Angela

The Netherlands🇳🇱, 23y/o, avid fantasy reader,

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Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)

A Natural History of Dragons (The Memoirs of Lady Trent, #1)

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Angela

May 31, 2025

4.0

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

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Inferno

Dante Alighieri

Of the great poets, Dante is one of the most elusive and therefore one of the most difficult to adequately render into English verse. In the Inferno, Dante not only judges sin but strives to understand it so that the reader can as well. With this major new translation, Anthony Esolen has succeeded brilliantly in marrying sense with sound, poetry with meaning, capturing both the poem’s line-by-line vigor and its allegorically and philosophically exacting structure, yielding an Inferno that will be as popular with general readers as with teachers and students. For, as Dante insists, without a trace of sentimentality or intellectual compromise, even Hell is a work of divine art. Esolen also provides a critical Introduction and endnotes, plus appendices containing Dante’s most important sources—from Virgil to Saint Thomas Aquinas and other Catholic theologians—that deftly illuminate the religious universe the poet inhabited.

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MagPiper

Let's grow this collection!

I'm so delighted this quest is live and populated! My goal is to curate a reading list of all various speculative worlds filled with queer characters and gender-diverse cultures. So to that end, I've got a few questions for you: 1) What's your favorite LGBTQ+ book in a fantasy/sci-fi/speculative genre? 2) Which upcoming book of the same sort are you most excited for? And, if you're a long-time reader: 3) Which book would you recommend a first-time reader of the genre? 4) Which hidden gem would you recommend for a fellow seasoned reader? Thanks for joining, and I can't wait to read and discuss books with you all!

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Daisy Jones & The Six

Taylor Jenkins Reid

Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock ’n’ roll she loves most. By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things. Also getting noticed is The Six, a band led by the brooding Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out she’s pregnant, and with the pressure of impending fatherhood and fame, Billy goes a little wild on the road. Daisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes that the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legend. The making of that legend is chronicled in this riveting and unforgettable novel, written as an oral history of one of the biggest bands of the seventies. Taylor Jenkins Reid is a talented writer who takes her work to a new level with Daisy Jones & The Six, brilliantly capturing a place and time in an utterly distinctive voice.

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Mickey7 (Mickey7, #1)

Edward Ashton

Dying isn’t any fun…but at least it’s a living. Mickey7 is an Expendable: a disposable employee on a human expedition sent to colonize the ice world Niflheim. Whenever there’s a mission that’s too dangerous—even suicidal—the crew turns to Mickey. After one iteration dies, a new body is regenerated with most of his memories intact. After six deaths, Mickey7 understands the terms of his deal…and why it was the only colonial position unfilled when he took it. On a fairly routine scouting mission, Mickey7 goes missing and is presumed dead. By the time he returns to the colony base, surprisingly helped back by native life, Mickey7’s fate has been sealed. There’s a new clone, Mickey8, reporting for Expendable duties. The idea of duplicate Expendables is universally loathed, and if caught, they will likely be thrown into the recycler for protein. Mickey7 must keep his double a secret from the rest of the colony. Meanwhile, life on Niflheim is getting worse. The atmosphere is unsuitable for humans, food is in short supply, and terraforming is going poorly. The native species are growing curious about their new neighbors, and that curiosity has Commander Marshall very afraid. Ultimately, the survival of both lifeforms will come down to Mickey7. That is, if he can just keep from dying for good.

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These Burning Stars (The Kindom Trilogy, #1)

Bethany Jacobs

A dangerous cat-and-mouse quest for revenge. An empire that spans star systems, built on the bones of a genocide. A carefully hidden secret that could collapse worlds, hunted by three women with secrets of their own. All collide in this twisty, explosive space opera debut, perfect for readers of Arkady Martine and Kameron Hurley. Jun Ironway—hacker, con artist, and occasional thief—has gotten her hands on a piece of contraband that could set her up for proof that implicates the powerful Nightfoot family in a planet-wide genocide seventy-five years ago. The Nightfoots control the precious sevite that fuels interplanetary travel through three star systems. And someone is sure to pay handsomely for anything that could break their hold. Of course, anything valuable is also dangerous. The Kindom, the ruling power of the star systems, is inextricably tied up in the Nightfoots’ monopoly—and they can’t afford to let Jun expose the truth. They task two of their most brutal clerics with hunting her preternaturally stoic Chono, and brilliant hothead Esek, who also happens to be the heir to the Nightfoot empire. But Chono and Esek are haunted in turn by a figure from their shared past, known only as Six. What Six truly wants is anyone’s guess. And the closer they get to finding Jun, the surer Chono is that Six is manipulating them all. It's a game that could destroy their lives and devastate the stars. And they have no choice but to see it through to the end.

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Magical empires, far-flung galaxies, robotic dystopias, haunted academies—queerness belongs in every world.

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Read-Along Suggestion: Juneteenth

I know we’re currently doing a Pride read-along for June, but I was wondering if there’s been any thought about doing a Juneteenth read-along as well? I know Juneteenth is more U.S.-specific, but I think it could be a great opportunity for readers to learn more and expand their reading. Books like Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi, The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson, or On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed could spark some really meaningful conversations.

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Angela

Thoughts from 46% (page 89)

Recommended to really take your time with this one. Because of the language use it is a hard book to read, but it is greatly interesting. It just takes a lot of thinking and figuring stuff out

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caait

Rating A DNF? 👀

I've seen a few videos on my TikTok fyp discussing rating books you DNF. I haven't ever, especially because I'm only getting 1-2 chapters in sometimes. But, I saw a comment saying being able to get through a book is obviously the objective, so why wouldn't you leave a rating about why you couldn't do that? That got me thinking about it again for the books I do get a decent bit through (I recently got 50% into a DNF). I think Pagebound also provides a unique opportunity to give that feedback in the feed rather than a review. What do you think? Are you rating DNFs? Only rating them if you get to a certain point or if it's THAT bad?

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robyn00

Thoughts from 100%

Why on earth is it called an EAR of corn.

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Quinnyl

Before Reading Thoughts

This has been sitting on my shelf for a while and I’m excited to finally pick it up! I’ve heard it’s similar to “I Who Have Never Known Men” which I loved and still think about, so that’s extra exciting!

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wildestfire

Reincarnation as a book character

Who would you like to be reincarnated as and from which book and why?

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Black Tide Son (The Winter Sea, #2)

H.M. Long

Swashbuckling adventure on the high-seas, full of magic, betrayal, redemption and fearsome women, in the second book of the Winter Sea series, for readers of Adrienne Young and Naomi Novik. A captured pirate reveals shocking news to Mary and Samuel that sends them in urgent pursuit of Samuel’s twin brother, Benedict, but their search uncovers much more than they bargained for. While evading a cunning new foe, Mary and Samuel must navigate the complexities of their own growing bond as they launch a rescue mission within one of the most secure fortresses on the Mereish Coast.

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DNF