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4/5 Stars.

I really love speculative fiction, so this was right up my alley. Imagine if there were a machine that could tell you exactly what you needed to do to be happier. Pearl works for the creators of Apricity, a device that does exactly that, and spends her days providing people with this coveted advice.

Tell the Machine Goodnight is about Pearl and the people who are part of her life: her son, Rhett, who suffers from anorexia and stubbornly embraces his melancholy; her boss, Carter, who manipulates the Apricity into delivering advice to attain power; and Calla Pax, a young celebrity who commissions Pearl to deliver daily Apricity readings. There’s also Pearl’s ex-husband and his new wife, who hide mysterious secrets from each other.

The bizarre and fascinating vignettes from each of these characters’ lives make up the narrative of this novel about people trying and failing to find happiness and contentment amid the disconnectedness of modern life.

I was thoroughly engaged in each mini storyline, even the ones that felt more disparate and self-contained. This was close to being a 5-star book for me and likely would’ve been if there had been the tiniest bit more closure and cohesiveness in the end.

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368 | I’ve been sick lately, and being cooped up in my room has made me nostalgic for travel. I spent most of the morning looking through photos from the days of study abroad. Here are two shots from the beautiful Venetian bookshop, Libreria Acqua Alta.

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Book 3 of 2019.

29th October 2018

PhD Life: I’m working on The Monk by Matthew Lewis today and it’s the perfect book to be analysing on day five of Halloweek! It features murder, magic, and even Satan himself. It’s still shocking today even though it was published in 1796.

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And book #2 for 2019 was.... absolutely insane. 

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This was Book#1 of 2019 and it was incredible.

Perks of waiting nearly 3 years to buy a book that you wanted to read: dat price, mang.

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Does anybody use Litsy? Connect with me! My profile is @rybrary. I love connecting and talking with people about books wherever I can, but this app seems pretty cool so far. 

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created a new bookshelf page for 2019 with a nice theme, so see you all next year!

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I just really love books.

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I recently got hired at a really cute bookstore. This was my first purchase as an employee! 😄

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Time to see what the big deal is with this book.

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I'm still alive, was just incapacitated for months trying to read It by Stephen King, but I've made it out the other side. Here's my current (dark) read featuring some awesome graphics illustrated by Willow Dawson.

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My book haul of 2 books I should've gotten a long time ago and 1 new release.

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