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cottoncandyreader

I'm a poet who primarily reads poetry. Now, I'm branching out and exploring different genres! Based in the U.S. (Joined September 2025)

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The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1)
The Dark Between Stars
Memory Minefield
The Truth About Magic
Creatures of Chaos
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Can You Feel This?Creatures of ChaosTiny thoughts: Micro Poetry CollectionNone of This Is TrueMemory MinefieldThe Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1)Lightlark (Lightlark, #1)

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  • Everything My Mother Taught Me
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    This surprised me. It was thorough, redemptive, and dramatic. Justice and love had the final say.

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  • None of This Is True
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    “And I’m married to a fucking paedophile!” - OMG! 😳

    I can't wait to see how this story ends!!!

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  • Where do you like to read?

    Do you prefer the comfort of your home? (I think most of us do that lol) Do you read in your bed, couch, or do you have a cozy reading nook? Or do you like to read at a local library, park, or a cafe?

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  • New Feature: Choose your book edition (+ a note on language editions) [10/17/25]

    Another quality of life update! You can now select which edition of a book you are reading, which will update the book info in your library. This is most relevant for changing which book cover shows up in your library, or changing the language edition. We get asked all the time about changing book covers, so I'm happy to report this is finally an option! The edition page will also show you additional data like publisher and page count.

    This does require an app update if you are on the iOS/Android app.

    We've been working with a few volunteer librarians to combine language editions on Pagebound and are making steady progress "deduping" popular authors. This is a necessary process to make sure we have one forum per book, and also ensures if you read a book in say Spanish, the English version is also marked "finished" and you get credit towards any Quests, Readalongs etc. Deduping will also make Search and navigating the author pages easier.

    To change the language/edition of a book, click "View All Languages & Editions" on the book page (next to publish year above the book description). You'll see a list of all available editions, and can swap from that page. Your chosen edition will reflect in your Library.

    Combining language editions is a monumental task, so we appreciate your patience as me, Lucy, and our volunteers work through it all!

    Another fun update: we brought the "Featured Emoji" to the Discover Lists page!

    We're still working on home feed updates and will be back soon with more updates :)

    Happy Reading, Jennifer & Lucy

    PS: if you're curious how deduping works: When language editions are combined, it just means that there is one Book/forum per listing, but the "deduped" editions are still available on the editions page. All reviews and forum posts that were on the deduped book will now show up on the main Book page.

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  • The Bookstore Family (The Once Upon a Time Bookshop Stories)
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    This was so cozy, and it was just want I needed.

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  • cottoncandyreader commented on Victxria's update

    Victxria completed their yearly reading goal of 25 books!

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    Victxria's 2025 Reading Challenge

    26 of 25 read
    Journal du dehors
    I Who Have Never Known Men
    The Guilt Pill
    The Factory
    None of This Is True
    Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
    The Strange Case of Jane O.
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  • DITL of a mood reader

    See, what had happened was: I was reading 1 of the 6 books I started when the mood shifted. Suddenly, all I wanted were cozy, Hallmark-ish short stories. Mind you, I hadn't read short stories since elementary school.

    So, I stopped everything and started this cute short story series by Alice Hoffman. I just finished the last one. Now, I want to switch to short stories for a while.

    I love being a mood reader because I never know where I'll end up next!

    In my everyday life, I'm a planner, but as a reader, "Planner who?"

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  • DITL of a mood reader

    See, what had happened was: I was reading 1 of the 6 books I started when the mood shifted. Suddenly, all I wanted were cozy, Hallmark-ish short stories. Mind you, I hadn't read short stories since elementary school.

    So, I stopped everything and started this cute short story series by Alice Hoffman. I just finished the last one. Now, I want to switch to short stories for a while.

    I love being a mood reader because I never know where I'll end up next!

    In my everyday life, I'm a planner, but as a reader, "Planner who?"

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  • Your ✨Book Reading Personality✨

    I saw a post on Instagram with a proposed 2025 update to the Myers-Briggs personality test that I thought was so funny link here! I’m most definitely an ITND. 😆

    This made me wonder what a ✨book reading personality✨ would look like, so here is something I came up with:

    • H/D/L/A (hold a physical book/digital ebook/listen to audio/all (or some) of the above)
    • O/T (one book at a time/two+ books at a time)
    • M/P (mood read/planner)
    • W/N (written, annotated pages/no annotations)

    lol sorry if it’s confusing!! I tried to make sure the letters weren’t doubled. Anyway, I’m an ATMN! 💁🏻‍♀️ What are you??

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