UltraMae commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
I've seen a couple of these posts float around, but none in the past couple of days (or rather, I can't tell exactly when the last one was posted, but I'm assuming a week or more ago?) so: tell me, what are your niche bookish pet peeves? I have two: First: People calling any oldish book a "classic". Second: People basing their opinions of a work on a personal misconception which could easily be resolved with a google search (specifically I saw a pin about the Aeneid and everyone was complaining that Virgil "basically copied the Iliad and the Odyssey" and that "the Aeneid therefore sucks/is worthless", and as a reader and classics students, I felt it was my moral duty to go on a ran- ahem, educate the people in the comments about some of the misunderstandings that they were basing their opinions off of and hereby influencing the other people who read their comments.) Your turn :)
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UltraMae commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
With the end of the year fast approaching, tell us about your reading goals for 2026! Got a certain number of books you want to read? New genres? Any books you’re excited for? What about new book resolutions? Please feel free to share them here! I’ll start: I want to read at least 20 books this year. I want to try reading longer books, which has always intimidated me (800-1000 pages). Maybe try my hand at science fiction (mostly I’m a fantasy and horror girly). And the book I’m most excited to get my hands on is The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow!
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A decent read. Always interesting to see how different a company outlook can be a decade or more later. Some company examples were still successful while others surprisingly are struggling. I wish it dug a bit deeper into the specifics of how programs were implemented but it was a worthwhile read to gain perspective on the ever changing landscape of companies.
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Gods & Comics
Kat Cho
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Seeing Other People
Emily Wibberley
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Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
Amanda Montell
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Yes! Loved this the second I started reading it! Wasn’t always a fan of the pacing but absolutely devoured this!
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I really wasn’t a fan of this one. Just not for me.
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3.75. I was hoping to like it more. It was still a decent book but not what I was hoping for.
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I wanted to like this one more. It just never convinced me that it could actually happen. Many parts of it felt so unrealistic. I didn’t buy the romance even though I really wanted to.
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Loved it when I first read it. Might have to give it a reread. Was I swayed to pick it up by the cover? Yes I was.
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Read it a long time ago and loved it.
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I remember being sucked in to this one! It was an addictive read.
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Really liked it. Not my favorite but it was a good read.