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An incredible and nuanced look at our political moment through the author's own experience with the disorienting discourse of the far right and the formerly liberal crowd that has joined in favor of medical misinformation. Much of this boils down to the limits of individualism, which is why we have to look at the complete picture: the systems of capitalism, white supremacy, and settler colonialism. Klein covers a lot of grouns in this book: COVID, MAGA, autism, Palestine, historical antisemitism, and more. This is one I won't forget and will definitely be revisiting.
MoonyReads commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Hi,
What is your favourite non fiction you have ever read and why? I want to get in touch with other non fiction readers on here so I can curate my feed accordingly xD also I would love to add to my tbr from your favourites.
Thank you!
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Cute series overall. It may have been better if things had been given time to develop a little. Some things happened a little too conveniently. But even still, I really enjoyed it. Definitely interested to see what else this artist does (and if they sell prints -- the full color covers are beautiful)
MoonyReads commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Hi everyone 🧚
Lately I have been listening to playlists on Spotify based on the books I read and I feel inspired to do the same! I wanted to ask if you are one of these amazing people who create such playlists or even do playlists for your own ears only! How do you or would you select your songs? Do you even listen to the playlist while you read? I would love to read your thoughts about this.
I believe that listening to music that relate to the general mood or the characters enhances the reading experience for me! 🧚
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The ADHD Focus Friend: A Planning + Productivity Workbook
Grace Koelma
MoonyReads commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
1/3 of my 2025 total books read have to be non-fiction (or so I challenged myself) and I am severely behind on that goal.
Please save a girl and recommend me short non-fiction recs! Poetry is welcome!
MoonyReads commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
hi all! sorry to add another book rec request to the club. 🙈 i want to get in the holiday spirit (i know, i know, it's only the first week of november) but i haven't seen any lists, quests, or posts in forums about sapphic christmas romances. hell, i'll take any sapphic christmas book as long as it's good. do y'all have any good recs?
MoonyReads commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
MoonyReads commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
We’re back for another month of your reading round up 🥰
What was your October: • favourite books: • least favourite books: • total books read:
For November: • What are you planning to read ? • Are there any books releasing you're interested in? • do you have a reading goal for the month?
MoonyReads commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
I am longing to rewatch Fleabag for the millionth time, especially the second season, and have been thinking: does anyone have recommendations on books that give off a similar vibe as Fleabag?? I would eat this uppp
MoonyReads commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Does anyone have any light recs? Preferably not too long? I’m looking for my next audio read, and I just finished To Clutch A Razor by Veronica Roth and before that Vicious by VE Schwab. I loved them both a lot but I want smt lighter rn before going into my audio arc of Hazelthorn 😭
I very rarely like romance books(more specifically with romance as the main focus I think), with the exception of queer ones apparently, I don’t mind what genre as long as it light and I mostly go for any that makes me laugh. Mostly read epic fantasy, sci-fi, ya and contemporary
I’m thinking of Uncharmed by Lucy Jane Wood cause I did love her last book and it’s become a comfort read but idk.
MoonyReads commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Hi friends ❤️ I’m looking for Canadian nonfic recs! I’m planning to get a copy of Desmond Morton’s A Short History of Canada but also generally interested in sociology/politics/govt/etc. If you have any recs I’d gladly take them.
On the U.S. side I read a lot on US history of class, race, gender, major cultural moments, immigration, etc and curious what the Canadian counterparts to some of that history would look like- maybe something on the native people and a better look at Quebec?
Thanks :)
EDIT: so excited for all these recs I got a big ol’ grin on my face!! Thanks for indulging me!!
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Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad
Hil Malatino
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Stag Dance
Torrey Peters
MoonyReads commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
EDIT: thank you so much everyone for the recommendations - I'll make my way through them and add them to my list ❤️
Hey, I'm definitely a novel/non fiction gal. But recently I've been going through a bit of a non-fiction phase - have loved Cult-ish, Men who hate women, jailbirds and Witchcraft (a history in 13 trials).
Does anyone have any recommendations of non fiction they love? Please no self help/autobiography style as I've read a lot in the past and don't want anymore and find a lot of the recommendations fall into these categories. I just want to read about interesting topics, in a way that engaging - would love any help thanks in advance.
MoonyReads commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
technically speaking, i’ve only read 36 actual books and the rest are just manga volumes, does that count?
in my head, mangas aren’t technically books. i mean they are art, that’s not where im getting at, it’s just not the same type of art as actual novels. the same way you see movies and tv shows separate from broadways and novels. they’re all arts, just different forms.
so does that make adding mangas in my reading goal as cheating? i did it so i can track what’s the last volume i read and where i need to pick it back up from. but i gotta admit, it does make me feel accomplished that i read 100+ books even though they’re just manga volumes. i can get through 3-4 volumes in a day easily, on top of my regular reading.
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I loved this collection! I read this in just a couple of days, anxious to see every snapshot created here. I was fascinated and totally immersed in so many of these. So often, short story collections have a few good ones and a lot that are mid or worse, but this was a collection that kept my attention. There was something interesting explored in each one.
This brings us into the lives and minds of trans men in various stages of life and contending with life's many condundrums such as: how to cruise in the 21st century, straights in queer spaces, predatory mean gays, transmed discourse, the lesbian-to-bi trans man pipeline, and much more. As much as this is absolutely about the queer experience (and specifically trans masc experience), it also brings in class quite an bit as well as place -- Seattle is an interesting recurring character here.
I would love to revisit this again more slowly. It's absolitely one I will keep thinking about
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Crawl: Stories
Max Delsohn
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The writing was beautiful and I enjoyed all of part 3, however I had kind of a hard time with some of this. I think it comes down to the large stretches of time glossed over, the lack of suspense and horror in the early parts, the unnamed vampire being such a walking red flag, and my own personal hang-ups with some elements.
When we got full scenes, this was rather good. But there was a lot of telling about the vampire without showing in the first parts of this. If there had been either more showing of his positives and/or more psychological horror, I would have really been able to feel what she was saying about him being wonderful and evil. Instead, I found myself annoyed with how sure she was that he was great while there were so many things about him that are obviously bad. While I understand that there was manipulation and that she would have really needed him to be good (since he saved her), there wasn't enough in the descriptions early on to make me buy it, especially as the story progressed.
Additionally, I was definitely checked out when there was so much talk of jealousy. I understand logically why she would be all things considered, but I still didn't buy it in the narrative. And more than that, I personally just hate reading about jealousy. It takes me a lot to really buy it and in this situation, I was baffled in part and annoyed in even larger part. And it took a lot to get me genuinely invested back in.
I see why people like it, but I just don't think it was executed in a way thay really did it for me.