avatarPagebound Royalty Badge

Alanna

🤗Your friendly local anarchist 🧑‍🎨Freelance Artist/Illustrator 🪴Making pottery, quilts and 🪱a nice home for my worm friends 🫂Trying to build community Toronto

18478 points

0% overlap
Gothic Literature
Intro to Poetry
Fictional(?) Dystopian Societies
Queer Horror
Justice for All
Medieval Times
My Taste
Why Art?
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
The River Has Roots
How to Read Now
Hello Sunshine (A Graphic Novel)
Reading...
The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook: A Proven Way to Accept Yourself, Build Inner Strength, and Thrive
5%
Anarchism and the Black Revolution: The Definitive Edition (Black Critique)
59%
Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)
9%
My Darling Dreadful Thing
31%
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
44%

Alanna commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

2h
  • what’s the book you think your PB friends associate with you the most?

    question’s in the title! what book, just based on how much you love it/how much you yap about it/etc etc etc pick your own criteria, do you think your PB friends would see and think immediately “oh yeah, [insert your username]!!”? for me,

    Bm6gg07.jpg

    the fact that i made this in the first place really says it all for my answer honestly

    61
    comments 153
    Reply
  • Alanna made progress on...

    5h
    Anarchism and the Black Revolution: The Definitive Edition (Black Critique)

    Anarchism and the Black Revolution: The Definitive Edition (Black Critique)

    Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

    59%
    7
    0
    Reply

    Alanna commented on a post

    6h
  • To the Lighthouse
    First DNF of the year 💔

    I hate to dnf a book but I just can’t keep up with this one 😢 the stream of consciousness is so overwhelming, I have no idea what’s going on tbh. Maybe I’ll get back to it in a few months!

    3
    comments 2
    Reply
  • Alanna made progress on...

    9h
    Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)

    Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)

    Robin Hobb

    9%
    9
    0
    Reply

    Alanna commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

    9h
  • We Are All Villians

    Hello hoomans! Good morning from my side of the world. Can't believe we are halfway through May. I hope everyone's reading is going well.

    Have you ever read a book where you paused and say: you know what that's a valid reason to be a villian? 😅😂

    So tell me, if you were to be a villian in a story what will be your origin story? 😆 NOTE: It can only because of inconvenience/pettiness. Nothing too serious like someone died. For example: all your ex-boyfriends keep bringing you pads when you ask them to buy you tampons. 😂😂

    For me it will be, my barista keeps making my iced coffee watered down with barely any ice and too much milk. 🤫😮‍💨 OR telling me my dog is just a "dog" and not my baby. 😒

    PS. As they say, we're all villians on someone elses story. 😉

    41
    comments 89
    Reply
  • Alanna commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

    12h
  • A new book in the darling devil's series

    ITS OFFICIAL🥳

    Cammie is getting her own book!!

    As someone who absolutely loves and adores every book in the darling devil's series, I can not wait for this book.

    Have you read the series? (100% recommend) What did you think about the darlings? Who was your favourite character or book? Are you as excited as I am?

    The Darling devil's series by Alexandra Moody🩷

    -3
    comments 2
    Reply
  • Alanna commented on PagesOfEmma's update

    PagesOfEmma made progress on...

    12h
    Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)

    Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)

    Robin Hobb

    10%
    24
    13
    Reply

    Alanna commented on a post

    12h
  • Not "A Nation of Immigrants": Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion
    Thoughts from chapter 1
    spoilers

    View spoiler

    11
    comments 19
    Reply
  • Alanna commented on Alanna's update

    Alanna made progress on...

    16h
    We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

    We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

    Mariame Kaba

    44%
    18
    3
    Reply

    Alanna made progress on...

    16h
    We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

    We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

    Mariame Kaba

    44%
    18
    3
    Reply

    Alanna commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

    18h
  • Good reviewers but bad writers?

    So something I noticed is that a lot of people whose careers are focused on book reviews and discussion don't end up getting high recognition for the books they've written themselves

    The most recent example is Cindy Pham whose debut got a mostly negative response

    Which I find really interesting considering Cindy's videos do a decent job at dissecting bad writing (even though to me at least Cindy focuses too much on line to line critiques than the full book overall, but I only watch their videos time to time)

    And then I remembered book/writing creators like Jenna Moreci (I found one channel that dissed her book in like 6 seperate hour long videos) and others also get mostly mid receptions of their own books

    In my opinion, I think that while the skill of dissecting someone's writing is still connected to the act of writing itself, it is still a seperate skill, and doesn't mean one is automatically good at both, but people think it does so they write a book regardless of their skill level

    And I'm not trying to say that "content creators can't write books" because xjz wrote iron widow and is a youtuber and I've seen a lot of love for iron widow

    I just think that people who percieve themselves as skilled in a thing don't always know how weak their skills are

    What do you all think?

    57
    comments 35
    Reply
  • Alanna TBR'd a book

    1d
    Hijab Butch Blues

    Hijab Butch Blues

    Lamya H.

    15
    0
    Reply