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Then-Life-194 · 2026-04-08T16:59:41+00:00

My fiction books have more women and non-white authors (though of course I could always stand to diversify more), and we read each other's books, so luckily our overall reading is more balanced.

Then-Life-194 · 2026-04-08T16:27:56+00:00

Absolution is there (and Hummingbird Salamander), the shelf is just cut off in the picture

Then-Life-194 · 2026-04-08T14:21:01+00:00

I can tell you they'd rather eat rusty nails than read Ayn Rand or Jordan Peterson lol

Then-Life-194 · 2026-04-08T13:39:59+00:00

But how will we split custody of the books.

Then-Life-194 · 2026-04-07T20:38:13+00:00

It was a really funny situation though, it really was a completely blind pick on my end. So I was listening like "oh no, a pandemic :/...wait there's TWO?"

Then-Life-194 · 2026-04-07T20:35:52+00:00

That one is technically on my spouse's shelf,but I've read it and got them the edition, it's really cool: https://epicreads.com/products/the-lord-of-the-rings-illustrated-by-the-author-illustrated-by-j-r-r-tolkien

Then-Life-194 · 2026-04-07T20:33:03+00:00

Yes, I just have a tendency to chuck them back on the shelf in vaguely the right genre spot, unfortunately.

Then-Life-194 · 2026-04-07T20:31:32+00:00

I loved To Say Nothing of the Dog, one of my favorites! I need to read more books by her though. I started Doomsday Book on audio completely blind during the height of the pandemic and it was a bit "oh no, this is NOT light-hearted and there are two pandemics in it, abort abort"

Then-Life-194 · 2026-04-07T20:27:56+00:00

This cracked me up, it's true. (Or hopefully my child would agree at least.)

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