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lauren | 🏳️‍🌈 | she/her | sf bay | 30+ spec fic, fantasy. character driven.

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Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
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The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1)
The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)
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  • Babel
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    Nov 11, 2025
    3.5
    Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 3.0Characters: 3.0Plot: 4.0

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  • Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
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    I am embarrassed by how little I knew about apartheid. The fact that they studied systemic rascism in other places to do it more efficiently is horrific. And it's shameful to be one of the places they studied.

    Somehow the "voice" (I'm reading an ebook, not audio) is so upbeat in the middle of him telling about it- it really seems like a kid's perspective.

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    Don't Let the Forest In

    Don't Let the Forest In

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    The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

    The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

    Michelle Alexander

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    kinetics commented on Mushypeas's review of Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)

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  • Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
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    Nov 05, 2025
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    Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 5.0Characters: 4.0Plot: 5.0
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    This was wild to read nearly 20 years after publication.

    I struggled to get into this book, as someone who loves a character-driven story. They were interesting from the get go, but they felt impersonal to me. I just couldn't connect for the longest time. Especially with the FMC (it was just... obvious she was written by a man; I don't know how else to say it).

    I grew to eventually love all the characters, but I stuck around for the world-building, which was epic and unique, and the plot, which truly was fantastic (and shocking!) and never once seemed to follow what I expected.

    Even with it's flaws, it was still very much worth the read, and I'm glad I stuck it out.

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    Thoughts on AI in comments and replies?

    Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of comments not just to myself, but other people as well, which have obviously been written by AI, through punctuation, the style of validating others, etc. I’m not sure how I feel about this; it’s very possible that someone put their own thoughts into GPT and then just had them clean it up. That being said, it feels strange to reply to an insightful point when it might just be me having a convo that’s being pasted into an LLM.

    Has anyone else experienced this? What are your thoughts on it, especially with Pagebound being an anti-AI platform, and is there any action you think should be taken, or do we simply continue our interactions as normal?

    EDIT: To add to this, I would never suggest, recommend, or have ever accused someone of using AI! I’m not trying to create open war or a witch hunt on PB, lol. I’m just trying to get community thoughts on it, IF anything can be done, and to know if anyone else has experienced the same.

    EDIT 2: Others have asked for what signs to look for to determine if something was AI, and I tried to answer but don’t think I’m qualified to answer in a way that satisfies everyone, so rather than that, @chelssicle has pointed out this really good article wikipedia has compiled for signs of AI writing.

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    Heir (Heir Duology, #1)

    Heir (Heir Duology, #1)

    Sabaa Tahir

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    Sociopath: A Memoir

    Sociopath: A Memoir

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