maeladapt
✊🏾🍉🌈 | she/her slowly trying to explore other genres but fantasy and sci-fi have me in a chokehold
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maeladapt commented...
5h
Yes it's 01:00 and I finished a book and started another. Yes I may regret this when my alarm goes off in <5 hours and I have to get ready for work.
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Mind of My Mind
Octavia E. Butler
For 4,000 years, an immortal has spread the seeds of a master race, using the downtrodden as his private breeding stock. But now a young ghetto telepath has found a way to awaken -- and rule -- her superhuman kind, igniting a psychic battle as she challenges her creator for her right to free her people.
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Mind of My Mind
Octavia E. Butler
For 4,000 years, an immortal has spread the seeds of a master race, using the downtrodden as his private breeding stock. But now a young ghetto telepath has found a way to awaken -- and rule -- her superhuman kind, igniting a psychic battle as she challenges her creator for her right to free her people.
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Wild Seed
Octavia E. Butler
Doro is an entity who changes bodies like clothes, killing his hosts by reflex or design. He fears no one until he meets Anyanwu. Anyanwu is a shapeshifter who can absorb bullets and heal with a kiss and savage anyone who threatens her. She fears no one until she meets Doro. Together they weave a pattern of destiny (from Africa to the New World) unimaginable to mortals.
As we all know, Pagebound has the feature of showing off up to five books as your taste. But what if the books gets replaced by characters? What is your taste in characters?
maeladapt commented...
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I'm close, but none of my remaining planned books will hit the remaining letters. 😅
Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates Carmilla, J. Sheridan Le Fanu Disability Visibility: Stories from the Twenty-first Century, Alice Wong Exit Strategy, Martha Wells Foundation, Isaac Asimov Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir How High We Go in the Dark, Sequoia Nagamatsu I, Medusa, Ayana Gray J Kindred, Octavia E. Butler The Lathe of Heaven, Ursula K. Le Guin Midnight Robber, Nalo Hopkinson N Our Share of Night, Mariana Enriquez Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, Patrick Süskind The Queue, Basma Abdel Aziz Ring Shout, P. Djèlí Clark Sleep Donation, Keri Russell The Tapestry of Fate, Shannon Chakraborty U V We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson X The Yellow House, Sarah M. Broom Z
To bring a bit of fun to what's shaping up to be an otherwise dreary day, I though we could play a little game based on the progress we've made toward our reading goals so far. Using the titles for books you've finished this year, can you complete the alphabet?
Looking at my reads for the year, I managed to find titles for all but eight letters. Definitely didn't think I'd have anything for X or Z, but the lack of a J title surprised me. I excluded "The", "I", and "An" for my list to make it a bit more of a challenge, but you can ignore this element if you choose. Can't wait to see what y'all have been reading!
A - Aquicorn Cove by Kay O'Neill B - Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison C - Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay D - Diavola by Jennifer Thorne E - The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow F - The Family Plot by Cherie Priest G - Guillotine by Delilah S. Dawson H - How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix I - If the Dead Belong Here by Carson Faust J K - Katabasis by R.F. Kuang L - Lost Girls of Hollow Lake Rebekah Faubion M - Mister Magic by Kiersten White N O - Obit by Victoria Chang P - Piranesi by Susanna Clark Q R - Rainbow Black by Maggie Thrash S - The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling T - The Tapestry of Fate by Shannon Chakraborty U V W - When Devils Sing by Xan Kaur X Y Z
maeladapt is interested in reading...
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Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)
Waubgeshig Rice
A daring post-apocalyptic thriller from a powerful rising literary voice. With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members struggle to maintain order, an unexpected visitor arrives, escaping the crumbling society to the south. Soon after, others follow. The community leadership loses its grip on power as the visitors manipulate the tired and hungry to take control of the reserve. Tensions rise and, as the months pass, so does the death toll due to sickness and despair. Frustrated by the building chaos, a group of young friends and their families turn to the land and Anishinaabe tradition in hopes of helping their community thrive again. Guided through the chaos by an unlikely leader named Evan Whitesky, they endeavor to restore order while grappling with a grave decision. Blending action and allegory, Moon of the Crusted Snow upends our expectations. Out of catastrophe comes resilience. And as one society collapses, another is reborn.
maeladapt commented...
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There's still so much variation in books, authors, and preferences that a quest in our favorite genres won't guarantee we'll like everything. I think the goal of quests is to make it easier to explore different genres and provide a fun indication of how many books they've read in the quest, not an expectation to get the highest badge. There are several quests where the most I'll get is bronze because several selections don't interest me or are DNFs.
DNF and finished are two very different things (for me, at least). If I DNF at 90% then I mark it as a DNF, because I did not finish the book, I just read most of it. If I really want it to count towards a badge then I push through and spite-read the book.
If there's still space in the quest, perhaps recommending some books you've read or that interest you could help? I didn't know how often creators add to the quests, so it might not be a quick or guaranteed solution.
Does anyone else find that they keep missing out on badges because of the number of books they DNF?
I'm currently reading my way through one Quest and by the title and description the books included should be tailored to my tastes as it's based on my favourite sub-genre but so far, I'm liking maybe 1 book in 3 and DNF'ing 1 book in 4. At this rate, I'm going to run out of books before I can get my gold badge 😅
Has anyone else had a similar issue? I read for enjoyment so the idea of pushing through a bad read just to get the badge doesn't appeal to me.
I was thinking maybe I should just set them as "finished" and then mention in my review at what point I DNF'd them? 🤔
I'm just curious about others thoughts on this 😀
Water Moon
Samantha Sotto Yambao
