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luciethemycophile

quantum hobgoblin trying to find love for earth by way of fascination for the cosmos

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Iconic Series
Epic Sci-Fi and Fantasy Series
Fall 2025 Readalong
Critically Acclaimed Memoirs
British & Irish Classic Literature
Classics Starter Pack Vol I
My Taste
The Emperor of Gladness
When We Cease to Understand the World
Unsheltered
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
The Magick of Physics: Uncovering the Fantastical Phenomena in Everyday Life
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Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic OceanMalleus (Eisenhorn, #2)A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)

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  • For the Fans
    Thoughts from 6%

    He’s bragging about doing 30 reps on a “heavy” weight in what I assume is bench press. If he can to that many reps, it’s not at all heavy enough. It’s not a cardio exercise.

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  • Where are my people at 😩

    I’m looking for all my lovely people who don’t pick up Zionist and problematic authors. I genuinely feel like it’s so hard finding people on here. I’ll always take a peek at their library. It’s always such a disappointment with those specific authors and for the people I do follow. I love you guys so much. I love to know that there’s humanity in the bookish space. Please sound off below if you are an ally, so to say. I would love to follow more people 🥹🫶🏼🙂‍↕️

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    Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean

    Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean

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    Malleus (Eisenhorn, #2)

    Malleus (Eisenhorn, #2)

    Dan Abnett

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  • How does overlap work?

    Sorry if this has already been answered. I was looking for some people to follow on here and one of the profiles says we have a 46% overlap, but I only have 98 books in common with them out of 6086 they have in their library (yes, I counted). I'm not a math person, but it seems to me like there's something wrong or I don't understand how the overlap works. Can someone explain it to me? Thank you ❤️

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    Malleus (Eisenhorn, #2)

    Dan Abnett

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  • Reading while walking

    Yesterday I was going for a jog around the lake in my area when I passed a gal who was straight up reading her paperback book while walking the lake (at a decent pace, I might add). Insanely impressive.

    It took everything in me not to be the weirdo asking hey are you on Pagebound because you should be!

    It reminded me of a girl in elementary school who used to be able to read while walking but I always thought that was sort of an out of a desperate necessity to keep reading while going where the grownups told her to go sort of a thing.

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  • The worst plot device you've encountered

    Authors, we get it, you’ve got to move the story along or slip in some worldbuilding…but did you have to do it like that?

    What’s the worst plot device you’ve ever encountered? I’m talking info-dumps disguised as dialogue, miraculous coincidences that hand-deliver crucial clues, or protagonist's who are dumb as rocks, who somehow Sherlock their way to the truth with zero evidence.

    For me, it’s The Fourth Wing. Your FMC 'soothes herself' by reciting the entire history of the world? Really? Straight to jail, Rebecca.

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  • Humbling moment as a language learner and as a reader

    When you read a word that you've NEVER heard out loud and when you hear someone say it, it turns out that it doesn't sound how you thought it was gonna sound AT ALL.

    Do NOT ask me how I thought "Choir" and "Mischievous" were pronounced

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    Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean

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  • Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean
    Feels like this book is written for me

    “If you, like me… stare into the empty eyes of the night wondering what it means to be a human being, then I suspect you might find insight, more than you may imagine, through a better understanding of how the universe functions within us.”

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  • Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean
    Feels like this book is written for me

    “If you, like me… stare into the empty eyes of the night wondering what it means to be a human being, then I suspect you might find insight, more than you may imagine, through a better understanding of how the universe functions within us.”

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    Malleus (Eisenhorn, #2)

    Malleus (Eisenhorn, #2)

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  • Should community recs include books from the same series?

    While browsing the recommendation sections of a few books recently I noticed that a lot of the time the recommendations include books further into the series instead of or more so than other books/series with a similar vibe and I'm curious about the community sentiment towards that.

    Personally I feel like the recs should be more for those instead of just more from the same series, as a reader will usually be aware that the next books exists and especially for long series actual new recommendations get buried a bit. On other platforms I use recommendations to find more books I will probably enjoy after I have finished a series and initially expected to find the same here.

    I believe it's probably an issue with how you currently can't effectively look at all books in a series directly from one book in it, which will probably get implemented better in the future.

    But how does everyone else feel about that? Please let me know your thoughts. 🫶🏼

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  • Charging for Reserves

    Does your library charge you for reserving physical books? Or is my library weird?

    I'm in Derbyshire, England and my local library charges users 80p ($1 US) for physical book reserves.

    But when I tell people this (around England and abroad), they tell me that's unhinged and have no idea that this is even a thing 🤣

    I don't know either but I hate it. At least I can reserve ebooks at the library without a charge.

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  • Bookish icks

    So sometimes I would be reading a book right and all of a sudden there is the mention of an accidental pregnancy. this is my bookworm ick Comment below what are the ones that you might have

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