I adore your warp ups they motivate me to read more ♥️

I pretty much stopped reading after my 20s, getting heavily into film, tv, and gaming. Having recently retired early, I decided to get back into it, focusing mostly on science fiction which was always my favorite genre (along with magical realism...e.g. Gabriel Garcia Marquez), and I decided to read all of the "best" in roughly chronological order. I just finished this book and feel like it is something I might have written in high school (and it coincidentally was published the year I graduated). Not that it was badly written, just that the main character seemed to look at life like an angsty, horny teenager. I usually prefer more noble...or at least sympathetic...protagonists. Overall, I can't rate this nearly as highly as most of the books I read leading up to it (my favorite so far being Word for World is Forest by Le Guin). I did enjoy the therapy sessions taking place in the "present" juxtaposed with the rest taking place in the "past", but it was a little like ending each "past" chapter with "...and something bad is going to happen".

I really enjoyed your review of Equal Rites. I have also made a review of it: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nK-Gm5ODt6msZqc.html

Why are you making your entire Let’s Journal playlist Unwatchable by making all of the videos “Private”?!

Hello, I just got your booktube, and I think it great! My goal is to read 4 to 5 books a month, but I don't worry too much about my unread TBR. However, i want to control my book purchase under 5 each month. Hope by now you are satisfied with your job. Love from Taiwan.

I loved that series. So underrated!!! very complex characters.

where did you buy your book????????? ...cuz i bought mines on amazon and yours looks more bigger and more official mines is a small book with small letters lol

I just bought a set of 24 and they now have numbers on them and the Faber Castell website has the color names.

I just read Lidiya’s The Broken Queen which is set in the same world and watched her video about the world she created. She admits that her books are quirky and don’t fall neatly into a category like cozy romance or fantasy or so on and instead play around somewhere in the middle. That being said, I did like The Broken Queen where I think she does a better job of simply allowing the book to be what it is instead of trying to force it into a genre/subgenre. Doll Girl Meets Dead Guy seems to fall short in some ways because of how it was branded, which is a real struggle for a lot of authors who write quirky books that don’t neatly fit in a box.

My librarian has me on speed dial or something. Worst, she knows when I finish work. Anywho, she called me, and I picked up the latest Stephen King book on the way home from work. Read the Afterwards and a few pages of the first story. The title is from a Leanard Cohan song. The first story? It's about old guys. I hope King doesn't make this a habit. Hope all is well with you Beck, and if not, I'm sorry.

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Congratulations! 🎉

Nice Asian version of "Animal Farm". I think, it should be a good episode for "Love, Death and Robots".

The world has so many cool elements, I wish we saw more. This is definitely more for character-driven readers. I'm not really, so it being mainly about the char's internal struggles wasn't for me

You have introduced me to my two favorite series as an SPFBO judge (Tainted Dominion, Cruel Gods). Thank you very much for all your continued reviews and best of luck with the job which I suspect, alas, is keeping you from SPFBO 10. See you in future.

Another awesome review, Becky. Thank you!!! 😃

Please focus on ros, it's bit too high, British accent focuses on stressing vowels, that makes the speech so different and at sometimes difficult to follow .

If you enjoyed Becky's review during SPFBO - make sure to subscribe. She always does these in debth reviews and has great book recommendations.

Thanks so much for your service to self-published authors in this and previous years. The SPFBO owes you big time. Great review as ever! :)

This book also has the same audiobook narrator as Wistful Ascending (so we're kind of cousins. Sort of. Maybe). Thanks for the review!

Thanks for the great review, Becky!! ☺️ I've been really enjoying listening to your thoughts on the spfbo books you've been helping to judge. ☺️

Just one more to go! 😮

Your top seemed to say "one star", but the review was much more generous in the end 😅

Smashing review, Becky.!! 😃 Thank you! 💛

Thanks.

🐓 From sobbing to chaos chickens, this has quite the scope, but “cottagecore” is a genre that I have never heard of until this day today when I burst out laughing as you introduced me to it 🤣

This sounds a good read, Becky. Thanks for another great review ☺️

Great review and I love how you have The Fall is all There Is on your shelves 😍

Great to see this one getting a good SPFFBO score as I thought it was beautifully written. It tackled some difficult topics and described a "mature" relationship which is an uncommon theme in fantasy [though perhaps that reflects what I tend to read]. (Aside: I'm guessing you'll be making a bit of space on the shelf behind you for The Book that Broke the World soon. :-)

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I paused chomping on my muesli when the f-bomb dropped 🤣 and paid attention 😯 I also took the longest time getting through Licanius. Like you I was a 4⭐️ … until the second half and the conclusion, which I loved. So 🤔

Wow, you might contend with my book collection 👀 I have so many books waiting to be ready and so little time sighhhhh

Great vlog, Becky! 😀 Was good to hear about your latest reads. Glad to hear you managed to get some cosy reading time over the bank holiday. The kitties are as adorable as always. So cute!! Sorry to hear about the 'hair ball incident', though.😖 I enjoyed hearing about your book journaling. I wish mine looked as good as yours. I absolutely agree with you, a visit to Waterstones is a definite when going into town. Along with buying a good stash of chocolate. 😀🥰

Some days, it's just a Comfy Cozy Clothes And A Book day. Even nice days can be C3A2B.

Good to see THE BOOK THAT BROKE THE WORLD got there safely :)

Seen the totality of the eclipse and this video in a week. The excitement might kill me.

I've been meaning to come back here for ages and kept forgetting - the book is called India Muerte and the Ship of the Dead, now, and the series India Muerte. And they all have new covers :)

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Love Budgeting videos!! Do u watch Aimee Rebbecca she does 1 monthly with spreadsheet and everything

Life happens!! Give yourself grace. The schedules are, by and large, gentle guidelines. Don't stress so much about things that you accidentally leach the fun out of them and surrounding stuff.

I get super stressed at all the Readalongs I sign up for, never mind the stress 💥 that Readathons induce! 😅 I just struggle to fit everything in, but when I’ve made a commitment I don’t want to let folks down by failing to complete the homework assignment. So it becomes a thing, every time. But I’m finally getting back to my own picks and I’m So Excited By The Options Yes I Am!!! 🤗 Now I have been holding that same 830 page brick and I can confirm the discomfort levels at times! 🫳Actual proper LOL at the “but I do find that these are fairly quick reads.” I wish I had your skillz 😜 But in my comments oh TLOATF I too mentioned the history lessons and discussions rather than any actual adventuring. I’ve even untagged that mood from my notes, which seems quite a step. LOL, I just whipped up my copy to see where I have got to vs your almost final update… it looks about the same to me, before your final push on the Thursday evening.

Hey Becky!! 😀 Another great vlog! Please don't be so hard on yourself and feel under pressure to read loads for your videos. I think I speak for most when I say we would all watch your vlogs even if you only read one book a month. Your vlogs are always such fun and engaging that we would tune in just for a catch up with you.☺️ I would also like to say how much I enjoy your book reviews. I've loved hearing about all the self published books in particular. Your reviews are so professionally done and wanted you to know your hard work writing them are appreciated. ☺️ The saving challenges look great fun, Becky!! I could definitely benefit from the book saving challenge. I, like us all spend far too much on books 😖😂 🥰

Looking forward to 'I who have never known men' . I had similar experience this month switching from 'The Killer Angels' to Tiffany Aching for similar reasons.

I thought The Light of all That Falls was a book that absolutely ‘stuck the landing’. It tied up beautifully much of the ground prepared through the previous two novels.

Great wrap up, Becky!! 😀 I have 'I who have never known men' on my kindle and your review of it has made me super excited to read it. I must make a mental note to get to it asap. ☺️💛

lol Stegosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous period. actually Stegosaurs lived 90 million years earlier in the Jurassic period. Tyrannosaurus lived closer to humans than Stegosaurus 🤣

Thanks for another wonderful review, Becky!! 😀