RakishRogue
Late diagnosed AuDHD. Felt like I wasn’t human for most of my life, so I made friends with books until I met my late diagnosed husband 💜 (They/them)
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BIPOC Babes Moaning Over Monsters
Looking for monster & alien romance / erotica with BIPOC baddies getting their backs blown out? Look no further! 😏
These reads feature Black, Indigenous, Southwest Asian & North African (SWANA aka Middle Eastern), Asian, & Latine main characters. Relationship pairings include MM, sapphic, poly, queer, MF, & more.
This list is primarily standalones, with a few first books in interconnected series plus a few “standalone-y” recs from series. Open to recs! 🥵🌶️🔥
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RakishRogue commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Since the movie came out, there's been a huge influx of people wanting to read the story and even the Iliad which is awesome! But for those who are new to it, you may have only heard of the Wilson translation which is good from what I've heard but there are a ton more out there as well that may be better suited for you personally. Just to help people out, I wanted to share this website with y'all where you can compare different translations and see what you prefer better. If it comes in handy, I'm super glad! The website should be something like bibliothekai.ktema.org
And if you can't find it by that, looking up "Odyssey translation comparison" should bring up this website in the search engine.
I know when I was trying to decide which Odyssey and Iliad translations I wanted the first time around, I just chose a pretty edition. But the second time around, I was a bit more thoughtful and found a good translation for me for both the Odyssey and Iliad.
Edit: also keep in mind that there are different versions such as a prose or a verse format depending on how the translators wrote it. I read Rieu's prose for both of them and while I enjoyed it I wanted to read it in verse which I preferred Lattimore's Iliad and Fagle's Odyssey.
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Ok, how are we all pronouncing "Chade", cause I'm really unsure?! 😂
10RakishRogue commented on sharky_97's update
sharky_97 made progress on...
Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
Lydia Kang
32RakishRogue commented on skoobevoli's review of The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction
I have to start off this review by saying that I am—and have always been—a voracious reader. I was read to nightly as a child, and I continue that tradition in my own family. You would think I would love this book! HOWEVER:
Bit of an odd vibe going on here. I don’t really know who the target audience is. If you already read to your child(ren), this is just repetitive and unnecessarily long. If you don’t read to your child(ren), I guess it could motivate you to start, but the author frames reading-aloud as important almost at the expense of all other things, and seems obsessed with using academic achievement as a metric for success. It feels like maybe it’s targeted at upper-middle-class parents who work outside the home (don’t get me started on the author saying that the time spent doing work on a computer doesn’t count as screen time, lol) who want to assuage their guilt over missing family time and want to feel morally superior because they read to their kids?? So much of this authors framing boils down to “actually your kid is smarter and better and knows more vocabulary than those other kids who don’t get read to” and it’s really weird.
Maybe I’m just not the audience for this, but what a disappointment.
(Side note to say I am not making any judgement on families where both parents work outside the home. That’s how I was raised for most of my life, and I know that it can be a necessity.)
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Merlin's Tour of the Universe: A Traveler's Guide to Blue Moons and Black Holes, Mars, Stars, and Everything Far
Neil deGrasse Tyson
0RakishRogue commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
I have a lot of books. A ton of ebooks but also between 1000 and 1500 physical books, and I keep adding to those because I like to support local, independent bookstores. I got to them, I buy books, journals, pens, whatever.
Well...I also like to have a glass of wine now and again, and I like to support small, family-owned wineries and wine bars. So I've joined a few wine clubs, through which I have regular pickups of wine. I've known for a while that I'm accumulating the wine much faster than I'm drinking it. I'm just not a very heavy drinker as a rule. So, when I get new wine I just stash and figure I'll get to it eventually.
I'm cleaning up today and decided to finally count the wine bottles and...I have 62 bottles of wine. I'll never drink all that. I'm compiling a list of people to give things to.
I promise I'm not a hoarder!
Besides books, what do you all, er...accumulate?
133RakishRogue commented on avatarofslack's update
avatarofslack started reading...
Flyte (Septimus Heap, #2)
Angie Sage
1RakishRogue commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Alright friends, you know the drill… what’s a recent complaint (no matter how big, small, silly, dramatic, serious, etc) that you need to shout to the void?!🗣️
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crowsteeth finished a book
The Familiar
Leigh Bardugo
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idk what tj klune put in this book but everytime i read it i can't put it down, i think i could read it once a day everyday of my life
3RakishRogue commented on RakishRogue's review of The Dragon's Apprentice
Excellent middle grade book. Dragons? Yes. Interesting magic system? Yes. A+ banter? Yes. The only thing I didn’t like is that it felt really rushed. I know, it’s middle grade, but some of the ideas didn’t seem fully fleshed out. Hopefully we will get more details in the coming books, which I can’t wait to read.
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Excellent middle grade book. Dragons? Yes. Interesting magic system? Yes. A+ banter? Yes. The only thing I didn’t like is that it felt really rushed. I know, it’s middle grade, but some of the ideas didn’t seem fully fleshed out. Hopefully we will get more details in the coming books, which I can’t wait to read.
5RakishRogue finished a book
The Dragon's Apprentice
James Riley
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Merlin's Tour of the Universe: A Traveler's Guide to Blue Moons and Black Holes, Mars, Stars, and Everything Far
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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