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horseheaux

horse girl 1st, book worm 2nd

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Classics Starter Pack Vol I
Level 4
Literary Fiction Starter Pack Vol I
My Taste
On Strike Against God
The Wall
Biography of X
Giovanni's Room
Ex-Wife
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11/22/63
32%
Horse Brain, Human Brain: The Neuroscience of Horsemanship
38%
The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig
4%

horseheaux commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

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  • who are your favorite publishers?

    do you have any to recommend? this year i want to more intentionally support smaller and indie publishers. they tend to select books that are more off the beaten path and aren’t concerned with what will mass sell commercially, and i want to put my money towards that! a few that i love are NYRB and McNally Editions for their rediscovered classics and Two Dollar Radio for their fun and unique picks.

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    4h
  • who are your favorite publishers?

    do you have any to recommend? this year i want to more intentionally support smaller and indie publishers. they tend to select books that are more off the beaten path and aren’t concerned with what will mass sell commercially, and i want to put my money towards that! a few that i love are NYRB and McNally Editions for their rediscovered classics and Two Dollar Radio for their fun and unique picks.

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    Stephen King

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  • Klara and the Sun
    horseheaux
    Apr 06, 2026
    4.0
    Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 4.0Plot: 4.0
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    gosh i really liked this! i felt trusted as a reader to not have my hand held and things spelt out for me which i really appreciated, the ambiguity of the world in which this was based was just right. a page turner!! made me think about love and its many forms and the way it evolves and changes, made me think about our relationship to technology, made me think about the future. very good stuff

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    Klara and the Sun

    Kazuo Ishiguro

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  • Looking for Tank Man
    horseheaux
    Apr 04, 2026
    3.0
    Enjoyment: 3.0Quality: 3.0Characters: 3.0Plot: 3.0
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    i will say reading this prompted a lot more digging into the subject of Tiananmen Square and i found it educational, but man it was dry. the writing style felt so emotionally disjointed, cold. and then just as stuff was really kicking off it ended

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    Horse Brain, Human Brain: The Neuroscience of Horsemanship

    Horse Brain, Human Brain: The Neuroscience of Horsemanship

    Janet Jones

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    Looking for Tank Man

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    Ha Jin

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    horseheaux commented on daydreamsofareader's review of The Land in Winter

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  • The Land in Winter
    daydreamsofareader
    Jan 03, 2026
    3.0
    Enjoyment: Quality: Characters: Plot:
    Beautiful writing that makes the act of reading feel like a languorous hug in the middle of a snow storm. Just wasn't a fan of the depiction of mental health and the women weren't as fleshed out as I would have preferred. 
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  • The Land in Winter
    horseheaux
    Mar 31, 2026
    3.5
    Enjoyment: 3.5Quality: 3.5Characters: 3.0Plot: 3.0
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    i did enjoy the reading experience, but the ending felt abrupt and unresolved. i think that’s also what’s great about this novel too though - it’s such a snapshot of four different people’s messy and imperfect lives. i just didn’t fully get on board and struggled to understand the message?

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    The Land in Winter

    Andrew Miller

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    horseheaux commented on horseheaux's review of Shy Girl

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  • Shy Girl
    horseheaux
    Jul 24, 2025
    1.0
    Enjoyment: 0.5Quality: 0.5Characters: 0.5Plot: 2.0
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    i am so sorry but what did i just read. this book needed some HEAVY editing before being published. grammar mistakes all over the place. the pacing was trash. nothing was fleshed out. ALSO THE ARTWORK WAS STOLEN FROM WHYN LEWIS. i did not buy any part of this. his dog for SEVEN years? be so fucking for real. 2 stars for the plot because it had potential to be good as a short story or as a deep dive into the psychological and physical transformation but unfortunately it was neither of those so it was a big fat miss for me. just 214 pgs of what felt like a half baked idea. (w)oof. misled yet again by a beautiful cover!!

    edit: did a google search and found a reddit post about this book. people think AI wrote it bc it is so bad and had awful formatting, repetitive phrasing, on top of the other reasons i also mentioned above. someone even put it into an AI text detector and it said it was highly confident it was AI generated. you cannot make this shit up (unless you're AI)

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