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beezus commented on kitsulli's review of Hungerstone

kitsulli

Mar 10, 2026

4.0

Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 4.0Plot: 4.0

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I love Carmilla and this was exactly the kind of retelling that I was craving!!! Undeniably sapphic, filled with righteous female rage and crises of morality, this was delicious! It was a bit slow moving and dragged in certain bits, but the story was well worth it! Highly recommend to any Carmilla fans!

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Adult Braces: Driving Myself Sane

Lindy West

In bestselling author Lindy West’s most ambitious book yet, she takes readers along on an uproarious cross-country road trip as she unpacks her last few tumultuous years, rediscovers herself, and reinvents her marriage in the process. Through Shrill, the book and then the Hulu series, Lindy West became an inspiration. To this day she is stopped on the street and hailed as a beacon of empowerment by women who felt badly for not conforming to the categories deemed acceptable—thin, straight, compliant. But behind the scenes, Lindy never felt like she was the self-actualized woman fans made her out to be. When she found herself in the throes of a deep depression, with her marriage and sense of self-worth hanging in the balance, she knew she needed to make a change. In ADULT BRACES, Lindy shares the story of her rock bottom, and of the solo cross-country road trip she took to claw her way out of it. With her trademark candor and sense of humor, she examines her post-Shrill emotional implosion, her shifting feelings about traditional marriage, and her search for her long-lost self. She also tracks the highs and lows of her journey, from eye-opening natural wonders and kitschy roadside attractions to lackluster excursions and campground epiphanies. The result is an engaging and laugh-out-loud narrative of becoming as Lindy transforms from a passenger into the active navigator of her own life.

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A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping

Sangu Mandanna

An enchanting novel about a witch who has a second chance to get her magical powers—and her life—back on track, from the national bestselling author of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches . Sera Swan was once one of the most powerful witches in Britain. Then she resurrected her great-aunt Jasmine from the (very recently) dead, lost most of her magic, befriended a semi-villainous talking fox, and was exiled from her magical Guild. Now she ( slightly reluctantly and just a bit grumpily) helps Aunt Jasmine run an inn in Lancashire, where she deals with her quirky guests' shenanigans, tries to keep the talking fox in check, and longs for the magical future she lost. When she learns about an old spellbook that holds the secret to restoring her power, she turns to Luke Larsen, a gorgeous historian who might just be able to help her unlock the book’s mysteries. Luke, who has his own reasons for staying at the inn, never planned on getting involved in the madcap goings-on around him and certainly had no intention of letting certain grumpy innkeepers past his icy walls, so no one is more surprised than he is when he not only agrees to help, but also finds himself thawing . Running an inn, reclaiming lost magic, and staying one step ahead of the watchful Guild is a lot for anyone, but Sera is about to discover that she doesn’t have to do it alone... and that the weird, wonderful family she’s made might be the best magic of all.

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anaconda

Would you rather…?

I am sick, so I made this! Some of these are supposed to be hard, some are genuinely only about preference. All lighthearted of course, don’t take them TOO seriously (unless it would be funny to do so)

Would you rather read 🛖in a lonely cabim infested with spiders or 🏢standing up on a busy sidewalk where you keep being bumped into and run danger of having things spilled on you and your book?
Would you rather 😍love a book that everyone else hates with a passion or 🙄hate a book that everyone else loves with a passion?
Would you rather 🔮know the ending of every book you read from now on as soon as you read past the third chapter or 🤔struggle to fully understand every single ending unless you have someone explain it to you or look it up?
Would you rather have dinner with ✍️your favorite author or 🥸your favorite character?
Would you rather have your favorite book turned into a screen adaptation that 🌇is wildly inaccurate but incredibly good in its own way, or 🌃is incredibly faithful but still bad in pretty much every other way (acting, editing, effects, colour, costuming, …)?
For the next five years, Would you rather only be able to read 🎵booktok™ books or ✖️books from your least favorite two genres?
For the next year, Would you rather 🤖only read books generated with AI or 🤓have listen to a litfic bro™ explain to you why every genre but litfic is not real literature every time you start a new book?
Would you rather be 🕴️be kidnapped by a hot mafia billionaire or 👽abducted by a hot alien?
Would you rather 🔜only be a able to read books published from this very second onward or 🔙only be able to read books published up until this very second?
Would you rather read ❓a series that ends on a cliffhanger and the author has no intention of finishing it or ❗️a story that ends with no happy ending for no narrative reason other than shock value?

Feel free to elaborate on some or all (or not at all) on why you chose the way you did & to add other tricky questions in the comments, I’m curious to see what pagebound thinks 🫶

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Sapphic Across Genres

Platinum: Finished 20 Main Quest books.

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Graphic Design Rules: 365 Essential Design Dos and Don'ts

Sean Adams

Ask any graphic designer the world over about their preferred approach to setting type, choosing a colour, or beginning a new layout, and you will rarely get exactly the same answer twice. Every creative has their own individual approach, or more importantly their own combinations of the thousands of techniques one can apply when planning a new design project. But there are some dos and don'ts that always figure strongly in any heated debate about what one should or should not accept as the right way to create the best graphic design. Packed with practical advice but presented in a light-hearted fashion, Graphic Design Rules is the perfect book for the ever-growing group of non-designers who want some graphic design guidance.

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A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking

T. Kingfisher

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The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)

Peter S. Beagle

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780451450524 She was magical, beautiful beyond belief—and completely alone... The unicorn had lived since before memory in a forest where death could touch nothing. Maidens who caught a glimpse of her glory were blessed by enchantment they would never forget. But outside her wondrous realm, dark whispers and rumours carried a message she could not ignore: "Unicorns are gone from the world." Aided by a bumbling magician and an indomitable spinster, she set out to learn the truth. but she feared even her immortal wisdom meant nothing in a world where a mad king's curse and terror incarnate lived only to stalk the last unicorn to her doom...

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paulie

Jan 09, 2026

5.0

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

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To be honest, it's been a week and I still don't know what to write, because the book was so good I wish for everybody to experience it fully blind.

Incredible descriptions, rounded characters and dialogue that will make you close the book to stare at the wall for a while. Every word is thought out for maximum impact, every twist of the story coming back to haunt us. It feels almost wrong that this was written 60 years ago as it feels timeless. The story keeps swirling in my head, calling to me and asking that I sit down to digest it.

One of the books I will want to reread over and over and over again in the future, that is for sure.

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The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)

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P. Djèlí Clark

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Geisha, a Life

Mineko Iwasaki

"No woman in the three-hundred-year history of the karyukai has ever come forward in public to tell her story. We have been constrained by unwritten rules not to do so, by the robes of tradition and by the sanctity of our exclusive calling...But I feel it is time to speak out." Celebrated as the most successful geisha of her generation, Mineko Iwasaki was only five years old when she left her parents' home for the world of the geisha. For the next twenty-five years, she would live a life filled with extraordinary professional demands and rich rewards. She would learn the formal customs and language of the geisha, and study the ancient arts of Japanese dance and music. She would enchant kings and princes, captains of industry, and titans of the entertainment world, some of whom would become her dearest friends. Through great pride and determination, she would be hailed as one of the most prized geishas in Japan's history, and one of the last great practitioners of this now fading art form. In Geisha, a Life, Mineko Iwasaki tells her story, from her warm early childhood, to her intense yet privileged upbringing in the Iwasaki okiya (household), to her years as a renowned geisha, and finally, to her decision at the age of twenty-nine to retire and marry, a move that would mirror the demise of geisha culture. Mineko brings to life the beauty and wonder of Gion Kobu, a place that "existed in a world apart, a special realm whose mission and identity depended on preserving the time-honored traditions of the past." She illustrates how it coexisted within post-World War II Japan at a time when the country was undergoing its radical transformation from a post-feudal society to a modern one. "There is much mystery and misunderstanding about what it means to be a geisha. I hope this story will help explain what it is really like and also serve as a record of this unique component of Japan's cultural history," writes Mineko Iwasaki. Geisha, a Life is the first of its kind, as it delicately unfolds the fabric of a geisha's development. Told with great wisdom and sensitivity, it is a true story of beauty and heroism, and of a time and culture rarely revealed to the Western world.

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Favorite avatar options (other than your current one)?

What it says on the tin!

What is/are your favorite avatar option(s) other than the one you are currently using? (Also not counting the differently colored versions of the one you're currently using)

If I wasn't using the dragon, I would probably be using the blue croissant one! Or the lady knight with red hair.

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Which book are you looking most forward to reading in 2026?

For me it's the new Six of Crows book coming out in June!

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A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

P. Djèlí Clark

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