lunamoona
[she/they] 🌿✨️ total mood reader 🌈 queer yearning, atmospheric settings, cozy vibes🌙 traveling the world one book at a time 🌍🌱
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Unshame: Wie wir uns von Idealen befreien und den weiblichen Körper wertschätzen
Louisa Dellert
0lunamoona commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Later today, August 12, around 17:47 UTC, a solar eclipse will occur with the path of totality covering Greenland, Iceland and Spain. A partial eclipse, covering around 90% of the sun, will be visible in most of Europe, North and West Africa, and northern North America.
Who is planning to watch the solar eclipse today? 🙌 If you're thinking about going out, please remember to protect your eyes! If you don't have eclipse glasses available, 🔗here are some creative ways to still enjoy the spectacle.
I'm really excited, this is something very special for me and I've never seen it before in my life!! Keeping my fingers crossed for clear skies for everyone who's watching 🤞🍀
So, to come back to the bookish side of things: A solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the earth and the sun and totally or partly obscures the view of the sun for a viewer on earth.
What is your favorite book where the Sun and/or the Moon play an important part in the story?
Mine are Klara and the Sun 🌞 (really looking forward to the upcoming movie adaptation!) and The Girl Who Drank The Moon 🌙 (loved the Ghibli vibes in this one)
EDIT: As @starrynightsx mentioned, it's not only Solar Eclipse Day but also the peak of the Perseid Meteor Shower! So it's the perfect night to keep an eye on the sky if you live in the Northern Hemisphere ✨️☄️
52lunamoona commented on tobymoon's review of The Complete Poems of Sappho
This is such an awkward collection to review.
I had no issues with Sappho poetry, it’s great.
My issues lie with how this collection was handled. I feel like it was lacking information. It felt like a cheaper version of the classical literature course I took for university. I felt like the intro to Sappho was lacklustre, and missed some important details about her poetry.
I’m not an expert but I do think it is missing some poems and I will edited this if corrected.
I also hated that the editor did not show where fragments where being pieced together or where translation guesses had to be made where.
I don’t think I would honestly recommend this book to read Sappho poetry from
4lunamoona is interested in reading...
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
David Graeber
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Unshame: Wie wir uns von Idealen befreien und den weiblichen Körper wertschätzen
Louisa Dellert
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Black Sun
Rebecca Roanhorse
0lunamoona commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Later today, August 12, around 17:47 UTC, a solar eclipse will occur with the path of totality covering Greenland, Iceland and Spain. A partial eclipse, covering around 90% of the sun, will be visible in most of Europe, North and West Africa, and northern North America.
Who is planning to watch the solar eclipse today? 🙌 If you're thinking about going out, please remember to protect your eyes! If you don't have eclipse glasses available, 🔗here are some creative ways to still enjoy the spectacle.
I'm really excited, this is something very special for me and I've never seen it before in my life!! Keeping my fingers crossed for clear skies for everyone who's watching 🤞🍀
So, to come back to the bookish side of things: A solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the earth and the sun and totally or partly obscures the view of the sun for a viewer on earth.
What is your favorite book where the Sun and/or the Moon play an important part in the story?
Mine are Klara and the Sun 🌞 (really looking forward to the upcoming movie adaptation!) and The Girl Who Drank The Moon 🌙 (loved the Ghibli vibes in this one)
EDIT: As @starrynightsx mentioned, it's not only Solar Eclipse Day but also the peak of the Perseid Meteor Shower! So it's the perfect night to keep an eye on the sky if you live in the Northern Hemisphere ✨️☄️
52lunamoona is interested in reading...
Nevernight (The Nevernight Chronicle, #1)
Jay Kristoff
0lunamoona commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Happy Solar Eclipse Day!!!
Things like this make me realise how amazing our planet (and universe) are but also how little know about them.
So I was wondering if any has any books non-fiction or fiction about space, astrology or the moon that you loved? Or any fun facts that you love telling people?
Happy watching and be safe!
29Post from the Pagebound Club forum
Later today, August 12, around 17:47 UTC, a solar eclipse will occur with the path of totality covering Greenland, Iceland and Spain. A partial eclipse, covering around 90% of the sun, will be visible in most of Europe, North and West Africa, and northern North America.
Who is planning to watch the solar eclipse today? 🙌 If you're thinking about going out, please remember to protect your eyes! If you don't have eclipse glasses available, 🔗here are some creative ways to still enjoy the spectacle.
I'm really excited, this is something very special for me and I've never seen it before in my life!! Keeping my fingers crossed for clear skies for everyone who's watching 🤞🍀
So, to come back to the bookish side of things: A solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the earth and the sun and totally or partly obscures the view of the sun for a viewer on earth.
What is your favorite book where the Sun and/or the Moon play an important part in the story?
Mine are Klara and the Sun 🌞 (really looking forward to the upcoming movie adaptation!) and The Girl Who Drank The Moon 🌙 (loved the Ghibli vibes in this one)
EDIT: As @starrynightsx mentioned, it's not only Solar Eclipse Day but also the peak of the Perseid Meteor Shower! So it's the perfect night to keep an eye on the sky if you live in the Northern Hemisphere ✨️☄️
52lunamoona is interested in reading...
Silk, Silver, Spices, Slaves: Lost Tales from the Philippine Colonial Period, 1565-1946
Lio Mangubat
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Skim
Mariko Tamaki
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The Lotus Palace (The Pingkang Li Mysteries, #1)
Jeannie Lin
0lunamoona commented on argentum's review of The Lotus Palace (The Pingkang Li Mysteries, #1)
It was so much more than I expected. Jeannie Lin created one of the most compelling and immersive historical settings I’ve read. The world of Pingkang Li comes alive with all the pleasure houses, markets, scholars’ and merchants’ patronage in the quarter, lives of courtesans, festivals, imperial examination season, and, most of all, the investigation of a mysterious murder that affected the quarter and created a portrait of the socio-economic and political environment during the Tang Dynasty. Yue-ying and Bai Huang start working together on the investigation, combining their knowledge and strengths: Yue-ying’s understanding of how the quarter functions from the inside and Bai Huang’s social status and wealth, which open doors that would rather stay closed. Their class difference is the foundation of the intricately complex world Jeannie Lin so skillfully built, while also providing the tension and the main conflict between the couple. Yue-ying is a practical young woman with a tortured past, who serves one of the most famous courtesans of Pingkang Li; Bai Huang is a romantic scholar and a failing eldest son of a prominent family in the empire. Their love story seems improbable from Yue-ying’s practical perspective, but it only enhances Bai Huang’s romantic notions. The romance develops slowly, giving characters time to process their feelings and take small steps toward each other. There is also space for taking steps back; the story allows characters to get to know each other outside of their courtship and gives them time to reflect and make decisions without rush, while the investigation drives the plot. I am impressed and enamored with The Lotus Palace; and I am very curious to try other books by Jeannie Lin. I have a feeling I’ve discovered a new favorite historical romance author. (recommend to put Tang Dynasty music playlist while reading - grants truly magical experience. also, in Crusader Kings 3 I enjoy playing with scholar to imperial minister arc, and it was so entertaining to read about examinations and future prospects and disappointing heirs)
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Book titles that illustrate things Pagebound users might do or say, or titles that might describe the app or its users. Recommendations are welcome (this is meant to be fun, please do not suggest titles that are rude or aggressive)!
This list is not a commentary on these books---the focus is purely on the titles!
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lunamoona wrote a review...
The combination of setting, themes and my personal interests had me so excited to start reading this book. I was prepared to find a new favorite, but unfortunately, the story lost me somewhere in the middle and I ended up being underwhelmed by the execution.
I think the book worked best for me when it was least plot-heavy in the first part. The setting around Oxford was described in so much detail, you could really imagine being there (I think that was also the author's greatest strength in the whole book). I also love linguistics and etymology, so I ate up all the academic background about that. The magic system based on the slight differences of meaning through the process of translation is such an intriguing idea! I loved getting to know the characters, understanding how colonialism shaped their lives and struggles and watching their friendship dynamics develop. It's slow and we basically just follow along in their everyday life, but there's so much to gain and understand from how it is written that I loved to take my time.
Once the story shifted to become more plot-driven, I found myself much less emotionally invested. In the second half, the central conflict begins to unfold, but this was honestly when the book lost me a bit. It felt kind of predictable what would happen next and some of the strongest critiques of the academic system and commentary on colonialism appeared in the first part. Some issues came up again, of course, but didn't have the same impact. Since the book was dragging quite a lot for me in the middle, I ended up pausing it and just picked it up more than a year later. That also had the effect that I didn't feel as connected to the characters as before, which led to certain events that should have affected me deeply simply not landing anymore.
It started to feel more like I was working my way through a textbook of historical events than following characters whose lives I was emotionally invested in. I see what the author was trying to do, but despite some very interesting discussions about the necessity of violence, in the end I just didn't really care that much anymore and wanted the book to be over.
Side note on the reading format: The digital edition isn't the most convenient format if you want to read all the footnotes, since you constantly have to switch between the main text and the appendix. They're also marked only with a small asterisk, so they're easy to miss. I switched to the audiobook and can really recommend it. The narrator has a very pleasant voice and in some parts, they edited in native speakers for correct pronunciation of certain words. The editing could have been a little smoother, but I appreciate the effort, since it's a book that's heavily focused on languages. The footnotes are handled so much better, they're read by a different narrator and easily distinguishable from the main text.
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