LanieBun

Hi! My top genres are romance, literary fiction, and fantasy. I am always open to chat and add more books for my endless TBR.

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Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

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Combating mood reading??

How do you guys push through when you’re losing your mood for a genre? I have a couple more romance books I want to read for February, but now that Valentine’s Day is over, I’m slowly checking out!! Should I just wait until next year lol?

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Book Recs Needed!

I've recently been able to drag my teenage sister into reading, and I'm determined to keep her in the world of books and eventually love reading. I gave her The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer and she drank it up and loved it. So now I need some more book recs that she would love. My criteria are any genre with romance, clean, with no smash scenes even barely descriptive ones. Kiss scenes are fine but no smashing, I'm trying to not expose her to that. If anyone has any book recs, I need them desperately.

Update: I interrogated her a bit more about her dream book, it needs to be something action-y or with adventure with a side of romance, not all romance and not all action. I'm slowly introducing her to the concept of dystopia as well, and if it helps the recs, she read The Missing series by Margaret Peterson Haddix and loved it.

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How many books do/should your fav BookTubers read a year?

I work with video and I've always wanted to create video content for myself as an outlet. I've never felt that I read enough books to make BookTube content, as I mostly watch people who are super, super well read on there, but yapping on here is giving me confidence. I've set myself an arbitrary number of books, and if I hit that number I plan to make a yearly wrap up at least, but I was wondering what that looks like for you, how many books do you think a BookTuber should be reading, rough ballpark?

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Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

Trevor Noah

The memoir of one man’s coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed. Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents’ indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal him away. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa’s tyrannical white rule, Trevor and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle. Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man’s relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious mother—his teammate, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life.

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Feb 17, 2026

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The Color Purple

Alice Walker

Read the original inspiration for the new, boldly reimagined film from producers Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg, starring Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, and Fantasia Barrino. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance and silence. Through a series of letters spanning twenty years, first from Celie to God, then the sisters to each other despite the unknown, the novel draws readers into its rich and memorable portrayals of Celie, Nettie, Shug Avery and Sofia and their experience. The Color Purple broke the silence around domestic and sexual abuse, narrating the lives of women through their pain and struggle, companionship and growth, resilience and bravery. Deeply compassionate and beautifully imagined, Alice Walker's epic carries readers on a spirit-affirming journey towards redemption and love. “Reading The Color Purple was the first time I had seen Southern, Black women’s literature as world literature. In writing us into the world—bravely, unapologetically, and honestly—Alice Walker has given us a gift we will never be able to repay.” —Tayari Jones “The Color Purple was what church should have been, what honest familial reckoning could have been, and it is still the only art object in the world by which all three generations of Black artists in my family judge American art.” —Kiese Laymon

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sick day reads

hey all!

in perfect timing for my winter break, i just tested positive for flu b 🙄

with the massive amounts of brain fog i have rn what are your best sick day reads? i’m thinking of something low energy and light - enough to keep me engaged but doesn’t require too much brain power! Thank you!

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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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A Drop of Corruption (Shadow of the Leviathan, #2)

Robert Jackson Bennett

In the canton of Yarrowdale, at the very edge of the Empire's reach, an impossible crime has occurred. A Treasury officer has disappeared into thin air-somehow abducted from his quarters while the door and windows remained locked from the inside, in a building whose entrances and exits are all under constant guard. To solve the case, the Empire calls on its most brilliant and mercurial investigator, the great Ana Dolabra. At her side, as always, is her bemused assistant Dinios Kol. Before long, Ana's discovered that they're not investigating a disappearance, but a murder-and that the killing was just the first chess move by a thief who seems to be able to pass through warded doors like a ghost, and who can predict every one of Ana's moves as though they can see the future. Worse still, the killer seems to be targeting the high-security compound known as the Shroud. Here, the Empire's most brilliant minds dissect fallen Titans to harness the volatile magic found in their blood. Should it fall, the destruction will be terrible indeed--and the Empire itself will grind to a halt, robbed of the magic that allows its wheels of power to turn. Din has seen Ana solve impossible cases before. But this time, with the stakes higher than ever and Ana seemingly a step behind their adversary at every turn, he fears that his brilliant superior has met an enemy she can't defeat.

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Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1)

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Feb 07, 2026

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“Love follows you. It goes where you go. It doesn’t know about social divides or distance or common sense. It doesn’t even stop when the person you love dies. It does what it wants.”

Part of Your World is like a Hallmark movie. Daniel is the perfect small-town guy. Alexis is a successful big-city doctor. This book takes us on a journey to find how their lives could combine. I love Abby Jimenez's humor and the inside jokes that come up in the story. (You can always hook me by mentioning The Princess Bride.) I'm not a huge fan of perfect MC. I love flaws, and I would have loved to see Daniel in his element more, with the BNB and the carpentry. Alexis got a tad annoying, always comparing Daniel to Neil. It was also annoying that she just witnessed her brother break through the mold, but she didn't believe she could, too. I understand why she felt that way, but it took a really long time before she completely flipped. I also wish we could have heard her brother's opinion on the situation, and not just Bri. Although thank goodness for Bri. The middle of the story started to lose me, but Abby Jimenez really knows how to do endings. It was devastating, it was beautiful, it was perfect.

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Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1)

Abby Jimenez

After a wild bet, gourmet grilled-cheese sandwich, and cuddle with a baby goat, Alexis Montgomery has had her world turned upside down. The cause: Daniel Grant, a ridiculously hot carpenter who’s ten years younger than her and as casual as they come—the complete opposite of sophisticated city-girl Alexis. And yet their chemistry is undeniable. While her ultra-wealthy parents want her to carry on the family legacy of world-renowned surgeons, Alexis doesn’t need glory or fame. She’s fine with being a “mere” ER doctor. And every minute she spends with Daniel and the tight-knit town where he lives, she’s discovering just what’s really important. Yet letting their relationship become anything more than a short-term fling would mean turning her back on her family and giving up the opportunity to help thousands of people. Bringing Daniel into her world is impossible, and yet she can’t just give up the joy she’s found with him either. With so many differences between them, how can Alexis possibly choose between her world and his? The New York Times bestselling author of Life's Too Short delivers a refreshingly modern fairy tale perfect for fans of Casey McQuiston and Emily Henry.

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