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Jake99

he/him | 32 | 🏳️‍⚧️ & 💖💜💙 | ND | 📚: transmasc; polar & mountain horror; ghosts; queers in space; dark academia; camps & road trips; historical mystery/horror/supernatural; mecha

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Dark Academia
Dia de los Muertos 2025
My Taste
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
All the White Spaces
The Forest of Stolen Girls
Die Wand
The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
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A Man Called OveThe Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)Pride and Prejudice

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  • Cell
    Thoughts from 50% (page 227) - let’s talk gay representation

    CW: homophobia

    So there’s a gay character in this book and I thought it was interesting the way King introduced him — reasonably subtly, saying things like “it was a house that looked like a woman didn’t live there” or something. His homosexuality is mentioned a few times throughout the first half of the book with a kind of “isn’t that quaint” tone. Things like “Tom can’t drive a manual transmission” or “his mustache is neatly trimmed”. But then about halfway through, there’s a line that made me double take.

    “She’s like Ahab on the prod for Moby,” the Head remarked. “Eminem may have been a jerk, but he was right about that guy,” Tom said morosely.

    Ok, so I vaguely knew Eminem and Moby had beef, but what did Eminem actually say? Turns out he called Moby a f** in a song! So what the hell is Tom, the story’s gay character, supposed to be agreeing with? My charitable interpretation is that King didn’t know about that specific lyric, I guess, and just put in his pop culture reference where he could fit it. But it’s a weird decision, isn’t it?

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  • Jake99 commented on Jake99's review of A Midsummer Night's Dream (Folger Shakespeare Library)

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  • A Midsummer Night's Dream (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    Jake99
    Oct 26, 2025
    3.5
    Enjoyment: 3.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 3.0Plot: 3.5
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    Some vibes, four plots. A bit of an everything sandwich with all the different things going on. For some reason it's giving parody movie, especially considering the play-within-the-play, he just has to be making fun of something with that one.

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  • A Midsummer Night's Dream (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    Jake99
    Oct 26, 2025
    3.5
    Enjoyment: 3.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 3.0Plot: 3.5
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    Some vibes, four plots. A bit of an everything sandwich with all the different things going on. For some reason it's giving parody movie, especially considering the play-within-the-play, he just has to be making fun of something with that one.

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  • Jake99 commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

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  • How many books do you bring on a trip?

    I'm currently packing for a short 3 day stay at my friend's house to dog sit while she is away and have gotten to the inevitable part of the packing experience where I need to decide how many and which books to bring. As a mood reader that is a bit of a struggle and I know that I'm pretty likely to bring twice as many books as I'll probably even start.

    But this led me to think of the question, How many books do you usually bring on a tripp, is there a planned tbr or do you just go off of vibes? Maybe you bring a little bit of everything for variety? I'm curious how do you pack your reading for a trip?

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  • Jake99 commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

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  • browsing books via genre?

    i'm fairly new to pagebound! is there a feature where we can browse/discover books via publish era, genre, etc? i like the discovering books tab a LOT better than goodreads or any other book tracker but i'm still missing that browsing in a bookstore feeling bc i can't search or browse via genre 😭

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  • Winter Picks ❄️☃️

    Does anyone else feel like a kid waiting for Christmas waiting for the next round of Seasonal Readalongs to come out or do I have a problem? 🙂

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    I mean I get it, but it's not my vibe. I liked the idea, but not the exectution. Heads up for graphic depictions of violence/death as well as sexual acts.

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