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dinority commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
So not gonna lie i have an embarrassing long tbr (around the 200 books🥲) and no clue what to read next. This is my top 10, please help me pick one, I’m almost finished with “Just for the Summer” :) 1. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil 2. Priory of the Orange Tree 3. Trials of Apollo series (Percy Jackson) 4. The Song of Achilles 5. People We Meet on Vacation 6. King of Scars series 7. The Atlas Six series 8. Death at Morning House 9. The Seven Year Slip 10. Fourth Wing I’m having a hard time choosing because I don’t really have a genre preference so please let me know what you enjoyed :))
dinority commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
I try to read for about 2 hours a day — one hour for each of the two books I’m currently reading. 🕐📖🕐📖 Lately though, I haven’t been reading at all because I’m in the middle of moving to a new place and things are hectic! 📦🏠 But I have high hopes for the rest of the summer — I’ll be by the sea 🌊 and I’m pretty sure I’ll be spending every quiet afternoon with a book (or two!) in hand. 😎🧃📚 How about you? How many hours a day do you usually read — and do you set a goal or just go with the flow? 💬✨
dinority commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
A curious question for the bookworms who are also gamers, TV enthusiasts or both! Where books have been adapted to or heavily influenced a video game or a TV series or film, what order do you prefer to consume them in? (Or even the other way, where series/film/games have influenced someone to write a book in that universe!)
dinority commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Are there any books you started but never really got the chance to finish? Mine is The Pivot Year by Brianna Wiest. It's not that I couldn’t get back to it. I just realized that books structured with a page for each day aren't really for me. I still plan to finish it though.
dinority started reading...
The Chosen and the Beautiful
Nghi Vo
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Does anyone else get Song of Achilles vibes from this? Because I do 🙋🏿♀️
dinority commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Happy Pride Month Everyone!!! I am currently compiling a list of Pride month book recs to display on my Insta and local library so my community can partake in the Pride read-a-thon for the next two weeks! I have around 12 recommendations already but would love to have a few more. What are some of your favorite books by queer authors or with queer characters?
dinority commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Does it affect your reading experience if you see a negative review or something bad in general about the book you find yourself loving? Usually, if some friend gives me their opinion about a book that they've already read and i'm about to read, it does hinder my judgement a bit because now i'm reading with that thought in mind. Sometimes, I would even read a book and love it, then check the reviews and see people pointing out things that lacked or were overdone, and that also makes me question my opinion. Other times, like with this one series, so many people talk bad about but I don't care because I enjoyed it so much and love it. I know it's not a classic piece of literature and so i dont mind if people write endless negative reviews on it, it doesnt affect my perspective at all. Share your experiences please
dinority commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
What if you were stranded on an island, they offer you two ways out, and you have to pick either that you can only read the worst book you ever read for your whole life or smell like shit for the rest of your life. What would be your choice?
dinority finished a book
Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin
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I'm so confused starting this. Are we supposed to know anything about the cosmere? I thought it was a standalone 🤔
dinority commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
A literary take on F, Marry, Kill game. What's a book that was metaphorically appealing enough to take home for a night or two, but you wouldn't commit to outside of the library, or [insert borrowing platform that applies]? What's a book that you love so much, you would literally buy all special edition covers for, or whatever goes for a six carat diamond ring? What's a book that a regular bin isn't enough, you need to see the pages on fire, even at the risk of looking like someone who supports banning books? I'll go first Borrow - Cleopatra and Frankenstein ★★★★☆ There was no love lost with the prose , plot and the characters, but I enjoyed flipping through the pages and reading the mess. I just couldn't relate to it, but would recommend for fans of Sex and the City, and Vanderpump Rules. Buy - Small Gods (discworld) ★★★★★ It was more than just a fantasy book. It was funny, it was deep, it was clever, and it was witty. It was everything a book could be. Burn - The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue ★☆☆☆☆ Great gowns, beautiful gowns - Aretha Franklin
Post from the Pagebound Club forum
A literary take on F, Marry, Kill game. What's a book that was metaphorically appealing enough to take home for a night or two, but you wouldn't commit to outside of the library, or [insert borrowing platform that applies]? What's a book that you love so much, you would literally buy all special edition covers for, or whatever goes for a six carat diamond ring? What's a book that a regular bin isn't enough, you need to see the pages on fire, even at the risk of looking like someone who supports banning books? I'll go first Borrow - Cleopatra and Frankenstein ★★★★☆ There was no love lost with the prose , plot and the characters, but I enjoyed flipping through the pages and reading the mess. I just couldn't relate to it, but would recommend for fans of Sex and the City, and Vanderpump Rules. Buy - Small Gods (discworld) ★★★★★ It was more than just a fantasy book. It was funny, it was deep, it was clever, and it was witty. It was everything a book could be. Burn - The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue ★☆☆☆☆ Great gowns, beautiful gowns - Aretha Franklin
dinority wants to read...
The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England
Brandon Sanderson
Post from the Yumi and the Nightmare Painter forum
I'm so confused starting this. Are we supposed to know anything about the cosmere? I thought it was a standalone 🤔
dinority started reading...
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
Brandon Sanderson
dinority wrote a review...
★★★★☆ overall, i enjoyed this short story collection and loved seeing the tie-ins to the series, and the extended worldbuilding on earth and on another planets and the journey to the other planets. this entire series is just brilliant, and would strongly recommend. this made me want to read the whole series all over again. i did get what i am now dubbing "anthology fatigue" as i got to the end. in the end, the stories started feeling repetitive and a little formulaic with the complicated scythe + snarky teen who sees right through them combo, and i wonder if it would have turned out differently if i had read these in order, not jumping around the pages. maybe then it would have felt like a body of work, as the starting and ending story heavily suggests a connection? *** individual story ratings the first swing - ★★★☆☆ formidable - ★★★☆☆ never work with animals - ★★★☆☆ a death of many colors - ★★★★☆ unsavory row - ★★☆☆☆ a martian minute - ★★★★☆ the mortal canvas - ★★★☆☆ cirri - ★★★★☆ anastasia's shadow - ★★★★☆ the persistence of memory - ★★★☆☆ meet cute and die - ★★★☆☆ perchance to glean - ★★★☆☆ a dark curtain rises - ★★★☆☆