fedelegge

34 M (he/him) 🇮🇹 - sci-fi, fantasy, classics, YA, horror, cozy, general fiction, sometimes nonfiction; just looking for a good book. Mostly listening to audiobooks

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All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)

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The King of Elfland's Daughter

Lord Dunsany

The poetic style and sweeping grandeur of The King of Elfland's Daughter has made it one of the most beloved fantasy novels of our time, a masterpiece that influenced some of the greatest contemporary fantasists. The heartbreaking story of a marriage between a mortal man and an elf princess is a masterful tapestry of the fairy tale following the "happily ever after."

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Completionist: Finished all Side Quest books!

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Thoughts from 20% - Chapter 3

Slow start, a bit confusing setup at the very beginning. The story of the beautiful planet brought me out of the narrative a bit, and the excerpts from discussions about police organization are interesting but also, again, kinda a bit out of the story itself.

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The Star King (Demon Princes, #1)

Jack Vance

DAW Books, No. 305. Paperback, 1978, first printing. This 1964 novel is first in the "Demon Princes" sequence.

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I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness

fedelegge

Sep 13, 2025

4.0

Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 3.5Plot: 3.0

Modern Catalan folk tale, full of smaller shorter tales which sometimes are on point and other times are just confusing. I liked the style and I hope the translation respected properly the original material. Very weird in a positive way.

Listened to the audiobook, read by Alma Cuervo. The structure is full of back and forth, of stories told while details pertaining to the narrating voice are interspersed throughout. From the audiobook it was sometimes confusing regarding who was talking and at what narrative level one was in.

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Hungerstone

Kat Dunn

The fiercest, most powerful novel of 2025. For what do you hunger . . .?Lenore is the wife of steel magnate Henry, but ten years into their marriage the relationship has soured, and no child has arrived to fill the distance growing between them. Henry's ambitions take them from London to Sheffield, and with his success hinged on a hunt, an old tradition looms over the home; the hunt is a time to settle old scores. If a bullet finds a human home, then it is only that they were foolish to become prey. In the weeks leading up to the hunt, a carriage accident near their remote home brings the mysterious Carmilla into Lenore's life. Carmilla, who is weak and pale during the day but vibrant at night, Carmilla who will not eat meals with the family, Carmilla who stirs up a hunger deep within Lenore. Soon girls from local villages begin to fall sick before being consumed by a terrible hunger . . .Set against the violent wilderness of the Peaks and the uncontrolled appetite of the industrial revolution HUNGERSTONE is a compulsive feminist reworking of CARMILLA, the book that inspired a captivating story of appetite and desire.

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Thoughts from 85%

Not suprised of Spanish Civil War relevance in the story, nor of violent purge of the fascists after winning. A modern folk tale could not have avoided talking about it, and I'm glad it didn't shy away from the senseless brutality and sadistic vengeance of it.

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archercasper

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A question for audiobook lovers...

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!

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Thoughts from 40%

This book is very weird. It's like a modern, rural, Catalunian fairy tale across several generations. Maybe it could be the chapter divisions or the lack of meaningful pauses between the book subdivisions by the audiobook narrator, but I find it very difficult to register time jumps. The numerous cast doesn't help either. But I'm enjoying it anyway. I'm in for the ride!

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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

Victoria Schwab

France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world. But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name.

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I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness

Irene Solà

Dawn is breaking over the Guilleries, a rugged mountain range in Catalonia frequented by wolf hunters, brigands, deserters, race-car drivers, ghosts, and demons. In a remote farmhouse called Mas Clavell, an impossibly old woman lies on her deathbed. Family and caretakers drift in and out. Meanwhile, all the women who have lived and died in that house are waiting for her to join them. They are preparing to throw her a party. As day turns to night, four hundred years’ worth of stories unspool, and the house reverberates with raucous laughter, pungent feasts, and piercing cries of pleasure and pain. It all begins with Joana, Mas Clavell’s matriarch, who once longed for a husband―“a full man,” perhaps even “an heir with a patch of land and a roof over his head.” She summoned the devil to fulfill her wish and struck a deal: a man in exchange for her soul. But when, on her wedding day, Joana discovered that her husband was missing a toe (eaten by wolves), she exploited a loophole in her agreement, heedless of what consequences might follow.

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Sep 11, 2025

5.0

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

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Pleasant jump into the literary origins of the vampire. Simple enough story without being completely predictable. Interesting point of view of the person seduced by Carmilla. Archaic, fascinating, and enchanting language. Fairly quick and free to read here https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/In_a_Glass_Darkly/Carmilla/Prologue

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Carmilla

J. Sheridan Le Fanu

In an isolated castle deep in the Austrian forest, Laura leads a solitary life with only her ailing father for company. Until one moonlit night, a horse-drawn carriage crashes into view, carrying an unexpected guest – the beautiful Carmilla. So begins a feverish friendship between Laura and her mysterious, entrancing companion. But as Carmilla becomes increasingly strange and volatile, prone to eerie nocturnal wanderings, Laura finds herself tormented by nightmares and growing weaker by the day… Pre-dating Dracula by twenty-six years, Carmilla is the original vampire story, steeped in sexual tension and gothic romance.

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Iron Widow (Iron Widow, #1)

Xiran Jay Zhao

The boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises, giant transforming robots that can battle the mecha aliens that lurk beyond the Great Wall. It doesn't matter that the girls often die from the mental strain. When 18-year-old Zetian offers herself up as a concubine-pilot, it's to assassinate the ace male pilot responsible for her sister's death. But she gets her vengeance in a way nobody expected—she kills him through the psychic link between pilots and emerges from the cockpit unscathed. She is labeled an Iron Widow, a much-feared and much-silenced kind of female pilot who can sacrifice boys to power up Chrysalises instead. To tame her unnerving yet invaluable mental strength, she is paired up with Li Shimin, the strongest and most controversial male pilot in Huaxia. But now that Zetian has had a taste of power, she will not cower so easily. She will miss no opportunity to leverage their combined might and infamy to survive attempt after attempt on her life, until she can figure out exactly why the pilot system works in its misogynist way—and stop more girls from being sacrificed.

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Product + Dev Update (9/10/25) + A special event announcement!

Hi everyone, a quick announcement about Seasonal + Special Event Readalongs:

For those of you that have been around since the summer, you may have participated in our first Special Event Readalong for Pride. This was a huge hit and fostered PB-wide discussion on queer characters and stories (and bonus: the badge was rad). To continue fostering discussions on more niche and diverse books & voices, we'll be hosting a Special Event readalong once a season.

Our second Special Event will run from October 15 - November 15 and will be (drumroll please...) Dia de los Muertos 2025! Head to the Discuss tab and click on the box above the feeds to check out the selections and see the new badge (and if you're new, click the purple info icon next to the Fall Readalong header on Discuss to learn more about readalongs on Pagebound).

Since we're committing to one Special Event a season, we don't want to overwhelm folks with too many Readalong books. While you only need to read 1 book in a Special Event to earn the badge (and there is no "completionist" sparkly badge), we will limit Special Event picks to 3 books. Starting with the Winter 2025 Readalong, Seasonal Readalongs will only include 4 books. This way, you still only have to read a max total of 5 books per season to earn all Readalong badges available.

As for product updates, looks like most of you have already noticed some of the bigger changes on the site but for those that missed it, the following has been updated over the past 2 weeks:

Discover Books got a little makeover: every day, we feature a new emoji and show you books whose ratings most frequently feature that emoji. Some of the emojis in rotation will be seasonally themed :) we also show you books that were the most discussed/finished/TBR'd yesterday, so the featured books will change daily and will showcase less mega popular titles.
the Similar Users list got an update. Before, we were showing any user with over 30 points in that list; now, we prioritize active accounts, so you can find people you're more likely to actually engage with. I'll be making further tweaks to this in the coming weeks.
No more HTML tags in posts/comments, please use markdown instead! See the Pagebound Club post on this for more info.
We will save your total page count and pre-populate it when you post using Pages to calculate progress.

We're still beta testing the app but are on track for and end of month release!

Happy Reading, Jennifer & Lucy

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