This is a difficult read. I had an anxious day and this skyrocketed my uneasiness. I'm appalled that a blurb on the cover says "extremely funny"... I mean, she has a very unique way of telling her life story, but it has so many tragic and unpleasant layers I would never just describe this book like that (It may be just taken out of context, but nonetheless). I had to put down the book at night and watch some light hearted kdrama to distract myself. (Could also be that I am too intense and feel to much? Probably).

As this book is part of the summer readalong, I was looking through comments and realised I don't really remember much about it! I gave this book 5 stars years ago, and I remember how impactful it was, yet I can't remember much! Should I reread it given that's a classic that's always mirroring our convoluted times? Or should I keep the memory of my first read and how I loved it despite not recalling much?

I posted a few days ago (a week ago? 2? Can't remember!) about wanting to reread it, and I finally started! I didn't remember how heavy the info dump of the world building was at the begging, it took me by surprise! I read it on 2013, and I just passed the first sentence I underlined on my first read and yep, not something I would highlight now! Instead, I've found another snipped that caught my attention that I completely ignored on that first read... It's really interesting experimenting how different my experiences with this book are!

I know it's only been 5 days but! Some exciting updates to share with everyone: Upcoming Readalongs The Fall Readalong starts on September 1st, and we've dropped the selections early so everyone has time to place library holds and make reading plans for the upcoming season! Head to the Discuss page to see a link to the selections (PS: we have our first horror pick) Keep an eye out in the Quest forums for Quest Readalong announcements - some of our Quest creators (Top Contributors) will be hosting readalongs in the fall as well, featuring a book from the Quest. You won't get a special badge for participating in these readalongs, but it will help towards earning the Quest badge of course :) Deleting Books and Reviews The long awaited quality of life update: you can now fully delete both reviews and books from your library 🥳 To delete a review: either click the three dots on the top right of the review card and select "delete", or if you're in your library, click on the review stars on a book card and hit "delete" in the edit modal. To delete a book from your library: click Delete on the bottom left of the book status modal NOTE: setting a book's status back to "none" is not the same as deleting! You can have books in a "none" status on your custom shelves still. To fully delete a book, you must click the delete button. Happy reading! Jennifer & Lucy 💙💜

Hola! Estoy buscando más cuentas hispanohablantes para poder hacer un poco más de comunidad en nuestro idioma, alguien más por aquí? 👀 (EN: looking for more Spanish speaking accounts to create more community on our language, anyone around? 👀)

Hi everyone! Here's a quick list of recent quality of life updates + bug fixes: - The most obvious: you probably noticed your feed is flooded with "badge earned" updates. There was a bug where, when a book was added to a Main Quest, those who had previously joined the Quest did not get credit for reading the newly added book. I fixed this bug and earned out badges for everyone (hence the feed getting flooded!). If you see anything still incorrect on your profile, email me at team@pagebound.co - there was a bug where the Edit option for your Reviews did not consistently show up in the ... (three dot menu) on the review card. This has been fixed! You can now edit your review anywhere you see it. - various infrastructure updates to help with server crashes + load times as we've seen a ton of growth on Pagebound over the past few weeks :) and of course, still working hard on the app! Our plan is to release to our first round of beta testers this month and publicly release before the end of the summer. Appreciate everyone's patience on this! On the bright side, there are TONS of updates on the app that address many feedback concerns we've seen lately :) Lastly, it's been so exciting to see all the new readers join us! Huge thank you to everyone who has sent good vibes, welcoming messages, and answered questions. This community is truly the best. Happy Reading 💙💜 Jennifer & Lucy

I am not enjoying this at all. Not that I think this is a book to be enjoyed, but still. Ordinarily I'd DNF but I feel like the messaging in this one is important in today's climate so I'll stick it out for the next 2 hrs...