Yes. I listened to the latest Dresden files book while we were in a different city to see a team of specialists for my youngest son, a newborn at the time, who was dealing with some incredibly rare and very deadly medical issues. What should have been a very happy time was one of the scariest most stressful times of my life.

I won’t spoil the book, but I’ll say as a long time fan of the series, it was a very bad mistake to finish that book at that time.

Edit: I realize my answer wasn’t really what you were asking but it’s what came to mind

Sure, let me know when they've run out.

Following, because almost the same, just Live in Michigan.... that's just the deep south of Canada though, right?

AI is so topical lately that I'm guessing we're about to be carried by an utter tidal wave of new sci-fi books with them at the forefront. Can't wait!

I also use the 'low circulating feature when searching my library or on Libby. Handy for those that are not broadly read.

I read Enders Game in junior high and had this exact feeling when I finished it. One of my favorite memories of my dad was telling him I was sad I wasn’t in that world anymore. His eyes lit up and he said - it’s not over yet! And gave me the next book in the series. He died last year and I’ve thought about this moment often. He was the biggest reader I’ve ever known, even to the very end. Awesome man. Anyway, yeah, I know that feeling. I hope you find another world to dive in to soon!

Thanks for the link back to the other. Saved for digging through later, and added my book.

Here are two from me with below 500 Goodreads ratings, that I personally rated as 5 star books and have over 4 star average on Goodreads (note: I do not use Goodreads so my rating is not included in that average):

• The White Space Between by Ami Sands Brodoff

>Willow is a loner, an artist and an acclaimed puppeteer whose marionettes have become the family she has missed. But secrets from the past can no longer be hidden away when mother and daughter journey back to their homeland to resurrect the past.

• Diary of Interrupted Days by Dragan Todorovic

>Diary of Interrupted Days is playful, blazingly intelligent, occasionally erotic and ultimately tragic, unfurling from the cliffhanger scene that opens the book: a lone exile, returning to Belgrade for the first time since he fled to Canada in the mid-nineties, is stranded on the only bridge into the city that hasn't been destroyed by NATO bombers as air raid sirens sound.

/editing to add that I didn't even realize they'd both appear to have a 'theme' by the snippets from Goodreads that I quoted. Totally NOT intentional.

Book hangover!! I definitely experience that

Not a shop, but an entire street.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Court

I agree with you. This is a wonderful story, and as WWII is of interest to me, is quite interesting. A very gentle handling of a very difficult situation, and a wonderful love story

Oh yeah. I just finished listening to lord of the rings trilogy (for the first time!). And it was actually very sad! I kinda wanted to cry. They kept me such good company when I was running. Luckily I'm now onto game of thrones 😅 need something to fill the void. Something long.

The anarchist Freedom Bookshop in Whitechapel. Founded in 1886 in Kropotkin's time which makes it one of the oldest bookshops in town.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Press

I like reading series so yes when the series ends I may have been with it for 6 months or more as I only read a little every night. The book Hangover is real, I have tried picking up another series similar to the last one and this leads to realizing that I needed something new, not an old substitute.

Happened to me with many of the fantasy series I've read. I just enjoy immersing myself in a different world and letting the story unfold knowing nothing. Unfortunately they almost always have an extremely disappointing and swift ending compared to the rest of the saga. The frequent main character moves to the wilderness to live out the rest of their days as a hermit ending is overdone and always feels rushed.

Kelly Luce- Three Scenarios In Which Hana Sasaki Grows A Tail

Mickey 7 felt too upbeat and jokey to be even adjacent to horror for me. And I couldn’t get past some of the author’s very strange choices with the protagonist.

For the novelty alone this should be high on the list. But once you get there it's a surprisingly well stocked shop with a ton of variety. Bought two books there a week ago

I came here to recommend The Expanse books, my favorite space horror. Leviathan Wakes is a sci-fi masterpiece.

Oh also I hated how the film left out the Remy storyline completely. It was the most graphic description of the war in this book — Ravensbruck concentration camp.

Fake London -NJB

Same — I would gladly read a series.

My book club read this maybe about 10 years ago. We all enjoyed it!

Ah yes good old Mr Lamb! Haha, I love both.

Ya, that's a dopamine crash. Happens whenever something good is going on and ends. Our dopamine levels drop a lot, but slowly rise back to normal later on

Yes, I agree.. a five year occupation — children sent away at eight years of age would have been in their teens when they returned, perhaps to find that their family had perished in the occupation.

I also think about how it goes on about the Germans' point of view — they came treating it like a holiday. Eventually they starved with the rest of the villagers but not quite so badly; I remember the mention of the German soldier who smashed a cat's head against a wall, skinned it and cooked and ate it on the spot.

Also Remy's storyline was really interesting and painful. It had been the first time I heard of Ravensbruck.