dorouu

Lived in 🇨🇳🇺🇸🇵🇭🇯🇵🇪🇸🇪🇨 Pretty OK Polyglot. ✨De-colonial Feminist Killjoy ✨ (she/her/ella) 📷 IG: dorouu

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Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (A Vera Wang Novel)

Reading...

Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care (Abolitionist Papers)

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wynneadams

View all your books of a status?

Sorry if this is super basic. Is there a way to view all your Finished books, or DNF, etc? Not just for this year, but your whole library of that status?

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Muriel

Lost books - do you rebuy or just leave it?

I’m wondering if you buy a book a second time if you’ve misplaced it (or just didn’t get it back from someone you loaned it to…) or if you don’t! I’ve heard of the rule “you don’t re-buy a book” but now I’m missing the first part of a trilogy and it hurts 🫠😅

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Black Cake

Charmaine Wilkerson

We can’t choose what we inherit. But can we choose who we become? In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett’s death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a black cake, made from a family recipe with a long history, and a voice recording. In her message, Eleanor shares a tumultuous story about a headstrong young swimmer who escapes her island home under suspicion of murder. The heartbreaking tale Eleanor unfolds, the secrets she still holds back, and the mystery of a long-lost child challenge everything the siblings thought they knew about their lineage and themselves. Can Byron and Benny reclaim their once-close relationship, piece together Eleanor’s true history, and fulfill her final request to “share the black cake when the time is right”? Will their mother’s revelations bring them back together or leave them feeling more lost than ever? Charmaine Wilkerson’s debut novel is a story of how the inheritance of betrayals, secrets, memories, and even names can shape relationships and history. Deeply evocative and beautifully written, Black Cake is an extraordinary journey through the life of a family changed forever by the choices of its matriarch.

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jovargassss

Edited

Motivation tips

Hello! Does anyone have any tips for motivation? I cant bring myself to finish the second book of Harry Potter even though I really want to read the whole series and already own the book, I have other books but I feel like I cant begin reading them if I have a pending book, idk why I am like that, help!!

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wildestfire

How often do you update your reading progress on PB?

What is, according to you, the appropriate amount of pages/percentage read for you to log your reading progress?

I get temped even if I just read 2 pages lol

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Radical Tenderness: The Value of Vulnerability in an Often Unkind World

Gisele Barreto Fetterman

An inspiring manifesto from philanthropist and advocate Gisele Barreto Fetterman that explores her surprising source of power and strength—vulnerability—and how we can all harness it to effect meaningful change.As a society, we shy away from public expressions of vulnerability, mistaking it for weakness or a lack of grit. To even talk about crying, much less shed tears publicly, is seen as shameful or cringeworthy. But for Gisele Barreto Fetterman, accessibility advocate and wife of Senator John Fetterman, showing strong emotions has always been her default—at events, during speeches, in her car or even at the grocery store. Friends and family warned Gisele that the world would eat her alive if she didn’t toughen up. But over the years Fetterman came to a her emotional tenderness was not her downfall, but her strength—one that could be incorporated into her leadership style to show a different way to create true social and cultural change.In Radical Tenderness, Gisele Barreto Fetterman courageously shares her story of power through vulnerability—from her childhood survival years as a Brazilian-American undocumented immigrant, to the prejudice she experienced in corporate and political settings, to her hardships and resilience stepping into her husband’s role when he suffered a stroke. Through it all Gisele learned that leading with tenderness—whether at the office, as a boss, or as a human being—can help us face challenges in a healthier, more authentic way, and in turn guides others to do the same.Ultimately, Gisele redefines strength and leadership for our modern times, presenting tools for surviving and thriving in a world designed to wreck the tender-hearted. Because by embracing those emotions publicly—laughter, vulnerability, and, yes, even tears—we not only honor ourselves but open a path toward changing the world.

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PinkAttack

ARC luck? 🍀

Does anyone have luck getting ARC books? I joined NetGalley and got approved so I’m excited to see if there’s any other sites you have luck getting advanced copies? Any tips?

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steventoast

Link Activity from People You Follow to Their Review

I would love if when I click on the list of people who have finished a book under "Activity from People You Follow" if I could then click on a user's rating and be taken to their review.

Right now we can filter reviews on a book's page to people we follow, but I would imagine as follow counts grow it could take a bit to find a specific person's review.

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alienshe

What is one book you absolutely hate and will argue against it every single time?

For me, it’s A Clockwork Orange. It’s not that I think it’s a bad book in terms of writing or character development. It just makes me sick to my stomach every single time. I can’t read the book or watch the movie straight through.

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theuncomfypotato

Oh the Scandal

What are some crazy book publishing scandals you have heard of?

We're talking things like:

The author who faked her way onto the New York Times besteller list

Or the author who tried to copyright sun powers

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Cirkacat

What was the worst "person writing the opposite sex" moment you've ever read?

Mine surely happened one hour ago, when the author of Book of Hrabal randomly wrote his female lead to start to masturbate randomly in the middle of the scene. Maybe there was some very deep authoral message there, but it caught me so offguard, that I put the book down and went downstairs to do some kitchenwork.

Another one was Saint Peter's Umbrella by Kálmán Mikszáth, who wrote a 2 page scene of her female love interest undressing and a cat watching her. Then he skipped over the male leads bedtime routine as "a man changing was nearly not as beautiful as a woman". I give that one a pass tho, it was written like 200 years ago.

For female authors, the only thing I can think of is when the male characters have 12 inch long members. That must hurt!!

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bl3nder

Multiple reading books

I keep seeing people here casually mention they’re reading three books at the same time, and honestly… how?? How do you store all that information and still remember things like eating, sleeping, and basic human responsibilities? 😅 Meanwhile, I’m over here feeling mentally full after one book. (For anyone taking this very literally—I’m exaggerating a bit.)

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pancakesfortea

Book not transferring from goodreads

I keep trying to add this book from Goodreads, it's a bit of a niche non-fiction but still has 2000 ratings, but it's not transferring accross to here for some reason when I put the link in. Could anyone help with this?

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dorouu

Jan 17, 2026

4.5

Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 3.0

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It's All in Your Head has a title as if it was about mental health, but it's all about chronic illnesses and chronic pain. The story follows Skylar, whose describes her Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) as "brain plumbing issues" and "brain squished;" and Pike, a Olympic medalist snowboarder who had a career ending crash that left him permanently disabled. The book does a great job educating the reader on chronic illness and disabilities while bringing them along for a fake-relationship love story. I will say, some parts of the messaging are very strong and I know they must be really validating to read for people who suffer similar issues as the two main characters. The romance was really good and I really felt for both characters. The way chronic illness is described was even better. I especially love how Nordqvist deals with how surrounding characters behave and how the MCs correct them-- horrible doctors, well-meaning overbearing mothers, casual abilism by friends, etc.

Generally, I don't go for fake relationship tropes, or the famous bf trope, or forced proximity... but somehow these two main characters were so endearing it made up for it. The end where there was a grand gesture for reconciliation was very sweet and well done. But the best part is that the two of them also learn how to be better for themselves and not just be better for each other. They finally have difficult conversations with their loved ones. I loved the side characters as well-- and I am assuming that Emy and Analia are going to get their own books next.

Thank you to Netgalley and Grand Central Publishing for the ARC copy of this book. All opinions are my own. Publication date: February 10, 2026

**The eARC I was given was not easy to read so I probably missed some things.

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It's All in Your Head

Sabina Nordqvist

A “poignant and swoony” romance about a woman with a rare neurological condition who agrees to fake-date the hot guy in her chronic pain support group—only to discover he’s an Olympic snowboarder whose career-ending injury is as infamous as his dating history (Gigi Griffis, author of The Empress).Your fake relationship shouldn’t come with chronic feelings. Skylar is done with offline relationships—especially romantic ones. Living with chronic illness means she’s heard it all unreliable, high-maintenance, too much. She’d rather spend her free time in her online chronic pain support group, and lately, she can’t help but notice Pike, the hot new guy with a penchant for broody poetry. When a chaotic night in the group forces her to pose as his girlfriend, she reluctantly agrees to keep up the charade in real life. Surprisingly, he’s thoughtful, sweet, and—most importantly—doesn’t flinch at the things that have scared others away. Fake dating gets a lot more complicated when she discovers Pike isn’t just some guy. He’s a professional snowboarder whose career-ending injury is as infamous as his playboy past. He won’t talk about that, though. He’s fine. Really. But pretending to be in love with Skylar turns out to be the least depressing thing he’s done in months. As they spend more time together, she starts to notice the cracks in his carefully crafted image, and for once, he doesn’t mind being seen. After all the bed-sharing and late-night talks, it becomes harder for both of them to pretend. But just as things start turning real, the paparazzi catch on, wanting the scoop on how everyone’s favorite Olympic medalist is doing post-accident. Dating while disabled comes with challenges of its own, but public speculation and invasive questions are something else entirely. If their newfound feelings can’t survive the spotlight, their not-so-fake relationship may be over before it ever truly begins.

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