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I know the topic of conversation is sensible at the moment and so I apologise for lowering the tone…

but is there an update with the dinosaur porn?
 
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Ok so I read the first chapter, the writing is far better than I expected (tame excerpt attached). But it got a bit silly when she let him eat her damaged arm (she had been shot in the shoulder trying to protect Big Al). She “felt the hot pain of his love as he devoured the whole thing”.

It seems I’m totally down with telepathic dinosaurs and inter species sex but I draw the line at masochistic cannibalism. Tbf, it was in the trigger warnings (vore). I have no regrets. I’d be surprised if the author isn’t a published author under a different name in a more conventional genre.

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You must have missed it @nbt ! Was way back here. 🦕 💕 I’m afraid I didn’t proceed past this point
 
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You must have missed it @nbt ! Was way back here. 🦕 💕 I’m afraid I didn’t proceed past this point
Read that bit again having just rubbed some Deep Heat on your sore arm and you’ll get the fully immersive experience I’m getting just now
 
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You must have missed it @nbt ! Was way back here. 🦕 💕 I’m afraid I didn’t proceed past this point
Aww, thanks @Carapop and sorry for making you relive that 🫣

I did miss your original post and was wondering why nobody else had asked 😅
 
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You must have missed it @nbt ! Was way back here. 🦕 💕 I’m afraid I didn’t proceed past this point
if we had thread titles here i would want “i’m totally down with telepathic dinosaurs and inter species sex” to be our next one 🥲
 
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I love Olive Kitteridge and Olive, Again. If you read the Amgash series you can get to Tell Me Everything and read about Lucy Barton and Olive
 
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if we had thread titles here i would want “i’m totally down with telepathic dinosaurs and inter species sex” to be our next one 🥲
I reckon we would have a whole host of new visitors to the thread if we did!
 
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Found 5 books in The Dales Detective Series by Julia Chapman so naturally what did I do buy them of course. The ones I got were:
Date with Death
Date with Malice
Date with Poison
Date with Deceit
Date with Betrayal
 
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I’m currently reading The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker. It’s basically a retelling of Homer’s Iliad from the perspective of the women in the story and it’s really good. I struggled through Iliad several years ago and that’s time I will never get back.
 
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I just finished The Names by Florence Knapp. It was good but not incredible. The domestic violence made it a hard read for me.
 
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I bought a Little Life at a charity sale yesterday - this was a mistake wasn’t it 🙈
 
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I just got a £20 Waterstones gift card for my birthday…unexpected book joy!
 
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I have started and abandoned four books today. I fear a slump is coming 😭
 
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I’ve just finished Songbirds by Christy Lefteri. Had such high hopes for it but the (TW harming animals)animal deaths/abuse were just too much for me. Gave it the lowest possible rating on StoryGraph of .25. Also, I don’t feel the migrant worker women’s stories were fleshed out at all.

Going to start One of Us by Elizabeth Day for a complete change of scene.
 
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I have started and abandoned four books today. I fear a slump is coming 😭
I hate that. Can you pick up one by a favourite author that you know won't let you down? Read a favourite book of times gone by?

Which books did you quit on?
 
Oh gosh, I spent almost a tenner on this one as a birthday treat (42 tomorrow!) as it’s getting rave reviews but I couldn’t get past page one. I hated the writing.
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and then I cast my net wide across genres but none captivated me
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Oh gosh, I spent almost a tenner on this one as a birthday treat (42 tomorrow!) as it’s getting rave reviews but I couldn’t get past page one. I hated the writing.
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and then I cast my net wide across genres but none captivated me
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oh i HATED all the colours of the dark (almost to crawdads levels!!) - still angry that i wasted my waterstones points on it and it’s been a year 🤣

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FOR TOMORROW TAURUS QUEEN! HAVE THE BEST DAY WITH HOPEFULLY SOME BETTER BOOKS 😘🥳
 
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