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White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa
Susan Williams
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Binged this entire series in two days so counting just this finally book for the reading challenge and review.
Haven't read a shoujo/josei in yeaaaaaars. So this was fun! I love the art style of the 90s and Yuri made for an engaging FMC.
There's just a lot more SA than I'd have preferred and to have so many men fawn over her was tiring 😅
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dorouu commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
I remember there used to be a feature that picked a random book from your TBR, but I can't find it anymore 🥺 Does anyone know where it is?
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I got so curious about the hippos so I did a search. You will be glad to know that Obaysch and Adhela and their baby Guy Fawkes existed in real life (tho she was technically the third baby).
There's also this amazing tidbit: "In 1860, Obaysch escaped from the hippo enclosure and was only lured back to his enclosure by using one of the zookeepers whom he apparently particularly disliked as bait."
0dorouu commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
i recently emptied out my WHOLE interested section (those new mass editing settings for the library are amazing!!!) and moved my TBR there to slowly transfer back to tbr only the books i really really wanna read. i’m at 200ish and wanna do a book marathon this next month before i start grad school!!
would anyone like to look thru my TBR and see if they’d like to buddy read w me?
It’s gonna be mostly queer, fantasy, graphic novels, webtoons, and random quest books but i’m super open!!
in the comments feel free to share a couple of books you want to read soon off your TBR or a quest ur going for at the moment, and folks can join in for some buddy reads!!
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The Winter Goddess
Megan Barnard
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The Winter Goddess
Megan Barnard
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dorouu commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Are there any "genre tags" attached to the books? Just wondering, as I like to search for books based on genre (like, today I want a litfic read, tomorrow I might be searching more for eco-horror). If there isn't a way to do that, I would love to suggest the possibility of it being added 🤞🏻☺️
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So I bought a book not long ago called “Circus of Wonders” by Elizabeth Macneal and I checked it out, it has under 100 ratings on this app, but is rated quite well, haven’t read it yet, but thought it might be a nice suggestion for circus themed book lovers!
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2Post from the White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa forum
On the audio, and all these acronyms are 😵💫 When I have the time I want to revisit this section and write down all the organizations, their acronyms, and whether they were a CIA front or funded/backed by the CIA (spoiler alert: it was a lot of them)
0dorouu commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
The earlier post about page limits (I can’t remember who posted it!) made me realize something very funny about myself: I would rather read one 1000 page book than a 3 book series that adds up to 1000 pages.
If the subject matter was within the realm of what I find interesting, there is a 10% (maybe) chance I would read the whole trilogy but like a 100% chance I would read the whole book.
And I wonder if this means we can map everyone onto two axes: long and short (vis-à-vis book length) and series vs one-off.
Tag yourself, I’m long one-off (calling this quadrant The Tolstoys). First person to claim each quadrant gets to name it 😏
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this is EXTREMELY of its time and written by a man…….. oh my god
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