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BlackRose2400

Hello, my name is Angie. I love reading. I love writing. I also love watching anime and listening to music!

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My Taste
Nineteen Minutes
Falling Kingdoms (Falling Kingdoms, #1)
Sword Art Online: Aincrad 1 (Sword Art Online Light Novel, #1)
Naruto, Vol. 1: Uzumaki Naruto (Naruto, #1)
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BlackRose2400 commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

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  • When your TV taste and Book taste have absolutely nothing in common

    I’ve seen so many people asking for book recommendations based on their favourite TV shows or films, and it made me realise that, for me, those tastes don’t overlap at all.

    Take Gilmore Girls, for example. I adore it, and I constantly see people looking for books with the same cosy, comforting vibe (but honestly, that would bore me to tears in book form). What I love about Gilmore Girls, and about most of the shows I watch, is that they don’t demand my full attention. I can have them playing in the background while I snack, play with the cat, scroll on my phone, or drift in and out of the story without losing much.

    Books are the complete opposite for me. I need them to be consuming. I want to feel like my face is being physically pulled into the pages by some invisible force. If a book feels too low-stakes or “easy watching,” I lose interest immediately.

    The same applies to Studio Ghibli films. I’m a massive Ghibli nerd, but for me the magic comes from the animation, atmosphere, and music more than the narratives themselves. Those stories work because of how they feel audiovisually.

    Ironically, my taste in books makes for terrible TV viewing. I love bleak, grim, hopeless-as-hell narratives when I read, but I struggle to watch stories like that on screen. Reading feels more controllable somehow; I can slow down, skim, pause, imagine things differently, soften or intensify scenes in my head. It feels like I get to co-direct the experience. With TV, I don’t have that distance, and I often end up disengaging or literally just looking away.

    So my TBR and my TBW (to-be-watched) are wildly different worlds, and what works for me in one medium almost never works in the other.

    Does anyone else feel this way? Or are your book and TV tastes more transferable?

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    BlackRose2400 commented on NachoCheese's review of Lost Lambs

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  • Lost Lambs
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    May 06, 2026
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    Instead of writing a review, here are some quotes from this novel: (positive, if you like dark/dry humor than this is for you)

    Bud could not pinpoint when their yeses became noes—or worse, I guesses, maybes, whatevers—when passion gave way to indifference.

    ”Let me ask you a question: Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy?”

    ”Who’s going to college? Abigail will marry rich, Harper will go to prison, and after high school I have to surrender my life unto God.”

    ”Are you speaking to someone regularly?” “Like in general?” “Like a therapist.”

    ”Could you try a little harder to mask your midlife crisis from our children?” asked Bud.

    ”He’d tried to call upon God but the line was dead, nothing but a divine dial tone.”

    ”Says she’s on the no-fly list.”

    Why kill myself? thought Louise. If life is nothing and death is nothing, why make a lateral move?

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  • BlackRose2400 commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

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  • And nothing could go wrong... Oh no it all went wrong!

    Tell me your bookish disasters!

    For me, a couple months ago my electric dehumidifier decided to unload all of its water (no it wasn't full) and it flooded 2 of my book cases. And now they're wonky like a banana and make expensive sounding creaking/popping/cracking noises sometimes despite being thoroughly dried out... And I'm scared of my books being in the bookcases but I'm 🌠broke🌠 and can't afford to buy new shelves

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  • BlackRose2400 commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

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  • Give me your bookish hot takes 😏

    Do you have a strong bookish opinion about something?

    I want to hear them all! I especially want to hear some hot takes that are quirky/niche/diabolical/outlandish

    Let’s go!

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  • Following people system!

    Hi! I was just now seeing other people accounts to follow and realised that most of the time I follow them because they have one of my favorite books in the My Taste part of their profile! Another thing is if I have over 10% of overlap. And now I am curious to know how do you decide who you follow! Do you just follow someone you interact with? Do you consider following people with less than a specific number of overlap??

    P.S.: I'm loving your replies and yes I also do a lot of things you do!! 👀

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  • What's your goal this week?

    Do you have any reading specific goals this week? 📖 📚

    Examples: Finishing 3 chapters Cleaning up my Libby holds Going to my local bookstore Spending [insert time) reading

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    Enjoyment: 3.0Quality: 3.0Characters: 3.0Plot: 2.5
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    a rootin tootin good time - in more ways than one 😉

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  • Page count question

    Hi folks, I'm a bit confused about page counts and hope you can advise. When I change a book status to reading, pb asks me for the page count - is there a way I can get it to use the default count? Unless I am reading the print copy and have it right in front of me at that exact moment, I don't know the page count so I just look up the default. Or, usually I am lazy and I just leave it blank. Secondly, is there a way I can update the page count once I've started reading? It seems that if I don't enter a specific page count, it doesn't count my pages read in my stats.

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