Matutiine_

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Matutiine_ commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

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indies

Why’d you pick your current avatar?

Is it the colour? The similarity to your real self? A representation of your favourite genre?

I’ll go first: I got drunk and decided to use the rice bowl avatar, because ”food for thought” was the greatest (and most amusing) thing I could come up with.

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acidicchaos

'Not Interested' Status

I looked through the roadmap and didn't see a request there, but wanted to see what y'all thought of suggesting a 'Not Interested' Status. I know I can mute the book, but here's why I would be interested (lol) in a 'Not Interested' Status:

Since Pagebound is my main book platform, I use it for deciding what books to purchase. As I get more into non-fiction, sometimes a book has a decent rating, but I learn something problematic about the author. I don't necessarily want to mute the book, because I'm curious about the discourse (aka I'm nosey), but I don't want to spend time/money on that book personally.
For fiction books, a book may have a trigger or something where I don't want to read it personally, but I still want to know about the book and people's thoughts. (Kind of like with horror movies that are too scary for me, but the plot sounds interesting, I'll intentionally look for spoilers). The book may have really high ratings/reviews, but if I already looked up the trigger/content warnings having a 'Not Interested' Status would save me time.
(Minor one) For quests, as books get added to quests I think it would be nice to have a 'Not Interested' Status to signal that I have already looked into the book and it's not for me, rather than trying to figure out if it was a newly added book that I should still be considering.

I don't want to create a ticket unless this is something other people could benefit from because J&L already do so much for us!

Let me know what you think and/or how you navigate these in Pagebound without a 'Not Interested' Status (or if I missed a similar option)!

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intofolklore

what is a book that everyone loves but you hate?

no judgement zone here! i’m always curious about this and what made the book so bad to someone

mine is between if he had been with me and a thousand boy kisses. these books i was so excited to read but when i did, i absolutely hated them. i cringed way too hard during both of them. i know they are supposed to be heartbreaking, but it’s hard to be hurt by a book that made me want to chuck it across the room because of how bad it was

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Matutiine_

Jan 18, 2026

3.5

Enjoyment: 3.0Quality: 3.0Characters: 2.5Plot: 2.5

I'm so confused about the plot. It feels slow but maybe I'll appreciate that at the end.

I can't tell if Samara is annoying or the audiobook narrator is 😂

I will keep listening anyways.

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A House of Fangs & Deceit

Alex Frost

The fae are gone and the monsters reign. I am Samara Harker, and ruling is in my blood. As the Heir to House Harker, I’ve spent my life preparing for the union with another House’s Heir. The plan was simple: My future husband and I would jointly govern his House, and I’d fortify the delicate bonds between the Moroi Houses, Velesian Packs, and what remained of the Furies. No one feels the weight of disappointment more than I do when my carefully orchestrated marriage and life crumble into ruins. After enduring betrayal and humiliation, I find myself forced to retreat to House Harker. Returning home means encountering both old friends and adversaries. But things have shifted since my youth. In those days, I was promised to another. Now, I’m unshackled, free to pursue whatever—or whoever—my heart craves. Unfortunately, my desire might have to wait. Because the monsters lurking in the shadows are growing stronger by the day… and my own people are helping them. A House of Fangs & Deceit is book one of the Lunaria Realms series. This is a spicy why choose fantasy romance which means there is no choosing between love interests by the end of the story. You can expect different types of relationships ranging from sweet and playful to dark enemies-to-lovers; set in a world full of monsters with a dark history.

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leocordier

R. F. KUANG work

What is your opinion on R. F. Kuang work? I feel like everyone either really love it or hate it I tried to pick up Babel a few months ago but had a hard time getting into the story and when it was time to give it back to my local library I didn't even read a hundred pages Should I try to pick it up again or another of her work or do you guys think it's not worth it?

Matutiine_ is interested in reading...

The Privatization of Everything: How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back

Donald Cohen

America's leading defender of the public interest and a bestselling historian show us how to prevent the private takeover of our cherished public resources As people reach for social justice and better lives, they create public goods--free education, public health, open parks, clean water, and many others--that must be kept out of the market. When private interests take over, they strip public goods of their power to lift people up, creating instead a tool to diminish democracy, further inequality, and separate us from each other. The Privatization of Everything, by the founder of In the Public Interest, an organization dedicated to shared prosperity and the common good, chronicles the efforts to turn our public goods into private profit centers. Ever since Ronald Reagan labeled government a dangerous threat, privatization has touched every aspect of our lives, from water and trash collection to the justice system and the military. However, citizens can, and are, wresting back what is ours. A Montana city took back its water infrastructure after finding that they could do it better and cheaper. Colorado towns fought back well-funded campaigns to preserve telecom monopolies and hamstring public broadband. A motivated lawyer fought all the way to the Supreme Court after the State of Georgia erected privatized paywalls around its legal code. The Privatization of Everything connects the dots across a broad spectrum of issues and raises larger questions about who controls the public things we all rely on, exposing the hidden crisis of privatization that has been slowly unfolding over the last fifty years and giving us a road map for taking our country back.

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RiverMoonwolf

Problematic Authors and Quest Completion

Ok, how do you guys deal with this? I'm something of an obsessive completionist, but I've noticed certain authors on those quests (Think Gaiman, Card,She Who Must Not Be Named). It bothers me, just curious how y'all handle this.

Matutiine_ is interested in reading...

Throne of the Crescent Moon (The Crescent Moon Kingdoms, #1)

Saladin Ahmed

The Crescent Moon Kingdoms, home to djenn and ghuls, holy warriors and heretics, are at the boiling point of a power struggle between the iron-fisted Khalif and the mysterious master thief known as the Falcon Prince. In the midst of this brewing rebellion a series of brutal supernatural murders strikes at the heart of the Kingdoms. It is up to a handful of heroes to learn the truth behind these killings: Doctor Adoulla Makhslood, “the last real ghul hunter in the great city of Dhamsawaat,” just wants a quiet cup of tea. Three score and more years old, he has grown weary of hunting monsters and saving lives, and is more than ready to retire from his dangerous and demanding vocation. But when an old flame’s family is murdered, Adoulla is drawn back to the hunter’s path. Raseed bas Raseed, Adoulla’s young assistant, is a hidebound holy warrior whose prowess is matched only by his piety. But even as Raseed’s sword is tested by ghuls and manjackals, his soul is tested when he and Adoulla cross paths with the tribeswoman Zamia. Zamia Badawi, Protector of the Band, has been gifted with the near-mythical power of the lion-shape, but shunned by her people for daring to take up a man’s title. She lives only to avenge her father’s death. Until she learns that Adoulla and his allies also hunt her father’s killer. Until she meets Raseed. When they learn that the murders and the Falcon Prince’s brewing revolution are connected, the companions must race against time—and struggle against their own misgivings—to save the life of a vicious despot. In so doing they discover a plot for the Throne of the Crescent Moon that threatens to turn Dhamsawaat, and the world itself, into a blood-soaked ruin.

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leocordier

R. F. KUANG work

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thissillygirlthought

Edited

Procrastinating Slumps!

I have got in to the habit of an audiobook (for travelling about and pottering about) and then one physical book but that’s about it! I’m not really someone who bounces from book to book in a day/week.

But since starting to tracking my books in the past three years, I’ve noticed I’ve started procrastinating a book witth…. other books!

I have adhd so this is pretty standard behaviour (I.e will put off my clothes pile by doing deep clean of something else etc). I think it’s something to do with I know how many I want to read throughout the year but when I am slower on a read (for whatever reason). I don’t quite feel pressure to reach the goal, I’m still enjoying it and don’t think I’m being unrealistic (yet😂) but I do think if I don’t read X I’m disappointed in myself but hyper focus obsession is how I get through life and sometimes other hobbies take over 😂

So for instance I started Brimstone beginning in the year but it just didn’t suck me in like normal, and I hate dnf’ing so I’ve ended up reading 4 other books instead. Which is fun because I’m still happy to be moving along with my goal as I know I can and enjoy!

I’ve now finished another book and am debating starting a different another sidetrack read again. I know I will (and want to circle back) to Brimstone but my brain is just redirecting me, I guess the dopamine isn’t hitting 😂 sometimes this also inevitably leads to reading slump because I feel like I should be reading the thing I’m putting off!

I’m curious if anyone else does this procrastinating with other books or notice a potential slump on the horizon😂 or whether I should be taking this as my sign to finally dnf a book? And if it, is how do you get over that first dnf guilt?😅

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