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Games & Trials
Welcome to the Circus
Early UserPride 2026
Classics Starter Pack Vol I
Gothic Literature
Fall 2024 Readalong
Spring 2025 Readalong
Summer 2025 Readalong
Pride 2025
Winter 2026 Readalong
Summer 2026 Readalong
My Taste
The Tortoise's Tale: A Novel
I Who Have Never Known Men
Mad Sisters of Esi
If We Were Villains
Tempest
Reading...
The Palace Beneath the Sea
16%
The Iliad
12%
Six of Crows
33%
Viper & Lilies
61%
Dracula
35%
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starting this arc that comes out tomorrow 😅 better late than never

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Reading this book felt the same as when you start college and think you’re gonna learn everything you need to know to do your future job well and then being left with more questions than answers when you actually finish (in the best way possible bc it makes you want to learn more!)

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You Were Born for This: Astrology for Radical Self-Acceptance

You Were Born for This: Astrology for Radical Self-Acceptance

Chani Nicholas

The beloved Los Angeles astrologer with more than one million fans shows a new generation how to use astrology as a tool for self-discovery, success, and self-care in this revolutionary guide. Modern astrology isn’t about passively accepting our fate, it’s about action, and beloved astrologer Chani Nicholas shows you how to bring this life-changing practice into your life and embrace self-empowerment, intentionality, and spirituality. Gone are the days of "on Tuesday you will meet your prince charming" horoscopes. Instead, Nicholas is spearheading a radical new approach to astrology. In her hip, inspirational weekly horoscopes, she doesn’t tell readers what will happen to them. Instead, she encourages her devotees to take control—to confront themselves, their desires, and their needs—to fulfill their potential using the power of the stars. Written in her lyrical, cool-girl, feminist writing style, You Were Born for This explains how knowing your star signs and what they mean for your individual character can be revelatory. Understanding the astrological chart can help you refine your intentions, identify your strengths, recognize areas for growth, become more connected to your core self, and steer you on your spiritual path. In an era when growing numbers of people feel a sense of meaninglessness and a desire to learn more about themselves, You Were Born for This teaches you how to harness the zodiac to help you become more in tune with yourself and your place in the universe.

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karigan commented...

10h

omg a badge 20 years in the making congrats mari!!! 🎪🍿

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karigan commented...

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Lucy and Van Helsing are my favorite characters I live for both of their dramatics

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karigan commented...

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It's from last year, I just updated the post to be more clear!

  • 🍂💀Phantasma Readalong 💀🍂 (Concluded 11.2025)

    Happy Fall everyone!!! I don’t care that it’s still summer, it’s September 1st, 2025 and the air is crisp here (compared to normal September weather) so it’s FALL!!!

    Anyways, we are doing an unofficial readalong of Phantasma this season! As Jennifer said, there is no special badge but it would be so fun to work towards a Quest badge together 🫶🏻

    I’m planning on starting the book in the next week or so, what about you??

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    Yayay thank you!!

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    Save/Follow Another User's Shelf

    I sometimes see people create lists that really should be shelves but they're doing so to be able to share them with another person or a small group such as a book club. Of course these can still be made as shelves instead but those other people will always have to go to the owner's library to access it whereas when it's created as a list, they can save it to their own profiles. It'd be fun if we could save others' (public) shelves and maybe have a separate section in our libraries to see them!

    Released 🚀
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  • Dracula

    Dracula

    Bram Stoker

    Thoughts from 10% (thinking about Dracula in its original context)

    Everything I discuss here is based on the publicly known details about Dracula, so I’m not marking it for spoilers, but proceed with caution if you know nothing about who Dracula is. Also, please keep in mind the lack of a spoiler tag when responding!

    I can’t help but think about how our experience reading this today, even if we know nothing about the actual story, is forever altered by the lore and legends built over time after this book came out. You’d probably be hard pressed to find someone nowadays who doesn’t already know that Dracula is a vampire. And obviously, if you read the blurb for the book on here, you’d learn that before reading as well.

    That makes this reading experience so fundamentally different when compared to that of someone who read it shortly after its release. My basic understanding is that while this certainly wasn’t the first vampire story, it also wasn’t widely known that Dracula was a vampire until you actually read the book. So I’m curious to know what the experience must have been like to learn with Harker (and I assume the other characters later in the book) what Dracula is. Instead, we go into this with more information than the narrator and I don’t think that was the original intent. I definitely could be wrong though haha

    I’ll be researching this as I read more I think and come back to update, but for any Dracula lovers or English majors out there, I’d love to hear your thoughts!

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    love you 🩵

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    The Princess Trap

    The Princess Trap

    Talia Hibbert

    From bestselling author Talia Hibbert comes a story of wicked royals, fake engagements, and the fed-up office worker trapped in the midst of it all… Cherry Neita is thirty, flirty, and done with men. As far as she can tell, they’re overrated, overpaid, and underperforming – in every area of life. But a girl has needs, and the smoking-hot stranger she just met at the office seems like the perfect one-night stand… Prince Ruben of Helgmøre is reckless, dominant, and famously filthy. The outcast royal is rebuilding his reputation – all for a good cause – but he can’t resist a pretty face. And bossy whirlwind Cherry’s got the face, the body, and the attitude to make Ruben’s convictions crumble. Even better, when she propositions him, she has no idea who he really is. But when paparazzi catch the pair, erm, kissing in an alleyway, Ruben’s anonymity disappears faster than Cherry’s knickers. Now the press is in uproar, the palace is outraged, and Ruben’s reputation is back in the gutter. There’s only one way to turn this disaster around – and it involves Cherry, some big fat lies, and a flashy diamond ring. On her left hand. Unfortunately, Cherry isn’t pleased with Ruben’s ‘fake engagement’ scheme… and neither is the king. The Princess Trap is a steamy, diverse royal romance featuring a take-no-sh*t heroine and a misunderstood hero fighting to survive life at the palace. There’s fake relationship fluff, a healthy dose of angst, and a guaranteed happily-ever-after. Please be aware this story contains scenes of abuse that could trigger certain audiences.

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    It was a really great baby's first intro to astrology! My assumption is that if you know a lot about your big three, you probably know most of what the book has to offer but I knew next to nothing so it was very informative!

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    You Were Born for This: Astrology for Radical Self-Acceptance

    You Were Born for This: Astrology for Radical Self-Acceptance

    Chani Nicholas

    The beloved Los Angeles astrologer with more than one million fans shows a new generation how to use astrology as a tool for self-discovery, success, and self-care in this revolutionary guide. Modern astrology isn’t about passively accepting our fate, it’s about action, and beloved astrologer Chani Nicholas shows you how to bring this life-changing practice into your life and embrace self-empowerment, intentionality, and spirituality. Gone are the days of "on Tuesday you will meet your prince charming" horoscopes. Instead, Nicholas is spearheading a radical new approach to astrology. In her hip, inspirational weekly horoscopes, she doesn’t tell readers what will happen to them. Instead, she encourages her devotees to take control—to confront themselves, their desires, and their needs—to fulfill their potential using the power of the stars. Written in her lyrical, cool-girl, feminist writing style, You Were Born for This explains how knowing your star signs and what they mean for your individual character can be revelatory. Understanding the astrological chart can help you refine your intentions, identify your strengths, recognize areas for growth, become more connected to your core self, and steer you on your spiritual path. In an era when growing numbers of people feel a sense of meaninglessness and a desire to learn more about themselves, You Were Born for This teaches you how to harness the zodiac to help you become more in tune with yourself and your place in the universe.

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