karigan
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When in Rome (When in Rome, #1)
Sarah Adams
0karigan commented on a post
Everytime I read this book I forget that it begins with Lockwood’s point of view. His complete lack of self awareness, and inability to understand social cues, is pure comedy.
6karigan commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
I see we can't create quests, which I fully understand. Is there anyway to get the 52 book clubs 2026 challenge as a quest? It provides prompts not specific books, so unsure if we can do a quest like that.
4karigan commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Trigger warnings are very important for a lot of people. We need to put them somewhere so people who need them can easily find them. I think we need to careful about them though.
This didn’t happen here and it’s not important who said what where but someone just gave me unsolicited trigger warnings for The Favourites, a book I was looking forward to reading cold, and now I know more about the themes of the book than I wanted to know. They were basically spoilers. I’ve managed to watch 3 reviews of The Favourites on YouTube without anyone mentioning some of the themes and spoiling it.
I like how TheStoryGraph does trigger warnings. You only get to see them if you click the arrow. We need to be aware though that dropping trigger warnings into reviews and discussions can be spoilers.
I’m probably more upset about this than I should be but I can’t unsee what I read. I don’t read reviews very often because this has happened before when someone’s written a review, added trigger warnings and hasn’t used spoiler features.
Just to reiterate, I’m not saying we should get rid of trigger warnings. We just need to be careful about them.
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Went into this expecting a boring classic romance and was pleasantly surprised by a gothic story told by and about the worst people you'll ever come across. (No I did not read the synopsis). Based on others' reactions to this book, I really wasn't expecting to like it much, but it might be my new favorite classic!
The first few chapters are a lot to take in. You're thrown into a story with too many characters to keep track of, many who have the same or similar names. I highly recommend looking up a family tree to get acquainted BUT please know you will absolutely spoil some things for yourself by doing so. This one is the least spoilery I could find.
In terms of the actual story, this is a great example of the way that isolation and abuse are never ending cycles unless someone makes an active choice to break them. I appreciate that Brontë didn't shy away from showing how awful every single character was. Racism, sexism, and classism are all at play here and each person in the book perpetuates them despite being victims of one or more -ism.
This certainly won't be a hit for everyone, but if you enjoy beautiful writing in a gothic setting, it may just work for you.
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Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
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Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
Angela Chen
0karigan commented on minsuni's review of Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
Ace is a book that answers a lot of questions about asexuality, from the basics of what does it mean for someone to identify as ace, to more general issues of how a society so focused on sexual attraction and sex as a goal can influence the way an asexual person might live or feel the need to live in order to appear “normal”. While not something new to me, I still got to learn so much and understand asexual people better and I find this to be an incredibly important read if you have even a slight interest in this topic.
With asexuality being a spectrum, this book gives multiple examples and talks about people in different points of this spectrum, with some asexual people being completely repulsed by sex, with others enjoying it only with people they have an emotional connection with, and even asexual people enjoy bdsm on their own terms. I found this detail to be extremely important, as asexuality can sometimes be seen as something uniform with only one explanation, when it’s much more of a complex topic.
While this book’s main topic is asexuality as a sexuality, it also extends its conversation to sex in society and how it affects both asexual and allosexual people, but specially how it affects queer, disabled, people of color and what different expectations are put onto these group of people due to harmful stereotypes. Angela dedicates multiple sections and even whole chapters to what it means to be ace and to live in a sexual world as a person of color and/or a disabled person and/or a trans person, showing how their experiences differ from the typical white person we’re used to being seen associated with asexuality.
I really enjoyed the writing style of part memoir part testimonies from other people. Angela does talk a lot about her own experiences as an asexual person, but always matching the topic of current discussion and connecting that with examples from other people. By talking about real life examples, not only it makes it easier to understand each topic, but it becomes a much more intense and sometimes emotional read.
Throughout the book, Angela Chen insists on an a very important message: you are valid, no matter how you choose to identity or even at what point in your life. Representation is important.
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Completionist: Finished all Side Quest books!
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karigan commented on a post
Might this story actually be going somewhere now?? Not sure I love when this plot device is used but I’ll take it after the absolute nothing burger I’ve been given so far.
Something I’m also noticing is this book is moving very quick despite nothing happening. Something happens to a character and they just…never react to it? Ivy breaks down crying and in the next scene she’s fine. The characters have no chemistry at all. We’re being told they like each other but nothing they do shows that.
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Might this story actually be going somewhere now?? Not sure I love when this plot device is used but I’ll take it after the absolute nothing burger I’ve been given so far.
Something I’m also noticing is this book is moving very quick despite nothing happening. Something happens to a character and they just…never react to it? Ivy breaks down crying and in the next scene she’s fine. The characters have no chemistry at all. We’re being told they like each other but nothing they do shows that.
3karigan commented on a post
I'm surprised by how much dark/sexual content there is in this book, since it's considered YA. Is this common in YA these days? It feels like it's kind of in between the amount of sexual content in the Folk of the Air series and the ACOTAR series, which I'm pretty sure is on the cusp between YA and adult.
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