I'm officially 25% done with Sunshine. There's so much I forgot or didn't quite pick up on the significance of when I read this as a middle schooler. It's interesting to see how the vampires act and "live."
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The Spanish Love Deception by Elena Armas follows Catalina and Aaron as they try to convince Catalina’s family into believing that their fake relationship is very much real at her sister’s wedding.

The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren follows Olive and Ethan as they pretend to be a newlywed couple on a free honeymoon after Olive’s twin sister, Ami, and Ethan’s brother, Dane, get food poisoning at their wedding.

Both of these books are great reads for those who enjoy enemies to lovers romance books.
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A couple things:

1) I would LOVE to know what the ladies think about the female representation in this book. I was always told girls are SUPER catty and shitty to each other, but I’m a dude so what do I know?

2) A letter from Macon, GA is how this novel closes out. As interesting as that is, it’s RIDDLED with spelling errors and that’s way more interesting. Slightly offensive. Really funny.

3) I remember hearing something about a play in football where everyone knows what’s going to happen but it works anyway.

That’s this book.

There’s no mystery here, but it doesn’t matter. He says Carrie is telekinetic in no time flat. He’ll tell you someone is going to die and at no point do you say “ugh! Spoilers!” Instead, you continue to read because now you need to know HOW it happens.

This occurs over and over again and it never goes poorly. I love it.

4) It’s implied that Sue Snell is pregnant before she hooks up with Carrie who initially thinks Snell was part of this. Then they have a moment where Carrie goes through Snell’s brain to see if she had any role in what happened at prom.

She didn’t, and, as Carrie died (spoiler alert), Sue starts her (late) period.

It seems to ME that this was a last-minute gift of sorts because Snell wasn’t really prepared for motherhood.

I know, I know. Some people wouldn’t consider abortions gifts, but you never know what people want and gifts are all about what THEY want, not about what YOU want to give, you know what I mean?

But I’m curious what you guys think.

On one hand, I could see it as bookends for the story - it starts and ends with periods - but I could see it as an act of mercy from Carrie as well. Maybe because Carrie wasn’t super stoked on her own existence at that point?

Let me know what you think.

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I need a change of pace, a palate cleanser. So, I've decided to reread #Sunshine by #RobinMcKinley. We're not gonna talk about how young I was when I first read it, in my defense, it was in the YA section and I'd read other books by her. #bookstodon #booksofpixelfed #reader #bookdragon #booklover #readersofmastodon #readersofpixelfed #urbanfantasy #horror #fantasy #tinyone7 #hethey #demiboy

I got visited by the Book Fairy while I was at work today!! A fellow book club member surprised me with The Witch of Crimson Arrows by AK Mulford and I'm so excited to read it! I follow AK Mulford on TikTok and I love their vibe, I need to read The High Mountain Court, cause that's the first in this series (TWoCA is the first novella of this series and I don't know which one I should read first, so I might leave a comment on a video asking) but I have a really good feeling I'm gonna enjoy it!
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When people talk about literary principles, it’s a great idea to have a solid example where it’s done well enough to be effective, but clearly enough - exaggerated enough - for the person learning the principle to see it easily.

Here is your “unreliable narrator.”

I’ve heard some people say Harry Potter was an unreliable narrator and that checks. He was manipulated into everything he did by people smarter than him and was led to believe and dedicate himself to said powers so of COURSE his take on things is going to be biased.

But it’s still tough to read it and see without someone bringing it up.

With this, though, at the end of it you get it. It’s plain as day but still super effective.

Oh man, I liked this a lot. It’s short but it packs a strong punch.

If you wanted, you could compare it to Breaking Bad where you watch someone fall down rung after rung into something bad.

In this case it’s madness at the hands of the patriarchy.

Fun fact: the author was put in the treatment prescribed in this book in real life similar to how the author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance spent time in asylum before writing her book and she did it as a bald critique of that treatment as the bullshit it was.

It’s great. Well worth reading and the closing line is creepy as hell.

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Let’s talk about the #kindle for a minute.

When the Kindle first came out, I fell in love. I’m a huge book guy, but books are expensive, big, and heavy. For a guy that moves a lot, they could be a problem.

But here, I saw the solution. The prices could be way lower. Scarcity wouldn’t be a thing anymore. Textbooks could be cheaper and easier to navigate. You could keep a whole library on one device!

But it took until the Kindle3G for me to be able to afford one of these guys. Now I have a Paperwhite but, honestly, miss the 3G for the ability to shop anywhere and PHYSICAL BUTTONS!

The real disappointment was that the cost of books wasn’t that much lower and scarcity was still a thing. Old Marvel prose novels never (or at least hadn’t for years and I’ve given up on the idea) made it to the device.

Which is RIDICULOUS. If I were a publishing house, every single thing I published would be available. They left money on the table.

Anyway… King also seemed like a huge Kindle fan as his was one of the biggest voices used to push it and it seemed inevitable to me that he would write a story involving one.

It also deals with the Dark Tower.

The story is fine. It’s more a fun story about a Kindle and a chance for him to talk about authors - something he loves to do.

It’s fine. It’s an interesting story.

I wonder if King’s changed his mind on the Kindle. Besides bringing mine on flights and to donate plasma, I know I’ve gone back to physical books.

What are your thoughts on the Kindle?

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