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ayzrules

she/her | writer spending all her time reading instead 🙂‍↕️| feel free to dm me @ayzrules on discord if you ever want to chat (just say youre from pagebound)!

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British & Irish Classic Literature
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My Taste
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
The Amulet of Samarkand (Bartimaeus, #1)
El lĂĄpiz del carpintero
The Joy Luck Club
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The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen (The Doomsday Books, #1)Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct WorldsTender Is the FleshThe Goblin Emperor (The Goblin Emperor, #1)Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of PlantsWonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction

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  • Future classics

    I love reading classic novels and as I was reading jane eyre today, it got me thinking, what books would you consider to be modern classics or what books do you think will become classics in the future?

    I’m really interested in seeing what everyone thinks ☺️

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  • Don't Let the Forest In
    I want the graphic novel adaptation of this book

    Please.

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  • The Starving Saints
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    Thoughts from 55% (page 187) - ruminating on parallels between the saints + castle inhabitants
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  • What the River Knows (Secrets of the Nile, #1)
    Thoughts from 42% (page 226)

    ngl, lowkey boring so far. its not the worst, but when are we actually gonna get to the archaeology :(

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    What books have made you feel seen/are peak representation for you?

    For members of any and all marginalized groups, what books have made you feel seen and/or are books you consider "the most" accurate representation? I've come across a lot of books that, while touted as representation, feel a little flat or stereotypical. Not all members of marginalized groups are going to be the best spokespeople through the written word, and everyone has a different experience, so not every book is going to be great representation for every person.

    So which books really resonated with you and your experience, fiction or nonfiction, hopeful or devastating, overtly about marginalization or not?

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  • Types of Reviews

    So I've been reading through the reviews written by people I follow (love being able to filter the feed on profiles!) because I'm nosy and looking for recs - and to help me learn to write better reviews.

    It got me thinking about what type of reviews I like to read and are helpful to me, and I just know that everyone has different 'requirements' for what makes a review good for them. It's making it really fun to look through them, knowing that what doesn't quite work for me will work for someone else.

    For example, I prefer an almost negative amount of 'spoilers' (this is probably just my disinterest in hearing/reading premise recaps - if I wanted to read the blurb I would have, and I generally don't), an overview of the vibe (including tone, setting/time, genre/sub-genre), and a couple of reasons why the book worked (or didn't work) for the reader.

    What about you? What do you prefer to see, and write, in reviews?

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  • The Goblin Emperor (The Goblin Emperor, #1)
    Thoughts from 8% (page 39)

    Wasn’t expecting the old English but it does make a very nice change

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  • A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)
    Breakdown/analysis of the plot and emotional arcs in A Dowry of Blood (thoughts after finishing)
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    Breakdown/analysis of the plot and emotional arcs in A Dowry of Blood (thoughts after finishing)
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