Magp13
I’m just a girl standing in front of my bookshelves asking them to give me more free time to read them. 28, UK, she/her
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Magp13 commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Is anyone else having issues getting this to work in the app? Every time I turn it on and go to save it it won't save.
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The Forbidden Wish (The Forbidden Wish, #1)
Jessica Khoury
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The Weight of Our Sky
Hanna Alkaf
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love at first peg
MCs that are begging for a pegging? yes, please 🙇♀️ this list wont just make your day, but hopefully your hole weak 🫦
will you be the pegger or the pegee? the square peg or the round hole? whichever it is, get ready to relax and strap in 🪂
clotheslines, tent installations, motorcycle foot rests or pirates with amputated legs are NOT the main topic here !
⛓️ stay strapped ⛓️
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Magp13 commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
I'm an avid gamer (especially of RPGs and cozy games) and I'm curious to hear some video games that you think have bookish vibes! Low-key making a list of games to checkout.
Obviously there's Tiny Bookshop. If you're not a gamer I still think everyone should check that one out. It's very very fun. I also think Legend of Zelda has suuuch a fun epic fantasy series vibe.
42Magp13 commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
how are you differentiating between the two? are you using them as quite literally books you intend to one day read versus books you are only passively interested in, or something else?
i think that, because my tbr on other sites is somewhere in the 600s (which is impossible to manage and i will likely never get all of those books onto this app, unless i have a very manic episode and a lot of free time one day) i think i am going to organize mine as:
TBR = books i have physical copies of, or have put on hold at the library, etc.
Interested = everything else.
i feel like this is fair because my physical tbr is at least 100 books and i would like them to get semi special treatment? or at least have my list be not so scary to look through. 😅 how about you?
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Magp13 started reading...
Defy the Night (Defy the Night, #1)
Brigid Kemmerer
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Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die
Greer Stothers
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The King's Man: An MM Slow-Burn Romantasy (Book Two)
Anyta Sunday
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The statement of “it should take five years give or take” then immediately jumping to fourty years later and it’s still not done is still Sending me days later
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critlet completed their yearly reading goal of 52 books!
critlet's 2026 Reading Challenge
12Magp13 commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
My heart’s been craving deep connection and I just can’t seem to find the right book that fits what I’m seeking for. Lately, I’ve been wanting to read something that’s a slow burn but also has a good story line with romance being a main subplot. I want something that has ACTUAL yearning, heart-aching yearning, the type that gets fuelled with tension, fleeting glances, small touches. And then I want them to finally kiss not until later in the book. Then I want the dam to finally break… but I don’t want just mere crazy graphic smut. I don’t really go for those type of books. No, I NEED that form of intimacy to be written like it’s poetry, where they’re exploring each other’s bodies and souls. That’s the type of romance I really love, raw intimacy and yearning in ways that isn’t just sexual, though I’m not opposed to it being in the mix. But I don’t know if I’m just setting unrealistic expectations in this day and age’s books or if I’m just looking in the wrong spots…
The closest I’ve gotten to this is fanfics and while they’re great, I want it in a form of a book. Physical book. I wanna be able to put it on my shelf and point it out whenever anyone mentions my bookshelf 💔💔💔
Does anyone have any recommendations?
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Despite the ~2stars given, are several positives to be made about this book. The main character is non-binary in a female-dominated world and there is a handful of complicated feelings and difficulties regarding that due to the inheritance system in place. There’s a heavy influence about the loss of expertise within a society, and the ingress of quickly manufactured items. This is shown in a deliberate fashion through the narrative, slightly heavy-handed in my opinion but it gets the job done.
However, this is swept aside by the fact that the main character, Sorin, is fixated on their own gender expression throughout the entire book in an overall negative manner. They bind using compressive cotton constantly throughout and there’s a single mention of the negative health risks of this. The society is mostly accepting, the Princess is openly gay and there’s multiple mentions of trans people (although they’re restricted to work only in textiles? Strange narrative choice given the overall subject matter), however there’s no mention of any other non-binary people until the back third of the book.
Sorin has a specific gender expression they wish to project and have an extreme reaction to thinking that other people perceive them differently from that. There’s a mechanic for non-binary people in the inheritance already: they would have to be fostered out, and the mother’s refusal to do this while accepting them fully is written to be cruel.
I just couldn’t get behind the plot which seemed wandering, and no singular remaining royal heir is going to be allowed to go traipsing through the woods unguarded. There’s the start of a mystery which is resolved, and a heavy-handed metaphor involving alchemy and magic and chemistry to tie into non-binary being not male, not female, but a third thing.
The majority of plot moves are done while Sorin is under a magical influence or unconscious so it jumps around and I wound up confused in several places with what had just happened. Overall, it is well written and the world is interesting, but it needed more coherency.
Thank you to BookSirens and the author for the ARC
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The King's Man: An MM Slow-Burn Romantasy (Book Two)
Anyta Sunday
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