Sinner
Mood reader with a preference for romance&. Bookworm since ‘99. Boundling since October ‘25.
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Sinner commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Hiii! I’m a complete newbie here, so I’m still figuring out Pagebound, but I’m Erin 🫰🏻. Just a quick question of Is it worth doing Quests? I’ve started a few to see the badges but is the actual joy of getting a badge actually existent for everyone?
31Sinner commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Hello I hope you all are are having a great day! I was searching for fiction books with polyamorous representation that evolve more than 3 characters , so can someone help me please? I like reading books with polyamorous relationships but I saw that it was often 3 characters in a polyamorous relationship (not that I love this dynamic though!!! I’m always glad to see this so if you also want to give recommendations with 3 characters in a polyamorous relationship, feel welcome!) but I think it’s quite rare to see more than 3 characters in a polyamorous relationship! I think the only time I saw that was in Boyfriends with 4 characters together. So, I was wondering if you had this kind of representation, please? If not, no pressure, don’t worry!!! Have a nice day!
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Disclaimer: I am a middle aged, bisexual, white woman in a straight presenting relationship, living in a country that wasn’t founded until some 36 years after slavery was abolished. I don’t know the struggle, I won’t ever know the struggle and I am absolutely not pretending that I do. These are my thoughts and feelings on this book and they should be taken with a big ol’ rock of salt. I am also writing this at 3am, I’ve had very little sleep in the past week and I just have a whole lot of verbal diarrhoea to let out into the universe.
So I began this journey a little bit bummed that this was my cherry popping pride pick. I couldn’t get a copy of Triple Sec without spending money and this one was available to me of all the others. At my very core, I am a romance reader and Triple Sec was just my preferred pick. I knew of Bob the Drag Queen from his season in drag race and while I loved him at that time, I didn’t keep up with his work after the show ended.
HOWEVER.
Good god, did I immensely enjoy this. Was it because I genuinely thought it was an auto-biography for the first 54% and I felt a complex mix of shame and self-deprecating humour at that situation? Maybe. Was it because I’m Australian and the history of the Black American people isn’t really taught in our schools and I found the entire thing deeply disturbing whilst somehow also managing to be enlightened, inspired and humbled? Perhaps. Could it be that I’m lily white and was raised in a country where the population is 80% Caucasian and a lot of the issues that were raised in this book had just genuinely never occurred to me? Potentially. It might even have been the absolutely beautiful coming of age type tale that seamlessly blended into the historical information of the book. It’s conceivable.
But no, I think this book is phenomenal because of all of these reasons and yet, none of them.
I think it works because Bob the Drag Queen has a creative and sensitive soul and he used this medium as a deep and personal exploration of himself and his relationship with being a Black, gay man with a religious upbringing, who now doesn’t believe in religion and his feeling trapped underneath the weight of the generations of people who were sacrificed on the altar of abolition in the pursuit of Freedom™️, whilst also understanding that the battle continues. I don’t know what acid trip he went on that left him with the idea that Harriet Tubman and crew were resurrected with the sole purpose of seeking him out to make a hip hop album and simultaneously taking him on a metaphorical journey on the Underground Railroad with the purpose of helping him find himself? But damn if it doesn’t all just come together in an absolutely flawless mixture of camp humour, stark self-discovery and abrupt, guileless truth bombs all with the absolutely most on brand finale of a book I’ve ever seen with the conclusion including two hip-hop songs that were written about Harriet and Co.
I’m typically a mono-sentence review leaver. I consider my job done with as little as ‘I liked it’. This may be the longest, most comprehensive review I ever leave on a book in this lifetime, and I’m thrilled it’s this one.
Kudos to the human who suggested this deserved a spot on the pride quest, I’m sorry for doubting you.
Good grief! You made it this far? 🍪 Here, have a cookie on me. It’s an apology for what I’m sure is an absolute shambles of run on sentences, nonsensical thoughts and the disarray of my literacy skills. Nah, that’s not apology enough Take half a dozen. 🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪
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Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert
Bob the Drag Queen
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So, with all respect to myself, I am an idiot. I'm also an Australian with next to no information on Black American history as it isn't taught in our schools (or wasn't for me) so my knowledge is basically what I've gleaned from popular media in the past three decades.
Two things. I've learned SO much and it's a weird mix of fascinating, horrifying and inspiring. I also didn't realise that this book was fictional because I'm not one to read blurbs. So I spent this entire time saying to myself 'Born 200 years ago? How is this person alive? 18th century? Are we sure about that?'
Just peak confusion and dumbassery for 2 hours. I am ashamed, but also, it was kind of fun to approach this as an auto-biography at the same time.
12Sinner commented on a post
Was really impressed by the humor and heart in this book. It doesn’t take itself too seriously as far as worrying over the exact nature of the circumstances, focusing instead on how Tubman would interact with the modern world, what would she think of us and where we are? Darnell’s side story was also very well done and relateable. Overall really good, I hope this author writes more fiction.
2Sinner commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
I try to be as frugal as I can with my reading. I get most of my books from the library, I borrow books from friends/family, I buy second hand both from physical stores and sites like vinted/awesomebooks etc, and I recently got an ebook subscription service too.
That said, I still think I spend between £50-£100 on books each month. I do read quite a lot and would consider it my main 'hobby', but even so that's prolly a lil much.
How much would you estimate you spend on average? (pls make me feel better about myself)
163Sinner commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Are there any pet peeves you have when receiving ARC's?
I'm talking like the ones who get physical ARCs and then proceed to sell them on whatever place for $$$
I think my biggest one is receiving a highly anticipated ARC and the publisher only uploading it in PDF format so you're forced to read on the NetGalley app and it has no brightness control so it's like reading while staring into the sun
ARC stands for Advanced Reader Copy and they're free copies of books sent to people to review before publication to build hype for official release. They're very helpful!
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So, with all respect to myself, I am an idiot. I'm also an Australian with next to no information on Black American history as it isn't taught in our schools (or wasn't for me) so my knowledge is basically what I've gleaned from popular media in the past three decades.
Two things. I've learned SO much and it's a weird mix of fascinating, horrifying and inspiring. I also didn't realise that this book was fictional because I'm not one to read blurbs. So I spent this entire time saying to myself 'Born 200 years ago? How is this person alive? 18th century? Are we sure about that?'
Just peak confusion and dumbassery for 2 hours. I am ashamed, but also, it was kind of fun to approach this as an auto-biography at the same time.
12Post from the Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert forum
So, with all respect to myself, I am an idiot. I'm also an Australian with next to no information on Black American history as it isn't taught in our schools (or wasn't for me) so my knowledge is basically what I've gleaned from popular media in the past three decades.
Two things. I've learned SO much and it's a weird mix of fascinating, horrifying and inspiring. I also didn't realise that this book was fictional because I'm not one to read blurbs. So I spent this entire time saying to myself 'Born 200 years ago? How is this person alive? 18th century? Are we sure about that?'
Just peak confusion and dumbassery for 2 hours. I am ashamed, but also, it was kind of fun to approach this as an auto-biography at the same time.
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Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert
Bob the Drag Queen
0Sinner commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Are any of you on the Finch App? If so, do you wanna share your friend code so that our finches can be friends?
108Sinner commented on brittwarren's update
