frasergirl

📌Argentina. 24. She/her. A hopeless romantic who loves to escape to different fictional worlds. @lusmagicalworldofbooks on Instagram and @luschaoticbookshelf on TikTok

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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)

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A Traveller's History of Croatia (Interlink Traveller's Histories)

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Thomas Mann

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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

Henry Fielding

A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr. Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is deeply in love with the seemingly unattainable Sophia Western, the beautiful daughter of the neighboring squire—though he sometimes succumbs to the charms of the local girls. When Tom is banished to make his own fortune and Sophia follows him to London to escape an arranged marriage, the adventure begins. A vivid Hogarthian panorama of eighteenth-century life, spiced with danger and intrigue, bawdy exuberance and good-natured authorial interjections, Tom Jones is one of the greatest and most ambitious comic novels in English literature. • Includes a chronology, suggestions for further reading, notes, glossary, and an appendix of Fielding's revisions • Introduction discusses narrative tecniques and themes, the context of eighteenth-century fiction and satire, and the historical and political background of the Jacobite revolutionFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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alienshe

What is your favorite romance trope?

For me, it’s enemies to lovers. I love the sensual tension. The back and forth.

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Married to the Alien Cowboy (Cowboy Colony Mail-Order Brides, #1)

Ursa Dax

A quiet alien cowboy, a human woman on the run, and one very messy marriage of convenience. What could possibly go wrong?In debt and on the run from a crime lord whose nose I may or may not have broken, I take the first ticket off-world that comes my way. It's an all-expenses-paid, one-way trip to an isolated ranching outpost.The only catch?I have to marry an alien cowboy.My plan is simple enough. Shack up with my groom Silar and convince him to keep me during the first month of our marriage. As long as he doesn't decide to send me packing after the thirty-day trial period, I'll be safe.But maybe my plan isn’t so great after all. Silar talks more to his animals than he does to me, seems perplexed by every wifely duty I try to perform for him, and goes to offensively great lengths to avoid touching me.Other than his eyes glowing bright white every time he looks at me, I have no idea what's going on in my new husband’s head. Meanwhile, he shows me in subtle, wordless ways just how good a man he can be when he thinks that no one's watching.Yup. My plan officially sucks. Because now, it's not just my life at risk if Silar sends me away after thirty days…It’s my stupid human heart.Welcome to the cowboy colony planet, where men outnumber women ten to one and cattle outnumber them all...

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MaddiHunt

“Unreliable narrator” examples

When you guys think of an “unreliable narrator,” who do you first think of? What books/characters?

I had made a post about this topic on the Mockingjay forum as well but thought it would be interesting to ask here. I have seen Katniss referred to as an unreliable narrator before but I personally disagree, won’t go into detail in here again lol but just made me curious as to who everyone else thinks of. I personally think of The Yellow Wallpaper or Life of Pi.

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Constant Reader: The New Yorker Columns 1927–28 (McNally Editions)

frasergirl

Feb 07, 2026

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Sadly, I doubt that this review would make the author of this book proud, I can only hope to one day be as witty, fun and opinionated as she was. For now, all I can say is that this book was witty, ironic and made me discover a lot of books, and that I wish I could find more authors who write such fantastic book reviews as Dorothy Parker

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Constant Reader: The New Yorker Columns 1927–28 (McNally Editions)

Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker’s complete weekly New Yorker column about books and people and the rigors of reviewing. When, in 1927, Dorothy Parker became a book critic for the New Yorker, she was already a legendary wit, a much-quoted member of the Algonquin Round Table, and an arbiter of literary taste. In the year that she spent as a weekly reviewer, under the rupic “Constant Reader,” she created what is still the most entertaining book column ever written. Parker’s hot takes have lost none of their heat, whether she’s taking aim at the evangelist Aimee Semple MacPherson (“She can go on like that for hours. Can, hell—does”), praising Hemingway’s latest collection (“He discards detail with magnificent lavishness”), or dissenting from the Tao of Pooh (“And it is that word ‘hummy,’ my darlings, that marks the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader Fwowed up”). Introduced with characteristic wit and sympathy by Sloane Crosley, Constant Reader gathers the complete weekly New Yorker reviews that Parker published from October 1927 through November 1928, with gimlet-eyed appreciations of the high and low, from Isadora Duncan to Al Smith, Charles Lindbergh to Little Orphan Annie, Mussolini to Emily Post

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The Middle English Breton Lays

Anne Laskaya

This volume is the first to make the Middle English Breton lays available to teachers and students of the Middle Ages. Breton lays were produced by or after the fashion of Marie de France in the twelfth century and claim to be literary versions of lays sung by ancient Bretons to the accompaniment of the harp. The poems edited in this volume are considered distinctly English Breton lays because of their focus on the family values of late medieval England. With the volume's helpful glosses, notes, introductions, and appendices, the door is opened for students to study Middle English poetry and the medieval family alike.

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frasergirl

Feb 07, 2026

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I already loved Charlotte's writing style in Jane Eyre, but this book reminded me of that. Between the unreliable but lovable narrator and protagonist and her struggles to gain her independence, the cast of intriguing secondary characters, the descriptions of loneliness, unrequited love and deep sadness, this book deserves all the praise it had since it's publication. I finished it almost a week ago and I'm still trying to process the ending and some plot twists (like the nun, iykyk) because my mind keeps going back to Lucy Snowe and her life

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The Middle English Breton Lays

Anne Laskaya

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Constant Reader: The New Yorker Columns 1927–28 (McNally Editions)

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Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give

Ada Calhoun

Seven essays celebrating the beauty of the imperfect marriage. We hear plenty about whether or not to get married, but much less about what it takes to stay married. Clichés around marriage―eternal bliss, domestic harmony, soul mates―leave out the real stuff. After marriage you may still want to sleep with other people. Sometimes your partner will bore the hell out of you. And when stuck paying for your spouse’s mistakes, you might miss being single. In Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give , Ada Calhoun presents an unflinching but also loving portrait of her own marriage, opening a long-overdue conversation about the institution as it truly is: not the happy ending of a love story or a relic doomed by high divorce rates, but the beginning of a challenging new chapter of which “the first twenty years are the hardest.” Calhoun’s funny, poignant personal essays explore the bedrooms of modern coupledom for a nuanced discussion of infidelity, existential anxiety, and the many other obstacles to staying together. Both realistic and openhearted, Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give offers a refreshing new way to think about marriage as a brave, tough, creative decision to stay with another person for the rest of your life. “What a burden,” Calhoun calls marriage, “and what a gift.”

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jenniferPagebound

Product Updates + New App Version [2/5/2026]

Hi everyone, we've just released a big app update with many quality of life improvements, bug fixes, and some new features. These are all available on web as well. Please make sure your apps are updated to the latest version, 1.1.1, to see these changes! As a reminder, you can check out what we're working on and what's coming up next via the public roadmap (in the footer on web, in the more menu on the app)

Here's a list of updates:

New Main Quest badge tiers, now viewable on the app
ability to pin comments to your own posts, lists, and activity
improved search on app: UI enhancements to make searching for things that are not books easier, removed the auto-populated most searched books from the search widget
ability to track your progress in Time for audiobooks (HH:MM)
progress bar / breakdown by status added to Plan
estimated page count added to book page
you can enlarge a book cover on the book screen by tapping the book cover
rereading button (when you go to track a reread, the button says re-reading instead of reading)
sort reviews by star rating
filter options on Book Journey
new search, filter, and sort options on Browse All Lists and Browse All Quests screens
see more info about your followers and users you follow in the following/followers modals
changed the button on the home feed "currently reading" books from "post in forum" to "go to forum" for easier access to the forum + encouraging folks to check existing posts!

We're working on monthly wrapups, reading streaks, and some prep for more stats next! We will also be making some additional enhancements to Quests (like: a book recommendations section similar to the Community Recs on book pages, stats for how many users earned each badge tier, and a feed tab like the new feed tab on book pages)

Thanks everyone and happy reading, Jennifer + Lucy

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