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You Did Nothing WrongCity of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4)

masen commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

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  • Why do you love Pagebound?

    Let's spread some love for this app, while also giving nice "tips" or reasons to stay here to the new users. I go first:

    🔾The lack of influencers. Right now this is the perfect intersection between personal and social. No ego or popularity battles, just a village full of villagers.

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  • City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4)
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    Thoughts from 43% - audiobook narration

    Every time this audiobook jumps to the other narrator its like a jumpscare. 😭 I get so used to Molly Quinn's voice that whenever Ed Westwick shows up it takes my brain a moment to process what's going on and vice versa.

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  • A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking
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  • A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking
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    100% my mental image of the gingerbread man riding Mona’s shoulder

    gingerbread

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  • Wuthering Heights
    0 Public Domain - Free Ebooks & Audiobook

    Adding this on the forum since this book is in the 2025/2026 Winter Readalong challenge in case anyone's looking for a free copy since the book is in the public domain.

    Ebook

    • Fable App - download and read within the app
    • Project Gutenberg - EPUB and Kindle downloads available for phone or e-reader side loading
    • Google's Play Books App - download and read within the all
    • Standard Ebooks - website similar to Project Gutenberg with downloable files you can side load. They take files from places like Project Gutenberg and reformat them for optimized reading on electronic devices. (Thanks for the info sweet commenter đŸ€“ I'm so excited to have another free book source!)
    • Apple Books (thanks to info sent in by a nice commenter! đŸ„°)

    Audiobook

    • LibriVox is a free app that uses volunteer readers to record public domain books. Currently there are 3 different versions with single narrator, multi-narrator, and full cast options
    • Shout-out to another kind commenter who says that the audiobook is available if you have Spotify premium!

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  • A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking
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    Dec 09, 2025
    4.0
    Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 4.0Plot: 3.5
    đŸȘ
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    🧑‍🍳

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  • Three Holidays and a Wedding
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  • Audiobook Speed

    How fast are you guys listening to audiobooks? It may just be the ADHD, but I almost always listen at 1.5x speed minimum if not 1.8x or 2x speed. And often if I think I don’t like a narrator, if I speed it up I do like them!

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  • Three Holidays and a Wedding
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    Nov 28, 2025
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    Enjoyment: 3.0Quality: 3.5Characters: 3.0Plot: 2.0
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  • The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
    Thoughts from 3%

    this reads like the blog of someone REALLY into “living off the land” and i’m already not looking forward to the next couple hours worth of audiobook i have ahead of me.

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  • Music vs Books

    Ok so Spotify wrapped came out and mine was questionable (it was all specifically Eurovision 2025 with the exception of jpegmafia. I live in America btw).

    Now do you think your wrapped kinda matches up with what your reading style is? Ik that question sounds insane. Even though I’m a beats>lyrics most times (because I have music in the background, but that doesn’t mean I don’t appreciate deeper lyrics). I like deeper meaning in my books, I like trying to find something deeper and watching videos on the topic. (I also don’t mind reading just for fun, but something about that music vs books makes it vice versa).

    I dont know I thought it was an interesting but weird and confusing question to ask.

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