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meganori

🇦🇺 Elder millennial in Melbourne Naarm 🌏 🏳️‍🌈 Solo mum raising next gen bookworm 👩‍👦 🧪 I like science, social justice, travel, books, and cats 🐈 📚 lit fic, sci fi, horror, thrillers📚

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From Bookshelf to TV
Made for the Movies
My Taste
Wild Dark Shore
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
The Vaster Wilds
The Overstory
Room
Reading...
The Weirdies: Maybe This Is a Bit Too Weird
35%
All Her Beautiful Deaths
26%
Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be
98%

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  • Quest Recommendations

    If you want to recommend a book for the quest, you’re in the right place - but please read this first. I’ll be using upvotes to gauge interest. Please avoid replying just to say you agree; it makes sorting much easier for me and for your fellow boundlings.

    Upvoting/liking equals stating your agreement, in this case. Please do not downvote a book simply because you did not like it personally.💖

    Important: a recommendation doesn’t guarantee the book will be added, even if it fits the criteria and has many upvotes.

    Step One Make sure the book you want to recommend is fiction and fits under one or more of the following criteria:

    Traveling back or forth in time: - a character intentionally travels to another time.

    Person/people displaced in time: a character ends up in another time by accident and is stuck, trying (or having tried) to get back. The POV doesn’t have to be from the displaced character.

    Time loop: same time period keeps repeating.

    Time pocket: - a character spends meaningful time in a time pocket while real time is frozen or moves differently.

    ALTERNATE REALITIES WILL NOT BE INCLUDED.

    Step Two Check whether the book has already been recommended.

    If it has, upvote the existing comment instead of adding a new one.

    This helps keep everything tidy and makes it easier for everyone to navigate💖

    Step Three If your book isn’t listed yet, leave a comment with: the title and author, and which criterion the book falls under.

    Leave one comment per suggestion. Don’t be afraid of spamming the comment section - leave all the suggestions you’d like😍

    Example: The Austen Affair by Madeline Bell – person/people displaced in time.

    When will new books be added? I’ll try to add more books to the quest at least once every three months, but additions will mostly depend on relevant new releases.

    Thank you so much!🥰

    What types of books are currently being prioritized? New releases
    Books by BIPOC authors
    Books by queer authors
    Books with BIPOC representation
    Books with queer representation

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    The Weirdies: Maybe This Is a Bit Too Weird

    The Weirdies: Maybe This Is a Bit Too Weird

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    Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be

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    All Her Beautiful Deaths

    All Her Beautiful Deaths

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  • Freyja
    meganori
    Aug 28, 2026
    Freyja
    4.0
    Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 4.0Plot: 4.0
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    Unnar's ex is dating a woman who seems strangely familiar. And is it just a coincidence that her quiet daughter is called Freyja - the name of the girl who disappeared when Unnar was young?

    Told over two time points and set in Iceland, this mystery thriller is a strong story. The characters are well drawn. The plot moves forward steadily - it's not super fast or twisty, but it really keeps you engaged. The setting is wonderful - Iceland comes across as dark and moody and claustrophobic - almost like a creepy small town where everyone knows you. I also really liked that this had the Scandi noir dark vibes, but it wasn't done in a dark violent way - it's not aiming for shock value, just for a well told, character driven mystery.

    Thanks netgalley for the chance to read this ARC.

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    This book is giving insular small town vibes. Except the small town is the whole of Iceland. It feels like everyone knows everyone. I think the blurb describes this as claustrophobic, which seems like the right word.

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    This book is giving insular small town vibes. Except the small town is the whole of Iceland. It feels like everyone knows everyone. I think the blurb describes this as claustrophobic, which seems like the right word.

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