bookishghostgirl

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My Taste

Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1)

The Raven and the Crown: The Highland Duology Vol. 1 (The Song of the Fay)

The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)

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Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

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bookishghostgirl

Library Savings

I didn't know what else to call this. But does anyone else check the receipt that you get when checking out library books and see the total $$ for what you saved? I don't know why, but I always like seeing how much I save each time I check books out from the library.

Right now I have saved $499.72 just by visiting the library.

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Divasauce

How many books can you read at a time?

Perhaps a silly question but I gotta ask lol. I recently discovered after 3 years of only reading one book at a time, that I actually can read TWO books at a time (!!!) which has made me excited and I now wanna try a third, sometimes I see people on this app that has like 10+ books ongoing, so I gotta ask how yall are doing that, if there’s times you get overwhelmed by the amount, and the reason why you read so many at a time? 🫪🫶

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hbear21

How do you use Pagebound while reading?

I’m curious to hear how other users utilize Pagebound while reading, such as how often do you check into your book’s forum? I read audiobooks almost exclusively, so I’ll occasionally pause to read any forum posts for what I’ve already read. Sometimes I pause if I have a thought I want to post immediately, other times I’ll bookmark a section in Libby and maybe mark a quote I want to reference later. Do you have set times of day that you’ll check PB? It’s actually become one of the first apps I check for the day, to see if I have any notifications and to check any new club posts. I love this app and community so much! 🫛🐝

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unforth

WWW Wednesday!

It's Wednesday again, which means I'm back to ask my three W questions:

What are you currently reading?
What have you recently finished reading?
What are you planning to read next?

Feel free to go into as much or as little detail as you want, and I encourage y'all to look at what other folks are reading - you may find like-minded readers among them!

(sorry I missed last week, I had surgery and as I feared there was just no way I could brain getting a post up.)

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Behind Five Willows

June Hur

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Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

Mikki Kendall

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Behind Five Willows

June Hur

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Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

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bookishghostgirl TBR'd a book

Native Nations: A Millennium in North America

Kathleen DuVal

A sweeping history of the power of Indigenous North America from ancient cities to fights for sovereignty that continue today, from an award-winning historian In this magisterial history, Kathleen DuVal tells the story of Native nations, from the rise of ancient cities more than a thousand years ago to the present, reframing North American history with Indigenous power and sovereignty at its center. Before and during European colonization, Indigenous North Americans built diverse civilizations and lived in history, adapting to a changing world in ways that reverberated globally. As DuVal explains, no civilization came to a halt when a few wandering explorers arrived, even when the strangers came well-armed. A millennium ago, North American cities rivaled urban centers around the world in size, but following a period of climate change and instability DuVal shows how numerous smaller nations emerged from previously centralized civilizations, moving away from rather than toward urbanization. From this urban past, patterns of egalitarian government structures, diplomacy, and complex economies spread across North America. So, when Europeans arrived in the sixteenth century, they encountered societies they did not understand, having developed differently from their own, and whose power they often underestimated. For centuries after these first encounters, Indigenous people maintained an upper hand and used Europeans in pursuit of their own interests. In Native Nations , we see how Mohawks closely controlled trade with the Dutch--and influenced global markets--and how Quapaws manipulated French colonists. Power dynamics shifted after the American Revolution, but Indigenous people continued to control the majority of the continent. Shawnee brothers Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa forged new alliances and encouraged a controversial new definition of Native identity to attempt to wall off U.S. ambitions. The Cherokees created new institutions to assert their sovereignty on the global stage, and the Kiowas used their preponderance of power in the west to regulate the passage of white settlers across their territory. In this important addition to the growing tradition of North American history centered on Indigenous nations, Kathleen DuVal uses these stories to show how the definitions of power and means of exerting it shifted over time, but the sovereignty and influence of Native peoples remained a constant and will continue far into the future.

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paigehf

Technical Question

Greetings, Boundlings 🖖👽

I recently quit Fable because I just wasn't using it all that much anymore besides tracking, but I just realized my account there contains all my written reviews that I go back to reference sometimes. If I were to transfer each review here, would that cause a spam of reviews? Or does it not show up in the feed because it's an edit to an existing review rather than a whole new one? I just don't want to flood my mutuals' feeds before I start doing it lol. Thanks in advance!

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June Hur

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Daughter of Crows

Mark Lawrence

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June Hur

From the New York Times-bestselling author of A Crane Among Wolves comes a warm and romantic homage to Jane Austen set in historical Korea, about a reader and a writer who secretly fight against government book banning and find themselves irresistibly drawn together. As the dutiful second-eldest daughter of a poor family, society would have Haewon believe that her only hope of a decent life is to marry well. But during a time of rampant government censorship and book banning, she instead works as an illegal book transcriber in order to make a little extra money. It’s dangerous work, but she loves it―especially when she gets to transcribe the work of her favorite author, known as Black Lotus. When her older sister becomes smitten with a wealthy young gentleman, Haewon is roped into chaperoning them during their courtship. Which wouldn’t be so terrible... if it weren’t for the young man’s uptight and annoying best friend who also accompanies them. As the only son of a noble, Seojun has a lot expected of him. Wealth. Status. Respectability. Certainly not frivolous and often illicit activities such as reading fiction. But Seojun loves to do something even more scandalous: writing. He’s kept his work secret from his father and friends, but with each passing day, the pressure of being his father’s son and the dispiriting actions of the government make Seojun question the purpose of it all. The only thing keeping him going are the encouraging letters he receives from his transcriber, known only as Magpie. When his best friend falls hard for a girl of lower social status, Seojun finds himself forced to act as chaperone to the infatuated couple―along with the girl's younger sister, who is as irritating as she is judgmental. But as Haewon and Seojun spend more time together, they begin to suspect they may have judged each other too quickly...

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Divasauce

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New month alert ‼️ 🚨

It’s a new month yk what that meanssss

What are you planning to start/finish this month!? I’ll start!

Books: Dune Assasins apprentice The fellowship of the ring The two towers good girl bad blood The promised Neverland vol 2 bury our bones in the midnight soil ninth house

Games: Hollow knight Expedition 33 Deltarune Horizon zero dawn NieR: Automata

Tv/anime Frieren season 2 Witch hat atelier Attack on titan Umbrella academy Wednesday

Of course I may not finish all these things (most likely not) but I hope to start/finish the majority in July 😌✨🪷 (doomscrolling will not win)

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