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aliyahmk

writer & lover of Black queer horror • none of us are free until all of us are free 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇨🇩 • sydney, aus

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Blood Suckers
Fictional(?) Dystopian Societies
Mardi Gras + Carnival 2026
Queer Horror
Cherry Blossom Festival 2026
Gothic Literature
My Taste
Biography of X
Hungerstone
Penance
Chain-Gang All-Stars
Love is a Dangerous Word: the Selected Poems of Essex Hemphill
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Things We Lost in the Fire
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Cleat Cute
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The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1)
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The Rot
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A Fortune for Your Disaster
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The Appeal (The Appeal, #1)
38%
The Nickel Boys
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Pew
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Rebecca
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Orlando
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aliyahmk commented on monzza's review of We Have Always Lived in the Castle

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  • We Have Always Lived in the Castle
    monzza
    May 07, 2026
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    Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 5.0
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    This book completely re-defined my literary soul. We Have Always Lived in the Castle was a turning point for me, it was the moment I realized how much I absolutely love a Gothic atmosphere and a truly unreliable narrator when it's done right, and Shirley Jackson absolutely killed it.

    The vibe is so eerie and isolated, and Merricat is such a fascinatingly strange guide through it all. Her dissociation from reality and her strange, ritualistic ways really pulled me in.

    I find myself chasing this vibe now! It's dark, weird, and perfect. This book is absolutely masterclass in how to build a world that feels both suffocatingly small and endlessly vast, dripping with a sense of dread that is somehow still beautiful.

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  • The Gilda Stories
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    “My dream was to see the world, over time. The real dream is to make a world—to see the people and still want to make a world.”

    it’s difficult to comprehend gomez only having written this in 1991, and i mean that in the most complementary way. there’s something ancient in her prose; a simultaneous richness and simplicity that makes the work feel completely timeless. adoring this so far.

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    aliyahmk commented on a post from the Founder Announcements forum

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  • We have stats! App update (4/30/26)

    We have a very very exciting announcement: stats are live on the Pagebound app on iOS and Android! (web coming soon). Please make sure you're on the latest version of the app :)

    This has been a long time coming as we've released smaller features to gather reading data: format tracking, page/minute totals, daily reading updates, and streaks. Now, you can see that data visualized on the Stats tab of your profile!

    The top section shows your Monthly Stats, and the bottom section shows your Annual Stats. Next month, you will also see your Monthly & Yearly wrap-ups on this tab.

    Royalty members have enhanced stats and extra graphs. If you're not Royalty and are curious to see the extra stats, head to a Royalty member's profile to check it out :)

    This is just the beginning; we will be adding onto and improving stats, especially as we gather series and genre data. I am so thrilled to share this V1 with everyone now!

    If you find your stats do not look correct, make sure all your data is filled in correctly:

    • You can edit your daily pages read & minutes listened by clicking the streak widget on your home page to access Reading History.
    • Edit format, total pages, and total minutes by clicking your Read Dates. On the last screen of the "edit read dates" flow, you can add/edit that info.

    As a little bonus on the Reading History screen, you also see the pages read or minutes listened each day per book.

    We hope you all enjoy this new facet of Pagebound! A big thank you to everyone for making this such a special community, and a special thank you to our Royalty members for making Pagebound possible with your support.

    We'll be back tomorrow with some Readalong and Quest announcements!

    Happy Reading, Jennifer + Lucy

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    aliyahmk commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

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  • repeat list topics

    how do we feel about lists that are pretty similar? i went to create a list, searched a few terms, didn't see what i was going to do, and made one. after, i realized i should have tried a different search term, and now see there are several lists like the one i created.

    is this obnoxious? do people like having different lists of the same topics or do you get annoyed when you see more than one? just curious how people feel!

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  • Victorian Psycho
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    i had the most wonderful time with this one! virginia feito’s voice is lightning striking twice, absurd and sizzling and gleefully nasty. tonally, so reminiscent of its namesake american psycho; camp and bloody and addictive. yum!

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