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This has come up multiple times in another post I had on here and now it has me intrigued. I am still relatively new to Pagebound and have yet to do this but could see myself doing it. What book have you read explicitly for the shiny Pagebound badge that you would not otherwise have read? How did it turn out for you? Did you like it or hate it?
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Rubyfruit Jungle
Rita Mae Brown
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Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars
Kai Cheng Thom
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Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars
Kai Cheng Thom
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Into the Bright Open
Cherie Dimaline
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Into the Bright Open
Cherie Dimaline
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Into the Bright Open
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Hi again! I'm currently working on a reading challenge for the new year and I was wondering if along with the option of joining the PB community-wide seasonal readalongs and such, if there could/would ever be an area where users could create their own reading challenges? If that's not possible, I thought of maybe making an option for lists you either own/have saved where if you read every book on it, it could show you a little star icon or just make a simple feed update stating you read all the books on said list? Thank you for any thoughts on this!
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Doughnuts Under a Crescent Moon, Vol. 1
Shio Usui
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*** spoiler-free review but i do say something about the ending of the book in the very last sentence of the review so if you're someone who considers that a spoiler, don't read that last sentence! ***
soooo.... no hate like christian love, huh? lmaooo
this is such a heavy but important book that i'm so happy exists out there for other lgbtq+ people to be able to find out in the wild and know that they're not alone! i love how the main character was able to find that out for herself by coming across one last stop by casey mcquiston at her local library one day (love that book & love that it was part of another sapphic book in this way!)! i loved getting to accompany the mc on her journey as a baby gay!
of course check trigger warnings considering the whole plot of the book but i really enjoyed the way this was written with the pacing and just general writing style! i also love that while this is a very rough read as a queer person, it didn't feel like it was just traumatic moment after trauma moment - it made me happy to see pockets of love and support for the mc throughout the book despite everything along with the message of hope for a better day/life ahead as a queer person.
found family is also one of my favorite things to consume in media and i really appreciated how the author included/wrote about this! overall, a very solid sapphic book with depth, a message of hope & a happy ending! yay!
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Gay the Pray Away
Natalie Naudus
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never have i read anything quite like this and i fear i need more ......
reading this felt like a fever dream i never wanted to wake from. you know when a book is soooo good, it's like you've been wandering the desert for a while and suddenly there's ice cold, crisp, delicious water right in front of you that came out of nowhere and you're not looking back!
i love when women are deranged and evil and obsessive and boy did this book deliver it all to me on a silver platter.
apart from the utterly unhinged antics, i love the way this book discusses oppressive systems and urges for critical thinking of these systems we partake in from the second we're born. it's hard to believe a book as wild as this one also covers communal justice and systemic change so masterfully.
this is definitely now on my top reads of 2026! i know without a doubt this book will live on in me for a long time to come and i'm so very thankful my library let me experience this.
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