AquaPhantasia

Adhd Fantasy lover who is trying to get back into reading regularly She/her Pan ace

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Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)

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Readers who game - where are you? 🎮📚

I’ve been thinking a lot about the overlap between people who devour books and people who sink hours into video games.

If you’re a reader and a gamer, I’m curious: • What are you playing right now? • Do you gravitate toward story-heavy games, cozy games, chaotic multiplayer, RPGs? • Do you feel like gaming scratches the same itch as reading - or a totally different one?

And if you don’t game, I’d love to know why. No judgment - just genuinely interested in how these hobbies intersect (or don’t).

I’m fascinated by the reader/gamer venn diagram. Where do you land?

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ruin the trope >:))))

a few weeks ago someone made a post about ruining book titles by changing one word, and this combined with my current read has inspired this post hehe so ruin a trope by only changing one word >:))) i’ll start: instead of only one bed there’s only one toilet 😔

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Non Russian Slavic books

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Book about or by authors from Slavic countries that aren't Russia!

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The Fealty of Monsters (The Fealty of Monsters, Volume 1)

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Feb 16, 2026

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Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 5.0

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Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

Emily Nagoski

This groundbreaking book explains why women experience burnout differently than men—and provides a simple, science-based plan to help women minimize stress, manage emotions, and live a more joyful life. Burnout. Many women in America have experienced it. What’s expected of women and what it’s really like to be a woman in today’s world are two very different things—and women exhaust themselves trying to close the gap between them. How can you “love your body” when every magazine cover has ten diet tips for becoming “your best self”? How do you “lean in” at work when you’re already operating at 110 percent and aren’t recognized for it? How can you live happily and healthily in a sexist world that is constantly telling you you’re too fat, too needy, too noisy, and too selfish? Sisters Emily Nagoski, PhD, and Amelia Nagoski, DMA, are here to help end the cycle of feeling overwhelmed and exhausted. Instead of asking us to ignore the very real obstacles and societal pressures that stand between women and well-being, they explain with compassion and optimism what we’re up against—and show us how to fight back. In these pages you’ll learn • what you can do to complete the biological stress cycle—and return your body to a state of relaxation • how to manage the “monitor” in your brain that regulates the emotion of frustration • how the Bikini Industrial Complex makes it difficult for women to love their bodies—and how to defend yourself against it • why rest, human connection, and befriending your inner critic are keys to recovering and preventing burnout With the help of eye-opening science, prescriptive advice, and helpful worksheets and exercises, all women will find something transformative in these pages—and will be empowered to create positive change. Emily and Amelia aren’t here to preach the broad platitudes of expensive self-care or insist that we strive for the impossible goal of “having it all.” Instead, they tell us that we are enough, just as we are—and that wellness, true wellness, is within our reach.

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Blood Over Bright Haven

M.L. Wang

Magic has made the city of Tiran an industrial utopia, but magic has a cost—and the collectors have come calling. An orphan since the age of four, Sciona has always had more to prove than her fellow students. For twenty years, she has devoted every waking moment to the study of magic, fueled by a mad desire to achieve the impossible: to be the first woman ever admitted to the High Magistry. When she finally claws her way up the ranks to become a highmage, however, she finds that her challenges have just begun. Her new colleagues will stop at nothing to let her know she is unwelcome, beginning with giving her a janitor instead of a qualified lab assistant. What neither Sciona nor her peers realize is that her taciturn assistant was once more than a janitor; before he mopped floors for the mages, Thomil was a nomadic hunter from beyond Tiran’s magical barrier. Ten years have passed since he survived the perilous crossing that killed his family. But working for a highmage, he sees the opportunity to finally understand the forces that decimated his tribe, drove him from his homeland, and keep the Tiranish in power. Through their fractious relationship, mage and outsider uncover an ancient secret that could change the course of magic forever—if it doesn’t get them killed first. Sciona has defined her life by the pursuit of truth, but how much is one truth worth with the fate of civilization in the balance? A standalone dark academia brimming with mystery, tragedy, and the damning echoes of the past. For fans of Leigh Bardugo, V. E. Schwab, and Fullmetal Alchemist. (Content warnings for gore, sexual assault, and suicidal ideation)

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DWJ WHAT THE ACTUAL FRAG

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Booktube recs that don't make booktok vids

By that what I mean is having their main type of videos be about booktok drama, hot takes, drama again, "booktok lied to me" etc

I find those type of videos annoying and overdone so if anyone has recs for booktube channels that don't really dwell into drama like that I'd appreciate it

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Weekly Bookworm Question

Hi friends! I thought that it might be nice to have a weekly ~fun book related question for discussion/vibes/getting to chat with everyone! (I’m in an online book group that does this and I really love the spin off convos and getting to know everyone!) If people are into this, happy to keep this going next week! ~~I’m an extrovert and love any excuse to chat!~~

For today: If the main characters from the last three books you finished were abandoned on a desert island, who would survive the longest and/or thrive?

(I will write my answer in a comment!)

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Booktube recs that don't make booktok vids

By that what I mean is having their main type of videos be about booktok drama, hot takes, drama again, "booktok lied to me" etc

I find those type of videos annoying and overdone so if anyone has recs for booktube channels that don't really dwell into drama like that I'd appreciate it

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Blood Over Bright Haven

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Non Russian Slavic books

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