karigan
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karigan commented on marissa's review of Ninth House
Ninth House was a bit of a mixed experience for me. I’ll be honest, I spent a good chunk of the book feeling confused, like I was playing catch-up with the world-building and all the secret society details and I can't be sure I understand yet. There’s a lot packed into the story, and at times I wasn’t sure if I was missing something or if things just weren’t explained yet. That said, in the moments it did click for me, I really loved it.
The atmosphere is fantastic. It's dark, moody, and exactly what you’d want from a secret-societies-at-Yale type of story. Bardugo’s writing style also has something about it that really works so well for the tone, and I liked how she wove in both the supernatural elements and the heavier, real-world themes. The mystery aspect kept me hooked, even if I didn’t always feel totally grounded in what was happening.
So, overall, parts of it left me scratching my head, but the moments that worked for me really worked. It’s one of those books that’s rewarding if you’re willing to sit with the confusion for a while.
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karigan is re-reading...
Catching Fire
Suzanne Collins
3karigan is re-reading...
Catching Fire
Suzanne Collins
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Whoa whoa whoa whooaaaaa "A political hobbyist debating the latest headline protest is 'no closer to engaging in politics than watching Sports Center is to playing football.'" WHOAAAA yes yes yes. I love this take. When I first got into organizing, I spent SO much time reading the news, terrible comments sections, and carousels that just made me spiral - and then bad-news-slime all over my friends. It impacted my ability to do my job and enjoy down time. Over the last year, I've really been trying to shift my outlook and feel it's made a huge difference. I love being able to name this now.
2karigan commented on marissa's review of Ninth House
Ninth House was a bit of a mixed experience for me. I’ll be honest, I spent a good chunk of the book feeling confused, like I was playing catch-up with the world-building and all the secret society details and I can't be sure I understand yet. There’s a lot packed into the story, and at times I wasn’t sure if I was missing something or if things just weren’t explained yet. That said, in the moments it did click for me, I really loved it.
The atmosphere is fantastic. It's dark, moody, and exactly what you’d want from a secret-societies-at-Yale type of story. Bardugo’s writing style also has something about it that really works so well for the tone, and I liked how she wove in both the supernatural elements and the heavier, real-world themes. The mystery aspect kept me hooked, even if I didn’t always feel totally grounded in what was happening.
So, overall, parts of it left me scratching my head, but the moments that worked for me really worked. It’s one of those books that’s rewarding if you’re willing to sit with the confusion for a while.
3karigan wrote a review...
Never really knew where this was going and still not quite sure I kept up with all the plot points. I don’t think I’d continue with the series if it weren’t for the quest.
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Ninth House
Leigh Bardugo
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I am…so confused. I think I thought this was more of a realistic book but it seems not?? I feel like I need to reread this last chapter because North got pregnant HOW??? (this is not a spoiler we know shes pregnant in like chapter 1)
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karigan commented on a post from the Founder Announcements forum
Hi all! New app version (1.1.93) is now available on both iOS and Android. This includes mostly quality of life updates, some small feature enhancements, and bug fixes - web was also updated! Here's a quick rundown of what changed:
Search Improvements: When you search on the app, you can navigate back to your search results. On web, searching in "Browse Lists" and "Browse Quests" also saves your search results.
Search by Emoji: This beloved feature is now available on the app! You can find a link in Search. This got a design upgrade on web as well - you can now search specifically for books, lists, or quests by Emoji and see the total results for each category.
Updated Emojis: The emoji list was updated on app to include newer emojis
Additional badge slots for Royalty: Royalty can now display up to 12 badges on their profiles (warning: if the app is not updated yet and you display more than 6, the badges will run off the screen!) EDIT: was made aware the badges will run off the screen when viewing someone else's profile. They will look correct when viewing your own. I'm sorry, silly bug from me! Will put up an "emergency" update in next few days.
New ways to add a book: In a shocking turn of events, we are able to offer the Add Missing Book via Goodreads Link feature again. You now have 3 options when adding a new book to the Pagebound database: Goodreads link, ISBN/ASIN manual form, non-ISBN manual form
Block List in Settings: under Account & Settings, you can see all the users you've blocked and manage your block list.
Update Reading Progress remembers your update method: that's a mouthful, but basically if you update your reading progress using %, you'll be defaulted to % the next time you log progress (or pages or minutes, whatever tracking method you choose)
Confirmation popup when clicking I'm Finished: In the progress update modal, there's a confirmation step before finishing the book when you click I'm Finished (for everyone who was accidentally clicking that and messing up their reads!)
What's next on the roadmap? We're working on making editing your reading data more accessible and intuitive (think: updating your start/finish date when you click the "Reading" and "Finished" statuses, editing format and length in the reading status modal) After that, we have major projects related to Quests (Quest dashboards 👀) and a huge Library revamp (I'm calling this "Library V2")
Thank you everyone for keeping this community thriving! We'll be back in a few weeks with the next update.
Happy reading, Jennifer + Lucy
201karigan commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
I sometimes catch myself using similar words or phrases in my reviews or comments. If PB were to have a feature that could show you which words you repeated the most in a month, I would probably be embarrassed at how many “absolutely”s and “action-packed volume”s I’d end up with 😅 So I was super curious to know what other folks love to say on here! What words/phrases do you think you use often?
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