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from zero books in 2024 to meeting my 2025 reading goal 🤭 willing to read anything I can put on a Libby hold šŸ“– reading on my Kobo Libra Colour šŸ’™ here w you from the USA! (she/her)

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Reading...Bi: The Hidden Culture, History and Science of Bisexuality
My Taste
The Great Believers
The Young Elites (The Young Elites, #1)
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
Vicious (Villains, #1)
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

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  • Your Bookish Beige Flag?

    Was thinking to myself how I have this ridiculous habit of intentionally speeding through book blurbs trying not to learn too much, leaving a book on my TBR for ages, starting to read it going off the memory of the blurb, and then being completely thrown by what the book is actually about because I realize I didn't actually know. Case in point: started the castle knoll files series today, DEAD CERTAIN the MC was an old male detective. It is about a 25 year old girl and her kooky aunt. This is abundantly clear in the blurb and I have no idea how I misremembered that badly. I spent the first 20 pages going "oh? Oh?? Oh!" So anyway, that got me thinking, do any of y'all have reading quirks like this that are ultimately harmless but kind of weird? A beige flag, if you will?

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  • Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
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    ahhh…….. im loving it. i’m starting to see toxic jealous sabine and honestly i’m here for it. never in my life do i think i would enjoy a book with a toxic man but toxic lesbian vampire is 100% amazing. also as a side note. there is a very cute witch named melody (who idk if we will see again, i hope we do). i’m hoping schwab will write a witchy book with her character.

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    Ngl, I thought I was going to DNF the book cuz ppl said it’s like Babel(which I DNF’d in FebruaryšŸ’€), but I was pleasantly surprised 😃 Might actually start giving dark academia a chance after this Also, I love Sciona and Thomil ā˜ŗļø

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    "it's mostly following directions. you're a kwen, right? you know how to do that?" sexism aside, i really, really enjoy how complex of a character sciona is. she is obviously very bright, intelligent, and driven, but her elitism and how she looks down on the kwen ethnic group cuts through, from the comment above to her thoughts about how they were supposedly to blame for the blight. i look forward to the deconstruction of her assumptions as she gets to know the janitor

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    Digging how magic is a sort of coding language in this book. A refreshing twist!

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    oh this book is delicious

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    Already back for round 2! I read it a couple months ago and decided to listen to the audiobook this week to prep for book club. Very interested to see what jumps out to me in this different version.

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    Hey y'all, Resident yapper here and just wanted to say I'm so excited to see so many new folks chatting books!! As someone who doesn't have many around me that read, pagebound has been such an awesome way to get my thoughts out and talk with others about some of my favorite books! I'm Devin, Father of 2 amazing little girls, husband, book reviewer, and software engineer. I live in CT and i'm 35 years old. I love SFF mostly but willing to dabble in anything. I run bromantasy.com which is a review site attempting to bridge the genre gap for Romantasy and SFF in general. My favorite books are Golden Son (Red Rising Saga), The Will of the Many, Kingdom of Ash (Throne of Glass), Spear Cuts Through Water, and Howling Dark (Sun Eater). Would love to know a little more about you all, please practice good internet safety when responding!! Again welcome to Pagebound, super glad you've joined this amazing community and look forward to chatting more about your favorite books! 😊

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    Ok let's goooooooo šŸ’ƒšŸ»šŸ•ŗšŸ» I'm excited to read this one, Schwab is a hit or miss for me, loved the Vicious/Vengeance books, but hated the Darker Shade books, loved Addie Larue, so I have my fingers crossed I'll love this one too!

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    Ok, 12% in and I already hate Andres, "she wonders how much force it would take to drive the tines into his head..." me too Maria, me too I want her and the maid to have a secret love affair, kill all of the men, and live happily ever after in the mansion! I have another 16hrs left of the audiobook, so I'm assuming that isn't going to happen, but Victoria, in case you are reading this, from one V to another, you can have that little gift for free for your new book *wink*

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