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I've read The Sorting Hat chapter, can i take the quiz now?

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*hides*

Ugh. I;m really... Not enjoying this. Mai sounds like a literal twelve-ear-old.
And I'm realizing this is PNR, so that's me shooting myself in the foot, but it took me THIS long to realize that because it's written with a middle-grade language. Ugh. I've been cleaning and packing to move and this has been easy to listen to as I do so, otherwise I would've DNF'd by now.

Mai is supposed to be what, like 25? Her 'witty banter' sounds like something you would hear from a protagonist half her age.

Bridget still felt somewhat confused. "Benedict," she said, "I'm sorry but... I don't understand; is the fighting over?"
His expression darkened. "No," he said quietly. "I think it's just getting started."

I'm terrible about playing spot the clone with non-Dresden Butcher books.
I'm sensing a lot of Molly in Gwen and Harry in Grimm.
Oh and Benedict reeks of Thomas...

Mai is kind of a knockoff; she seems like a parody of UF protags.
I don't think that was the idea :/

With all these services offering free/discounted usage during COVID19, Project Gutenberg has offered free downloads of every classic book you could want pretty much since downloading literature has been a thing.
I've been using the website's portal to download books on Google Play for a couple of years now. i swear by it.
http://www.gutenberg.org/

Stay safe out there
Z

-they said my brother had come at nightfall and seen the Vikings torching the houses.
They were called Vikings when they were raiders, but Danes or pagans when they were traders, and these men had been burning and plundering so were reckoned to be Vikings.

When JB calls anyone anything that even might bring to mind a halfling, (a 'half-soul' in this case) generally, that's a name to run away from very quickly.

Eh. I liked In A Dark, Dark Wood more around this point in the book. This one has been too easy to guess. And not really as much fun.
But I do like the characters.

The Aeronaut's Windlass.
Academ's Fury.
The Dresden Files: War Cry.
The Dresden Files: Brief Cases.

^^

Jim Butcher content I own but haven't read (also I never did a review for Spider-Man: The Darkest Hours, which is just *screeching* up on that two-year mark... And coincidentally so is my two-year hiredate-aversary at my job. Hmmm).

Seems like I have a task to do before a certain July pub date ;)

Daniel Kraus + a carny freakshow = a happy, happy me.

I meant to read this before I hiked Barr Trail back in August but this is proving a perilous read and since on my hike I exited, pursued by a bear (or possibly 'squatch) it's probably better that I didn't start reading this until around my 20th birthday last month ^^"

I haven't read a Koontz book in literal years and I'm remembering why...
He thinks he's so atmospheric but it just comes across as heavy-handed.

I'm doing Inktober 2019 on Insta and Twitter. I'm using some of the official Ink and Goretober prompts. This one is based on #1 'Ring' and inspired by Chuck Jones' animation run cycle for Wile. E Coyote vs. The Roadrunner.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B3F1_0eg7...

Can you guess what time it is?

Had no clue this was a book till it caught my eye (next to Springsteen's latest bio) at the Tattered Cover bookstore at Denver International on my way home yesterday. So glad I can now say i've read the book when the film finally lands in front of me.
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Part of me is like "Who are you? Why should I care?" because autobios bo nobodies are a peeve of mine... But Manzoor has pulled me past that.

"That wasn't any act of God, That was an act of pure human fuckery."

I am seeing so. much of Cell in this. It's is one of my top Kings and my favorite zombie apocalypse novel ever. I can only imagine what it must have been like for far back Constant Readers to see all the callbacks. It's still cool in reverse, though.

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Over halfway. Jesus holy my wrist hurts...

'I now walk into the wild. Alex.'

I'll be walking into the wild, Pike's Peak, on August 23rd.
... Bad idea to read this now, or best idea?

It's funny how blurb likens this to The Shining, and in roughly half the book it and the Overlook have been mentioned three times, and rather... Clunkily at that.

He was not as insane as he would become, but he was advancing.

It's hard to decide who the Henry Bowers is because there's a legion of them...

"Don't," Nadine said. "All that was before."
That word again, Larry thought. That little two-syllable word.

If this turns out to be better than IT, my little heart may well explode.