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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Last: I Remember You by Yrsa Sigurdardottir - 4 stars
Current: The Secret Life of Addie Larue
Next: Maus - 8th grader is reading it in school, and I remember hearing/knowing about it as a teen but never actually read it.  With the recent controversy, I figured I'd get myself a copy.[/quote]
What do you think of Addie Larue? I just finished it and was disappointed.[/quote]

NP - I found it such a frustrating book. I couldn't stand the main character. I found her so dull. It was so repetitive. I wanted more time with Luc - like what's the rest of his life like, when he's not slumming it with that drip Addie?

I just started [b]Lily King's Euphoria[/b]. Really liking it so far. Before that I read a silly cozy mystery called Brownies and Broomsticks: A Magical Bakery Mystery - about some witches who run a bakery and have to solve a murder. It was ok - I liked the setting and some of the characters, but the plot fell a little flat. The baked goods all sounded delicious tho.
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In a light, insidious way, this book turned into one of the darkest I have ever read. To the point that I wish I had not read it (it really [i]should [/i]have come with a trigger warning!) So just FYI, it certainly is not witches and baked goods (which sounds lovely by the way).

Last: Wintering, Katherine May (4.5, don't think I've ever felt more "seen" in a memoir)
The Least of Us, Sam Quinones (about current Fentanyl/ new Meth crisis; 5+ for content, 3.5 for writing which was a little all over the place)

Currently: Stolen Focus, Johann Hari (basically why modern life, including, but hardly exclusively the internet, is destroying our attention/capacity; 4, [i]very [/i]persuasive but sort of everything you already know on some level about this problem)

Next: Red Famine, Anne Applegate[/quote]

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