Lit_Script

A writer and a reader who loves dark fantasy, gothic horror, and odd books.

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My Taste

The Wrath and the Dawn (The Wrath and the Dawn, #1)

Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1)

Reading...

The Seven Dials Mystery (Superintendent Battle #2)

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Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

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Lit_Script commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

Night_frog

Wanting to reread the books you JUST READ

Is it just me? Since the start of the year, all of the books I'm reading, even those I didn't like much, I'd love to reread.

Some in the future, which is pretty normal in my opinion. Like, maybe one day I'll have a new outlook on it. A new perspective.

Most, though, and what I find weird, I want to reread right now. Already. I'm a person that loves stability and known things, but it never got to this point.

Hell, I'm not even really a rereader. I only reread one book in my entire life, up to this point. I don't get why I want to reread everything I just read immediately.

Does this happen to somebody else? Do you have any idea why?

Lit_Script commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

roadworkahead

Struggling to get back into reading, anyone relate?

I used to be a big bookworm when I was a kid, until one day I randomly stopped. I've been using Pagebound to get back into reading and I love looking through books and adding them to my shelves but when it comes down to actually reading, I find that I'm struggling to find motivation to keep opening the books. I constantly feel like I'm too tired or busy to read. Does anyone relate?

Lit_Script commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

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readalena

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ARC reads + Forum

I’m wondering what the general consensus is on posting in the forum of a book that is an Advanced Reader Copy(ARC). I normally avoid them, just in case something changes in the book. But I was thinking today what if I tagged the post somehow saying it was ARC? Or should I just keep thoughts to myself until it’s been released? Thoughts? ETA to correct spelling typo

Lit_Script commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

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andreareadsalot

Writing Check-In

Anyone here a writer? Either just for fun or published / self-published?

Writing can sometimes be lonely so I thought it would be fun to hear what you might be writing lately? How is your writing going? What genre are you writing in? Word count?

And if you’re published or self-published (or fanfic/royal road etc) drop some links to your latest works🥰

Lit_Script commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

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Booksiebutterfly

Sci-Fi and Fantasy Comedy Recs??

So I’ve discovered lately that I like science fiction and fantasy comedy books, The Princess Bride, Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy, (Good Omens also falls into the same genre but i didn’t rlly like it)

I’m now starting Colin Gets Promoted and Dooms the World, which I’m excited to read, but I’ve noticed all of these books are written by White male authors, and for some of them it really shows. ( That’s not necessarily saying I hate the books I listed, Hitchikers is one of my favorite, but when I say you can tell I mean that most only have one female main character, and I’d like some books that are less male-centric).

So I’m wondering if any of my fellow boundlings know any good sci-fi fantasy comedy books written by poc and/or non cis male authors!!

Thanks in advance! :)

Lit_Script TBR'd a book

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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

Lit_Script TBR'd a book

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For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ernest Hemingway

In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight," For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. In his portrayal of Jordan's love for the beautiful Maria and his superb account of El Sordo's last stand, in his brilliant travesty of La Pasionaria and his unwillingness to believe in blind faith, Hemingway surpasses his achievement in The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms to create a work at once rare and beautiful, strong and brutal, compassionate, moving and wise. "If the function of a writer is to reveal reality," Maxwell Perkins wrote to Hemingway after reading the manuscript, "no one ever so completely performed it." Greater in power, broader in scope, and more intensely emotional than any of the author's previous works, it stands as one of the best war novels of all time.

Lit_Script TBR'd a book

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Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

Sixty years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.

Lit_Script TBR'd a book

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To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf

The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Woolf constructs a remarkable, moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life and the conflict between men and women. As time winds its way through their lives, the Ramsays face, alone and simultaneously, the greatest of human challenges and its greatest triumph—the human capacity for change.

Lit_Script TBR'd a book

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Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf

Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's life. When we meet her, Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party preparation while in her mind she is something much more than a perfect society hostess. As she readies her house, she is flooded with remembrances of faraway times. And, met with the realities of the present, Clarissa reexamines the choices that brought her there, hesitantly looking ahead to the unfamiliar work of growing old.

Lit_Script commented on a List

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Books That Everyone Needs to Read Once

by Lit_Script

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This is one of those lists that will continue to grow over the years with the more I read. Right now they are books I’ve recommended hundreds of times as a former bookseller whenever someone asked me the various forms of the question:“if there was one book I have to read what would it be?”

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Lit_Script made progress on...

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The Last Tale of the Flower Bride

Roshani Chokshi

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Lit_Script commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

those_who_wander

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Childhood favorites to what you read today

I’ve been thinking a lot about how the books I read as a child shaped my taste in books now. My childhood favorite series was The Spiderwick Chronicles, (whimsical but dark, horror/fantasy,) and I can clearly see how that’s influenced my current taste in books (Root Rot and Don’t Let the Forest In for example.) My other favorite book series was How to Train Your Dragon, and again I can directly see how that’s impacted my taste (Liveship Traders and the rest of Robin Hobb’s work.) So I was wondering if anyone else had a similar experience with the books they read as a kid shaping their current taste in books. Or I guess not even just books, it could be shows, movies or other types of media. Edit to add: another childhood favorite of mine was The Mistmantle Chronicles, which is basically Redwall. Criminally, I’ve never read Redwall, but it’s also anthropomorphic animals with swords, and it’s basically the kid equivalent of political intrigue fantasy.