maeladapt
✊🏾🍉🌈 | she/her slowly trying to explore other genres but fantasy and sci-fi have me in a chokehold
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Fun, funny, magical read with a group of characters I fell in love with (even the idiot). I loved having older protagonists that are kickass adventure-seekers.
The concept of the Cad's was interesting, but sadly, that's about it. I liked seeing Reid's internal struggle with her Cad, but sadly didn't find much else intriguing with the characters or the story.
Spite got me through this book tbh. The moments of beautiful imagery weren't enough to save this. Its relationship development felt weak, unbelievable, and cringe. It regularly ended chapters and segments with one-liners that were intended to be mysterious or dramatic, but just left me rolling my eyes. I don't know what you'd call this writing style, but it's not for me.
It seems like it would be cool visually, though. If it weren't for...you know...gestures to the rest of the book.
The Tapestry of Fate (Amina al-Sirafi, #2)
Shannon Chakraborty
Shout out to all of us out here absolutely struggling to narrow our choices down to just 3 votes because there are SO MANY great lists and we're interested in so much!
I spent over an hour going through everything and making some tough calls...and still ended at almost 30 lists. 😬
Anyone have a process you're using that's been helpful in deciding your final 3? Are you only considering what you're interested in, or are you also thinking about the community overall and what genres or themes aren't currently represented? Are you trying to have both main and side quests represented in your vote? I'd love to see other ways I can approach my next round of consideration.
I hope community voting goes well enough for Pagebound to move forward with it quarterly because I'm so incredibly excited we get this opportunity. These badges are gonna be so sick. 🤯
Umm, yes, hello...it's that wonderful time of year again! Geodesaurus (🔗 Instagram/🔗 TikTok) posts every day in October about spooky, haunted, or otherwise terrifying facts about hydrology. I look forward to it all year. She has some picture books out (Spooky Lakes, Spooky Rivers) and came to my neighborhood's book store recently for her book tour (sadly I couldn't go because of work).
For some haunted hydrology here on Pagebound:
🔗 The Sea Was Never Meant For Us: Ocean Horror (Quest created by @Aprilthebookqueen)
🔗 Spooky Lakes Month (List by @kittytornado)
🔗 H2O? more like H2NO (List by @meganisnotokay)
I hope your October horror reads are all 10/10 spookies! 👻
So thanks to this app, I've taken to saying "Yoink" now whenever I see a book rec I want to read and being like "Yes that's my next read."
Well.... I got the word "Yoink" banned in a bookclub Discord I'm in 🤣 A serious ban btw, when I type this phrase it says it is banned by the admins
And I don't know whether to be proud of this achievement or offended because I can no longer yoink all the recs, you know. What would can I use now to be like "Sigh, add to TBR."?
maeladapt commented...
For me it's either this or I fixate on one thing and ignore everything else until I eventually resurface weeks later like some cave troll—disoriented and sensitive to sunlight.
Hi everybody,
I need some other perspectives on my ''issue''! Quotation marks cus it's not an actual issue..
I love reading but also gaming, knitting, crocheting, doing puzzles, coloring books, diamond painting, you name it. How do you divide the time between these? Okay knitting etc. is easy with audio books but audio books are not my fave, so I rarely listen to them.
I just got a new game that I love and want to play allll the time but then obvi I can't read and there's so many books that I have to read. Also I've been knitting a beanie for myself for like two years that I would very much like to finish but alas, something else always comes up :D It is a never ending cycle and I always end up feeling like I'm neglecting a hobby.
Edit:// Thank you everybody for the great advice and kind words! 🫶 I do realize (now especially..) that I have way too high standards for myself and am impatient as hell, not everything needs to be done immediately. 😂
maeladapt commented...
And then you have me over here with Hobbit Day (Bilbo and Frido's bday) and the day Frodo left Bag End in my calendar as observances 💀
It’s confession time!
Drop a reading confession in the comments… if you dare 😈
Some examples: • I’ve never read __________. • I only bought ___________ for the cover 🤷♀️ • I didn’t understand the ending of __________. • I always skip the author’s note 👀
Let’s hear those confessions! ✨
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maeladapt commented...
Be chaotic neutral (did I even use that right?) and start expressing yoink in the form of emojis.
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