alienexe

🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ ∞ • he/him • 28 big sci-fi, fantasy, & history enjoyer. aspiring vet tech & aspiring writer. i like a bit of horror with my whimsy. • @alienexe on storygraph & letterboxd •

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Catfish Rolling

Clara Kumagai

A dazzling debut. Magic-realism blends with Japanese myth and legend in an original story about grief, memory, time and an earthquake that shook a nation. There's a catfish under the islands of Japan and when it rolls the land rises and falls. Sora hates the catfish whose rolling caused an earthquake so powerful it cracked time itself. It destroyed her home and took her mother. Now Sora and her scientist father live close to the zones – the wild and abandoned places where time runs faster or slower than normal. Sora is sensitive to the shifts, and her father recruits her help in exploring these liminal spaces. But it's dangerous there – and as she strays further inside in search of her mother, she finds that time distorts, memories fracture and shadows, a glimmer of things not entirely human, linger. After Sora's father goes missing, she has no choice but to venture into uncharted spaces within the time zones to find him, her mother and perhaps even the catfish itself... Stylish, accomplished and thought-provoking story-telling explores themes of identity, philosophy, science, ecology, life, loss and love.

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Foundation (Foundation, #1)

Isaac Asimov

The first novel in Isaac Asimov's classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save humankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire--both scientists and scholars--and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for future generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation.

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Platform Decay (The Murderbot Diaries, #8)

Martha Wells

Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment in Martha Wells' bestselling and award-winning Murderbot Diaries series. Having someone else support your bad decision feels kind of good. Having volunteered to run a rescue mission, Murderbot realises that it will have to spend significant time with a bunch of humans it doesn't know. Including human children. Ugh. This may well call for... eye contact! (Emotion check: Oh, for f—)

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Macbeth

William Shakespeare

One night on the heath, the brave and respected general Macbeth encounters three witches who foretell that he will become king of Scotland. At first sceptical, he’s urged on by the ruthless, single-minded ambitions of Lady Macbeth, who suffers none of her husband’s doubt. But seeing the prophecy through to the bloody end leads them both spiralling into paranoia, tyranny, madness, and murder. This shocking tragedy - a violent caution to those seeking power for its own sake - is, to this day, one of Shakespeare’s most popular and influential masterpieces.

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The Pairing

Casey McQuiston

Theo and Kit have been a lot of things: childhood best friends, crushes, in love, and now estranged exes. After a brutal breakup on the transatlantic flight to their dream European food and wine tour, they exited each other's lives once and for all. Time apart has done them good. Theo has found confidence as a hustling bartender by night and aspiring sommelier by day, with a long roster of casual lovers. Kit, who never returned to America, graduated as the reigning sex god of his pastry school class and now bakes at one of the finest restaurants in Paris. Sure, nothing really compares to what they had, and life stretches out long and lonely ahead of them, but—yeah. It's in the past. All that remains is the unused voucher for the European tour that never happened, good for 48 months after its original date and about to expire. Four years later, it seems like a great idea to finally take the trip. Solo. Separately. It's not until they board the tour bus that they discover they've both accidentally had the exact same idea, and now they're trapped with each other for three weeks of stunning views, luscious flavors, and the most romantic cities of France, Spain, and Italy. It's fine. There's nothing left between them. So much nothing that, when Theo suggests a friendly wager to see who can sleep with their hot Italian tour guide first, Kit is totally game. And why stop there? Why not a full-on European hookup competition? But sometimes a taste of everything only makes you crave what you can't have.

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Thoughts from 35% (page 136) | Ch. 8 — Clinging to systems that no longer serve you

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Thoughts from 19% (page 76) (first Interlude)

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N.K. Jemisin

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Reviews of books pre PB

How does everybody handle Reviews of books you read before joining Pagebound? Like how you you pick what „deserves“ a review? For now I just added reviews to my favorite ones or if I ever come across a book with an empty forum or low on reviews I post one if I read it. Ofc always writing Reviews since I joined here for new finished books. Just curious if someone else feels bad for a book with low Forum/Reviews. 💔

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hauntedxlore

Does this happen to you?

Well, a few days ago I went through an emergency surgery to have my appendix removed. So, when I got home, I thought I’d be all over my books! I’m stuck in bed for the next few days so… why not read?! Um, actually, I’m in a reading slump?? I CANNOT make myself pick up my book! Before the surgery, I wasn’t in a reading slump, mind you. Has this ever happened to any of you? Not necessarily a medical event, but having something work out so you focus on reading, however, the desire to read disappears? It. Is. So. Frustrating.

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kittytornado

Doom scrolling vs reading

Last night a friend sent me an Instagram link and I ended up scrolling for almost 2 hours. I knew in my heart that I wasn't enjoying myself but my brain wouldn't let me look away. For the first time in maybe 2 years I didn't read before bed and honestly I felt gross about it. Have you ditched social media yet? I am conflicted because the messaging services are the only way I keep in touch with several friends and family. Are you active on social media? How do you balance your screentime vs page time?

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Carrying

Samantha Josephs

An audacious, inventive debut and a cult classic in the making, from a thrilling new talent in fiction. Martha is a trans woman and the picture-perfect Los Angeles housewife, though she is concealing her identity even from her own husband. When she is struck down by a mysterious illness, she begins a series of bizarre experimental treatments that awaken strange new appetites in her and even leave her seemingly – impossibly – pregnant. Equal parts inventive, funny and compulsive, Carrying mixes the sensational body horror of The Substance with the transgressive camp comedy of John Waters in a style that’s all its own, and announces the arrival of a thrilling new talent in fiction.

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In the Lives of Puppets

T.J. Klune

In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots—fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. They’re a family, hidden and safe. The day Vic salvages and repairs an unfamiliar android labelled “HAP,” he learns of a shared dark past between Hap and Gio–a past spent hunting humans. When Hap unwittingly alerts robots from Gio’s former life to their whereabouts, the family is no longer hidden and safe. Gio is captured and taken back to his old laboratory in the City of Electric Dreams. So together, the rest of Vic’s assembled family must journey across an unforgiving and otherworldly country to rescue Gio from decommission, or worse, reprogramming. Along the way to save Gio, amid conflicted feelings of betrayal and affection for Hap, Vic must decide for himself: Can he accept love with strings attached? Inspired by Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio, and like Swiss Family Robinson meets Wall-E, In the Lives of Puppets is a masterful stand-alone fantasy adventure from the beloved author who brought you The House in the Cerulean Sea and Under the Whispering Door.

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esther

Chapter Titles: Yay or Nay?

Personally, I love it when a book has a chapter title instead of a number, as I feel that it adds character to the book and the characters themselves! They always remind me of Percy Jackson, one of my favourite childhood book series, so I do hold a soft spot for a silly chapter name.

However, I do also like a chapter number, as it helps me track where I am more easily.

One thing I despise though is a Roman numeral!!!!!! I’m curious what you all think though?

Chapter titles: yay or nay?

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