FeralAcademic
Dorian. A modern maenad. Gnostic rabblerouser, part time hater, lover of terrible protagonists and niche theological texts. I have no excuse for how I am.
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FeralAcademic commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Think codes and puzzles built into the text. I've heard of House of Leaves - does anyone know other books that are similarly format-bending? I don't mind the genre but I think interactive stories are super cool. I was reading some old middle-grade detective novels that had hidden ciphers built in, and kept thinking how much fun it would be to work out another sort of book like that.
6FeralAcademic commented on rubying's update
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The LSAT Is Easy: Crush the LSAT with common sense.
Ben Olson
4FeralAcademic commented on horrorfrozen's update
Post from the Inferno forum
I didn’t know who Semiramis was and went to look her up and she was kind of a badass? And as I read down I got so confused as to why she is in this book labeled as lustful and depraved until I reached the point I ALWAYS reach in entries about powerful women from long ago that stated “Although negative portrayals did exist, generally, Semiramis was viewed positively before the rise of Christianity. During the Middle Ages, she became associated with promiscuity and lustfulness.”
Looks at the camera directly. I mean am I really surprised? All three of these figures named are known for incestuous relationships according to mythology. Semiramis is the only one who seems to be a real human historical figure OUTSIDE mythology, Shammuramat . There’s no basis for it, most of these legends came about years after her death, possibly because of an earlier legend where she killed her lovers and never remarried out of fears of losing the throne.
0FeralAcademic commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
it’s an avid reader, i tend to get asked what my favorite “genre” of book is (and i find this very hard to answer as i am somewhat of a mood reader). but at the end of the day, there are two genre’s that i will always go back to (and they are opposite of each other, hence the dichotomy part): hockey romance – specifically helena hunting – and historical (contemporary) fiction (taylor jenkins reid, kristin hannah)
with that being said, what is everyone’s “genre dichotomy”?
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Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)
Marissa Meyer
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Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature
Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian
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Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature
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Handle with Care: A Novel
Marybeth Mayhew Whalen
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Frankenstein Remix
Works inspired by Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus. The emojis reference Luigi Galvani’s galvanism experiments to make frog legs move in isolation which lead to the concept of “animal electricity” that inspired Shelly’s novel.
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FeralAcademic commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Today's question from your local badge gremlin...
Do you have a Pagebound Badge you are currently reading towards? Or is there a badge design you really like that you really like the design off. But not the genre?
I just started Razorblade Tears for the Spring Reading Challenge. I'm hoping for the pretty sparkly 🦋.
I really like the Russian Lit 101 and Flights of Fire badges. But neither of the topics appeal to me.
81FeralAcademic commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
everyone had a mortal instrument series phase, right? like everyone went shadow hunters mode xtreme, right?
ya was such a specific genre at that time and all of the books are so nostalgic to think about. i always wonder if i’d still like them if i reread them as an adult. i’m not sure if i want to because i don’t know if they’ll hold up. has anyone reread a book from their teenage years as an adult and still really loved it? what was it and why? i’m so curious!
24FeralAcademic commented on readyordot's review of Trad Wife: A Novel
What a satisfying ending.
1FeralAcademic commented on a post
By the way room temperature water is absorbed fastest by the body, but he isn’t necessarily wrong about the ice cold water being good for exercise, just like. You drink ice cold water DURING exercise to bring down core temp and then lukewarm water after because it’s gentler on the stomach and is absorbed faster. And Gatorade is best AFTER exercise cause it can replenish electrolytes.
Anyway RIP Patrick you would have loved Fiji. And in another life maybe you were a VSCO girl. Now you’d probably be drinking alkaline water I’m sure.
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