asdgety
A linguist, a chaotic lesbian, a gamer, a nerd. Ex voto is the best game I played so far this year. she/her #loghaindidnowrong
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Hey everyone,
I've been wanting to try doing a reading challenge while I'm at home, but I can only think of the 24 hour challenge and having a spinner wheel choose how many hours I read per day. So, can anyone think of any others? Also, while we're on the topic, if you've tried a reading challenge before, what was your experience?
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The Most Unusual Haunting of Edgar Lovejoy
Roan Parrish
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Whilst scrolling through books on pagebound, I became curious and wanted to know the lowest rated books on this app. (Aside from books that have less than 10 ratings.) Also because scrolling through one star reviews is oddly entertaining for me 😂.
So far, the lowest rated book that I have seen is Lightlark by Alex Aster, with an overall rating of 3.5 stars. I have read this book myself and to be honest it wasn’t that bad. I think that the concept was amazing, though the way that it was executed was done poorly. There were a lot of plotholes, and the love triangle just became annoying.
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Books with aromantic/asexual representation
Book that feature prominent character(s) who's on asexual/aromantic spectrum. I've read most of these.
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This issue follows a sassy good cop who doesn't mind breaking a few laws. He also has a droid. Both have a charisma of a cardboard box. I've seen it done a million times before. Maul doesn't even appear until the very end.
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Star Wars: Shadow Of Maul (2026) #1 (of 5)
Benjamin Percy
0asdgety is interested in reading...
The Oracle Stone (The Windermere Tales #1)
Talli L. Morgan
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White Women are the Villains, Actually
Fiction stories where white women use and abuse people of color and other marginalized people. Thank you @chris for pointing out what a great list this would make!
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asdgety commented on ehawley's review of Wildflower
Wildflower is a cozy fantasy story of an Ella Enchanted-esque spell that binds the main character to always telling the truth. There is mischief amok, and the FMC must muddle through it all. This story was a standard cozy fantasy with more summer vibes.
Our FMC was unfortunately not very interesting to me. She acted like she was 14-16 years old and was so irritatingly naive. The villain was beyond apparent from the beginning, and the FMC's willingness to provide dangerous materials (rare flowers) to an anonymous source baffled me. The acceptance of her friends being horrible also depressed me. I didn't really want her to have a romantic relationship with the MMC; what she really needed was at least one good friend! I didn't really feel strongly about any character by the end of the book, and wish we got more of the cat characters.
I was moving quickly through this book and was interested in how the story was playing out until the halfway mark when the momentum crumbles. It was a real slog for me to get through the story past this point, and I felt myself disengage more and more as the storyline unraveled. There were compelling teases in the worldbuilding and political system and landscape, but the author shifted to a very predictable and not particularly effectual ending. The writing was also very uneven. So much of the story was the author telling us exactly what a character was thinking, feeling, and experiencing rather than demonstrating and showing through the writing.
I did appreciate that this was a queernormative world with positive representation. If you are interested in a lighter YA cozy fantasy story, you might be interested in this book. There are pieces of this book that could make a much more interesting story, and I hope the author is able to develop their craft more in future releases.
Thank you, Del Rey, Random House Worlds, Inklore, for the arc!
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I recently switched from Kindle to Xteink X3 and am curious how others organize their ebook collection on their e-readers. I mostly relied on book cover images for Kindle navigation, but the Xteink is primarily text based aside from the home screen. (I’m using the CrossPoint firmware) Do you keep your entire ebook collection on the e-reader? Or just the currently reading/TBR? Separate into folders by genre or other? My disorganization is also a symptom of my TBR book hoarding… so maybe that’s what I need to address first.
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For anyone who wants to start reading The Odyssey but you're intimidated by the language, or not sure which translation to read, or if you've started reading it and the translation you picked up just isn't working for you, I would recommend this video:
Which version of Homer's Odyssey is best (for you?)
It was super helpful for me, and it gets right to the point. He offers 6 options based on whatever you might be looking for in a translation. I personally found the Robert Fagles translation to be a really good fit for me.
Hope this helps !!
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Meliora
Talli L. Morgan
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