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A Murder Most Camp
Nicolas DiDomizio
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Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer
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Emotional Annihilation Toolkit
Are you currently not crying to the point of vomiting, but you want to be? Need to conduct a science experiment to find out if you are in fact the ugliest crier in all of Pagebound? Well, do I have the list for you! Brought to you by the fine, very sad, folks of Pagebound! These books have been frequently suggested or upvoted in PB club posts about sad books! Suggestions in any genre, and extra tissues, are welcome!
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sweet & fun & heartfelt!
this is the kind of cozy fantasy i really enjoy - some real stakes, coherent & meaningful subplots, & a good roster of side characters.
👁️🧚♂️✂️⛲️🪞🔮👭👗🏰 🪄🫧
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a mostly well-executed book about a woman who has left behind the cult she was raised in.
this one read more like a lit fic with thriller elements than a true thriller, which i liked but might not be for everyone. part of that vibe was that the eventual reveal of the Mysterious Event that is hinted at through the entire book is not surpising, but i don’t know that it needed to be. i liked this while reading it & kept picking it back up, but haven’t really thought about it since finishing.
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short, sour, & functional
the lesson here? mind ur own business!
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Honey
Imani Thompson
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i need more emojis !!!!! i need to be able to 🌞🔆♻️🫙🤖🦾🧺🥼🔬🧪🍊🌴🌳🛶🌊🏝️✍️📓🐈⬛👁️💻🎒🚙🧃🧼🫧🧴🧽📚📖🖊️🌬️
Orange Island is Vanessa Frances’ debut novel & is a speculative dystopian fiction about indivualism, environmentalism, & the ties that bind us
Frances’ strength lies in her dialogue (her background as a playwright is evident) & her ability to illustrate the vastness of a different world while keeping a tight, contained focus.
One of my favorite things parts of this story is that most chapters starting with a series of headlines from 10-15 years prior to the book’s present day. Vanessa Frances manages to perfectly walk the line between a complete & unrecognizable dystopia & a speculative fiction firmly rooted in Florida’s current political landscape.
🤍🧡💛💚🩵💙
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Orange Island: A Novel
Vanessa Frances
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Orange Island: A Novel
Vanessa Frances
Post from the Orange Island: A Novel forum
Post from the Orange Island: A Novel forum
It felt insane that we weren’t all standing on the roofs of our houses, screaming at how far we’d strayed from empathy. Why weren’t we all asking ourselves about the absurdity we were tolerating and what we were holding out for? Why couldn’t we all find that anger within us?
Post from the Orange Island: A Novel forum
Post from the Orange Island: A Novel forum
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This may be a controversial discussion topic, but next week I'm embarking on a major inventory (and declutter) of all my physically owned books and I have a slight quandary so would love to get other peoples opinions.
Normally, if there's a book I own but don't feel the need to keep I donate it to charity or drop it into a little free library. It's easy enough to do and gives others a chance to discover books they may not have otherwise known about OR been able to afford. But I also own some books that I don't feel right sharing in any way, including LFLs, because they promote bigotry. In particular, I'm thinking about the Racist Wizard Books by The Infamous Terf. I received all the books as gifts when I was a kid and am sick of having them in my house, but I also don't want to further their reach by adding more into circulation. To be clear: this isn't about censorship (if you want to read them that's your choice) but about not wanting to personally put them into someone else's hands.
So the question: How do you get rid of books you own, but ethically hate and don't want to help circulate?
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i know we all have a habit of using whatevers around us for holding the place in our books lol, the other day i had to use a pair of scissors and then a hairdryer 😭😭😭 today its nice and simple, a star wars postcard i bought the other day,
this one here!

but yus i would love to hear what everyone else currently using as a bookmark whether its an actual bookmark or a fun little bonus object we just had lying around lmao, this is show and tell time 🙂↕️✨️