kishmish commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
hello lovely PB users!
i've made a few reading challenges for my friend group in the past to help motivate us to read more, and now at the request of my bestie, i am planning a D&D themed one. the general idea is that we'll create characters to make a party, and then read books to complete different quests and defeat monsters!
the first prompt i'm thinking of is to basically choose each of our classes, with it being somewhere along the lines of "read a book that features whichever class that you want to choose". the general idea is that the main character should fit/be whatever D&D class its meant to represent! i'm trying to think of different books that can fit each of the core D&D classes (paladin, rogue, wizard, etc.) to make it easier for them to choose and was wondering what recommendations everyone had? it's fairly easy to come up with books that fit wizard but i'm having trouble with some of the others like monk
(edit for to clafiry classes) i would love recs for books that specifically have an mc that's a monk, warlock, bard, or ranger! but if you have ideas for the other classes i'd love to hear them too!!
kishmish commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Mine says: Mainly reads fiction books that are adventurous, emotional, and dark. Typically chooses medium-paced books that are 300-499 pages long
And Iād say thatās pretty accurate lol. What does your say? Any surprises? Anyone twinning? š
kishmish commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
My niece is turning 11 soon and has asked for classic books for her birthday. Sheās currently reading The Bookwanderers where the MC meets characters from books like Aliceās Adventures in Wonderland and Anne of Green Gables. (Sheās read those two already though!)
What were some of your favorite classics at that age? Or what do you wish you had read then?
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My niece is turning 11 soon and has asked for classic books for her birthday. Sheās currently reading The Bookwanderers where the MC meets characters from books like Aliceās Adventures in Wonderland and Anne of Green Gables. (Sheās read those two already though!)
What were some of your favorite classics at that age? Or what do you wish you had read then?
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So it became increasingly important for me to not just find out more about Marsha but to share every bit of what I learned through my blog, writing, and community organizing work. I knew that we needed to reclaim and to be nourished by our history.
so far, Iām mostly wishing that I were more familiar with Tourmalineās other work and activism so that Iād have a clearer sense of the perspective this will be told from. reading wikipedia only does so much š and then i wonder whether I am familiar with her work after all, if not her name, because I feel like Iāve heard a lot about Marsha. Does all of that come from archival work Tourmaline did?
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Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4)
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So it became increasingly important for me to not just find out more about Marsha but to share every bit of what I learned through my blog, writing, and community organizing work. I knew that we needed to reclaim and to be nourished by our history.
so far, Iām mostly wishing that I were more familiar with Tourmalineās other work and activism so that Iād have a clearer sense of the perspective this will be told from. reading wikipedia only does so much š and then i wonder whether I am familiar with her work after all, if not her name, because I feel like Iāve heard a lot about Marsha. Does all of that come from archival work Tourmaline did?
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Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson
Tourmaline Tourmaline
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Popisho
Leone Ross
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Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want
Ruha Benjamin
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Poet Warrior: A Memoir
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Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
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kishmish commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Hello everyone! i have a few questions as regards how these things work, i've tried to find the answer in previous posts but couldn't find anything (at least with the key-words i tried).
So, question here: if I join a quest, but i've already read some of the books on the list, do those books count towards the quest count? Or does the book need to be "finished" after i join the quest?
#2: Can you abandon a quest after joining? I thought about joining one just to see what it looks like when you join but I didn't know if you could leave and i didn't want to commit beforehand
Now, #3: for Readalongs and Special Events, do we have to "join" like we do quests or just marking the book as read and participating in the book forum counts and you earn the badge?
I apologize if these questions have been answered already but I seriously couldn't find the answers in past posts. Thank you in advance!
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She invented Narcan! Harm reduction queen, we love to see it š¤©
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I was a child with a childās attention span. Many adults think this is no more than a butterflyās, flittering from thought to thought, but they have forgotten how, in some children, it is as sharp and pointed as a stiletto.
I love this. Kingfisher is such a keen observer of what people are like at different ages, and it makes an outsized difference in our very ageist/anti-child culture to not have everyone be vaguely 18-30 in her books.
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Hemlock & Silver
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