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isabela

26 🌈 lover of all things weird, horror, dystopia, literary fiction, queer/disability/political theory, books with no-plot-just-vibes & main characters who think too much. fuck 🧊 free Palestine 🇵🇸

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Queer Horror
Gothic Literature
Supporting* Women's Wrongs
Whispers in the Walls
Black Fantasy, Sci-Fi, and Speculative Fiction
Every Villain is a Hero
My Taste
This is How You Lose the Time War
Pet (Pet, #1)
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
Breasts and Eggs
My Brilliant Friend (The Neapolitan Novels, #1)
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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
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Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
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Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
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My Brilliant Friend (The Neapolitan Novels, #1)
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Calling a Wolf a Wolf
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The Argonauts
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Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
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Palestine: A Socialist Introduction
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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
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Big Farms Make Big Flu: Dispatches on Influenza, Agribusiness, and the Nature of Science
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isabela finished a book

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Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up

Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up

Marie Kondō

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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

Victoria Schwab

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  • Omg just joined the quest

    I didn’t realize just how much I love Japanese lit fic until I saw I’ve already read 7 of these! I have Lonely Castle in the Mirror right now on my kindle (his name is Pringle) so queuing that 🤓

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    isabela commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

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    Moments in a book that feel like the author’s barely disguised fetish

    What are moments in books that feel like they are juuust a little too oddly specific and detailed in a way that makes you slightly pause and go “… this gotta be a sex thing” even though on the surface it really isn’t?

    title card reading: tonight’s episode: the writer’s barely disguised fetish

    Not really just a kink that is supposed to be recognised as such but smth a bit more hidden. Maybe it even seems like the author themself didnt realise that was why they put it in

    Common examples that fit this imo are the many, many romance authors who clearly have a patriarchy fetish + the many, many horror authors who have a fetish for having a woman being violated

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  • Does this happen to you?

    Well, a few days ago I went through an emergency surgery to have my appendix removed. So, when I got home, I thought I’d be all over my books! I’m stuck in bed for the next few days so… why not read?! Um, actually, I’m in a reading slump?? I CANNOT make myself pick up my book! Before the surgery, I wasn’t in a reading slump, mind you. Has this ever happened to any of you? Not necessarily a medical event, but having something work out so you focus on reading, however, the desire to read disappears? It. Is. So. Frustrating.

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  • isabela commented on isabela's review of What Stalks the Deep (Sworn Soldier, #3)

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  • What Stalks the Deep (Sworn Soldier, #3)
    isabela
    May 11, 2026
    4.5
    Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 4.5Characters: 5.0Plot: 4.0
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    Fun, silly, and spooky. I love this series so much

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  • What Stalks the Deep (Sworn Soldier, #3)
    isabela
    May 11, 2026
    4.5
    Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 4.5Characters: 5.0Plot: 4.0
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    Fun, silly, and spooky. I love this series so much

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    Devout: Losing My Faith to Find Myself

    Devout: Losing My Faith to Find Myself

    David Archuleta

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    What Stalks the Deep (Sworn Soldier, #3)

    What Stalks the Deep (Sworn Soldier, #3)

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    What Stalks the Deep (Sworn Soldier, #3)

    What Stalks the Deep (Sworn Soldier, #3)

    T. Kingfisher

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