October and November Reading Wrap Up | Bookmas Day 3

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Welcome back to such fun read.

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I've been trying to read the books that are on my physical TBR.

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I even made myself a TBR jar.

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I put all my under-a-books in there on a piece of paper for me to pull from.

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Color-coded them and everything per genre. It's a pretty big TBR jar, but we don't need to talk about the number of books.

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Less than I could judge you, okay?

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I do, however, want to talk about the books that I've been reading for the last couple months.

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I've definitely been more in a reading move lately than I was earlier this year.

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So I definitely want to talk about these books and I'll give them a bit of a rating.

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So the rating system I use was created by the book roast.

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I did tweak it a bit to fit my liking. Now, let's just get into the books.

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So when it comes to the fall season, are Gilmak Girls and Pumpkin Spice Latte's in your rotation?

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I read Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice at the beginning of October.

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It is a young adult contemporary and I picked it up because it was advertised as

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If You Like Gilmak Girls, read this.

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There are some similarities. It has the small-town aspect, mother-daughter relationship,

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mother owns a business, and coffee is everywhere, I promise.

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It was cute. It was something to read during the fall.

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Could I have just rewatched an episode of Gilmak Girls that led to me binging at least seven instead?

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Probably.

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There was a time where I was reading. I did start to imagine cartoon characters or anime characters as these characters in the book.

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And it worked better for me as a story for some reason.

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I don't know if that makes sense to anyone else, but it made all the sense to me at the time.

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Now for my rating, for character, I gave a 6. I felt like the side characters weren't developed enough.

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Her friends, they felt a bit bland.

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The atmosphere slash setting, I gave a 7. It did feel kind of like fall.

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The writing, I gave a 7. The plot, I gave a 6.

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Entry, I gave a 5. Logic, 6. Relationships, 7.

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I liked the mother-daughter relationship. The potential relationship with the faux Starbucks coffee guy.

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I can't think of his name right now, but that relationship, it was fine too.

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And engagement, I gave a 6. So this book gets a 3.5 stars.

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So the main character in the last book didn't like the boy that would end up becoming her possible love interest.

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Mostly because her family's had rival coffee shops.

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I think she would have put a hex on him if she could have probably.

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Just like the characters did in the next book I read, the main character in the ex-hex put a curse on the man who broke her heart.

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Listen ladies and gents, let us not put curses on people.

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You may piss off ghosts and have issues with lane lines which may ruin the town you live in.

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And maybe just moving on will be healthier. I'm just saying.

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This was another cute read and it was a lot of fun to read during October.

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I would categorize this one as a paranormal romantic comedy.

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I believe there is a sequel that's already out and I think I'm going to have to read that.

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But I do think it's set around Halloween. So I may wait until next year.

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So my ratings for character is 8. I do remember enjoying the characters in this book.

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Atmosphere setting. I would give an 8 as well.

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Riding a 7. Plot a 6. Intrigue a 6. Logic 7. Relationship 7. Engagement 7.

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This one also gets three and a half stars.

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The next book I read did surprise me but I wouldn't say it surprised me in a good way.

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Finley Donovan is killing it was not at all what I expected.

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It is an adult mystery. I honestly don't know exactly what I expected from it.

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But I felt like it wasn't what I read.

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I may have gone into it with too high expectations.

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I did empathize with the main character early on.

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A single mother who had to deal with her pain in the neck baby daddy and his wife or fiance.

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Whatever she was. She wasn't nice.

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And then she gets mistaken for a contract killer but the book kind of lost me.

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I stopped empathizing with the main character at some point.

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It was honestly just waiting for her to be put in jail.

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There is a cliffhanger at the end. I'm curious but I don't think I'm curious enough to continue on in the series.

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At least not any time soon.

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So as for my ratings character I give a six. Atmosphere setting I give a seven.

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Writing a six. Plot a five.

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Intrigue a six. Logic a five.

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Relationships a four. I didn't really like any of the relationships in the book.

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And then engagement a five. And this one gets three stars.

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Speaking of coffee and killings how about some blood instead?

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I'm sorry. I don't know. I'm sorry. I was just segueing here.

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I read Immoral Dark and I really enjoyed this one.

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It is a young adult fantasy. Our main character is looking for her sister.

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And she believes that sister was taken by a vampire.

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The same vampire that is bound to her family.

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There is also a university where she begins to attend that has vampires and humans interacting every day.

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And she must live with that vampire that she thinks pretty much stole her sister.

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She must live with him in her family home for a year to figure out what happened to her sister.

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There are morally gray characters, a slow burn enemy to love her storyline.

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And when I say enemies, I mean enemies.

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They hate each other. They would like each other to die.

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Like for real. They would be okay if either of them died.

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At least they start out that way. This is a series I will definitely be continuing.

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So for my ratings character. I give it eight.

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Atmosphere setting. I give an eight.

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Writing. I give an eight. Plot. I give an eight.

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Entry. I give an eight.

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Logic. I give a seven.

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The time throughout this book was a bit confusing.

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I didn't know how much time I passed and was a bit confused when I found out.

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Relationships. I gave a nine. And engagement. I gave an eight.

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And this one gets four stars.

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For some reason, I almost forgot I read the next book.

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But honestly, I really don't know how I could have even forgotten.

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I read Ice Planet Barbarians.

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I started pulling books for my TBR jar at this point.

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And of course, this is the one I got.

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I've had the first two books of this series on my shelf for a few years now.

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And I finally ended up reading the first one.

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Women are getting kidnapped by aliens and then crashing on a different alien planet

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and possibly becoming mates with those aliens.

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The ones on the different alien planet.

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Not the ones that kidnapped them.

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Just wanted to differentiate that.

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This book was definitely not something that I would normally pick up.

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I don't know if this is a series I want to continue,

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but I do own the second book.

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So I might as well read that one, right?

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Maybe. We'll see.

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It was definitely, this book was definitely an experience.

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I mean, the way our main character was greeted by the alien was a way to greet someone, I guess.

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It was not a way that I think I would ever read someone greeting someone.

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So there's that.

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For my ratings, character, I give a six.

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Atmosphere setting, six.

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Writing, six.

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Plot five.

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Entry five.

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Logic five.

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Relationship six.

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Engagement five.

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And this book gets three stars.

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So after reading that one, I picked up the Black Witch.

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This one was another ride and in a different way.

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And I am still trying to figure out how to talk about this book.

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I feel like I could talk about this book for quite a while,

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but I also don't want to talk about this book because I don't think I want to market it.

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This is a young adult fantasy.

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There is a university.

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There are different races of magical people slash creatures that attend this university.

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There is also a lot of prejudice and honestly reading this book during election week this year was,

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it was a choice that I made.

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I do not believe I'm going to continue with this series.

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And for my ratings, characters, I give a three.

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Everyone honestly felt younger than they were supposed to be, especially the bullies.

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Actually, when you come to think of it, a lot of the characters were bullies.

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I mean, the main character was pretty much a bully.

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So there's that at Mr. Setting 3, writing, I give it a five, plot for entry for logic,

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three relationships, three engagement for this one gets 2.5 stars.

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Let's move on to the next book I pulled from my TBR jar before I think about that one anymore right now.

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Snow like ashes.

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I was surprised by this one and a good way.

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It is a young adult fantasy that came out in the early 2010s.

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I really wish I had read this back then.

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The world has different kingdoms, the kingdoms of the seasons and the kingdoms of the rhythms.

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Our main character is from winter and her kingdom was actually conquered.

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So a few of her people are trying to find a way to bring their kingdom back.

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There's political maneuvering, there's possible patrol those, there's a war.

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I thought I knew where this book was going, but it went a different way and I'm very happy it did.

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I'm really doing my best to stop myself from just going out and buying the rest of the series.

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I want to get through a few more series, at least 10, maybe even the ones I mentioned from yesterday's episode.

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But I want to get through a few more before I get the rest of the books in the series.

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We'll honestly see how long that lasts.

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For my ratings, character 8, atmosphere 7, 7, writing 8, plot 7, intrigue 7, logic 7, relationships 7, engagement 7.

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This book gets 4 stars.

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And the last book I finished was Kingdom of the Wicked.

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This book is the first book in a trilogy.

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We follow Amelia, who is a twin and she comes from a family of witches and they secretly live amongst humans.

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Then her twin sister is brutally murdered and she is determined to find the person who did it.

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She ends up summoning a prince of hell and he kind of assists her in finding the culprit.

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This was another enjoyable read.

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I was kind of surprised how much I liked it.

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I don't know why that was so surprising to me.

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Maybe because it's been on my shelf for a while, it's been on my shelf since I believe 2020.

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And it is also another book where I am stopping myself from getting the next book in the series just yet.

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Now for my ratings, character 7, atmosphere slash setting I gave a 6.

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The world in this book felt cramped a bit.

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Maybe that was on purpose. I don't know.

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Hopefully it opens up in the next one.

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Writing a 7, plot a 7, intrigue a 7, logic a 7, relationships a 7, and engagement an 8.

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And this book I gave 3.5 stars.

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Okay, so those are the books that I have been reading.

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And I'm curious what your favorite read has been in the last couple months.

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Just let me know.

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Immortal, dark, and snow-like ashes were my favorites from these reads.

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Now thank you so much for listening.

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