AFlockOfFuries

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Insurrecto

Gina Apostol

Histories and personalities collide in this literary tour-de-force about the Philippines' present and America's past by the PEN Open Book Award–winning author of Gun Dealer's Daughter. Two women, a Filipino translator and an American filmmaker, go on a road trip in Duterte’s Philippines, collaborating and clashing in the writing of a film script about a massacre during the Philippine-American War. Chiara is working on a film about an incident in Balangiga, Samar, in 1901, when Filipino revolutionaries attacked an American garrison, and in retaliation American soldiers created “a howling wilderness” of the surrounding countryside. Magsalin reads Chiara’s film script and writes her own version. Insurrecto contains within its dramatic action two rival scripts from the filmmaker and the translator—one about a white photographer, the other about a Filipino schoolteacher. Within the spiraling voices and narrative layers of Insurrecto are stories of women—artists, lovers, revolutionaries, daughters—finding their way to their own truths and histories. Using interlocking voices and a kaleidoscopic structure, the novel is startlingly innovative, meditative, and playful. Insurrecto masterfully questions and twists narrative in the manner of Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler, Julio Cortázar’s Hopscotch, and Nabokov’s Pale Fire. Apostol pushes up against the limits of fiction in order to recover the atrocity in Balangiga, and in so doing, she shows us the dark heart of an untold and forgotten war that would shape the next century of Philippine and American history.

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Metafiction & playing with form

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Books that play with the "book" as a medium or are otherwise self-reflexive/meta.

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December’s Done, January’s Just Begun

Your favourite monthly reading round up is back to start the year.

What was your December: • favourite books: • least favourite books: • total books read:

For January: • What are you planning to read ? • Are there any books releasing you're interested in? • do you have a reading goal for the month?

Bonus Questions for the New Year:

• if you had to read one book from 2025 once a year every year forever, what would it be? • what book from 2025 would you remove from existence?

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My Year of Meats

Ruth Ozeki

A cross-cultural tale of two women brought together by the intersections of television and industrial agriculture, fertility and motherhood, life and love—the breakout hit by the celebrated author of A Tale for the Time Being Ruth Ozeki’s mesmerizing debut novel has captivated readers and reviewers worldwide. When documentarian Jane Takagi-Little finally lands a job producing a Japanese television show that just happens to be sponsored by an American meat-exporting business, she uncovers some unsavory truths about love, fertility, and a dangerous hormone called DES. Soon she will also cross paths with Akiko Ueno, a beleaguered Japanese housewife struggling to escape her overbearing husband. Hailed by USA Today as “rare and provocative” and awarded the Kirayama Prize for Literature of the Pacific Rim, My Year of Meats is a modern-day take on Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle for fans of Michael Pollan, Margaret Atwood, and Barbara Kingsolver.

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Bat Eater

Kylie Lee Baker

Cora Zeng is a crime scene cleaner, washing away the remains of brutal murders and suicides in Chinatown. The bloody messes don't bother her, not when she's already witnessed the most horrific thing possible: her sister being pushed in front of a train. Before fleeing the scene, the murderer whispered two words: bat eater. Months pass, the killer is never caught, and Cora can barely keep herself together. She pushes away all feelings, disregards the bite marks that appear on her coffee table, and won't take her aunt's advice to prepare for the Hungry Ghost Festival, when the gates of hell open. Cora tries to ignore the rising dread in her stomach, even when she and her weird co-workers begin finding bat carcasses at their crime scene clean-ups. But Cora can't ignore the fact that all their recent clean-ups have been the bodies of East Asian women. Soon Cora will learn: you can't just ignore hungry ghosts.

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Your challenges for 2026 ?

I'm looking for some new ideas to add to my little challenges.

I'm doing the ABC challenge, the rainbow covers, one month = one shelf (where I have to read a book from that shelf (shelf picked at random)), some bingos,...

I'm looking for that kind of challenges that are not too "restrictive", if you would like to share yours or the ones you'll participate in, please do 🫶

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What are your super niche bookish pet peeves?

I've seen a couple of these posts float around, but none in the past couple of days (or rather, I can't tell exactly when the last one was posted, but I'm assuming a week or more ago?) so: tell me, what are your niche bookish pet peeves? I have two: First: People calling any oldish book a "classic". Second: People basing their opinions of a work on a personal misconception which could easily be resolved with a google search (specifically I saw a pin about the Aeneid and everyone was complaining that Virgil "basically copied the Iliad and the Odyssey" and that "the Aeneid therefore sucks/is worthless", and as a reader and classics students, I felt it was my moral duty to go on a ran- ahem, educate the people in the comments about some of the misunderstandings that they were basing their opinions off of and hereby influencing the other people who read their comments.) Your turn :)

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Bronze: Finished 5 Main Quest books.

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Dec 30, 2025

4.5

Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 4.0Characters: 4.0Plot: 4.0

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I really liked this one. The setting was very compelling - a monastery that is safe from the pollution and poisonous air brought on by climate disasters, seemingly because of the "sacrifices" made by its inhabitants. I'm totally into Catholic iconography-inspired occultism and cli-fi, so this was RIGHT up my alley. While the horror was great, I was surprised by how touching I found The Unworthy. In a postapocalyptic world ravaged by climate disasters, among humans at their worst and behind walls of violent institutions of old, Bazterrica told a few really beautiful love stories. I was super touched by the emotional core that developed over the second half of the novel, and that's exactly what was missing in Tender is the Flesh in my opinion, so I liked The Unworthy much more.

What can I say? It's a really good, quick read and I'm glad this was my book to close out the year.

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Kindle vs Physical book

How do you all decide whether or not to read an ebook or physical book?! I recieved a kindle for Christmas and have found myself neglecting my physical shelves 😫

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Thoughts from 94% (page 229, end of Pt6) - logistics?

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The Unworthy

Agustina Bazterrica

The long-awaited new novel from the author of global sensation Tender Is the Flesh: a thrilling work of literary horror about a woman cloistered in a secretive, violent religious order, while outside the world has fallen into chaos. From her cell in a mysterious convent, a woman writes the story of her life in whatever she can find—discarded ink, dirt, and even her own blood. A lower member of the Sacred Sisterhood, deemed an unworthy, she dreams of ascending to the ranks of the Enlightened at the center of the convent and of pleasing the foreboding Superior Sister. Outside, the world is plagued by catastrophe—cities are submerged underwater, electricity and the internet are nonexistent, and bands of survivors fight and forage in a cruel, barren landscape. Inside, the narrator is controlled, punished, but safe. But when a stranger makes her way past the convent walls, joining the ranks of the unworthy, she forces the narrator to consider her long-buried past—and what she may be overlooking about the Enlightened. As the two women grow closer, the narrator is increasingly haunted by questions about her own past, the environmental future, and her present life inside the convent. How did she get to the Sacred Sisterhood? Why can’t she remember her life before? And what really happens when a woman is chosen as one of the Enlightened? A searing, dystopian tale about climate crisis, ideological extremism, and the tidal pull of our most violent, exploitative instincts, this is another unforgettable novel from a master of feminist horror.

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12 recs for 2026

I saw other people do this and thought it was a nice idea, so: I want to read 12 books recommended by 12 different people, but since I don't have that many friends who actively read, I figured I'd ask here on Pagebound! Please only one rec per person (it's gonna be hard, I know), and feel free to use the comments to ask for recs yourself of course!!

Below are my reading preferences so you can actually gauge what you might want to rec if you want ⬇️:

Genres I like ❤️📚: litfic, sci-fi, horror, historical fiction, fantasy Genres I don't read 🚫: romance, thriller, romantasy

2025 favs ⭐️:

Piranesi
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
Erasure (or James, I really liked both)
Never Let Me Go
Chain-Gang All-Stars

2025 flops 👎:

The Silent Patient
The Castaway and the Witch
Katabasis (at least so far)

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