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Sep 14, 2020 01:05PM
The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
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I have The House in the Cerulean Sea on my TBR list. Now I have moved it up to be read this month or next.
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Krystyna wrote: "228. Do you like gray characters in a book?"I think they make for an interesting novel. I don't always like morally gray characters, though.
Krystyna wrote: "229. Who is your favorite gray character in fiction?"Beth from He Started It by Samantha Downing. She's a terrible person, but I loved it. It made for an interesting book, and I highly recommend this one if you enjoy odd, crazy plots. I know it won't be for everyone though. There are a lot of trigger warnings involved.
Krystyna wrote: "229. Who is your favorite gray character in fiction?"It really depends on the character and how they use their morally ambiguous ways.
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It's a character that ends up in the morally grey area. They're not all good but they're also not all bad. For example, if a character did a bad thing for a good reason.
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This is a hard one to narrow down. Heartstopper by Alice Oseman
The Institute by Stephen King
Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren
Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
Krystyna wrote: "Debra wrote: "What is a gray character?"It's a character that ends up in the morally grey area. They're not all good but they're also not all bad. For example, if a character did a bad thing for ..."
Thanks, Krystyna. I am going think about this one.
Krystyna wrote: "230. Name a hyped book that fell short for you."The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
I really expected it to about, well, the underground railroad.
Krystyna wrote: "229. Who is your favorite grey character in fiction?"Okay, I think I got this.
Both Theo and Boris from The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. Theo a little grey. Boris very grey. I loved them and worried about them and the things they were doing.
Hyped book that fell really flat for me was Like Water for Chocolate.
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I've actually watched BookTube and joined Goodreads before I started reading avidly. It has taught me how to annotate books, the different genres that are out there, and I just know about a lot more books. I have favorite authors and favorite genres now. It's been a journey.
Since joining Goodreads, my reading is much, much, much more diverse. I love it!
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I didn't much care for Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid, but the audio was well done. I also think It by Stephen King is another great audiobook.
Krystyna wrote: "231. How has social media (ex. Instagram/YouTube/Goodreads/Facebook/Twitter) changed the way you read?"It certainly has opened up a variety of nonfiction books for me.
Krystyna wrote: "232. What’s your favorite audiobook?"Dracula with Tim Curry as one of the narrators.
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Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell or This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger.
The Harry Potter series. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in particular. I associate it with some Fall memories with my grandmother.
Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell is perfect for fall!!
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DraculaI am sure there are others. Will have to think about it.
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Krystyna wrote: "235. Who are your favorite book villains?"Favorite book villains:
Dracula
Scrooge
Maleficent
Krystyna wrote: "236. Do you sneak a peek into the last chapter to see how it ends?"Yes sometimes I do
I don’t even peek when I DNF a book. I never have any interest.
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“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.”
Krystyna wrote: "234. What’s your favorite memoir?"There are a few that have been super good:
Night
The Last Lecture
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
Favorite opening line"The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation." The Secret History by Donna Tartt
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This is my list but it is not etched in stone. And I might not get to all of them. - Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
- One Rainy Day in May by Mark Z. Danielewski
- Judge On Trial by Ivan Klíma
- Roses of May by Dot Hutchison
- Pine: The spine-chilling and prize-winning, atmospheric debut by Francine Toon
- Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
- Some Choose Darkness by Charlie Donlea
My October TBR:The Devils Of D-Day
Carrie
How the Penguins Saved Veronica
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
Grave Secret
Sea Witch
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The Devils Of D-Day
Carrie
How the Penguins Saved Veronica
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
Grave Secret
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I'm reading a bunch of Stephen King this month lol.
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