The Book Dragon’s Hoard 🐉 📚

Cyrus ☀️ book blog ⚠️this is NOT a spoiler free blog!! ⚠️ book reviews, recs, and other random bookish things

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Current Read(s): m

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

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A Tempest of Tea spoilers ⚠️

just finished this book and i have two, and only two thoughts:

1) oh how i love Matteo Andoni

and

2) Matteo is definitely The Wolf, right??? like we all see that?

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A Steeping of Blood spoilers ⚠️

Oh how I love being right but OW.

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"If you use em dash in your works, it makes them look AI generated. No real human uses em dash."

Imaging thinking actual human writers are Not Real because they use... professional writing in their works.

Imagine thinking millions of people who have been using em dash way before AI becomes a thing are all robots.

REBLOG IF YOU'RE A HUMAN AND YOU USE EM DASH

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I’M BACK!!!

Got a new job working 35-40hr weeks, so less time/energy to read. But I have started reading again!

Picked up 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami. Only on page 66 of 1157, so I have a ways to go, but in already enjoying it!

Will definitely be posting some quotes either tmr or in the next few days (I work the next three days so we’ll see)

Edit: THA MATH QUOTES!! THE. MATH. QUOTES. DISSOLVE. MY. BRAIN. IN. THE. BEST. WAY. POSSIBLE.

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Update: this did not happen.

I picked up On Wings of Blood the other day. Devoured it. I’m now on The Bond That Burns.

It’s safe to say I’m obsessed.

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I’M BACK!!!

Got a new job working 35-40hr weeks, so less time/energy to read. But I have started reading again!

Picked up 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami. Only on page 66 of 1157, so I have a ways to go, but in already enjoying it!

Will definitely be posting some quotes either tmr or in the next few days (I work the next three days so we’ll see)

Edit: THA MATH QUOTES!! THE. MATH. QUOTES. DISSOLVE. MY. BRAIN. IN. THE. BEST. WAY. POSSIBLE.

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[ayishaverse]

re-reading a book feels like visiting an old friend who never changed since your time apart, but you see them differently and you notice new things about them because you have.🥹

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Throne of Glass 💕😭

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The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller: Review

Spoilers ahead ⚠️

Overall rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

I wasn’t a very big fan of this book. I’m not saying it was a BAD book, it was a good read. However, the overhyping of it put a huge damper on it for me. I went into this book expecting to cry and be blown away by the heartbreak and I just…wasn’t?? Like, yes, it was sad. I won’t deny that. But, we knew from early on, before the Trojan war even started, that Achilles was going to die. Plus, Patroclus also stated that he never planned to leave Troy alive.

Tragic lovers aside, the main characters also fell a bit flat for me. Neither of them seemed to have much depth, including Achilles. He was simply a mortal child of a goddess with far too much hubris and that was it. And Patroclus was just the lovesick underdog that followed him around like a lost puppy. Even the scene where Patroclus donned Achilles armor and impersonated him fell flat for me, because even in that moment, when Patroclus was finally “coming into himself” and being a wonderful soldier, it was still all about Achilles.

However, it was nice to see Patroclus’ kindness and empathy outside of his relationship to Achilles. I thoroughly enjoyed his friendship with Briseis and their bonding.

Also, Pyrrhus/Neoptolemus? A little bitch.

All in all, the book wasn’t too bad and flat character designs aside, it was an enjoyable enough read. I wouldn’t reread it, however.

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Less than 130 pages left of The Song of Achilles…

Time to see if I’ll be heart broken or not 😀

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Update: finished and not a single tear shed.

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“How do we know she’s even in there? Has anyone seen her?”

Troy will never submit to us.

We should all just stop fighting.”

SMARTEST IDEA ANYONE IN THIS BOOK AS HAD THUS FAR.

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Less than 130 pages left of The Song of Achilles…

Time to see if I’ll be heart broken or not 😀

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@books-and-strawberry-tea my kindle!!

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I LOVE SEEING PEOPLES STICKERS!!!

Here is mine!! It’s a clear case, and I cut paper to fit underneath and decked it with all the stickers I could hahaha

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THATS SO CUTE

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What’s your fav book tho????

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All time favorite has to be I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid. I’ve read it five times and it has over 200 tabs from my annotations.

Favorite book I’ve read on my Kindle, however, is probably What Moves The Dead by T. Kingfisher or When The Moon Hatched by Sarah A. Parker.

What’s your favs???

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I absolutely adore anything by Erin A Craig, so House of Salt and Sorrows, Hiuse of Roots and Ruin, Small Favours, although I still have to read the thirteenth child.

I also adored Belladonna, The Scarlet Veil, and a few dark romance books (people find them controversial so I don’t talk about them as much cause I’m worried of haters spamming me hahaha)

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I’ve been meaning to read Belladonna! And read what you like 🤷🏻

Reading is reading, whatever your preferred genre is.

[books-and-strawberry-tea]

Do it!! I thought it was so so entertaining and fun!! Death at a tea party, literally the grim reaper, having tea. Let that be your motivation to read the book 🤣

I absolutely agree💕💕💕

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I’ll have to see if it’s on Kindle Unlimited!!

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@books-and-strawberry-tea my kindle!!

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I LOVE SEEING PEOPLES STICKERS!!!

Here is mine!! It’s a clear case, and I cut paper to fit underneath and decked it with all the stickers I could hahaha

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THATS SO CUTE

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What’s your fav book tho????

[thebookdragonshoard]

All time favorite has to be I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid. I’ve read it five times and it has over 200 tabs from my annotations.

Favorite book I’ve read on my Kindle, however, is probably What Moves The Dead by T. Kingfisher or When The Moon Hatched by Sarah A. Parker.

What’s your favs???

[books-and-strawberry-tea]

I absolutely adore anything by Erin A Craig, so House of Salt and Sorrows, Hiuse of Roots and Ruin, Small Favours, although I still have to read the thirteenth child.

I also adored Belladonna, The Scarlet Veil, and a few dark romance books (people find them controversial so I don’t talk about them as much cause I’m worried of haters spamming me hahaha)

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I’ve been meaning to read Belladonna! And read what you like 🤷🏻

Reading is reading, whatever your preferred genre is.

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@books-and-strawberry-tea my kindle!!

[books-and-strawberry-tea]

I LOVE SEEING PEOPLES STICKERS!!!

Here is mine!! It’s a clear case, and I cut paper to fit underneath and decked it with all the stickers I could hahaha

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THATS SO CUTE

[books-and-strawberry-tea]

What’s your fav book tho????

[thebookdragonshoard]

All time favorite has to be I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid. I’ve read it five times and it has over 200 tabs from my annotations.

Favorite book I’ve read on my Kindle, however, is probably What Moves The Dead by T. Kingfisher or When The Moon Hatched by Sarah A. Parker.

What’s your favs???

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LITTLE AJAX?! AND ODYSSEUS?!

IN MY SONG OF ACHILLES?!

GET BACK TO STAYING BACK AND WAITING.

(Yes, this is an Epic joke)

((Yes, that was a pun.))

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Me, trying to pick which book to read first:

The sixteen books in my Kindle Library:

Somebody help 😭

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@books-and-strawberry-tea my kindle!!

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I LOVE SEEING PEOPLES STICKERS!!!

Here is mine!! It’s a clear case, and I cut paper to fit underneath and decked it with all the stickers I could hahaha

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THATS SO CUTE

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I love both of these!

Here is mine! I love it!

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Omg yes!!!

This is now a “Show Off Your Kindle” Thread