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due to their alleged extinction, dinosaurs are not considered a minority 🦕
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dinority commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
I absolutely LOVE doing this - it lets me see all kinds of things people have read, are reading and plan on reading. I get off work in an hour and I finished the book I was reading on shift tonight.
So. What I want to know is everyone's Last - Now - Next! I started another one right after, but I am a mood reader and have no idea what I am going to read next.. so I need ideas from you all with your answers!
Last - Fixiation of the Mind by Kira Stanely Now - Black Ties & White Lies by Kat Singleton Next - IDK lol. Maybe the 2nd in the series for my NOW book.
151dinority commented on a post
Ook!*
*Translation: I love the Librarian, haha. The mental image of him doing charades is delightful.
Also, I wanna meet a Draco vulgaris. They sound fun.
6dinority commented on a post
I have to say I don’t know if I’m enjoying this book. Not beecause the writing is bad or the story isn’t interesting.
It’s because I can feel the wrinkles forming between my eyebrows from scowling too much. 🤣
Is it really worth the torture for Serapio’s destiny? How far are they going to break this kid?! Also is Naranpa going to be a jealous b*tch the entire book? After what she said to Iktah, I immediately did not want her to find peace. Xiala is my favorite so far. I’d follower her into the deep if I was part of her crew and she’s only had a few chapters so far. I just know I love the character.
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dinority commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
I DNF'd a book last night, and it got me thinking about what makes me decide to finally put the book down and give up ... so I was curious what you all think !
I've noticed that once I get to the point where I'm ranting about how much I don't want to keep reading it specifically to another person, it's probably time to put it down. most of the time I don't talk to other people about books unless we've both read it, so it's a good indicator for me when I, unprompted, start telling someone about how awful of a time I'm having
I also have noticed my DNF habits have changed since I used to DNF books rarely if ever, and going into the new year that seems to have changed ! I'm a lot more willing to give up on a book and move on if I'm not vibing with it enough
43dinority commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
So this just popped into my head when I saw some posts about Tolkien and now I'm curious. Who are the beloved characters that you just can't stand?
I'm not talking the characters we love to hate, but rather characters that everyone else seems to adore but you find to be the bane of your existence, would cross the street if you saw them coming, if they have no haters you're dead, etc. I know we like to keep things positive around here, but sometimes it's also nice to be gripey and rant about your least faves too 😉
To kick us off, mine is Tom Bombadil. I genuinely cringe every time I reread LOTR and get to his parts. I want to push him into Withywindle river mid-song or give him to the Great Willow. Literally do not understand why people like him.
50dinority commented on iveydocx's review of Verity
I’d like to start off this review with this disaster from Colleen Hoover’s acknowledgements: “I’m sorry the ARCs for this particular book were such a hot mess. That happens when you don’t finish the book until four days before release. I will do better next time, I promise.”
To see that this book was not finished until four days before the release makes a lot of sense (more commentary on that later). I will not be criticizing CH’s writing, mostly because I have nothing nice to say.
VERITY is rife with bland characters and plot holes while having plot points that make NO sense. Seriously - the story opens with Lowen witnessing a man get run over by a car in the streets, and THAT is the story’s meet-cute. Which, by the way, has NO plot significance other than being NoT LiKe OtHeR MeEt CuTeS. Seriously. I thought this would wind up being an oh, shit! Jeremy’s the one who killed him to get Lowen’s attention! But no. It opens with a head exploding onto Lowen’s shirt for no reason other than “why not.” It doesn’t even impact her emotionally, not really, other than being a bit frazzled. WTF.
Here’s where I want to pause about what I wanted this to be about instead. I walked into VERITY hoping for GONE GIRL meets MISERY. I’m a sucker for psychological thrillers, unreliable narrators, and complex and unlikeable women. Based on the summary, I figured this would be about a woman who’s grappling with her own baggage and not-so-stellar writing career. I expected it would be about a woman taking over the manuscript of another writer’s novel, a writer who was driven mad by the dark contents of her stories about “villains”, who would slowly slip into insanity/evilness over the course of finishing this writer’s manuscript. As Verity’s complicated identity with being a mother starts to surface, I figured PPD and the difficulties of moving around your whole life for children would be the contributing factor.
Yeah, this book isn’t about that at all.
Lowen is your quintessential Mary Sue who has no personality aside from thirsting over Jeremy and being nosy. She has no emotional depth and thinks about Verity’s book and sex and Verity and Jeremy having sex and also having sex with Jeremy. Her stream of consciousness is so abysmal that I wouldn’t be surprised if CH keyboard smashed the entire draft to submit it four (4) days before the release date with zero developmental editing.
For a book about a writer who’s supposed to write a book, there is, like, NO WRITING actually happening. In fact, Lowen spends the entire book NOT writing (she puts together an outline and submits it at one point) and instead reading Verity’s titled autobiography (extremely slowly, I might add). NONE OF US EVEN KNOW WHAT VERITY’S BOOKS ARE ABOUT. We are told her writing is “GOOD. REALLY GOOD” (paraphrased) and that Verity is SUPER SUCCESSFUL and writes about “villains.” THERE IS LITERALLY NOTHING ELSE ABOUT VERITY’S WRITING. She’s just Good. REALLY GOOD. So you should also think that she is VERY GOOD.
The huge irony is that we actually get to read Verity’s writing through her autobiography and let me tell you: Verity is NOT really good. I guess that makes Lowen an unreliable narrator? But not because she’s actually unreliable. I think she just has bad taste.
Jeremy is no better. If Lowen is a Mary Sue, Jeremy is Martin Steve. He is depicted as being a hot and incredibly caring father when in reality he’s doing the bare fucking minimum????? Men shouldn’t be praised for taking their kid to the hospital when they’re hurt or getting them ready for bed. THAT’S WHEN THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO DO. His only personality is he’s a good dad! He’s a good man! He’s hot! Oh and BTW he’s SUCH a caring husband for hiring a nurse to take care of his catatonic wife and taking over a few hours a day.
Anyone who found Jeremy to be a heartthrob….love urself. You deserve to have higher expectations for men.
The plot also made NO SENSE. It’s like CH used a random prompt generator or typed into ChatGPT “give me a random plot point to add into my thriller novel”. Lowen basically spends her time reading, bonding (thirsting) (fucking) with Jeremy, and being suspicious of Verity. She’s also supposed to be a chronic sleepwalker but the only way this contributes to the plot is that Jeremy installs a lock on the OUTSIDE of her door????? There are some eerie moments with Verity but TBH I found them far and few between! And Jeremy and Lowen’s bland personalities washed out just how eerie they’re supposed to be! I’m trying to keep this review as spoiler-free as possible, but holy mother freaking shit. I’m inclined to believe that CH simply does not understand the human psyche. Or, like, how humans function. Because some of these plot twists could work if you explore the emotional repercussions of them. But there ISN’T any. The story is told to us with the emotional inflection of someone reading an IKEA instruction manual. To name the very first instance that isn’t too spoiler-y: Crew (five-year-old son) talks about how Verity tells him things. You mean to tell me this ENTIRE TIME, he doesn’t mention this to Jeremy AT ALL, and Jeremy CONTINUES TO BELIEVE VERITY IS ACTUALLY A VEGETABLE??? Jesus Christ. The plot is not, in fact, plotting.
And, my final commentary: the letter is a fucking cop out.
0.5/5 stars
7dinority commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
How do you do it? My library often has the books I want as audiobooks with no wait, so I am trying to become someone who listens to them. Emphasis on the trying. Every time I try to listen I get so distracted by other stuff and miss whole chapters and important details. I think being able to listen to my books would suit my daily life and schedule a lot better, but I just can't seem to make it work!
Does anyone else feel that way?
What do you do when you're listening to audiobooks? How do you stay focused?
Edit: thank you, everyone, for the thoughtful comments. I will definitely give it another try with some books I've already read!
29dinority commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Physical book readers - I was chatting with some bookish friends and we were talking about managing shelf space.
Are you the type of reader to keep all your books, or do you unhaul? If you unhaul, do you do it as you read or do you do it maybe once a season?
How else do you manage your space?
68dinority commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
I was wandering, what was the highest number of books you read in a year? And why? In which year did u hit that amazing number?
I read so many books this year, the last years it was so dry, no reading or like up to mabe 4 books because of my studies at university. But during my school time - high school or Gymnasium in germany- I read so many books. I read during classes when the teacher sucked or I allready knew the stuff we had to study and so I read up to 80 books a year because I read so much during class.
I think the most books in a year where around 85 books, I never hit that number again the years after. I mean I set goals but in the end I am just happy if i managed to read anything.
So just wandering, what was your highest number and, was it a good or a bad reading year?
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I'll use my last read as I don't have a current read at the moment. The MC kind of inspired the question as I was thinking over how much I kind of hated how "above it all" he thinks of himself. Granted, he did recognise out loud in the book that this disdain comes from his insecurity and lack of self-esteem, but it didn't make it any less annoying.
I feel like that kind of attitude shows up in a lot of contemporary novel protagonists. Their voice particularly, where they position themselves as sharper than everyone, making snarky observations about people in a way that should show their worldly insight but only comes across, to me at least, as being mean to be superior. These people are hard to please, so what kind of book would they even like? And that sort of led to asking, would Dan like the story of his own life and how it was written?
Anyway, I think the answer would be no. He would probably make fun of the MC who peaked in gifted and talented classes only to work in an admin role. And he would definitely make fun of the prose for trying too hard to sound funny, in a cool detached way.
14dinority commented on a post
Does it get better? It's boring, and god knows what Joseph is saying 💀
5dinority commented on valkyrie_394's review of Cleopatra and Frankenstein
I think the best way to describe this book is to say, "she tried so hard, yet couldn't pull it off"
A lot of things were wrong with the characters of this book, but I ended up rooting for Cleo: she's the youngest among Frank and his friends, and in need of support among friends who are too self-absorbed. For Frank, well, he ended up choosing Eleanor because he needed a mother: you know it, I know it, even he knew it. Is it a bad book? Nah, not at all. Is it an emotional and dark book? Not to me, I kept reading because I cracked up now and then. The author tried to cram way too many issues without enough backstory for me to care about the characters, I only ended up liking Cleo and Santiago.
4dinority commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Going to an author event tonight to meet Julia Armfield and Eliza Clark (and hear them talk all about their books and writing of course) and i’m soooo excited 🤩🤩
i do feel though as though my hype is mainly just being there, and listening along to them talk about their writing journeys and techniques and maybe their love of horror. like im keen to get at least one book signed by each but other than that im at a loss as to what to expect or do. as a gal who would also loooove to write horror one day, i feel i should have more talking points or questions id like to ask but im a bit at a loss. anyone have any tips or things they like to do/get in at an author event?
im so hyped for tonight and just feel i want to make the most of out of it essentially
6dinority commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Have you ever, mid-book, switched formats?
I started reading Guards! Guards! on the 3rd, and I'm around 80ish pages in. I've got it in ePub format that I'm reading on my phone.
I absolutely adore this book so far, but reading digitally has been a bit of a struggle (brain goes brrt with distractions, lol). So on payday, I'm planning to pick up a physical copy (also the start of my Discworld physical collection).
I'm curious if anyone else has switched from ebook to physical, or vice-versa, and why? Or, or audiobook to physical/digital and vice-versa.
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dinority commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
hey guys just wondering what books are similar to ''the alchemist'', ''circe'', ''babel'', ''yellowface''? or anything that is beginner friendly for someone (me) that is new to this kind of genre of books? thankyou!
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