
I expected a lot because this author's taboo smut is searingly hot. Instead this was the limpest color by numbers story and I flew through it in the end while half asleep. I guess it's time to read Ghost in the Hole 5000 more times instead

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Burning for My Prince (Meadowfall Firefighters, #1)
Anna Wineheart
What happens when your baby's daddy crashes through your bathroom ceiling... and into your life?A long time ago, York Davis made an online friend, and fell in love with him. Unbeknownst to York, FrogPrince100 was also a college professor. When they met to sate Prince's heat, Prince conceived. The very next day, Prince disappeared from York's life, shattering his heart.Five years ago, Perry Larkin did something he shouldn't: he gave in to his desires and slept with his crush. The very first alpha to make him feel safe after much violent abuse from his exes. Thing was, York was sixteen years younger than Perry. To hide his identity, Perry wore a mask to their first and only meeting. Then, crippled by guilt, he left, taking their unborn child with him.Fast forward to today: York is a firefighter who has sworn off love. Except his nervous new neighbor, Perry Larkin? He smells familiar. Perry feels familiar. York has no clue what FrogPrince looked like, but Perry can't be him. York shouldn't want to see Perry smile again. His heart shouldn't skip so much around Perry.Besides, Perry has a four-year-old son who can't be York's, because Prince had been on birth control that night... right?Burning For My Prince is a 89,000-word standalone non-shifter MPreg novel with snake jokes, new uses for honey, and an adorable four-year-old. No cheating, no cliffhangers, but there definitely is a Happily Ever After.Note: A list of trigger warnings is included in the Look Inside. If those are your triggers, please take care when reading! A Secret Baby MPreg Romance.

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Burning for My Prince (Meadowfall Firefighters, #1)
Anna Wineheart
What happens when your baby's daddy crashes through your bathroom ceiling... and into your life?A long time ago, York Davis made an online friend, and fell in love with him. Unbeknownst to York, FrogPrince100 was also a college professor. When they met to sate Prince's heat, Prince conceived. The very next day, Prince disappeared from York's life, shattering his heart.Five years ago, Perry Larkin did something he shouldn't: he gave in to his desires and slept with his crush. The very first alpha to make him feel safe after much violent abuse from his exes. Thing was, York was sixteen years younger than Perry. To hide his identity, Perry wore a mask to their first and only meeting. Then, crippled by guilt, he left, taking their unborn child with him.Fast forward to today: York is a firefighter who has sworn off love. Except his nervous new neighbor, Perry Larkin? He smells familiar. Perry feels familiar. York has no clue what FrogPrince looked like, but Perry can't be him. York shouldn't want to see Perry smile again. His heart shouldn't skip so much around Perry.Besides, Perry has a four-year-old son who can't be York's, because Prince had been on birth control that night... right?Burning For My Prince is a 89,000-word standalone non-shifter MPreg novel with snake jokes, new uses for honey, and an adorable four-year-old. No cheating, no cliffhangers, but there definitely is a Happily Ever After.Note: A list of trigger warnings is included in the Look Inside. If those are your triggers, please take care when reading! A Secret Baby MPreg Romance.

I love this series for all its silly sexy sweet romps & I'm not gonna be the one to fuck up its review score. That said, this is the weakest entry for me. I liked where it was gesturing character-wise, I liked the nods at mental health & neurodivergent representation, but this read like draft 1 and done, especially in terms of smut for a series that features such interesting and detailed alien anatomy and imaginative high heat scenes. It was quite short, so there was no room to flesh the characters out, either. The series has a reasonably high standard that I just didn't think this entry quite hit.
However I really really really want the author to crash another ship full of men on this planet so you know what, just disregard the above, you're doing amazing sweetie! I look forward to checking out the authors past work too 🥰

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Aliens Decrypted My Heart (Awakened Womb Book 4)
Hawke Oakley
Final cover to be revealed.Numbers make sense. Hot stalker aliens with big feelings don’t. When Assistant 23 was stranded on a strange planet eight years ago, he expected to perish. But after a whirlwind of events, he now lives anxiously among the alien residents. They’re nothing but nice, yet Assistant 23 can’t let go of his fear. He’s too scared to remove his hazmat suit, show his face, or even reveal his true name. So when an intense—and, fine, attractive—Maeleon named Farr’vye gets too personal, Assistant 23 does the thing he’s best panicking. Right into a thorn bush that shreds his clothes and exposes his long-hidden body. Farr’vye is obsessive but caring, and all too willing to nurse the human’s emotional wounds. And despite his best efforts to keep the alluring alien at arm’s length, Assistant 23 can’t help the way his anxious walls start to crumble... Aliens Decrypted My Heart is a sweet, spicy romp in an alien world. Fluff, high-heat scenes, and HEA included! This book does not contain pregnancy.

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The Secret Lives Of Bats: My Adventures with the World's Most Misunderstood Mammals
Merlin Tuttle
Few people realize how sophisticated and intelligent bats are. Merlin Tuttle knows, and he has stopped at nothing to find and protect them on every continent they inhabit. Sharing highlights from a lifetime of adventure and discovery, Tuttle takes us to the frontiers of bat research to show that frog-eating bats can identify frogs by their calls, that some bats have social sophistication similar to that of higher primates, and that bats have remarkable memories. Bats also provide enormous benefits by eating crop pests, pollinating plants, and carrying seeds needed for reforestation. They save farmers billions of dollars annually and are essential to a healthy planet. Tuttle’s account forever changes the way we see these poorly understood yet fascinating creatures. “Grips and doesn't let go.” — Wall Street Journal “It’s a terrific read.” — Huffington Post “A whirlwind adventure story and a top-shelf natural history page-turner.” — Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an Octopus “One of the best, most interesting books I’ve ever read.” — Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, author of The Hidden Life of Dogs

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IDK if I mentioned this on here but I split with my agent and personal friend of six years this week, it was not okay, and I'm putting the best face on it that I can but I'm in shambles :) can't focus on anything

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Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
Dipo Faloyin
Africa Is Not A Country is a bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful stereotypes to tell a more comprehensive story. You already know these stereotypes. So often Africa is depicted simplistically as an arid red landscape of famines and safaris, uniquely plagued by poverty and strife. In this funny and insightful book, Dipo Faloyin offers a much-needed corrective. He examines each country's colonial heritage, and explores a wide range of subjects, from chronicling urban life in Lagos and the lively West African rivalry over who makes the best Jollof rice, to the story of democracy in seven dictatorships and the dangers of stereotypes in popular culture. By turns intimate and political, Africa Is Not A Country brings the story of the continent towards reality, celebrating the energy and fabric of its different cultures and communities in a way that has never been done before.

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Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
Dipo Faloyin
Africa Is Not A Country is a bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful stereotypes to tell a more comprehensive story. You already know these stereotypes. So often Africa is depicted simplistically as an arid red landscape of famines and safaris, uniquely plagued by poverty and strife. In this funny and insightful book, Dipo Faloyin offers a much-needed corrective. He examines each country's colonial heritage, and explores a wide range of subjects, from chronicling urban life in Lagos and the lively West African rivalry over who makes the best Jollof rice, to the story of democracy in seven dictatorships and the dangers of stereotypes in popular culture. By turns intimate and political, Africa Is Not A Country brings the story of the continent towards reality, celebrating the energy and fabric of its different cultures and communities in a way that has never been done before.

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⚠️HATER COMMENT FOR MORMONISM & BRANDON SANDERSON 📣 LOOK AWAY IF HATER COMMENTS BOTHER YOU
Not bandy sandy! good ole tither to the Mormon Church, that famous bastion of gay rights! Why, I thought Brando Sando was the only fantasy writer worth reading these days with the way his fans bring up his name in every conversation knowing damn well he is a tithing Mormon and waiting, so patiently waiting, for him to issue more lukewarm statements about how the queers are ok and he totally respects them and he definitely plans to issue some queer crumbs at some point (and we are waiting with BATED BREATH for our hero bendy sendy to eventually feel like it).
but the fanfic-based MLM of Christianity is just so IMPORTANT and he just has to support them with money!! HE doesn't hate queer people!! it's just he's cool belonging to and regularly tithing to an organization that violently opposes their existence 😇
If I never hear about brand sand ever again I'll be so good. Especially when we're discussing queer fantasy! Can the cishet white man move out of the fucking way of the conversation! Decolonize your minds people 💀

I’m just looking for more people to follow who hold this belief. I recently made a comment on here on a quest that we as a community shouldn’t platform HP because of the harm JKR is doing to trans people like me and I’m being called a book burner for this when I never called for book burning. JKR enacts politically violence and has assaulted a trans woman (took upskirt photos of this woman) and I’m tired of being told I’m a book burner when I ask people not to platform for that. Her money she earns from HP is being used to hurt trans people like me. I just need other people to follow on here with the same beliefs because I’m tired and feeling ostracized in the book community for believing Trans lives matter more than a stupid book

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4w
Fuck jkr me and all my homies hate jkr. I threw my collection of her books into the TRASH bc no more children should be exposed to such a mean minded story no matter how much it meant to ME growing up. I can share so many OTHER meaningful experiences - for example Animorphs is right there! And K.A.A is an outspoken trans ally! Throw out your HP books, don't play her stupid games, don't engage with jkr content anywhere, and let her super expensive new show FLOP.
i love my trans and gnc siblings way more than some bloated media property that I liked when I was a kid like 25 years ago. It's a new day let's read some new books people. our trans and gnc family needs to know right now that we love them much more than this writer in her castle, and we'll pick y'all first over anyone else, gladly and loudly and proudly and joyfully.
I’m just looking for more people to follow who hold this belief. I recently made a comment on here on a quest that we as a community shouldn’t platform HP because of the harm JKR is doing to trans people like me and I’m being called a book burner for this when I never called for book burning. JKR enacts politically violence and has assaulted a trans woman (took upskirt photos of this woman) and I’m tired of being told I’m a book burner when I ask people not to platform for that. Her money she earns from HP is being used to hurt trans people like me. I just need other people to follow on here with the same beliefs because I’m tired and feeling ostracized in the book community for believing Trans lives matter more than a stupid book
i saw an interview with Cillian Murphy recently where he mentioned when he gets a new book he signs it on the first page and where he bought it from, and now i wanna do it 😭 problem is i don’t know exactly when i got a lot of mine especially from months/years ago but i think it’d be cute to start from now on
anyone else do something similar?

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This was SO helpful!
I think people who use a clear, strong format on their reviews, who explain what their stars mean TO THEM, and who they are as a person and how that informs their reading experience, are some of the best around (I strive to be THAT GIRL, I keep it cute on Pagebound but I'll probably use a structure for the exclusive reviews on my blog.
Maybe I'll make the hater reviews exclusive actually 🤣 I've been known to be something of a hater myself
I also have a book database on notion but I don't use it enough! I need to start using it instead of relying on Kindle notebook for saving good quotes cause they don't let you save more than like 18% 😒
I feel you on taking forever to get to the photos - I took some pictures of a bookshelf in the non fiction section in 2017 and I JUST found this photos and finally added the books in it to my "interested" list. Eventually I got there...
Pagebound is literally so good for recommendations, I'm yoinkin books every other day on my feed! This is why I have like 1200 books on my "interested" list LMAO 🤡😭
(yeah writers i know you're on here. me too. dw i won't tell) so i have 1 question for writers and 1 for readers, feel free to answer both. or none! im not your mom!!
writers: what are random, frivolous writing-adjacent stuff you wish somebody would just do for you? e.g. i LOVE moodboards omg i could commission a zillion: one per character, one per plot point, one per SCENE, forget about it. or fake covers?? you could draw it in MS Paint and i would fall down about it. i love when authors have playlists for their books, yes i DO scan that QC code!! ofc I love commissioning art but that takes money. i'm just talking like, what are the small joys of writing your WIP and how do you share creatively in community around that?? book tropes? character slides? google presentations? snippet images??
DIFFERENT QUESTION TO READERSSS!! as someone who enjoys books an abnormal amount, what are some book-related tasks you wish you could OFFLOAD? book recs? discovering new books in the genre you love? finding authors that aren't being introduced to you to support, like indie, debut, marginalized writers? do you care abt reading long vs short reviews? do u like tracking ur books on an app or do u make ur own database on notion, trello, your paper and pen, etc???
i wanna know bc a) as a writer i want cheap fun things to do for times i can't write to keep my WIP top of mind & maybe they'd make fun services to add to my ko-fi shop? and b) as a reader what is it about the books you read that appeals to you and what ways do you engage in reading outside of just you, your reading tool and your text? i wanna intentionally create a cozy community of thoughtful readers, and i know what EYE enjoy, but i wanted to know other peoples thoughts, esp thoughtful readers like YOU 🫵
if you hate this post i'm sorry, feel free to downvote, no need to explain i understand completely and go with God! but if you wanna yap about fluffy frivolous writing & reading-adjacent activities pls yap with me :)
this is my government mandated post per quarter (runs)
(yeah writers i know you're on here. me too. dw i won't tell) so i have 1 question for writers and 1 for readers, feel free to answer both. or none! im not your mom!!
writers: what are random, frivolous writing-adjacent stuff you wish somebody would just do for you? e.g. i LOVE moodboards omg i could commission a zillion: one per character, one per plot point, one per SCENE, forget about it. or fake covers?? you could draw it in MS Paint and i would fall down about it. i love when authors have playlists for their books, yes i DO scan that QC code!! ofc I love commissioning art but that takes money. i'm just talking like, what are the small joys of writing your WIP and how do you share creatively in community around that?? book tropes? character slides? google presentations? snippet images??
DIFFERENT QUESTION TO READERSSS!! as someone who enjoys books an abnormal amount, what are some book-related tasks you wish you could OFFLOAD? book recs? discovering new books in the genre you love? finding authors that aren't being introduced to you to support, like indie, debut, marginalized writers? do you care abt reading long vs short reviews? do u like tracking ur books on an app or do u make ur own database on notion, trello, your paper and pen, etc???
i wanna know bc a) as a writer i want cheap fun things to do for times i can't write to keep my WIP top of mind & maybe they'd make fun services to add to my ko-fi shop? and b) as a reader what is it about the books you read that appeals to you and what ways do you engage in reading outside of just you, your reading tool and your text? i wanna intentionally create a cozy community of thoughtful readers, and i know what EYE enjoy, but i wanted to know other peoples thoughts, esp thoughtful readers like YOU 🫵
if you hate this post i'm sorry, feel free to downvote, no need to explain i understand completely and go with God! but if you wanna yap about fluffy frivolous writing & reading-adjacent activities pls yap with me :)
this is my government mandated post per quarter (runs)

linguini commented...
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it's well pre-covid too so like it's a perfect time capsule, i'm so excited to see what it foretells

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When Germs Travel: Six Major Epidemics That Have Invaded America and the Fears They Have Unleashed
Howard Markel
The struggle against deadly microbes is endless. Diseases that have plagued human beings since ancient times still exist, new maladies make their way into the headlines, we are faced with vaccine shortages, and the threat of germ warfare has reemerged as a worldwide threat. In this riveting account, medical historian Howard Markel takes an eye-opening look at the fragility of the American public health system. He tells the distinctive stories of six epidemics–tuberculosis, bubonic plague, trachoma, typhus, cholera, and AIDS–to show how our chief defense against diseases from outside the United States has been to attempt to deny entry to carriers. He explains why this approach never worked, and makes clear that it is useless in today’s world of bustling international travel and porous borders. Illuminating our foolhardy attempts at isolation and showing that globalization renders us all potential inhabitants of the so-called Hot Zone, Markel makes a compelling case for a globally funded public health program that could stop the spread of epidemics and safeguard the health of everyone on the planet.

linguini commented...
4w
I found a picture i took of a bookshelf in 2017 that I found irresistible and added all of them to my Interested shelf today. Turns out the only men I'll voluntarily read are war historians 💀
Happy Tuesday PBs! It's time once again to share something you've learned from your reading in the past week. Whether it's a cool fact about the world from a niche non-fiction read or some insight into yourself from what your latest novel made you feel, or a random internet rabbit hole you went down, we want to hear it!
My non-fiction has not been giving me a lot of facts this week, sadly! Spouse and I DNFed one fact-filled book because the audio narrator was so bad, and I spent many hours listening to a collection of media criticism essays while I was driving around all weekend. Just started The Light Eaters last night so I am excited to add to my store of plant facts and will hopefully have something fun to share next week.
So this week is inspired by fiction. Thanks to The Most Unusual Haunting of Edgar Lovejoy, I learned that I really, truly cannot stand a sad little meow meow in a romance book.
What have you learned this week?
(As always, love to acidicchaos for starting this tradition and giving me the opportunity to take it over so we can keep the facts flowing!)

linguini commented...
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y'all I made a lil ✨ ko-fi shop ✨ for writing & bookish services here: ko-fi.com/ndxmedina
it would be my honor to work with one of my pagebuddies so pls share with anyone you think would benefit or enjoy 🧡

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The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
Dan Jones
The fifteenth century experienced the longest and bloodiest series of civil wars in British history. The crown of England changed hands violently seven times as the great families of England fought to the death for power, majesty and the right to rule. Dan Jones completes his epic history of medieval England with a new book about the the Wars of the Roses - and describes how the Plantagenets, tore themselves apart and were finally replaced by the Tudors. With vivid descriptions of the battle of Towton, where 28,000 men died in a single morning, to Bosworth, where the last Plantagenet king was hacked down, this is the real story behind Shakespeare's famous history plays.

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The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
Dan Jones
The fifteenth century experienced the longest and bloodiest series of civil wars in British history. The crown of England changed hands violently seven times as the great families of England fought to the death for power, majesty and the right to rule. Dan Jones completes his epic history of medieval England with a new book about the the Wars of the Roses - and describes how the Plantagenets, tore themselves apart and were finally replaced by the Tudors. With vivid descriptions of the battle of Towton, where 28,000 men died in a single morning, to Bosworth, where the last Plantagenet king was hacked down, this is the real story behind Shakespeare's famous history plays.

linguini is interested in reading...
4w

When Germs Travel: Six Major Epidemics That Have Invaded America and the Fears They Have Unleashed
Howard Markel
The struggle against deadly microbes is endless. Diseases that have plagued human beings since ancient times still exist, new maladies make their way into the headlines, we are faced with vaccine shortages, and the threat of germ warfare has reemerged as a worldwide threat. In this riveting account, medical historian Howard Markel takes an eye-opening look at the fragility of the American public health system. He tells the distinctive stories of six epidemics–tuberculosis, bubonic plague, trachoma, typhus, cholera, and AIDS–to show how our chief defense against diseases from outside the United States has been to attempt to deny entry to carriers. He explains why this approach never worked, and makes clear that it is useless in today’s world of bustling international travel and porous borders. Illuminating our foolhardy attempts at isolation and showing that globalization renders us all potential inhabitants of the so-called Hot Zone, Markel makes a compelling case for a globally funded public health program that could stop the spread of epidemics and safeguard the health of everyone on the planet.