audiobookish

I like books that leave me wondering: dystopian, magical realism, sapphic mythology, and irrelevant science. When I'm not reading, I'm playing Steam games and hanging out with my tuxedo cat. AuDHD.

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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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Robert Louis Stevenson

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Buddy Reading for a Lonely Shrimp

Is it safe space to ask what is a buddy read? I’ve been seeing it a lot lately and I’m gathering it’s reading a book at the same time as someone else but how are you guys doing it? Is it people you know irl or are you guys better at making internet friends (if so help a lonely shrimp out pls).

I’ve no gauge one who I talk to the most on here at all just that I do recognise names but I don’t think I’ve seen people I recognise read the same book as me at the same time?

Or are you guys being brave and just shouting to the void “who wants to buddy read” and the universe delivered you a random but cool person you become buddies with?

I’m currently reading Fledgling but I’m approx 30% way through.

My library holds that have just come through (thus my next reads) are: Young Mungo - Douglas Stuart Uprooted - Naomi Novik

I’m not 100% great anyway at posting regular updates in the forum so is this where I’m going wrong?

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LGBTQ+ Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Bronze: Finished 5 Main Quest books.

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The Traitor Baru Cormorant

Seth Dickinson

Tomorrow, on the beach, Baru Cormorant will look up from the sand of her home and see red sails on the horizon. The Empire of Masks is coming, armed with coin and ink, doctrine and compass, soap and lies. They'll conquer Baru’s island, rewrite her culture, criminalize her customs, and dispose of one of her fathers. But Baru is patient. She'll swallow her hate, prove her talent, and join the Masquerade. She will learn the secrets of empire. She’ll be exactly what they need. And she'll claw her way high enough up the rungs of power to set her people free. In a final test of her loyalty, the Masquerade will send Baru to bring order to distant Aurdwynn, a snakepit of rebels, informants, and seditious dukes. Aurdwynn kills everyone who tries to rule it. To survive, Baru will need to untangle this land’s intricate web of treachery - and conceal her attraction to the dangerously fascinating Duchess Tain Hu. But Baru is a savant in games of power, as ruthless in her tactics as she is fixated on her goals. In the calculus of her schemes, all ledgers must be balanced, and the price of liberation paid in full.

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Batboy

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Universe Quest: Realm of the Elderlings

Bronze: Finished 5 Main Quest books.

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There Is No Antimemetics Division

qntm

An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties; an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, discourages or prevents people from spreading it.Antimemes are real. Think of any piece of information which you wouldn't share with anybody, like passwords, taboos and dirty secrets. Or any piece of information which would be difficult to share even if you complex equations, very boring passages of text, large blocks of random numbers, and dreams... But anomalous antimemes are another matter entirely. How do you contain something you can't record or remember? How do you fight a war against an enemy with effortless, perfect camouflage, when you can never even know that you're at war? Welcome to the Antimemetics Division. No, this is not your first day.This ebook is an official release by me, qntm from the SCP Foundation wiki! PM me if you require confirmation. This ebook collects all of my Antimemetics Division SCP-055, SCP-2256 and the complete serials There Is No Antimemetics Division and Five Five Five Five Five.

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A Long Time Dead

Samara Breger

Samara Breger's A Long Time Dead is a lush, Victorian romance, drenched in blood and drama, about the lengths two women will go to secure a love that cannot die. Somewhere foggy, 1837 . . . Poppy had always loved the night, which is why it wasn’t too much of a bother to wake one evening in an unfamiliar home far from London, weak and confused and plagued with a terrible thirst for blood, to learn that she could no longer step out into the day. And while vampirism presented several disadvantages, it more than made up for those in its benefits: immortality, a body that could run at speed for hours without tiring, the thrill of becoming a predator, the thing that pulls rabbits from bushes and tears through their fur and flesh with the sharp point of a white fang. And, of course, Roisin. The mysterious woman who has lived for centuries, who held Poppy through her painful transformation, and who, for some reason, is now teaching her how to adjust to her new, endless life. A tight, lonely, buttoned-up woman, with kindness and care, pressed up behind her teeth. The time they spend together is as transformative to Poppy as the changes in her body, and soon, she finds herself hopelessly, overwhelmingly attached. But Roisin has secrets of her own, and can’t make any promises; not when vengeance must be served. Soon, their little world explodes. Together and apart, they encounter scores of vampires, shifty pirates, conniving opera singers, ancient nobles, glamorous French women, and a found family that throws a very particular sort of party. But overhead, threat looms—one woman who is capable of destroying everything Poppy and Roisin hold dear.

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Question of the Day!

Ciao Bookaholics!

How has everyone been?

As we know, Pagebound has a feature to search and discover by emojis!! So my question this week is...

Describe your current book using only 3 emojis. 😎

I'll go first: 🎨🔥🤫

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Piranesi

Susanna Clarke

Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house. There is one other person in the house—a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known.

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The Traitor Baru Cormorant

Seth Dickinson

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Burning Like Her Own Planet

Vandana Khanna

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Vandana Khanna

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What's your Reading PSL?

Mine is Plots, Sorcery, and Legends!

While doing some future book club activity ideas, we thought of an ice breaker for October, where everyone chooses their own PSL. Thought I would bring it over here!

Here are some starter ideas but feel free to make your own:

Pages, Plots, Princes, Princesses, Prophecies, Power, Passion, Pining, Poison, Politics, Palaces, Pegasi, Potions, Pumpkins, Parchment, Peril, Promises, Pleasure, Princes, Protectors, Pacts, Portals, Priestesses, Phantoms, Phoenixes, Pirates, Possession, Pursuit, Pride, Prestige, Pretenders, Princes, Peasants, Pastimes, Problems, Paranoia, Partnerships, Perseverance, Pettiness, Plotting, Proposals, Protectiveness, Powerplays, Possessiveness, Predicaments, Perfection, Prowess, Page-turners, Panties

Swords, Spells, Spice, Schemes, Seduction, Sorcery, Secrets, Shadows, Stars, Storms, Scandals, Souls, Spirits, Sirens, Shapeshifters, Stakes, Suffering, Sacrifice, Suspense, Strategy, Sovereigns, Suitors, Soulmates, Sparks, Slow-burns, Snark, Smoldering, Swoon, Swooning, Steam, Shenanigans, Stabbing, Survival, Skirmishes, Sieges, Secrets, Spellcraft, Swordplay, Scars, Seduction, Supernatural, Suspicion, Strife

L: Love, Longing, Lore, Lovers, Lust, Legends, Lies, Loyalty, Loss, Legacies, Lords, Ladies, Labyrinths, Light, Letters, Lineages, Loyalty, Liaisons, Longbows, Language, Liberation, Lunacy, Luxury, Lawlessness, Legends, Leverage, Leadership, Life, Laughter, Long-lost-loves, Love-interests, Love-triangles, Loathing, Lusting, Lurking, Loyalty, Lineage, Legends

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Burning Like Her Own Planet

Vandana Khanna

Against the backdrop of iconic, ancient Hindu texts, Burning Like Her Own Planet reimagines the lives of Hindu goddesses through a contemporary, feminist lens. Told in a series of persona poems and dramatic monologues, the book reinvents these myths into essential stories of love, betrayal, and faith. In these poems, the goddesses question their predetermined fates and examine what it means to be human and divine. They speak in the voices of girls, wives, and mothers, all trying to carve a space for themselves in a world ruled by jealous gods and capricious luck. Overcoming a string of challenges, these goddesses discover their own agency, and the power that comes from telling their own stories. At the heart of the book are the goddesses Sita and Parvati―women who are cast in the role of the “perfect” wife, the “perfect” mother. Here, the goddesses describe their own transformations from naïve, untried women into powerful forces claiming their autonomy. Each in her own way challenges the traditional notions of what it means to be a woman, illuminating the connections between the personal and the universal, the devout and the earthly. The poems highlight the tension between obligation and freedom, examining the consequences for those who try and change the narrative. Whether blessed or cursed, these women, these girl-goddesses, forge their own place within the pages of ancient texts, writing the bitter and the sweet of own lives as they undergo the trials of becoming holy.

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Aug 13, 2026

The Infinite State (Decurion Saga)

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Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 5.0Characters: 4.0Plot: 4.0

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Tyrannical government? ✅ Political intrigue x infinity? ✅ Morally grey characters? ✅ Murder mysteries galore? ✅ Space racing? ✅ Found family (albeit in the most messed up kinda way because none of them really trust each other)? ✅ Lots of people getting shot in the fez? ✅ Robot armies? ✅ A fun flipping time?!? ✅ ✅ ✅

That's all. This was great.

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