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Chris Bissette is 50% done with The Midnight Shift
This just isn't doing it for me. Started well but it's become interminably dull. Feels like Let The Right One In but not as good. DNF.
Sep 07, 2025 02:45AM Add a comment
The Midnight Shift

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Chris Bissette is on page 89 of 1392 of War and Peace
Obsessed with the image of tying a policeman to a bear and throwing them in a canal
Jan 11, 2025 03:11PM Add a comment
War and Peace

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Chris Bissette is on page 41 of 1392 of War and Peace
Incredibly early thoughts: I didn't expect this to be so funny.
Jan 10, 2025 09:54AM Add a comment
War and Peace

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Chris Bissette is 40% done with Confessions
Some of the best use of the second person I've ever read. Obsessed.
Jan 02, 2025 10:48AM Add a comment
Confessions

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Chris Bissette is 50% done with Shroud
Halfway done and I love it. If I read a better SF novel than this in 2025 it will be a good year.
Dec 12, 2024 02:00PM Add a comment
Shroud

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Chris Bissette is 12% done with Shroud
Really into this so far. It has the pace of a much shorter book which is really nice.
Dec 12, 2024 02:00AM Add a comment
Shroud

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Chris Bissette is on page 64 of 286 of Portraits at the Palace of Creativity and Wrecking
Really enjoying this but it's a book that demands you read it slowly. Each chapter is like a prose poem, and I find myself pausing to think about them after finishing. Definitely not a book you binge read.
Nov 28, 2024 12:50AM Add a comment
Portraits at the Palace of Creativity and Wrecking

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Chris Bissette is 15% done with Only If You're Lucky
Right now it's The Secret History by way of Mean Girls and I'm 100% on board.
Oct 26, 2024 02:57PM Add a comment
Only If You're Lucky

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Chris Bissette is 15% done with Only If You're Lucky
Right now it's The Secret History by way of Mean Girls a and I'm 100% on board
Oct 26, 2024 02:56PM Add a comment
Only If You're Lucky

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Chris Bissette is 20% done with Creation Lake
The least Booker Prize longlist book I've ever read. Loving this so far.
Aug 05, 2024 02:52PM Add a comment
Creation Lake

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Chris Bissette is 42% done with Orbital
Having one of those moments where I'm not really getting on with a very well-reviewed, universally acclaimed book. I'm struggling to separate the characters from one another and it's all a bit too flat for me. If it wasn't a novella and if I wasn't trying to read all of the Ursula K Le Guin prize shortlist I'd be thinking about DNFing around about now.
Jul 18, 2024 01:59PM Add a comment
Orbital

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Chris Bissette is 29% done with Redwall (Redwall, #1)
Matthias is meant to be hurrying back to Redwall to help with the ongoing siege but instead he's had a nap in the forest. He's so real for that.
Jul 05, 2024 04:54PM Add a comment
Redwall (Redwall, #1)

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Chris Bissette is 24% done with Redwall (Redwall, #1)
"Rats are notoriously bad at bowmaking and the fletching of arrows" is one of the best sentences I've ever read
Jul 05, 2024 02:06PM Add a comment
Redwall (Redwall, #1)

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Chris Bissette is 10% done with The Haunting of Blackwater
I feel like a basic task of historical fiction is to get basic details right, so when the main character talks about the London library she worked at and it turns out to be Chetham's I'm giving it the side eye. Not off to a good start here.
Jul 02, 2024 01:34PM Add a comment
The Haunting of Blackwater

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Chris Bissette is 10% done with The Haunting of Blackwater
If I read the word "locomotive" one more time I may expire
Jul 02, 2024 07:51AM Add a comment
The Haunting of Blackwater

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Chris Bissette is starting Beartooth
"Thad had just shot a black bear out of season. It was a small yearling sow, and the rancid stink of it settled like a fog over the clearing where it died. The smell of a bear, Thad thought, had the flavour of nightmare about it."
Jul 01, 2024 08:18AM Add a comment
Beartooth

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Chris Bissette is 40% done with Isolation Island
Feeling a bit misled by the blurb of this book right now.
Jun 30, 2024 02:36PM Add a comment
Isolation Island

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Chris Bissette is 14% done with Isolation Island
This is the worst-formatted epub I've ever encountered.
Jun 30, 2024 08:11AM Add a comment
Isolation Island

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Chris Bissette is 61% done with The Instrumentalist
I'm enjoying this but I'm beginning to get a little bored, as the plot so far is essentially "Anna Maria gets exactly what she wants, feels a little remorseful about something, then continues to get what she wants". Hopefully there's something new coming soon.
Jun 30, 2024 02:25AM Add a comment
The Instrumentalist

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Chris Bissette is 87% done with Far from the Light of Heaven
This has done something I usually hate, which is introduce important new characters very late into the narrative, but it actually works here.
Jun 28, 2024 02:36PM Add a comment
Far from the Light of Heaven

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