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starlight97

Joined August 2017

🇭🇺 Hungary 💉 ER nurse 🎂 26 ⚡ Ravenclaw 📚 all but romance 📖 goodreads.com/user/show/14696113-veronika
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Suttree | Cormac McCarthy
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Bailedbailed

After reading the first page of this book, I felt that I'm going to have to give back my advanced English language certificate. But after finding webpages with titles like "Where does McCarthy get his words?" and "Words McCarthy Uses in His Novels" I felt a bit relieved. Still it was too much right now. I loved all his other novels so I'll definitely give it another go later.

dabbe Da sleepy, pretty kitty! 💙🐾💚 2w
starlight97 @dabbe so exhausted 😴 2w
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The Broken Girls | Simone St James
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Another exciting and creepy paranormal/crime/mystery novel by St James. I loved The Sun Down Motel and this one was almost as good.
#paranormal #gothic #thriller

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Sea of Tranquility: A Novel | Emily St. John Mandel
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"If we were living in a simulation, how would we know it was a simulation?"
Very smart, very neat time travel story.
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Mehso-so

Couldn't find it either here or on Goodreads, but apparently there's a second book with some short stories.
⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
#japan #catsoflitsy

dabbe That‘s a photo contest winner! 💙🐾💙 1mo
starlight97 @dabbe haha thanks 😁🥰 1mo
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Such a lovely story. ♥️
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#catsoflitsy #japanese

dabbe Da sweet kitty looks pooped! 💚🐾💚 2mo
IuliaC I enjoyed this one 😺 2mo
starlight97 @IuliaC it was so cute 😊 1mo
starlight97 @dabbe you know, he had all those exhausting responsibilities all day 😂 1mo
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Red Metal | Mark Greaney, Hunter Ripley Rawlings
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I don't think I've ever read a modern military novel before. It was fast-paced and intense until the end, but there were quite a few things I didn't understand and it was overwhelming at times. It was very professionally written, but I don't think this will become my favorite genre.
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#catsoflitsy

dabbe Da sweetest kitty! 💚🐾💚 2mo
starlight97 @dabbe yess 😁♥️ 2mo
ju.ca.no Hii :) a Book Depository parcel is coming your way🤗 2mo
starlight97 @ju.ca.no oh my 🤩😍 2mo
ju.ca.no @starlight97 🫶🏽 2mo
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The Paul Street Boys | Ferenc Molnr
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A heartwrenching young adult novel that's a mandatory reading for pretty much every student in my country.
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#hungarian

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I don't usually read mythology retellings, and it didn't become my favorite genre either, but it wasn't bad. It's about badass women. 💪🏻
#fiction #mythology #greekmythology #retelling
#catsoflitsy

IuliaC 😻 3mo
RaeLovesToRead Hey there, kitty cat! 🥰 3mo
starlight97 @IuliaC @RaeLovesToRead his name is Loki 😸🧡 3mo
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IuliaC Hi Loki! 😺 3mo
dabbe Da cutest kitty! Hello, Lovable Loki! ❣️🐾❣️ He knows how to present a book! 🤣❣️🤗 3mo
starlight97 @dabbe haha yeah 😁 3mo
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I enjoyed this book immensely. Fast paced with clever twists along every corner.
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#classics #travel #adventure

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Some interesting short stories set in the world of the Arc of a Scythe series.
⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
#fiction #dystopia #fantasy #scifi

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Bailedbailed

This story is awful. It's about an abusive mother torturing her kids and her husband and her friends. Couldn't finish it.
#truecrime #nonfiction

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Mehso-so

This book was a bit weird for me, the writing style not very engaging, and I didn't completely understand all of it. 🤷🏻‍♀️
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#scifi #alternatehistory #dystopia
#catsoflitsy

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The Toll | Neal Shusterman
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"Believing in nothing is still believing in something – and only by reaching eternity will anyone know the truth of it all."
#scifi #arcofascythe
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The feline on the photo is one of our newly adopted cats, Sirius ?? #catsoflitsy

UwannaPublishme 😻😻😻 4mo
tpixie Pretty kitty 🐈‍⬛🤩🐈‍⬛ 4mo
starlight97 @tpixie thank you 😸 4mo
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"Even the greatest sultan recognizes his better when he at last comes along."
#fables #graphicnovel

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Scythe | Neal Shusterman
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In the future there are no wars, no diseases, no corruption, everyone is immortal and has nanites in their system that quell pain and control extreme emotions. That means there's no natural death either. The job is done by scythes and it's called gleaning.
A very interesting world and a fast-paced story that kept me rooting for the MCs.
#dystopian #scifi

CBee The whole series is excellent! 5mo
starlight97 @CBee starting book 2 now! 5mo
CBee @starlight97 enjoy 😊😊 5mo
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Liatrek Got this book for Christmas can‘t wait to read it this year 5mo
starlight97 @CBee thanks, it looks good so far 😁 5mo
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Several female secret agents worked in WWII France, trained and sent there by the British Special Operations Executive. Many of them gave their lives for a free France. I read a lot about WWII nurses and they were always treated as noncombatants, and while these women were never actual soldiers, they directly and indirectly killed many Nazis, and they were not treated differently from male agents.
#historical #nonfiction #espionage #women

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"Growing up, I thought faith was about believing Jesus died for us, and that if I held on to that, I'd get to meet him when I died too. But faith doesn't mean that to me anymore. Now it means someone seeing something in you that you don't, and not giving up until you see it too"
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A very interesting history of the 26 letters we currently use in the English alphabet, how each of them came to be used today, as well as other interesting topics concerning language such as the many different methods of teaching kids how to read, encrypted communication and ciphers, fonts, different forms of handwriting, how the qwerty order came to be, signs and symbols, and many more.
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#alphabet #language #LitsyLoveReads

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Third book in the series 'Before the Coffee Gets Cold'. There's going to be a 4th one even, but it's not yet translated.
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#beforethecoffeegetscold #magicalrealism #timetravel #japanese

IuliaC Great news! 🤩 7mo
BookwormM Woo hoo must check this out 7mo
starlight97 @IuliaC yess 😁 7mo
starlight97 @BookwormM definitely!😄 7mo
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A few more heartfelt little stories about the café that allows you to time travel. The main idea of these stories is that everyone deserves to be happy, that you must try to live a happy life even after the death of a loved one, because that's what they would've wanted for you too. You also get to know a bit more about the main characters in this sequel. ☕
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#magicalrealism #timetravel #japanese

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Before the Coffee Gets Cold | Toshikazu Kawaguchi
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An interesting take on time travel: there's a hidden little café in Tokyo that has one single seat that allows you to travel through time. There are many rules, but one of the most important is that you must return to the present before the coffee before you gets cold. ☕ Oh, and another rule is that no matter what you do in the past, the present won't change.
#magicalrealism #timetravel
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TheNeverendingTBR Loved it! 7mo
TheNeverendingTBR I've still to read the sequel. Also recently I found out that there's a third book that's just came out. 7mo
starlight97 @TheNeverendingTBR I just started the second book and yes, there's a 3rd one too! 7mo
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IuliaC I enjoyed both this one and the sequel very much 7mo
RebelReader I listened to both on my daily walks this summer. I didn‘t know there was a third. Thanks! 7mo
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Waiting to Be Read | Jonika Antoinette Haynes
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My TBR jar (or more like cube) 📚💜
#tbrjar #ithasspoken #toberead

Cupcake12 I‘d have the same problem if I did a jar! I have no order to reading from my TBR! 7mo
starlight97 @Cupcake12 it saves me from a lot of thinking 😄 7mo
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This was the book I least like in the trilogy. Clever, but a bit too much drama.
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#mystery #thriller #crime #murdermystery

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Lady Clementine | Marie Benedict
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"When the successors to our time appraise Winston and this awful war, as they surely must, I know that they will see Winston's hand on the pen that scribes history. But, I wonder, will they see that my hand has also been on the pen all along?"
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#historicalfiction #wwii #women

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Unnatural Causes | Richard Shepherd
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A forensic pathologist's memoir about his own life, his career and his most interesting and intriguing cases.
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#dogsoflitsy #medicine #pathology #truecrime

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Good Girl, Bad Blood | Holly Jackson
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A very fitting sequel to #AGoodGirlsGuideToMurder 🔪
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#murdermystery #thriller #crime

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Things My Son Needs to Know about the World | Fredrik Backman, Neil Smith
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Hilarious and so, so adorable. 💕
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#LitsyLoveReads

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Hey!! How are you? ❤️ 8mo
starlight97 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks hey! I'm good thanks 🥰 trying to catch up with letters now that the weather's turning colder 😄 8mo
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The Sun Down Motel | Simone St. James
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I've never read a book before where paranormal is mixed with murder mystery, but this one had me on the edge of my seat all along. So good! 👻
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#paranormal #murdermystery #LitsyLoveReads

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Loved this one!! 🖤 8mo
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ShyBookOwl Love this series! 8mo
starlight97 @ShyBookOwl yeah it's great 😁 8mo
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Dogsitting this weekend 💕
Lincoln Rhyme is after an omniscient serial killer.
⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
#crime #murdermystery #detective

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A fun prequel to A Good Girl's Guide to Murder 🔪🩸
#murdermystery #youngadult #crime

Allylu This is the only one I have left to read to finish this series! 9mo
starlight97 @Allylu I think it's great! 😊 9mo
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📷 booksrealwhenshared on Instagram
#murdermystery #youngadult #crime

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„We spent our lives helping people, and we did it with honor and love and never looked back.”
The incredible story of Army Nurses serving on the Philippines during World War II. They spent three years in Japanese prison camps, never quitting, they kept tending the sick and wounded.
Norman's writing is impeccable.
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The Blind Assassin: A Novel | Margaret Atwood
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"The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it. Impossible, of course."

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? thebooksaviour on Instagram

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Bridge of Clay | Markus Zusak
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"He needs to hurt nearly enough to kill him," he said, "because that's how we Goddamn live."

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Review on GoodReads.

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I'd love to hear your opinions / experiences about Scribd. I'm thinking of cancelling my Audible subscription because I don't use it that much. I'd mostly use it for audiobooks. 🎧

StaceGhost I used it a lot in the past but sometimes the audiobooks would crash or the app would suddenly close— it wasn‘t worth it for me. My library app worked much better 10mo
rachelm I love LibroFM. It has a huge selection and pays your indie bookstore. I also love Hoopla and Libby from my library. Haven‘t used the one you mention though 10mo
starlight97 @StaceGhost I see, thanks! 10mo
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starlight97 @rachelm thanks for the tips! 10mo
Tera66 Scribed works great for me and they have a good selection. It's cheaper too. 10mo
starlight97 @Tera66 that's great to hear, thank you! 10mo
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Signal Moon | Kate Quinn
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New short story coming soon! 💕
#KateQuinn #hisfic

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Coraline | Neil Gaiman
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"You really don't understand, do you?" she said. "I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted? Just like that, and it didn't mean anything. What then?"
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"The thing is — fear can't hurt you any more than a dream."

A sick little book indeed.

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"A moment can be an eternity, if we let it."

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"The things I valued had changed. My frame of reference was Vietnam, and nobody wanted to hear about it."

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"We are all unreliable narrators of our own lives, crafting stories about ourselves that omit unsavory truths and highlight our invented identities."

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The Lieutenant's Nurse | Sara Ackerman
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"It was one thing to have your own life fall apart, another to see the whole world fall apart."
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KristiAhlers Ugh I have this one in my kindle for #readhawaii. I was hoping it would be a solid read. 12mo
starlight97 @KristiAhlers it wasn't bad really, there was just a bit too much romance for me 12mo
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Pretty good trilogy 👍🏻💕

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"Nobody was innocent. There were only varying degrees of responsibility."
??️ Lee Bermejo

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"The raptors of the world understood only one language."

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"As it turns out, one can revisit the past quite pleasantly, as long as one does so expecting nearly every aspect of it to have changed."

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Not a Drop to Drink | Mindy McGinnis
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"You can't change the things you've done. It's now and the here on out you've got control of."
? centurythe.books on Instagram

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The Labyrinth of the Spirits | Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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This whole series is just wow. 💕
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