avatarPagebound Royalty Badge

karigan

27 • she/her • I work to afford my reading habit 🧚🏻🦄🏰🐉🧜🏻‍♀️🪱

49193 points

0% overlap
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
Winter 2026 Readalong
Pride 2025Cherry Blossom Festival 2026
My Taste
If We Were Villains
The Tortoise's Tale: A Novel
I Who Have Never Known Men
Wuthering Heights
Mad Sisters of Esi
Reading...
You Were Born for This: Astrology for Radical Self-Acceptance
3%
Viper & Lilies
19%
Dracula
0%

karigan commented on karigan's update

karigan made progress on...

1h
Viper & Lilies

Viper & Lilies

Lexie Axon

19%
10
2
Reply

karigan made progress on...

1h
Viper & Lilies

Viper & Lilies

Lexie Axon

19%
10
2
Reply
  • Viper & Lilies
    Thoughts from 18% (page 74, end ch9)
    spoilers

    View spoiler

    2
    comments 0
    Reply
  • karigan commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

    6h
  • what are you dream quests?

    if you could pick any quest theme, what would it be? bonus points if you have a list you want to promote in anticipation of the next community quest vote! i would really love the following: • an anti ai/big tech quest! i feel like it makes sense for pagebound to have one, given its anti ai values. i've seen a couple lists about this nominated for the community vote and i'm always sad when they don't win! • a "books about books" nonfiction quest! the history of the book, books on libraries, books on writing and language and storytelling, etc etc. also very appropriate for the pagebound community! • a drama quest. like actual dramas, plays, theatrical scripts, the like. it's the only main literary form (prose, poetry, drama) we don't have a quest for yet!

    117
    comments 150
    Reply
  • karigan commented on OhMyDio's review of The Night Circus

    1d
  • The Night Circus
    OhMyDio
    Aug 03, 2026
    The Night Circus
    3.5
    Enjoyment: 3.0Quality: 3.0Characters: 3.0Plot: 4.5

    Boyhowdy I struggled to remember to pick this up! Which is weird, because when I did pick it up I generally had a good time? After about 25%ish I switched to audiobook and that helped me settle into it way better than how using my eye balls was going.

    The atmosphere of this book is bonkers. Morgenstern really knows how to set a stage and dress the players on it! The overall plot is very interesting & the cast of characters lovable. I do agree with others that it's a bit too long and a bit too boring for a book about magicians dueling. I definitely wanted more action, and longed for the game to be more central to the story.

    I do love a non-linear story to HECK, though, and this delivered on that front for me. I really enjoyed trying to anticipate why we were jumping to when and where we were, and I liked how it all came together in the end.

    I think this would be an incredible movie, and I really hope that the folks who had been working on it previously are able to do the thing.

    24
    comments 7
    Reply
  • karigan commented on gracie's update

  • Viper & Lilies
    Thoughts from 11% (page 46, end ch7)
    spoilers

    View spoiler

    2
    comments 0
    Reply
  • karigan made progress on...

    2d
    Viper & Lilies

    Viper & Lilies

    Lexie Axon

    11%
    13
    0
    Reply

    karigan commented on karigan's update

    karigan started reading...

    2d
    Viper & Lilies

    Viper & Lilies

    Lexie Axon

    15
    3
    Reply

    karigan started reading...

    2d
    Viper & Lilies

    Viper & Lilies

    Lexie Axon

    15
    3
    Reply

    karigan commented on sashareads's update

    sashareads made progress on...

    3d
    Bunny

    Bunny

    Mona Awad

    84%
    134
    98
    Reply

    karigan commented on a post from the Founder Announcements forum

    3d
  • Fall 2026 Readalong Picks

    Hi everyone, we're excited to share the 4 selections for the Fall Readalong, running September - November! We announce Readalong titles a month in advance to give everyone time to place library holds. The Seasonal Readalong page will be updated soon with the books below, but in the meantime, feel free to add them to your TBR!

    How to Be Eaten by Maria Adelmann: A darkly funny horror novel featuring group therapy, fairytale retellings, and feminism.

    The Incandescent by Emily Tesh: A sapphic dark academia fantasy set at an elite boarding school, where our heroine is a powerful demonology teacher on a mission.

    Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor: A genre-bending sci-fi novel that interweaves the story of Zelu, a disabled Nigerian-American writer, with chapters from the novel she's writing, blurring the boundary between the real world and the created world.

    The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love by India Holton: A cozy and whimsical Victorian era romcom with 2 rival ornithologists, travel via parasol, and a lot of scheming and flirting.

    Excited to read with everyone in the coming months!

    Happy reading, Jennifer & Lucy

    401
    comments 142
    Reply
  • karigan commented on karigan's update

    karigan made progress on...

    3d
    Dracula

    Dracula

    Bram Stoker

    18%
    19
    3
    Reply