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I love reading challenges that prompt you to expand your horizons but let you select your own books.
I've seen around the world style challenges before, but hesitated to join since I almost exclusively read SF&F and the books other members add to the prompts are a great way to discover new [โฆ]
Statistiekjes van de leesmaand februari van de StoryGraph. Ik las zes boeken waarvan er drie vier of meer sterren scoorde.
Helemaal vergeten mijn leesstatistiekjes van februari te delen! Ook in deze maand las ik weer fijne boeken (De IJsvogel ๐ฅฐ).
#booksky #TheStoryGraph #statistiekjesftw
Oha, seit neuestem kann man bei #TheStorygraph Rezensionen herzen, es wird also endlich interessanter, dort mehr als nur Sterne zu hinterlassen. Das wird so langsam, das wird ๐
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7. A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske {๐}
โ๐๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฆ๐ณ๐ท๐ฆ๐ด ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ช๐ณ ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ข๐ญ.โ
๐ust read if you enjoy romance, magic, and solving mysteries.
#booksky #thestorygraph
Screenshot of my review of the book on The Storygraph, which reads: 1 โญ Ludicrously unlikeable main character finds out there's more to the universe than her narrow and propagandist upbringing had her believe. And through it all, the reader is held by the hand and expositioned to about how fascism and bigotry are bad, actually. Finished out of spite. With much regret.
2026 - Book 16
Emily Tesh
Some Desperate Glory
app.thestorygraph.com/books/983b14...
1 โญ
Can we go back to trusting our readers' intelligence, please?
#booksky #2026ReadingChallenge #TheStorygraph #bookreview
Screenshot of my review of the book on The Storygraph, which reads: 2.75 โญ I love Mike Carey and I think the premise of this book had potential, but it never really went anywhere. There are too many ideas fighting for center stage. Nothing is fully developed, storylines are dropped, characters fall flat and even though the ending is pretty bombastic, it still just fizzles out. I had so much hope, because parts of this really read like Stephen King without the sleeze. But the rest of it read like a teenager wanting to write like Stephen King regardless of sleeze.
2026 - Book 16
M.R. Carey
Someone Like Me
app.thestorygraph.com/books/ecbcc7...
2.75 โญ
Such a disappointment
#booksky #2026ReadingChallenge #TheStorygraph #bookreview
#booksky ๐๐ Oh, I read some good books last month! Thanks to #TheStorygraph for the summary graphic.
February book spread with: Game Changer by Rachel Reid, Solid Starts for Babies, The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson, Tough Guy by Rachel Reid, Dear Writer by Maggie Smith, An Amorous Discourse in the Suburbs of Hell by Deborah Levy, Common Goal by Rachel Reid, Role Model by Rachel Reid, The Long Game by Rachel Reid
Because I made it my goal to finish all those hockey romances while they were unlimited on NYPL, February was a weird book month. Essentially everything was on the lightest end of conflict scale, with the heavy exception of Baru Cormorant.
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User Kate Reads Thatโs February Reading Wrap Up Books Read: 6 Pages Read: 2521 Time Listened: 1.59 hours Average Rating 3.9 Average Book Length: 433 pages Average Time to Finish: 5 days Highest Rated Reads: Colette Decides to Die Vol 6 - 5 stars Katabasis by R.F. Kuang - 4.5 stars A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid - 4 stars
Cover compilation of books read: Colette Decides to Die vol 6 Red River omnibus (vol 16-18) Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid Road Trip with a Vampire by Jenna Levine Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
February Reading Wrap Up
๐๐ #booksky #thestorygraph #readingwrapup
20 books read, 5,067 pages, with an avg rating of 4.08. top reads were storm graphic novel, star wars outlaws low red moon, and an arcane inheritance. Avg book length was 243 pages. Avg time to finish was 2 days. 95% were fic the rest nonfiction top categories were fantasy, romance, comics, lgbtqia, and science fiction. Reading was all over the place, but def dropped off mid to late month. 55% were print, 30% audio, and 15% digital
Arcane Inheritance 5 stars, frieren vol 1 2 stars, low red moon 5 stars, Thor 1.5 stars, Nightwing Fear State 4 stars, storm 5 stars, dazzler 3.5 stars, far sector 3.65 stars, Morgana and oz vol 3 4 stars, the guy she was interested in wasn't a guy at all 4 stars, paladins hope 4.5 stars, magick hoodoo 4.75 stars, a good hide 4.75 stars, proud dog 4 stars, so let them burn 3.5 stars, super Nintendo 4.5 stars, paladins faith 4.25 stars, wooing the witch queen 4.5 stars, how to find. Nameless fae 4.5 stars, swordheart 4.5 stars
Another wrap-up ๐๐๐ค๐ค
I didn't get to as many books this month as I hoped, but oh well. Remember even if you read one book you're doing great ๐ค๐ค
#booksky #diversebooksky #queerbooksky #comicsky
#thestorygraph #readingwrapup #februaryreads
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February 2026 #reading wrap up ๐๐
#literature #books #booksky #libby #chipublib #thestorygraph
Bit of slow month in terms of what my reading goal pace should be, but I had plenty of thoughtful, poignant reads. #BookSky #TheStoryGraph #literaryfiction
Iโm doing a StoryGraph readโalong for Dan Brownโs Secret of Secrets.
If youโre reading it (or want to join in), log your progress and share your thoughts as we go.
app.thestorygraph.com/readalongs/a...
#BookSky #DanBrown #TheSecretofSecrets #TheStoryGraph
6. Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar {๐ง}
โ๐๐ฉ๐บ ๐ฌ๐ช๐ค๐ฌ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ช๐ญ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ช๐ณ๐ญ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ญ ๐ช๐ด ๐ข๐ญ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐บ ๐ด๐ถ๐ค๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ช๐ฏ?โ
๐ust read if you enjoy stories about the creative process, dealing with addiction and what it means to live and die.
#booksky #thestorygraph
Screenshot of my review of the book on The Storygraph, which reads: 3.5 โญ I almost gave up, because I like my post-apocalyptic SciFi more on the hope-core side and this starts off very grim-dark, perpetual misery, kill your darlings, there's only pain -core. Also, some of the world building is held together by spit and wishes. That staircase makes no structural or narrative sense and I'm sure the recycling is done by fairies. And yet. The twists didn't twist in the obvious directions, the characters are good enough to stick around for and the premise is compelling enough to make me want to read the next two books.
2026 - Book 15
Hugh Howey
Wool
Silo 1
app.thestorygraph.com/books/838913...
3.5 โญ
Not great, not terrible.
Sort of meh +
#booksky #2026ReadingChallenge #TheStorygraph #bookreview
Hello #BookSky and #MitchRapp fans,
I am around halfway through Don Bentleyโs latest Rapp novel Denied Access. I have started a readalong on TheStoryGraph to discuss thoughts, comments, etc. If folks are reading currently, all welcome join.
#TheStoryGraph
app.thestorygraph.com/readalongs/f...
What are we thinking of the #Storygraph changes in the Community tab? Shocking to me at first, but I need to use it a bit, before I can tell how I really feel. #thestorygraph
I really wish #TheStoryGraph had an API. It would be wonderful if I could automatically share book reviews here as well. And it would let me have my pages read in my Grafana dashboards
Giveaway alert! Cover for A Slice of Mystery by Sophie Maddon - cozy mystery novel - Red background with white drawings of bread, cheese, and pizza. In the middle, a large magnifying glass highlighting the silhouette of a young professional woman typing on a laptop at her desk. At her feet, a cat. In the background, a sophisticated young professional woman. A Slice of Mystery (cozy mystery) is coming April 7th, and I'm giving away 50 ebooks on The StoryGraph! What's it about? IT consultant Abigail Palmer just wants to work on her project, hang out with her best friend, and enjoy cozy nights with Jasper the cat. Instead, she's blackmailed into investigating a threatening note, her boss disappears, and suddenly she's a murder suspect. Features: an awkward heroine, Sherlock Holmes obsession, artisan cheese cravings, and insanely delicious pizza. Early readers are saying: "The mystery kept me on my toes" "I laughed a hundred times at the things Abigail thought" "A fascinating character unlike any I've encountered before in cozy mysteries" Enter now on The StoryGraph! Link in bio Perfect for fans of cozy mysteries with quirky heroines and a side of tech.
๐ GIVEAWAY TIME! ๐
A Slice of Mystery (cozy mystery) is coming out April 7th, and I'm giving away 50 ebooks on The StoryGraph! ๐ Link in bio
Perfect for fans of cozy mysteries with quirky heroines and a side of tech ๐ป๐
๐๐ #BookGiveaway #CozyMystery #SapphicBooks #Books #TheStoryGraph #SAP #STEM
Screenshot of my review of the book on The Storygraph, which reads: 5 โญ So good! At no point did I think I 100% knew what was going on. At several points I was pretty sure it wasn't what the story was hinting at. And throughout the thing I was invested in figuring it out.
2026 - Book 14
Liz Moore
The God of the Woods
app.thestorygraph.com/books/0362b7...
5 โญ
The herrings? Red.
The plot? Thickened.
The mystery? Intriguing.
#booksky #2026ReadingChallenge #TheStorygraph #bookreview
A screenshot from my 2026 reading stats, showing my Most Read Authors so far in a sideways bar graph. Maya Angelou and Leil Lowndes both have 2 books.
In what world would anyone have put these two women together... lmao
#booksky #storygraph #thestorygraph
Screenshot of my review of the book on The Storygraph, which reads: 3 โญ While I fully agree with the (almost cringe-worthily earnest and not at all subtle) anti-capitalist message, I was hate-reading through most of the book. Mainly because of the super creepy pedo-apologist arguments he puts in the mouths of what are supposed to be his strongest, most feminist characters, but also because every new plot point just sort of deus-ex-machinas itself to the next, without ever leading to anything. And then, in the middle of a conversation, it just stops. Like his printer ran out of ink and he thought "fuck it, good enough". It really wasn't.
2026 - Book 13
Philip Pullman
The Rose Field
The Book of Dust 3
app.thestorygraph.com/books/c8cdef...
3 โญ
I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed.
#booksky #2026ReadingChallenge #TheStorygraph #bookreview
Screenshot of my review of the book on The Storygraph, which reads: 3 โญ At some point there are enough characters, enough storylines and enough plot twists. That point was somewhere at the beginning of book 3.
2026 - Book 12
Neal Shusterman
UnDivided
Unwind Dystology 4
app.thestorygraph.com/books/817857...
3 โญ
This series needed a more ruthless editor.
#booksky #2026ReadingChallenge #TheStorygraph #bookreview
Screenshot of my review of the book on The Storygraph, which reads: 1 โญ This is bad. Not just because of the mistakes in the floor plans (I don't want to talk about it), but the writing is stilted, the translation is inconsistent, the pacing is all over the place, the story is actually insane and yes, the floor plans are dumb. I'm so annoyed. Okay, 1 thing about 1 floor plan, because I'm pissed: The main floor plan has an unremoved service shaft that sets off the (deranged and overcomplicated) "story". But the actually bat shit crazy thing about this floor plan (which fully took me out and is not a spoiler, because it's never even mentioned in the book) is that the plumbing for the upstairs toilet would land smack dab in front of the dining room window. Straight through the dining table. Diabolical. Don't be all "the details of this floor plan are so intriguing" and miss this plumbing miracle. Where does the poop go, Uketsu? Huh? Fucking Narnia?
2026 - Book 11
Uketsu
Strange Houses
app.thestorygraph.com/books/0ef7cd...
1 โญ
Tell me you've never seen a floor plan, without telling me you've never seen a floor plan.
#booksky #2026ReadingChallenge #TheStorygraph #bookreview
Screenshot of my review of the book on The Storygraph, which reads: 5 โญ It's like being tickled by a hyperactive centipede on Red Bull; there's a lot going on. Badger barkeeps, ferret pirates, gangster hamsters, exploding priests, vengeful nuns, Monty Python references, effortless inclusivity and an almost pathological adherence to the rules of slapstick. And all of it done with passion and skill. It's Julius Fucik's Entry of the Gladiators on 1.5x speed, but I had heaps of fun. I loved the mystery, the world building is immaculate and I even enjoyed all the puns. 10/10 Would recommend if you need a little pick-me-up.
2026 - Book 10
George Penney & Tony Johnson
Overlondon
Overlondom 1
app.thestorygraph.com/books/0ea4ee...
5 โญ
A whirlwind of whimsy, a blizzard of buffoonery
Also, dedicated to Terry Pratchett, so you know they're good people
#booksky #2026ReadingChallenge #TheStorygraph #bookreview
Book cover collage of January's reading
#booksky ๐๐ Off to a promising start! Here is my January stat feed, courtesy of #theStoryGraph
5. The Gilded Crown by Marianne Gordon {๐ง}
โ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ช๐ณ๐ด๐ต ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ท๐ช๐ณ ๐ท๐ช๐ด๐ช๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ฉ, ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐บ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฅ.โ
๐ust read if you enjoy sad stories, necromancy, fantasy and royalty.
#booksky #thestorygraph
