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aghie

35 | she/her | former biologist | now I try to understand what teenagers read for a living | I wanted my cat to go viral and make me rich but that plan kinda backfired.

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Cozy Fantasy
Level 5
Dark Academia
My Taste
Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)
A Little Life
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
Men Who Hate Women
If We Were Villains
Reading...
If We Were VillainsAll That Consumes Us

aghie commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

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  • parisian book club?

    Is there any one in Paris that would like to do a book club like once a month??

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  • Don't Let the Forest In
    Thoughts from 30%
    spoilers

    View spoiler

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  • All That Consumes Us
    Thoughts from 36% (page 145)

    "I'm afraid... That I'm actually just a giant nobody who is never going to accomplish anything of value." I relate very much to this character and I think that's why I don't like her (LOL).

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  • aghie commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

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  • Surprise Standing Ovation

    Can I just say a huge thank you to the PB team - I'm loving the community and entire reading-centred vibe of Pagebound! But - I would love to know everyone's unexpected loves, those things that are surprisingly cool/helpful/nice to have that you maybe just stumbled into?

    E.g. I'm using Shelves to organise the books I have at home into categories (finally) and for every book I can't find straight away, the process to import is so freaking easy? I don't know why but I was not expecting that with something so new?? This alone is round of applause-worthy, honestly.

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  • All That Consumes Us
    Thoughts from 28% (page 113)

    I don't know yet if citing the Secret History (multiple times) in a dark academia book is a nice nudge or cringe AF. It's YA so I think I'll let it slide.

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  • "Today's featured emoji: 🤮"

    Are you all right besties? Are you doing okay? 😂

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  • Follow spree

    Hi everyone!! I saw someone do this a couple days ago and thought it was such a cute idea!! I’ve been looking for more people to follow on here lol 😂

    Drop a comment below, and I’ll give you a follow!!

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  • "Today's featured emoji: 🤮"

    Are you all right besties? Are you doing okay? 😂

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  • Hot Wax
    aghie
    Oct 06, 2025
    2.5
    Enjoyment: 2.5Quality: 3.5Characters: 2.0Plot: 2.0
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    While If We Were Villains is one of my favorite books and I can't wait to read it again (I might do it now, to wash away the bad taste), this was not it. And though I don't demand for authors to constantly churn out the same book, this didn't have the magic that I felt IWWV had, or even Graveyard Shift which is a novella I definitely enjoyed. In this book we follow Suzanne in a dual timeline, between 11 years old while on tour with her father's rock band, and 40 years old freshly having left her husband high and dry to go on a solo road trip and... Find herself ? I dunno. The problem was that I was definitely more invested in the 11 yo's POV, which had the best atmosphere, best plot, and best characters (even though the characters in this are nothing to write home about, not even SUZANNE). So the "modern time" POV just felt like boring filler between the good stuff. Or maybe a how to guide on how to maintain a thrift shop on insta. Even after having finished the book, I still don't really understand what she was looking for in the first the place, and that would be okay except I don't know either how we arrived to the Suzanne that we have at the end of the book. Yes a pretty major thing happened in her modern timeline, but I don't qualify it as especially helpful in self realization, it should be more life-altering and traumatizing as anything else. But maybe Suzanne is crazy after all, who knows at this point. As for the writing, I feel like the editor could have demanded a bit of a tighter book. Some bits were really confusing to me, and arriving at three quarters of my reading I was still feeling confused as to who was supposed to be who. Also can we agree that the sentence "Gracie knew what she was looking at it, even if she never knew it existed" doesn't make any sense? Or am I just really tired? All in all this book didn't meet the expectations that had set for it, even though it had a bunch of elements to hook me. So maybe that's just my bad.

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  • Hot Wax
    Thoughts from 94% (page 360)

    ROB YOU PIECE OF CRAP

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  • Alchemised
    Thoughts from 0% (page 1)

    Let's just say I'm reading this for professional reasons ok?

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  • aghie commented on a post from the Founder Announcements forum

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  • The App is live!!

    I am over the moon to share that the app is officially live on both iOS and Android!!

    We've quite literally poured our blood, sweat and (lots of) tears into the app development over the past 9 months and we could not be more thrilled for everyone to experience it!

    We're still being indexed in app store search so you may have to scroll to find us, or type in Pagebound: Social Book Tracker. Here's links to iOS and Android: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pagebound-social-book-tracker/id6751526412 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.pagebound.app

    There are quite a few improvements and new features in the app, including:

    • Book Journeys (click the map icon on the book cards in your library and other user's library to see their posts, comments, and updates for a specific book)
    • Quick access to "add to plan"
    • Filtering your activity on profile
    • Save posts
    • upgraded Read Dates editing

    This is the first release, so there will be many more additions and improvements to come. (PS for Android users: we're aware of two bugs related to library imports from Goodreads/Storygraph, and issues with editing read dates - these have already been resolved and are pending Google approval for release.)

    We owe a huge thank you to our beta testers who worked diligently over the last month to report hundreds of bugs and help us get the app prepared for release. A huge round of applause to them.

    We hope you love the app as much as we do; it definitely makes engaging on PB so much more convenient and fun. If you have a great experience with the app, we'd love if you'd consider supporting us through Pagebound Royalty; Lucy and I have worked for $0 over the past year to bring the app and website to fruition, and have been covering business costs with our savings accounts. Your contribution means we can continue to work full-time on Pagebound without influence from investors or advertisers, and keep Pagebound 100% for readers by readers. Thank you so much to all the Royalty who have already contributed; it truly means the world to us and keeps Pagebound online!

    ok now go download the app and tell us what you think!

    Happy Reading, Jennifer & Lucy

    PS - leaving us a review in app stores also helps tremendously :)

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  • Katabasis
    Thoughts from 12% (page 65)

    What do you mean I go to a friend's house for two days with a minimum of 4 books, 10 pairs of socks, a miniature pharmacy and an air purifier and Peter goes to HELL without a sleeping bag???

    What do you mean???????

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  • Blood Over Bright Haven
    Thoughts from 18%

    i am going to bite your head off you stinky ass excuse of a man

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