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Books That Stayed With Me
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items These aren't necessarily the greatest books ever written. They're the ones I still think about, recommend to friends, pre-order without hesitation, or somehow ended up buying twice. Different genres, different reasons, but they all stayed with me.
I discovered the Orphan X series when there were already a few books out, read my way through them, and then had the very happy realisation that the series was still going. Now I pre-order every new book and regularly check when the next one is comin...
Apparently My Type Is Orphan X
I was genuinely surprised when a friend told me he hated this book because I loved it. The story itself is good, but what I loved most was seeing human behaviour through the eyes of someone who doesn't understand humans at all. The way he describes t...
An Alien Explains Why Humans Are Weird
I think I came across a quote from this book somewhere and decided to get the audiobook. By then, I'd pretty much given up on self-help books. I've read enough of them, and after a while they all seem to be telling you the same things in slightly dif...
The Self-Help Book That Got Past My Self-Help Fatigue
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The dragons were great, obviously, but what made the Dragon Blood series so much fun for me was the talking sword. There's something about giving a weapon its own personality and opinions that made the whole story so much more entertaining. It added ...
I Came for the Dragons, Stayed for the Talking Sword
My daughter recommended Throne of Glass to me, and she's basically responsible for everything that followed. This was the series that got me reading more fantasy, and I've discovered plenty of great books since. But somehow, Throne of Glass still sit...
The Series That Got Me Into Fantasy
The Girl on the Train is one of my all-time favourite audiobooks. I remember being completely caught up in the story and then getting ridiculously excited when I heard they were making a movie. And somehow, after all that excitement, I still haven't ...
The Movie Can Wait, the Book Couldn’t
At some point The Girl on the Train, The Woman in the Window and all their relatives seemed to create an entire genre of women being vaguely threatened near household objects and modes of transport. And apparently I'm the target audience because I re...
Another Woman. Another Window. I Fell for It.
I listen to audiobooks while I'm walking, and this one had me reacting out loud as though I were actually part of the conversation. I couldn't believe how delusional and manipulative Cherry could be, and there were so many moments when I wanted to sh...
The Book That Had Me Arguing With My Headphones
I originally picked up Project Hail Mary because Audible recommended it with a "movie coming soon" badge. I like reading the book before seeing the movie, and I already liked the casting, so that was enough to convince me. The book ended up being the...
Read It for the Movie. Loved It for Rocky.
This was another book I discovered because the movie was coming out. I have this thing where, if a movie is based on a book and I know about it beforehand, I want to read the book first. I’m glad I did because I loved The Martian. The science and pro...
Another Movie That Made Me Read the Book First
I read The Housemaid years before there was any talk of a movie, back when I was going through a phase where I read almost nothing but psychological thrillers. And this was a good one. More accurately, I listened to it, because audiobooks are what ke...
The Audiobook That Got My House Clean 😆
I don’t read many celebrity memoirs, but her death kept appearing in my feed and made me curious. I mainly remembered her from Bring It On, and although I’d watched Heroes, I honestly don’t remember her in it. I also don’t follow celebrity gossip, so...
I Knew the Actress. I Didn’t Know Her Story.