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Reading Recluse

📘 "The Promised Neverland" (vol 1-20) written by Kaiu Shirai and illustrated by Posuka Demizu

I've been chipping away at this all throughout April. It has been a long while since I've gotten so engrossed in a long manga series. At 20 volumes, with 181 chapters, this small team has created over 4000 pages in less than 7 years. Amazing for such good quality.

I really can't say much about this series without spoiling anything. The story starts off in an orphanage, where a few dozen kids are being raised for adoption by a single person called Mom. Every child gets adopted between the ages of 6 and 12, never to be seen or heard from again. Very suspicious...

What makes reading this so fun is the extremely high pace, the cliffhangers at the end of every chapter, the plot twists that also have their own plot twists -it's hard to stop reading when it's bedtime.

Although there are many characters, they are introduced in a way that you'll know everyone pretty well eventually. I'm a softie for the trope of the person who always has hope for people to work together in a hopeless world full of bad actors. I always root for them! I just want them to succeed and prove me wrong!

I thought the ending was very fitting. Overall chef's kiss: reading this was a great, fun, absorbing experience. But just as a heads up: despite its cute cover and young protagonists, this is categorized as horror, so don't go around giving this to actual 6- to 12-year-olds, haha.

Book cover of the first volume of 'the promised neverland'. It's an illustration. A spiral staircase, in a warped, impossible perspective, is coming from down out of a building that looks like a library, and going upwards into the sky outside, with a grass field and a large building next to a forest. On the stairs children are climbing upwards. There is a focus on the three children that are closest to the viewer. A boy with white hair, a girl with red hair stretching her hand out the viewer as if to invite them, and a boy with black hair holding a book. All children seem to have a number printed on their necks.
#AmReading#manga#GraphicNovel
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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull)

Book Promotion: Sign-up to my bi-monthly newsletter and download five (5!) free fantasy, SF or steampunk novellas (if you want them).

The newsletters aren't just about me and always include other book promotions. #readers #newsletter #bookstodon #fantasy #mystery #action #goodbooks #adventure #steampunk #reader #scifi #fedibookfair #amreading (d396) subscribepage.com/voidships?ut

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Ellen's Very Southern Voice

I spent my Easter afternoon transcribing my penciled notes from Elizabeth Jemison's, "Christian Citizens : Reading the Bible in Black and White in Postemancipation South." The book makes clear the through line from Reconstruction's white Southern Christianity choosing violent racism over equality to today's type of white Christian who's again choosing violent racism, which is incredibly helpful to know.

#AmReading#Books#AntiRacism
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Jaedia ⚔️ Hannah

Finished Oathbringer (Stormlight #3) yesterday. I am *exhausted*. Gods there was SO MUCH going on in that book I needed to rest afterwards lol. Loved it to pieces, next up? I'm still listening to Dungeon Crawler Carl, started a book about trees, and something a lil softer on the fiction methinks. Will see! Kaos is making me want to go find a fun translation of The Odyssey though.

#books#bookstodon#amreading
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idealist at heart

’the patriarchs: how men came to rule’ is a journey through time and the diversity of cultural #heritage to uncover the origins of #patriarchy.

angela saini guides the reader through an immense amount of sometimes conflicting and bewildering information while creating a sense of suspense and anticipation that is rare in #nonfiction.

full review: idealistatheart.com/the-patria

#history #books #book #bookstodon #read #reading #amreading
#booksky #bookstagram #SilentSunday

cover of the nonfiction book 'the patriarchs' by angela saini
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idealist at heart

most of us get the most basic #facts about the world wrong.

that’s why global #health researcher hans rosling wrote 'factfulness'. he made it his mission to help people understand the world more accurately and give them the tools to get it right next time.

this #book is perfect for #nonfiction beginners looking to explore the genre's potential.

full review: idealistatheart.com/factfulnes

#books #bookstodon #read #reading #amreading #global #wealth
#booksky #bookstagram

cover of the nonfiction book factfulness by hans rosling
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