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aeleis

Xennial/English major undergrad (creative writing, lit)/silly ND banana so busy with her own rabbitholes she tends to forget that things like lists and badges and quests exist

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Pride 2026
Summer 2026 Readalong
Intro to Poetry
My Taste
Circe
Lilith
Clytemnestra
The Graces (The Graces, #1)
Inanna (Sumerians, #1)
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Death Takes Me
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Vladimir
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Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, From Revolution to Autocracy

Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, From Revolution to Autocracy

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Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, From Revolution to Autocracy

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Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, From Revolution to Autocracy

Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, From Revolution to Autocracy

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Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)

Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)

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  • Death Takes Me
    Thoughts from 12% (page 33/ch 8)

    wow this chapter starts off creepy. is Someone in the room with us, Cristina 👀

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  • Circe
    Thoughts from 61% (page 285)

    How does Odysseus manage to earn my hatred in every single book he appears in????

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  • The Stand-In
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    Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative

    Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative

    Jane Alison

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  • The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)
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    I would absolutely love to see this with revised naming conventions and proper editing

    I also...didn't realize I had to make a form post to get badges. Thank you user @knucklevlvt for mentioning that in yours.

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  • Dead Poets Society
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    hey so yeah I cried (not surprising at all)

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  • Baldur's Gate 3: Astarion
    BG3 companion stories

    I'm going to be feral when this comes out, sorry not sorry!

    What other BG3 companions would you guys love book adaptations/backstories of? I think I would also enjoy something for Shadowheart, Gale, or Lae'zel!

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  • The Song of Achilles
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  • The Messy Lives of Book People
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  • Game: What would the "insufferable reader" criticise your reading habit with?

    I got the idea from Mancarryingthing's youtube video called "I "love" the way we talk about books". It a 1 minute skit depicting two people talking about books and one of them always finds reasons why the other's reading is "not valid reading". In the end it is revealed that the "insufferable reader" archetype hasn't read a book in a very long time and is just regurgitating stuff he sees online. If you don't get the jist, just watch the video, it is really short and gets the point across way better.

    So it got me thinking about how my reading habits wouldn't clarify as "valid reading" in the eye of a person like this. So far I got:

    • While I like reading classics it isn't my main genre, so i would probably get called "performative" for even picking them up.
    • Some classics I read were written by people who would get deemed "problematic" by modern standards (for being racist, sexist etc..). So for reading them I would also be probably called "problematic" despite not agreeing with any of their views and not supporting them financially either (cuz ykow they are dead).
    • I started reading manga this year so that (depending on the type of insufferable reader) would get me called a "larper", since I have only gotten to the more popular titles or a "cheater" as I also add mangas to my reading challanges.
    • Since my main genre is fantasy and sci fi and I like to read for fun some would also assume that I am too stupid to read "real literature".

    Of course this is all good natured fun, remember to not take anything seriously that people like this say, as you can never do something that pleases everyone. Also don't go on booktwitter, its not worth it.

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    Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative

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    Vladimir

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    Vladimir

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  • Vladimir
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