fraggle

I’m a 28 yr old Fraggle Rock enthusiast who is open to reading across genres, but I love speculative fiction, historical nonfiction, and middle grade books! TikTok: @universal.foe

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Sisters in Hate: American Women and White Extremism

My Taste

We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance

A Dictionary of Scoundrels (The Swifts #1)

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EatTheRich

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I don't like romances (and I don't know why!)

Maybe a bit of a vent? I'm interested finding my people. I don't read romances. Never have, doubt I ever will. I need plot to keep me going, and I do not consider will they - won't they plot. I think I just don't enjoy character driven content. Am I dead on the inside? Soulless? Anti-intellectual? Short attention span? A different booktok buzzword? I do enjoy a romance element in books, but I means that: element. Has to be queer for me to be even remotely interested of course. I'm reading A Marvellous Light at the moment-which is a sort of romantasy I guess-and I am enjoying it I guess, but I'm just not interested in the romance scenes. Does it make me a bad reader, not to want to sit with a character during introspective, romantic or slower moments? Is there a romance book out there for me somewhere that will finally make me understand?

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Thoughts from 45%

I haven’t been able to put this down since picking it up. I’ve read some great nonfiction this year! This has been an interesting look at alt-right pipelines & the women upholding white supremacy

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Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)

Suzanne Collins

My name is Katniss Everdeen. Why am I not dead? I should be dead. Katniss Everdeen, girl on fire, has survived, even though her home has been destroyed. Gale has escaped. Katniss's family is safe. Peeta has been captured by the Capitol. District 13 really does exist. There are rebels. There are new leaders. A revolution is unfolding. It is by design that Katniss was rescued from the arena in the cruel and haunting Quarter Quell, and it is by design that she has long been part of the revolution without knowing it. District 13 has come out of the shadows and is plotting to overthrow the Capitol. Everyone, it seems, has had a hand in the carefully laid plans—except Katniss. The success of the rebellion hinges on Katniss's willingness to be a pawn, to accept responsibility for countless lives, and to change the course of the future of Panem. To do this, she must put aside her feelings of anger and distrust. She must become the rebels' Mockingjay—no matter what the personal cost.

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I genuinely can’t understand his writing which is unfortunate bc I love the premise. I read ‘I Was a Teenage Slasher,’ and I had a difficult time following his prose, but I thought it was a one-off. Quote: “Etsy?” she asked when I did show up. She was looking from my ID to me, to see which was the typo. It’s ‘Betsy’ really, I didn’t say, but a boy with a speech impediment in kindergarten… who cares? “The last name,” I told her, as politely as I could. This is on Pg 4 before I knew who the narrator was, so it took my brain minutes to decipher this. I guess her nickname is Etsy bc a kid mispronounced it, but why not say that instead of saying it’s a last name? I’m taking this too seriously lol I think this is an issue with my brain. A lot of ppl love his books, so he’s a great writer, I just can’t follow it for some reason

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The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

Stephen Graham Jones

A chilling historical horror novel set in the American west in 1912 following a Lutheran priest who transcribes the life of a vampire who haunts the fields of the Blackfeet reservation looking for justice. A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran pastor is discovered within a wall. What it unveils is a slow massacre, a chain of events that go back to 217 Blackfeet dead in the snow. Told in transcribed interviews by a Blackfeet named Good Stab, who shares the narrative of his peculiar life over a series of confessional visits. This is an American Indian revenge story written by one of the new masters of horror, Stephen Graham Jones.

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Sisters in Hate: American Women and White Extremism

Seyward Darby

After the election of Donald J. Trump, journalist Seyward Darby went looking for the women of the so-called "alt-right" -- really just white nationalism with a new label. The mainstream media depicted the alt-right as a bastion of angry white men, but was it? As women headlined resistance to the Trump administration's bigotry and sexism, most notably at the Women's Marches, Darby wanted to know why others were joining a movement espousing racism and anti-feminism. Who were these women, and what did their activism reveal about America's past, present, and future? Darby researched dozens of women across the country before settling on three -- Corinna Olsen, Ayla Stewart, and Lana Lokteff. Each was born in 1979, and became a white nationalist in the post-9/11 era. Their respective stories of radicalization upend much of what we assume about women, politics, and political extremism. Corinna, a professional embalmer who was once a body builder, found community in white nationalism before it was the alt-right, while she was grieving the death of her brother and the end of her marriage. For Corinna, hate was more than just personal animus -- it could also bring people together. Eventually, she decided to leave the movement and served as an informant for the FBI. Ayla, a devoutly Christian mother of six, underwent a personal transformation from self-professed feminist to far-right online personality. Her identification with the burgeoning "tradwife" movement reveals how white nationalism traffics in society's preferred, retrograde ways of seeing women. Lana, who runs a right-wing media company with her husband, enjoys greater fame and notoriety than many of her sisters in hate. Her work disseminating and monetizing far-right dogma is a testament to the power of disinformation. With acute psychological insight and eye-opening reporting, Darby steps inside the contemporary hate movement and draws connections to precursors like the Ku Klux Klan. Far more than mere helpmeets, women like Corinna, Ayla, and Lana have been sustaining features of white nationalism. Sisters in Hate shows how the work women do to normalize and propagate racist extremism has consequences well beyond the hate movement.

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“Quakers are serious about God, but they do not require belief in God as a starting point, or even a goal to be aimed at. The question that concerns them is what helps or hinders you in finding the reality that will enable you to live well.” As someone w a more agnostic or lazy Christian background who later became interested in witchcraft & more, I’ve always found the Quakers & their history interesting lol

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The Quaker Way: A Rediscovery

Rex Ambler

This book is an attempt 'to explain the Quaker way, as far as that is possible'. It is a distinctive way and, though perhaps no better than others, it has its own integrity and effectiveness. Although it is fairly well known, Quakerism is not well understood, so the purpose of this book is to make it intelligible, to explain how it works as a spiritual practice and why it has adopted the particular practices it has. It is aimed primarily at non-Quakers, who may nonetheless be interested to know what Quakerism is about.

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Non-Binary Lives - An Anthology of Intersecting Identities

Jos Twist

What does it mean to be non-binary in the 21st Century? Our gender identity is impacted by our personal histories; the cultures, communities and countries we are born into; and the places we go and the people we meet. But the representation of contemporary non-binary identities has been limited, until now. Pushing the narrative around non-binary identities further than ever before, this powerful collection of essays represents the breadth of non-binary lives, across the boundaries of race, class, age, sexuality, faith and more. Leading non-binary people share stories of their intersecting lives; how it feels to be non-binary and neurodiverse, the challenges of being a non-binary pregnant person, what it means to be non-binary within the Quaker community, the joy of reaching gender euphoria. This thought-provoking anthology shows that there is no right or wrong way to be non-binary.

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The Final Girl Support Group

Grady Hendrix

In horror movies, the final girls are the ones left standing when the credits roll. They made it through the worst night of their lives…but what happens after? Like his bestselling novel The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, Grady Hendrix’s latest is a fast-paced, frightening, and wickedly humorous thriller. From chain saws to summer camp slayers, The Final Girl Support Group pays tribute to and slyly subverts our most popular horror films—movies like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre , A Nightmare on Elm Street , and Scream. Lynnette Tarkington is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre. For more than a decade, she’s been meeting with five other final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, working to put their lives back together. Then one woman misses a meeting, and their worst fears are realized—someone knows about the group and is determined to rip their lives apart again, piece by piece. But the thing about final girls is that no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife, they will never, ever give up.

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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

fraggle

Apr 25, 2025

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This is an important issue, but I didn’t like the overall framing of it. It was clear that his interviews caused emotional distress for the families who lost loved ones, with one dad rightfully being angry at the author’s interview of his disabled son, but that interview was still included. While the author is trying to illicit empathy from Westerners, it was patronizing. I caught myself falling into a white-savior mentality which disregards cultural context and the knowledge of natives. There was also the framing of good versus evil, sorting people into monolithic groups. I thought there’d be a more in-depth analysis on the effects of global capitalism and tech companies, but that wasn’t the case. This was a helpful article: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-trafficking-and-slavery/cobalt-red-siddharth-kara-democratic-republic-congo-book-review/

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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

Siddharth Kara

The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year Award. An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo’s cobalt mining operation―and the moral implications that affect us all. Cobalt Red is the searing, first-ever exposé of the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by cobalt mining, as told through the testimonies of the Congolese people themselves. Activist and researcher Siddharth Kara has traveled deep into cobalt territory to document the testimonies of the people living, working, and dying for cobalt. To uncover the truth about brutal mining practices, Kara investigated militia-controlled mining areas, traced the supply chain of child-mined cobalt from toxic pit to consumer-facing tech giants, and gathered shocking testimonies of people who endure immense suffering and even die mining cobalt. Cobalt is an essential component to every lithium-ion rechargeable battery made today, the batteries that power our smartphones, tablets, laptops, and electric vehicles. Roughly 75 percent of the world’s supply of cobalt is mined in the Congo, often by peasants and children in sub-human conditions. Billions of people in the world cannot conduct their daily lives without participating in a human rights and environmental catastrophe in the Congo. In this stark and crucial book, Kara argues that we must all care about what is happening in the Congo―because we are all implicated.

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Bat Eater

Kylie Lee Baker

Cora Zeng is a crime scene cleaner, washing away the remains of brutal murders and suicides in Chinatown. The bloody messes don't bother her, not when she's already witnessed the most horrific thing possible: her sister being pushed in front of a train. Before fleeing the scene, the murderer whispered two words: bat eater. Months pass, the killer is never caught, and Cora can barely keep herself together. She pushes away all feelings, disregards the bite marks that appear on her coffee table, and won't take her aunt's advice to prepare for the Hungry Ghost Festival, when the gates of hell open. Cora tries to ignore the rising dread in her stomach, even when she and her weird co-workers begin finding bat carcasses at their crime scene clean-ups. But Cora can't ignore the fact that all their recent clean-ups have been the bodies of East Asian women. Soon Cora will learn: you can't just ignore hungry ghosts.

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“Please tell the people in your country, a child in the Congo dies every day so that they can plug in their phones.” This is a really tough read, but I’ve been wanting to read it for awhile. Edit: I realized that a lot of this book feels unethical and exploitative, so I’ve changed my overall view on it.

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Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

John Green

John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and a passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest disease. Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it. In 2019, John Green met Henry, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone while traveling with Partners in Health. John became fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile. In the years since that first visit to Lakka, Green has become a vocal and dynamic advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequities that allow this curable, treatable infectious disease to also be the deadliest, killing 1.5 million people every year. In Everything is Tuberculosis, John tells Henry’s story, woven through with the scientific and social histories of how tuberculosis has shaped our world and how our choices will shape the future of tuberculosis.

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marissa

Suzanne Collins as a Writer

I’m just now finding out that Suzanne Collin’s wrote for Clifford’s Puppy Days and Little Bear (among many other children’s shows). What do you mean she wrote some of my childhood comfort shows and then later a series that wrecked that comfort?😭

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MysteriousJellyfish

Do you DNF?

I always feel guilty when I DNF a book. I used to power through and end up in a reading slump for a longgggggggg while but then realized I can... just... stop reading it. I still have trouble DNFing books so I'll likely pick them back up again and hope it's better but usually isn't and I end up in the same cycle again. If you do DNF, do you feel guilty?

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Anyajulchen

Thoughts from 50%

So these women where the lucky ones... I'm sick.

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cornstarchandwater

Chat feature, mayhaps?

I’m not entirely sure if I’m allowed to be posting something like this, actually. 😂 Or if someone already posted something similar. But are there people who share in my wishful thinking that there could be a chat feature for pagebound in the future? ✨ Of course I know nothing about developing a website so I’m sure adding that feature would just complicate many people’s lives 😂 But it would be nice to chat or group-chat about specific books/topics without flooding the comment section~ Thank you so much for all that you do to keep this lovely site going 💖

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