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23 || fae || reading: A Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires

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Book Rating Scale

⭐- Probably should have become a DNF. Would not recommend to anybody.

⭐⭐- Wasn't the worst book I've ever read but won't be reading again. Might recommend for a particular aspect or moment.

⭐⭐⭐- Perfectly average. Might be willing to read again. Would recommend for the right person or fans of the genre.

⭐⭐⭐⭐- Would read again. Fun story, interesting characters, overall good time. Would recommend.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐- 100% going to be read again. Genuinely made me emotional. Everyone should read this at least once.

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Stats: Dates Read: April 30 - May 9 Time: 4 hours 10 minutes Rating: ⭐⭐/5

Review: So I didn't really like this book much. I thought it was an interesting concept but the writing was honestly just a bit odd and I was confused about what was going on a lot of the time. I also almost put this book down after just the first chapter because of the author just going on and on about the main character's body in a weird way. That wasn't an issue after that point thankfully but definitely an interesting way to introduce a character.

[anglerfl3sh]

University really is about looking at the worst pdf known to man huh

[anglerfl3sh]

the professor uploaded this sideways. I'm sparing you at least that bit

[shieldfoss]

Image from the best pdf I ever saw, [Elliot 2025]:

[Elliot 2050] - The Utterly Unhinged Elamo-Minoan Hypothesis https://www.academia.edu/128559713

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[judas-iscaryot]

EVERYONE SHUT THE FUCK UP SCIENTISTS AT THE SCHMIDT OCEAN INSTITUTE HAVE FOOTAGE OF A LIVE COLOSSAL SQUID FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

🦑‼️🦑‼️🦑‼️🦑‼️🦑‼️🦑

[judas-iscaryot]

for context, scientists have know about these mfs for like a HUNDRED YEARS but only now have they actually seen one ALIVE !!

[judas-iscaryot]

🦑‼️

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Instructional Strategies

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Stats: Dates Read: April 3- April 8 Time: 3 hours 7 minutes Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5/5 Review: I'm not usually a huge fan of autobiographies but I really enjoyed this. Well maybe enjoy is the right word...it was more like watching a never-ending trainwreck unfold in front of me. Just absolutely heartbreaking. Would definitely recommend but beware for major triggers of eating disorders and abuse.

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Stats: Dates Read: March 14- March 25 Time: 5 hours 58 minutes Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 Review: I've been trying to read this damn book for like 2 years now and I've finally done it. I enjoyed the story and I really liked having the multiple POVs compared to the first book. The only character I didn't really fuck with was Andy I actually found him to be pretty annoying. Otherwise solid read and a perfectly good conclusion to the series.

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Intro to Biology Notes

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Stats: Dates Read: March 21- March 23 Time: 5 hours 2 minutes Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 Review: OH MY GOD the lore drops in this book for the greater Hunger Games universe is INSANE. Every other page was a gasp from a name drop I didn't expect. I literally could not put this down I had to know how Haymitch's games actually went and I was not disappointed at all. Fantastic addition to the series would highly recommend.

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Stats: Dates Read: March 10- March 14 Time: 3 hours 45 minutes Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 Review: Amazing retelling of the Medusa myth. I picked this one up to complete a challenge on goodreads and I wasn't really sure what to expect but this was fantastic. I thought Medusa was such an interesting character and it turned me into a full Perseus hater lol. Would definitely recommend to anyone into Greek mythology.

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Stats: Dates Read: March 8- March 10 Time: 3 hours 9 minutes Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/5

Review: What an ending for the series my god. Pip really went off the fucking rails with this one and I was loving every second. She really fucked up that man good and boy did he deserve it. Super glad I stuck it out and finished the series this was great.

[wantonlywindswept]

googledocs you are getting awfully uppity for something that can’t differentiate between “its” and “it’s” correctly

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oho and now you’re questioning my adverb usage? you? you?

you fucking dare?

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you try to change ‘tears’ to ‘years’ for no reason but don’t catch ‘imporint’???

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hey quick question gdocs

what the fuck

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1. how the fuck did this post become so popular

2. everyone just commenting ‘QUERCHED’ is delightful

3. some people have suggested i use grammarly. this is letting the robots win and also would deprive me of the opportunity to complain about insignificant technical things instead of just wanting to scream over writing all the time

4. i use googledocs because i want access to my writing on multiple platforms and also because fuck microsoft 

5. the difference between [its] and [it’s] is that [it’s] is always used as a shortened form of [it is] and [its] is used as the possessive of [it]. yes, this goes against the usual practice of just tacking on an [‘s] when you want to indicate ownership. yes, english is absolutely a trash language.

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btw, gdoc’s most recent transgression:

noooope

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LITERALLY THE EXACT OPPOSITE MEANING OF WHAT I WANT, GDOCS

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i’m sorry what kind of AI FUCKERY is going on here that you are trying to ADD IN ADVERBS FOR ME that could ENTIRELY CHANGE THE TONE from a neutral ‘He’d been young’ to something that would put emphasis on just how young he was and how long ago it was you cannot just THROW EXTRA WORDS IN LIKE THAT

‘he’d been so young’ I’LL FUCKING KILL YOU

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OH MY FUCKING GOD ARE YOU SERIOUS

me @ everyone else using googledocs:

YOU

[amarits]

I just listened to a podcast with an A.I. research scientist. She said if you wouldn’t trust autocorrect to be in charge of a decision, then you shouldn’t trust another A.I. with it, so… that’s something to worry about

[elfwreck]

Grammarly is not better.

[vaspider]

querched

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[hello-delicious-tea]

If you were thinking learning to proofread wasn’t actually helpful…

[lastoneout]

This is funny but also as someone who has dyslexia and relies heavily on spell check to communicate legibly this is honestly horrifying.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#had ‘performances’ autocorrected to ‘romanceances’ today#for reasons unknown

ROMANCEANCES

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Had an assignment flagged by grammarly AI for incorrect grammar. The issue in question: they/them pronouns

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Stats: Dates Read: March 1- March 6 Time: 2 hours 44 minutes Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐/5

Review: Pretty good but I didn't like it quite as much as the first. I had pretty much figured out the twist before it was revealed unlike in the last book so it wasn't quite as exciting for me. Still planning on finishing up this series with the last book hopefully in the next week or so.

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February 2025 Reading Stats

Books Read: 7 + 1 audiobook Time Spent: 13 hours 50 minutes reading, 8 hours audio Pages: 2169 Book of the Month: Solitaire by Alice Oseman

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Stats: Dates Read: Feb. 19- Feb. 28 Time: 4 hours 24 minutes Rating:⭐⭐⭐⭐.5/5

Review: So I had a lot of trouble reading Beau as a male protag so for me this quickly became sapphic Twilight. It. was. perfect. I love all of the characters just as much as in the OG and it ended exactly how I've always wanted Twilight to end. Didn't think I was going to like this but was pleasantly surprised.