Everybody has read it, everybody loves it, I need it. Stay or Go? Stay!

Past Grey’s Shelves

Bookish Bits // Series TBR – Extra Down the TBR Hole

Bookish Bits // Library Love – 2018

Bookish Bits // I’m Finally Participating in A Readathon and Challenge! – Late-A-Thon + January Jam Jar

Added March 2017

43.│City of Saints & Thieves│Natalie C. Anderson│

│ I added this because…Added it for the thrill. Stay or Go? Go! I’m no longer feeling the urge to pick this up any time soon.

44.│Gracefully Grayson│Ami Polonsky│

│ I added this because…Honestly? It had Grayson (one letter off!) in the title. Stay or Go? Go! Apparently this is very similar to George and I’ve already got that on my TBR.

45.│Boring Girls│Sara Taylor│

│ I added this because…This sounds really dark and I love dark books! Stay or Go? Go! This one is too hard for me to get a hold of, unfortunately.

46.│Kindred: A Graphic Novel│Octavia E. Butler│

│ I added this because…I’ve not read the original novel, and seeing that I tend to not do so well with older books I thought I’d give the graphic novel a try instead! Stay or Go? Moved to my TBR Graphic Novel Shelf.

47.│Marriage of a Thousand Lies│S.J. Sindu│

│ I added this because…A fake marriage hiding a couple of gays??? Why not?? Stay or Go? Go! Too hard for me to get a hold of.

Added April 2017

48.│Hunted│Meagan Spooner│ I added this because…Beauty & the Beast was one of my favourite Disney films growing up. Stay or Go? Stay!

49.│Eon: Dragoneye Reborn│Eon #1│Alison Goodman│ I added this because…I really only added this because it’s by the same author who wrote The Dark Days Club. Stay or Go? Go!

50.│He Said/She Said│Erin Kelly│

│ I added this because…It’s another thriller that caught my eye. Stay or Go? Stay! This looks so fucking good.

51.│Contagion│Dark Matter #1│Teri Terry│ I added this because…Honestly, I think it was the cover? Stay or Go? Go!

Past Grey Quotes

Beautiful Quotes // Beastly Bones – You Need to Read This Series!

Beautiful Quotes // Ghostly Echoes – The Quotes Hit Hard in This One

Beautiful Quotes // The Dire King – No, It Can’t Be Over

So I managed to dump 26, keep 22 and move 3 books!

I seemed to go on a full adding binge in November and December of 2016! Jesus, there were still 33 books that had survived past TBR purges. They weren’t so lucky this time!

Do you have any of these books or your TBR? Anything I should get to reading ASAP?

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