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Tylaa

Australian • Dreaming of cozy coastal cabins full of comfy reading nooks with big windows • A mixed bag of reading at a slow pace

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Level 5
Made for the Movies
Games & Trials
My Taste
Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
The Bluffs
The Nightingale
Heartless Hunter (The Crimson Month, #1)
The Stationary Shop
Reading...
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
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Wuthering Heights
5%
Shadow and Bone (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #1)
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Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #2)
20%
Looking for Alaska
18%
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
63%
Finding Promised Blessings on the Covenant Path
30%
Sacred Struggle: Seeking Christ on the Path of Most Resistance
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Tylaa commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

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  • Help me out of a mini reading slump

    Its approaching day two of not reading and I fear if I dont read something ill fall into a true slump. So, leave your recommendations pretty please, something short and engaging. Bonus points is its queer.

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  • Tylaa commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

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  • What is this Pro Tomato 🍅 thing going on?

    Does this show my age?😭 I just caught up with the word yoink for marking a book TBR😭😭 Help, i have FOMO😭

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    Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

    Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

    Robin Wall Kimmerer

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    Tylaa commented on literary.gamer's review of The Lion Women of Tehran

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  • The Lion Women of Tehran
    literary.gamer
    Oct 10, 2025
    4.0
    Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 3.5Plot: 4.0

    I am so mad that I didn’t read this when it actually came to me last year. This novel was such a compelling journey of two girls growing up in 1950s and 60s Iran, and it didn’t hold back anything.

    Ellie and Homa meet when they’re young girls, around age seven, and we follow them as they grow up in Tehran. They’re from two different economic backgrounds - Ellie is being raised by a single mother, always striving for more wealth, while Homa’s family is content to simply be comfortable and not want for much beyond what they need. Homa knows from a young age that she wants to be a lawyer, then a judge, to protect the women of her country and to help men like her father, arrested and imprisoned for being a communist. Ellie wants to live life, get married, have babies.

    Very, very harrowing things happen in the story, and as political tensions rise in the background of the book, you can feel the stakes getting higher and higher for anyone speaking out against Iran’s current regime. Unfortunately, it’s all still so familiar as we head toward the end of 2025; Iran, Palestine—it’s all worse than ever before. That makes this story even harder to read, to know that people have been sacrificing and fighting for literal decades, only for it to feel like no difference has been made.

    The pacing of the story felt a little all over the place, and sometimes the dialogue felt like straight-up info dumping, but that doesn’t take away from how good the actual story is, how important. I would say this is a must-read, especially if you don’t know much about what Iranian life is like, what’s happened there and continues to happen.

    Following Ellie and Homa, you want them to be okay as they grow up, even though one of them makes a grievous mistake that will have a ripple effect for the rest of their lives. You want Ellie and Homa to somehow keep their connection despite distance, their differences, war, and unintentional betrayals. The character development of Ellie is especially well done.

    If you pick this up, you may have issues with the last quarter of the book feeling rushed through, like I did, but you won’t be disappointed.

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  • The Spellshop
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  • Heartless Hunter (The Crimson Month, #1)
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  • Half His Age
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    Love love love. Men are such pathetic little creatures, how did they ever get to be in charge of anything?

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  • The Let Them Theory
    Tylaa
    Jan 29, 2026
    3.0
    Enjoyment: 3.5Quality: 4.0Characters: Plot: 2.5
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    I think the 'Let Them' theory is a good concept and it'll definitely help me reevaluate many things in my life. I liked how the book was broken down into sections and how the 'theory' was demonstrated in each one. However, I did find the book a bit repetitive. Giving a few examples per section was good, but then she kept going and going and saying the same thing over and over again and i was thinking 'enough already'.

    If you need a life push or change, I would recommend it; however, if you're so-so maybe look at a specific section.

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    The Let Them Theory

    The Let Them Theory

    Mel Robbins

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  • The Let Them Theory
    Thoughts from 67% (page 218)

    If someone told me they were proud of me and made a big deal of it after running on the treadmill once (after not working out in a while) then that would make me not want to do it again. From experience, that feels patronizing.

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  • The Let Them Theory
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    ok… first of all this is not a theory.

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  • Ten Thousand Skies Above You (Firebird, #2)
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    I've always found interesting dimensional stories interesting but I really like the way these books explore the possibilities

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  • Okay Days
    I want to love it but I'm struggling

    I'm having a bit of a hard time. I guess I'm not used to this genre. I have times when I'm really into it and then I just times when I'm not.

    Anyone else?

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    The Let Them Theory

    The Let Them Theory

    Mel Robbins

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