daniphantom

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A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)

The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)

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Opera Wars: Inside the World of Opera and the Battles for Its Future

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The Last Best Quest Ever

F.T. Lukens

A fraudulent teen quester must team up with a brooding, royal rival on a perilous adventure to save her brother’s life in this cozy young adult romantasy full of mythical creatures by the New York Times bestselling author of Spell Bound and So This is Ever After. Seventeen-year-old Ellinore has the best questing record of anyone in the kingdom’s history. She also has a secret: her fame is built entirely on lies. Tired of the charade, she shocks the kingdom by retiring at a royal feast. But her plans for a quiet life are disrupted when her twin brother Zig bets his life that Ellinore can retrieve the horn of the mythical Elder Beast. To save Zig, she reluctantly sets out on one last, perilous quest. Accompanying her are Zig, determined to help despite his recklessness; Aven, her envious rival eager to prove their superiority; an ambitious bar maiden turned adventurer; and a young, magic-wielding bard. Together, they face an arduous journey fraught with mythical challenges and shifting alliances. As they search for the Elder Beast, Ellinore grapples with her growing feelings for Aven, her fear of losing Zig, and her identity as a reluctant hero. With time running out, Ellinore must confront not only the legendary creature but also her own truths. Can she save her brother, embrace her potential, and finally decide her path?

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The Last Best Quest Ever

F.T. Lukens

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Nettle & Bone

T. Kingfisher

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Get in witch, we’re going to the library 😎

by steventoast

20 books

Maybe the people are magical, maybe the library is. Maybe these aren’t as fictional as they seem.

Recommendations encouraged!

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Bonfire and Bliss Bookstore (Hope Harbor)

Brittanee Nicole

Sparks fly as the leaves fall this autumn…From the superstar romance author of The Boston Bolts hockey series comes a swoony friends-to-lovers fake dating delight.These old flames are ready to catch fire.For Penny Darling, love is best enjoyed between the pages of a book. After a very public failed engagement, she’d rather cozy up by the fire with a book boyfriend than a real one any day. And as the owner of Bonfire & Bliss Bookstore, she has her pick.Then Jake “Monty” Montgomery returns home. Her high school best friend, now a struggling author with inked forearms and wicked green eyes. And he needs her help.His proposal is She’ll teach him to write the perfect book boyfriend and he’ll pose as her real boyfriend, keeping Hope Harbor’s busybodies—and their obsession with Penny’s love life—at bay.But when their lessons begin, the line between fiction and reality grows dangerously thin. As pretend kisses in the apple orchard turn into searing ones beneath the autumn moon, Penny begins to wonder if Monty could really love her, or if she’s destined for another broken heart.

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The History of Sound

Ben Shattuck

Soon to be a major movie starring Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor'Exquisitely crafted, deeply imagined, exhilaratingly diverse, The History of Sound places Ben Shattuck firmly among the very finest of our storytellers' - Geraldine Brooks, New York Times bestselling author of Horse In twelve luminous stories set across three centuries, The History of Sound examines the unexpected ways the past returns to us and how love and loss are entwined and transformed over generations. In Ben Shattuck's ingenious collection, each story has a companion story, which contains a revelation about the previous, paired story. Mysteries and murders are revealed, history is refracted, and deep emotional connections are woven through characters and families. The haunting title story recalls the journey of two men who meet around a piano in a smoky, dim bar, only to spend a summer walking the Maine woods collecting folk songs in the shadow of the First World War, forever marked by the odyssey. Decades later, in another story, a woman discovers the wax cylinders recorded that fateful summer while cleaning out her new house in Maine. Shattuck's inventive, exquisite stories transport readers from 1700s Nantucket to the contemporary woods of New Hampshire and beyond—into landscapes both enduring and unmistakably modern. Memories, artefacts, paintings, and journals resurface in surprising and poignant ways among evocative beaches, forests, and orchards, revealing the secrets, misunderstandings, and love that linger across centuries. Written with breathtaking humanity and humor, The History of Sound is a love letter to New England, a radiant conversation between past and present, and a moving meditation on the abiding search for home.

daniphantom commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

moss-mylk

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Cosy/whimsical adult fantasies WITHOUT romance

Had some lovely exciting recs from cosy fantasy forum and @siobhanwhimsy who even made a list on my req! (List pinned in comments - thank you @strawberrymilk!) Added these books to TBR but havent found something I want to read now… (so neutral and very grateful)

Looking for:

adult fantasy/protagonist
No romance (peripheral romance for side characters is okay) !!!!!!!
Whimsy!!!!!
Friendship/found family
Loveable characters
No abuse or graphic violence. Nothing too emotionally heavy
Ideally no epic fantasies or fantasies that r very targeted towards (cis) men (no hate, just not my personal style)

For your inspiration… Whimsy examples from recent and current reads:

neverending hot chocolate from tea pot
Singing/magical dresses
Magical cakes/food
Magic shops
Cute animal friends (talking or not talking!)
Maps that lead u to a perfect book
Magical libraries/books
Enchanted or sentient trees/plants/flowers/objects/houses
Trees that sweep away snow
Portals
Statues that cry (NOT in a creepy way!)
Characters who naturally are a lil silly/whimsical/goofy and may not realise it
Winning a swordfight/fight to the death by simply having the best needlework
Conjuring (only) buttons from thin air (and they flick you in the head)

Please if you have any recs id love to know !!! And if you can give short desc about the book and how it fits what im looking for thatd help sm <3 thank you!!!! B

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Opera Wars: Inside the World of Opera and the Battles for Its Future

Caitlin Vincent

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Opera Wars: Inside the World of Opera and the Battles for Its Future

Caitlin Vincent

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Champion: Finished 5 Side Quest books.

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Forced into unending sleep or perilous insomnia, repeating tedious daily routines until your body rots, watching as your skin starts to glow or your hands sprout scales—these novels feature illnesses that are far from typical.

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Nettle & Bone

T. Kingfisher

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daniphantom commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

CaitlinByHerShelf

Let’s Talk All Things ✨QUESTS✨

Happy Friday, lovely Boundlings! 💜

If there’s anything I’m slightly (definitely) obsessed with - it’s quests and badges. I consider myself a Professional Badge Goblin and since joining PB my reading is heavily influenced by my desire to earn all the shiny things.

I know there’s a lot of discussion and excitement about the upcoming Lists Turned Quests so I thought it was a great time to open up some discussion about existing Quests!

Some Quest(ions)!

What is your favorite Quest and why?
What is your all time favorite BADGE?
What badge are you most proud of earning?
If you could only recommend one Quest, which would you choose?
Do you prefer Main Quests or Side Quests?
What would be your ✨dream✨ Quest?

daniphantom commented on kuppajoy's review of How to Keep House While Drowning

kuppajoy

Apr 02, 2026

5.0

Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: Plot:

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This book literally rewired my brain. The main message is care tasks (aka chores) are morally neutral.

Things that make you a good person: having integrity, being honest and compassionate, generosity, helping others etc.

Things that make you a bad person: lying, cheating, oppressing others etc.

Things that literally don’t influence whether you’re good or bad at all: how much or how often you sweep your floors, do your dishes, fold your laundry etc.

I mean… it makes sense. Why did it take me 27 years of ADHD-flavored shame and feelings of worthlessness to learn this?? I feel freed. This book actually freed me from my shackles. Never have I treated myself with more compassion than in the last week of reading this book and applying its teachings. Third sentence in had my eyes welling up, wondering if I’d somehow written and published a whole book in my sleep and was just now stumbling upon it. I want to write KC Davis a love letter.

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Opera Wars: Inside the World of Opera and the Battles for Its Future

Caitlin Vincent

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