Tinaxayz

🤓 I’m just a nerd unapologetically rediscovering myself and my love for a good story 📚 ☕️🪽🐉 💖🧙

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My Taste

House of Salt and Sorrows (Sisters of the Salt, #1)

Butcher & Blackbird (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #1)

Reading...

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

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The Magnificence of Death

Rhea Rainwater

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue meets A Dowry of Blood in this lyrical, genre-bending gothic fantasy about a girl cursed with immortality—and the deal she strikes with Death himself. Astoria Tempest has lived countless lives, but none that truly belonged to her. Cursed with immortality and the ability to return the dead, she’s spent over a century fleeing grief, guilt, and the trail of second chances she never had the right to give. But when she bargains her husband’s soul to save their daughter, the scales tip too far and Death comes to collect all she's stolen. Except Death isn’t a shadow or a scythe. He’s a man with cold eyes, a sharper tongue, and a ledger of names with hers at the top. With Death on her heels, Astoria drifts through the years like a ghost, hiding in the cracks of time and nursing the compulsion to save the dying, no matter the cost. But when she intervenes one too many times, her quiet eternity begins to crumble. Out of options, Astoria strikes a deal: one broken curse in exchange for one soul. Hers. As they travel the perilous road toward undoing the curse, what began as a reluctant truce warps into something dangerous. Tenderness, understanding, and even love. Caught between a power she never wanted and a reckoning she can’t avoid, Astoria must decide what she’s truly willing to lose... and whether Death might be something more than just the end.

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JadeLovesBooks

shower thoughts

after i read a romance im like damn i want a man 🥺 and then i read a domestic thriller and im like nahhh nvm

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It Happened One Summer (Bellinger Sisters, #1)

Tessa Bailey

Piper Bellinger is fashionable, influential, and her reputation as a wild child means the paparazzi are constantly on her heels. When too much champagne and an out-of-control rooftop party lands Piper in the slammer, her stepfather decides enough is enough. So he cuts her off, and sends Piper and her sister to learn some responsibility running their late father’s dive bar... in Washington. Piper hasn’t even been in Westport for five minutes when she meets big, bearded sea captain Brendan, who thinks she won’t last a week outside of Beverly Hills. So what if Piper can’t do math, and the idea of sleeping in a shabby apartment with bunk beds gives her hives. How bad could it really be? She’s determined to show her stepfather—and the hot, grumpy local—that she’s more than a pretty face. Except it’s a small town and everywhere she turns, she bumps into Brendan. The fun-loving socialite and the gruff fisherman are polar opposites, but there’s an undeniable attraction simmering between them. Piper doesn’t want any distractions, especially feelings for a man who sails off into the sunset for weeks at a time. Yet as she reconnects with her past and begins to feel at home in Westport, Piper starts to wonder if the cold, glamorous life she knew is what she truly wants. LA is calling her name, but Brendan—and this town full of memories—may have already caught her heart. Tessa Bailey is back with a Schitt’s Creek-inspired rom-com about a Hollywood “It Girl” who is cut off from her wealthy family and exiled to a small Pacific Northwest beach town... where she butts heads with a surly, sexy local who thinks she doesn’t belong.

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Intersectional feminist texts that explore the complexity of feminism, centering voices from communities that are often the most excluded.

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Alchemised

SenLinYu SenLinYu

In this riveting dark fantasy debut, a woman with missing memories fights to survive a war-torn world of necromancy and alchemy—and the man tasked with unearthing the deepest secrets of her past. “What is it you think you’re protecting in that brain of yours? The war is over. Holdfast is dead. The Eternal Flame extinguished. There’s no one left for you to save.” Once a promising alchemist, Helena Marino is now a prisoner—of war and of her own mind. Her Resistance friends and allies have been brutally murdered, her abilities suppressed, and the world she knew destroyed. In the aftermath of a long war, Paladia’s new ruling class of corrupt guild families and depraved necromancers, whose vile, undead creatures helped bring about their victory, holds Helena captive. According to Resistance records, she was a healer of little importance within their ranks. But Helena has inexplicable memory loss of the months leading up to her capture, making her enemies wonder: Is she truly as insignificant as she appears, or are her lost memories hiding some vital piece of the Resistance’s final gambit? To uncover the memories buried deep within her mind, Helena is sent to the High Reeve, one of the most powerful and ruthless necromancers in this new world. Trapped on his crumbling estate, Helena’s fight—to protect her lost history and to preserve the last remaining shreds of her former self—is just beginning. For her prison and captor have secrets of their own . . . secrets Helena must unearth, whatever the cost.

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The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

Sangu Mandanna

A warm and uplifting novel about an isolated witch whose opportunity to embrace a quirky new family--and a new love--changes the course of her life. As one of the few witches in Britain, Mika Moon knows she has to hide her magic, keep her head down, and stay away from other witches so their powers don't mingle and draw attention. And as an orphan who lost her parents at a young age and was raised by strangers, she's used to being alone and she follows the rules...with one exception: an online account, where she posts videos pretending to be a witch. She thinks no one will take it seriously. But someone does. An unexpected message arrives, begging her to travel to the remote and mysterious Nowhere House to teach three young witches how to control their magic. It breaks all of the rules, but Mika goes anyway, and is immediately tangled up in the lives and secrets of not only her three charges, but also an absent archaeologist, a retired actor, two long-suffering caretakers, and...Jamie. The handsome and prickly librarian of Nowhere House would do anything to protect the children, and as far as he's concerned, a stranger like Mika is a threat. An irritatingly appealing threat. As Mika begins to find her place at Nowhere House, the thought of belonging somewhere begins to feel like a real possibility. But magic isn't the only danger in the world, and when a threat comes knocking at their door, Mika will need to decide whether to risk everything to protect a found family she didn't know she was looking for....

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Bethany

Reading it again ...

17 years after I read it for the first time I decided to read it again. Let's see if I still enjoy it!

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spaceflowers

Thoughts from 37% (page 107)

DAMN Y’ALL THIS IS FREAKYYYY

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Tinaxayz

Thoughts from 20%

Wouldn’t be amazing if merhorses were a real thing? I love that Kiela’s is doing something out of her comfort zone.

Also this book is very cozy. So after reading 2-3 books that have been playing yo-yo with my heart rate this is so calming.

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alette

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Thoughts from 57% (ch 14)

So, this is my 2nd time trying to read this book and I knew it going to be heavy but I think I might have hit my wall with this book. I really wanted to like it and I was enjoying the earlier part of the book, getting introduced to the characters and the world. But now it feels like a struggle listening to it and the plot feels like it isn't moving forward as much as I expected/would like. I gave it 2 shots so maybe it's just not for me. Alas to the dnf pile you go—maybe I'll try again in another few years.

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Bluehairedboy

What I love about PageBound the most

Apart from the obvious things like being Anti AI and women owned and women run, the thing I love about PageBound the most is how I don't feel the need or the pressure to constantly being here and build an online presence because I want my silly little thoughts to be heard. This community has been built in such a way that it's asking people to take a step back and breathe and write and post with authenticity. I love not having to worry about algorithms or likes or follows. I love that I can come here whenever I feel like it and leave whenever I feel like it without it negatively impacting anything.

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ChaosReader

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Movies and TV Adaptations- Ones you wish would be remade or had certain changes?

So long story short, I saw a movie last night that we thought could have been based on a book (it was not), but it got me thinking about movies based on books. Particularly ones that I wish would just be remade, or had something changed, and I wanted to see what others thought.

For me, I really wish The Giver were just remade. And I somewhat feel the same about The Hobbit, not because The Hobbit was bad, but I would like to see what they did with it if they left it as one movie and put the attention to detail in it that they did with the LOTR series.

For just changing some things, I wish there were some changes to the A Discovery of Witches series, mostly in the last season. However, the last season was filmed during COVID, and some of the changes made sense due to the restrictions. I just kind of wish it could be remade without said restrictions, as some scenes would have just been so nice if more characters were there or they had a bit more freedom in how they went about it 😅

What do you all think? Any adaptations you just want redone, or specific things you wish could be changed?

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Pipsy

Do we still lend books? 🥵

Hey, page-turners 🤗 So, I used to lend out my physical books without even a second thought (now I only read ebooks and audiobooks, which means I don't have that problem anymore). But, man, not everyone’s in a rush to give them back, are they?

There was this one time I bought an absolutely beautiful art book when I was at the Louvre (felt super fancy, not gonna lie), and I let a friend borrow it. He loved art as much as I did, or so I thought. Yeah, that book never made its way back to me. The worst part? I barely even got to look through it myself. Ugh, talk about regret. 🤦‍♂️

What about you? Are you cool with lending your books out, or do you kind of feel like you’re just saying goodbye forever? 📖😊

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