"You shouldn’t argue with a woman with hooves"

Eadie is the MVP so far in this book.

When I first joined Pagebound, I discovered a bunch of fun quests, but these days I just keep finding new quests by chance. Do you guys look for new quests from time to time? Or you try to finish the ones you've joined first?

I recently added Piranesi to my taste list, and I noticed some similarities between it and some of the other books, so I spent some time trying to think of what linked all of them together.

I've landed on Unusual and interesting narrators/narrative style Too Like The Lightning features conversations between narrator and imagined reader; Ghost Cities has two separate worlds being woven together and meta referencing each other; Rebecca's unnamed narrator; and both Nona the Ninth and Piranesi have amnesiac narrators. I guess I have a thing for books that are presented in an unusual way!

Now I pose to you: what common thread ties all the books in your taste list?

What narrative structures and plot devices do you like or dislike, and why? Many narrative structures and plot devices fall out of favor when they become overdone, like the third-act breakup in romance novels or The Hero's Journey structure. I am a third-act breakup hater, myself, but that's primarily because it's so common these days that it is no longer an effective way to subvert expectations. Like others, I'm also skeptical of the Hero's Journey as that structure is so, so prevalent in a lot of Western fantasy. It can certainly be done well, but it's been done so much that it's hard to make it feel fresh and original.

What other narrative structures and plot devices do you like or dislike? Flashbacks? Epilogues? The three-act structure? Tell me all of your thoughts and feelings 🙂‍↕️

I didn't start using reading track apps until the last few years. I've been an avid reader since middle school, though. I often see books pop up on lists and recommendations that I have read but aren't marked as read simply because I read them so long ago.

What do you do with these books? Do you mark them as read and just don't date them? Do you reread them and then mark them as read? Do you just leave them unmarked?

Oct 5th is my birthday. And I would love to do a small challenge.

Current read! Turn to page 105 The first quote you see on that page and comment it below!