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kenznais

a lifelong fan of words, the sight of a printing press reduces me to tears

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  • Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
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  • Draklyn
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    Tell Me I'm Not Alone!

    I am a snacker (both healthy and not so healthy) when it comes to reading, I've done it since my college days (Classical major with a minor in History so I had to read multiple books each week regardless if I liked them or not 🥴). Sometimes it's bad because I tend to want a messy snack but I would be reading a physical book instead of an ebook 😅

    I want to know if I'm not the only one and what your go to snack or treat is. OR if I'm the only one that does this lol.

    (I'm secretly trying to get recommendations and new snack ideas 👀)

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  • A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)
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  • chloee
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    what are your favourite books from every year in the past decade?

    there’s a trend going around on letterboxd where people are making lists featuring their favourite films from every year that they’ve been alive, and i wanted to do a similar concept but with books (and there’s no better place to try it out than on pagebound!!) i have created my list by the novel’s release date, so my 2015 favourite was released in 2015, but i realise that it takes a good minute to put together so feel free to just do your favourite from each year and ignore release date! here are my favourite books from every year in the past decade: 2015: a little life - hanya yanagihara 2016: crooked kingdom - leigh bardugo 2017: if we were villains - m.l. rio 2018: my year of rest and relaxation - ottessa moshfegh 2019: daisy jones and the six - taylor jenkins reid 2020: midnight sun - stephenie meyer 2021: people we meet on vacation - emily henry 2022: tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow - gabrielle zevin 2023: penance - eliza clark 2024: empire of the damned - jay kristoff 2025: atmosphere - taylor jenkins reid what are yours? :)

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    Female Fantasy: A Novel

    Female Fantasy: A Novel

    Iman Hariri-Kia

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  • Audiobook activities

    What do y'all do while listening to audiobooks? I have a brain dead job, so I'm usually listening to podcasts and audiobooks while I'm working or commuting, but sometimes the book is so good that I continue once I get home.

    Some of my absolute favorite audiobook activities include gardening, cooking, baking (I have a cake side hustle), and knitting (I'm currently knitting a blanket). I would just love to hear what others like to do, and also if there are things that you find too difficult to do while listening to a book. For example, if I'm making a new recipe I have to pause the book, or else I find myself not being able to follow along.

    Also also, any of y'all able to just sit and listen? I find that totally wild (but also a little awe inspiring).

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  • A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses #1)
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    Enjoyment: 3.0Quality: 3.0Characters: 4.0Plot: 3.0
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    I keep a tally of how many times SJM uses the word “gilded” (or any of its other tenses) in each of her books; in this one it’s only 8

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  • Have you also been a victim of BookTok?

    I have found great content creators on BookTok and discovered books that have forever changed me. I also read the worst book ever. So tell me, what was the worse rec you got from Book Tok?

    No Colleen Hoover or SJM. Let's be a bit controversial

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  • A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses #1)
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  • Best e-reader device??

    Greetings e-reader users! What is your preferred e-reader device? My birthday is coming up soon, and I was thinking of asking for one as a birthday gift. Thanks in advance!! Currently, I'm looking at the different versions of Kindles and Nooks

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  • Winter Reading Recs

    I'm looking for books to read throughout the cold winter months or Christmas literary fiction. I've read A Christmas Carol. Any recommendations?

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  • A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses #1)
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    This is such a hard book to get through on a reread knowing that the next book is 1000000 times better

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  • The Night Circus
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    so atmospheric. Love the descriptions.

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  • Blood Over Bright Haven
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    death to men

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  • A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses #1)
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    Diving into my annual reread of this series (a favourite October tradition of mine); I usually take the audiobook of this one out from the library to get through it faster but this year it wasn’t available so I’m going to try to get through reading this book as quickly as I can to get to ACOMAF faster 😈

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