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MiniButMighty

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Whispers in the Walls
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Make the Season Bright
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MiniButMighty commented on timelessiren's review of The Lay of You

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  • The Lay of You
    timelessiren
    Oct 12, 2025
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    i wish more people would read this and the book after it because the way that this one is so underrated is bordering on illegal !

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  • MiniButMighty commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

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  • Some of y'all get my reading updates in your fyp and I'm just going through it

    So some of y'all probably get my reading updates and don't mind me y'all. I'm in a reading slump so I'm starting a book, not really vibing with it, and I'm putting it back into my TBR. I'll be doing this until I find a book I like. So you're gonna be getting a lot of notifications saying

    Bluehairedboy started reading...

    Bluehairedboy added to TBR

    I'm just going through it. To search for hours through open library and other libraries to find the ebook only to not vibe with it. Don't mind me y'all I'm just gonna cry I-

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  • pagebound & storygraph

    is anyone else still using their storygraph account? i feel funny going back and forth between the two but i love the charts and data that storygraph presents you (guess i'm a nerd)

    if you're not still using it, what are you using instead?

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  • The Lone Wolf Café (Mainely Magic, #1)
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  • MiniButMighty commented on notbillnye's review of The Lamb

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  • The Lamb
    notbillnye
    Oct 22, 2025
    2.0
    Enjoyment: 1.5Quality: 1.5Characters: 2.0Plot: 2.0
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    My high hopes of a sapphic, feminist cannibalism metaphor for motherhood, girl/womanhood, desire and hunger for more than what's expected of us—by society, by our family, by men—and fighting against that expectation with ferocity and unfiltered, deep-in-my-marrow aggression... were, unfortunately, not met.

    The Lamb noticeably, tangibly attempts to be all of the things above and more, with stunted, macabre prose intended to make the reader squirm. Yet, everything is negatively tainted by the odd choice of a child narrator. We as the reader experience Margot's love, pain, fear, and life through the abusive and exploitative relationship with her mother. Ruth, through a forced-marriage, forced-birth, is an intended perspective that womanhood does not equate motherhood, and that our love and relationships with women are not defined by our past with men.

    About halfway, I noticed that the lens of the story—an abusive and neglective mother, who chooses her woman lover over her child (in a way that makes it look anti-same sex parents)—should be showing the harm of when we do not give women the choice and autonomy of their love and bodies, paints Ruth and Eden, her mystery lover, as evil and vile. And thus, through the forced-birth child's perspective it paints it as if women who don't want kids are evil, vile, and unloving.

    The author, clearly trying to horrify what women when forced with choices opposed upon them could be, instead practically Uno-reverse cards by making those women cruel by seeing the harm through the child. Whether this was the author's intention or not, it become impossible to unsee what it could be viewed as, and that ruined it.

    [TLDR SPOILER EDITION] * * * * * I came for sapphic cannibals and left with an 11-year old term abortion.

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  • MiniButMighty commented on kathytrithardt's update

    MiniButMighty commented on kathytrithardt's review of The September House

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  • The September House
    kathytrithardt
    Oct 22, 2025
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    Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 4.5Characters: 4.5Plot: 5.0
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    Firstly, the tone shift between the epilogue and first chapter made me laugh out loud, and I was completely hooked.

    This is such a refreshing take on a haunted house story, answering the question "what happens if the residents stay?"

    I also love how slowly things seem to be revealed and how your perception of the situation turns. It is amazing what can become mundane if you try hard enough. Needs must when the devil drives.

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  • MiniButMighty commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

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  • Small updates (feed + avatars)

    Quick announcement of some smaller updates -

    We have new avatars for levels 3 and 4. Level 3 has two new dragons to choose from, and level 4 has three food-inspired avatars 🥐🌶️🍚

    We also have two new feeds on your homepage. You'll see your Main Feed (the normal feed you're used to), a Following feed (just activity from people you follow) and My Books (the feed that is currently on Discuss, this is just posts from books in your library). Many people have been asking for a following feed :)

    In your Main feed and My Books feed, you will no longer see posts from TBR books that are marked as spoilers.

    We're aware of an intermittent bug on the app when posting in the book forum (from the book page specifically). The feed updates + a bug fix for this is out on iOS, please update your app to see these changes. On Android, we're still awaiting app approval - in the meantime there is a workaround : use the currently reading card on your home feed, which has a "Post to Forum" button, to post rather than going to the book page.

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  • MiniButMighty commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

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  • Who’s Who Wednesday part 3

    HELLO It’s time for Who’s Who Wednesday where every Wednesday we introduce ourselves and make new friends. This is part 3.

    If you participated in any of the times before, you don’t have to introduce yourself again but you can share some different facts about you, an opinion you have, or how your week is going.

    If you’re new, introduce yourself!

    I’ll go first.

    My name is JadeLovesBooks.

    I am very very very very type B personality yet for the most part everything seems to work out. I’ve never read Harry Potter or seen the movies and have zero interest in doing so I am 8 years sober I don’t care about Taylor swift (I’m sorry)

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  • Clown in a Cornfield (Clown in a Cornfield, #1)
    Halloween read?

    Can anyone who’s reading/read this book tell me if it takes place on Halloween or in the run up to? I’m looking for a spooky book to read on Halloween but want it to match the vibes 👻

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  • MiniButMighty commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

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  • Debate! Published fanfiction

    I’m currently reading Alchemised, if you didn’t know, it’s a book that was a fanfic revolving around the Harry Potter characters and The Handsmaids Tale , and I have seen discourse online about how it’s inmoral to read this book because in the end it gives JK Rowling attention and more fame.

    My questions are:

    1. Is it wrong to support authors that publish fanfiction, if the fanfic was originated from an author of problematic works? (Like JK)

    2. Is it alright to publish fanfiction or do you believe the author of the original material, the world it was based in, should get copyrights and some recognition because fundamentally the story was based on their characters and work?

    3. Do you have some controversial opinion on the matter?

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  • Don't Let the Forest In
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  • Rebecca
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  • difference yoai + yuri/sapphic +acchillean??

    Genuine question: why are we calling sapphic and achilleas romances yoai and yuri??? (I think that’s how you spell it). I have no idea if there’s a difference between the terms. Right now it just feels like another term to avoid the words sapphic and achillean, especially achillean, like ff and mm. I might be totally off base here though, so if anyone knows why these terms are suddenly being used, please tell me

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  • Lucy Undying
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  • Hi, my name is Andrea and I have a Quest problem

    Well, yes, hello, my name is Andrea and I have a problem... I can't stop joining Quests and adding books to my TBR🥲 So many Quests, so many good books, so many options... Voice of Gollum intensifies

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  • Book so bad it put you in a prolonged reading slump?

    I just finished The Laws of The Skies by Grégoire Courtois and this might have been the most miserable reading experience I've had this year. Barely 150 pages but the book is so abysmally bad that it took me 15 days to "finish" it, and that is when I almost had to skim through the final chapter because I couldn't stand the writing.

    Do all of you ever experience the same thing too? The book doesn't necessarily has to be bad, I was reading Less by Andrew Sean Greer last year which almost made my habit of reading go away for a good 2 months, but some books possess this power to make you hate reading.

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