miathermopolis

reading weird girl lit and magical realism. probably doing a grandma craft. 💙

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You've Been Pooping All Wrong: How to Make Your Bowel Movements a Joy

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Favorite kind of post in the books forums

I've come across a lot of post that are just a quote and an image, like a meme or something and sometimes a sentence expressing the OP feelings and I really love that kind of posts. I think they're my favorite! 😂 I'm curious to know, what is your favorite kind of posts here on the Pagebound forums? I'm just testing if it works to put an image because I haven't tried it yet since I've joined PB

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Everything Lost Returns: A Novel

Sarah Domet

The poignant, utterly original story of two women separated across time but united by the arrival of Halley's comet, as blazing and as daring as their stories. 1986. The Earthshine Soap Company has given Nona Dixon everything, from making her the brand’s first Earthshine Girl to launching her acting career. It also threatens to be the very thing that causes her to unravel when a group of Jane Does file a class action lawsuit accusing the company of putting harmful ingredients into their products. When Nona begins investigating Bertie Tuttle, the company’s third- generation owner, she uncovers a complicated history involving her benefactor and a mysterious woman named Opal Doucet. 1910. Seventy-six years earlier, Opal Doucet, a rural doctor’s wife, is pregnant, on the run, and desperate to get to Paris and to the charismatic spiritualist who supposedly communed with her first love. To save money, Opal goes to work in the Earthshine Soap factory as an Earthshine Girl where she uses her knowledge of medicine, and the spiritualist’s teachings, to prescribe cures to the women who’ve come down with mystery ailments. As she and Bertie Tuttle secretly partner in a labor strike intended to improve the working conditions at the factory, Opal must decide the cost of her own freedom. Gorgeously written and intricately constructed, Everything Lost Returns is a story of desire and friendship, guilt and redemption, and the power we have, in our own small way, to change the course of history.

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Unprecedented Times

Malavika Kannan

Malavika Kannan establishes herself as the literary voice of Gen Z in this piercing coming-of-age narrative Which comes experience or narrative? Rishi thinks she knows the answer as she arrives on campus for her first year at Stanford. Her narrative is set—she’s going to leave behind the strict trappings of her Indian-American childhood in Florida, embrace her queer identity, experiment with love, and write all about it. Within a few months, she gets a new tattoo, makes her first real best friend, falls in love with her un-labeled situationship, and even gets her heart broken. Rishi’s first semester Asian American Autofiction final practically writes itself.What is not a part of Rishi’s plan, however, is the onset of the COVID pandemic. As the outside world becomes a terrifying place, she finds more and more solace in the friendships she’s made. In lieu of virtual college, Rishi and her classmates join a farm collective and grapple with America’s political situation and growing disillusionment…along with sexual tension and responsibility. It’s only when those relationships, too, start fracturing under the stress of careless decisions, unrequited crushes, jealousies, and, yes, the unprecedented times, that Rishi begins to question her own story.Unprecedented Times captures the beauty, frustration, love, and pain that exists in relationships between best friends, between lovers, between mothers and daughters, and between storytellers and themselves. Malavika Kannan’s fresh, arresting novel captures the excitement and the terror of modern young adulthood through the eyes of an unforgettable, flawed, and lovable narrator.

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Skin Contact

Elisa Faison

Unmoored by her mother's sudden death, Frances has never felt so diminished, or so old. She's painfully aware that strangers no longer look at her the same way - and that she's now, at thirty-two, older than the great aunt for whom she was named, who was killed in the seventies under mysterious circumstances involving an extramarital affair. Her husband, Ben, will do anything to help Frances regain her vivacity and sense of purpose. So when Frances suggests that they open their marriage, Ben complies. Over the next two years, they explore their sexualities and latent kinks; they navigate jealousy, betrayal, desire, and obsession; they defend their choices - and their new identities - to confused friends. They do all of this together, as a team. But when Ben finds himself falling in love with another woman, just as Frances realizes she's ready to settle down and have a baby, they are forced to confront the consequences of their experiment.

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The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford: A Novel

Nafissa Thompson-Spires

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Thoughts from 86%

“Through the phone, I could hear the steady click, click, click of my mother’s sewing needles as she knitted.” You don’t have to be crafty to know that you knit with knitting needles and sew with sewing needles (which do not click, click, click as you sew). I’m enjoying the book but this irks my very soul, and it isn’t the only time it’s happened in this book.

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CRIMINALLY underrated book recs

Hellow boundlings! I hope you're having a great morning/afternoon/evening where ever you are.

I think we need to hype up unknown and indie authors more, so what are your CRIMINALLY underrated book recs? Like an almost non-existent (or just non-existent) fandom on PB.

For me, it's Last Stop by Gloria Oliver, which I finished earlier this month, at least I think so. I'm the ONLY one who's finished and rated it. Literally only one review which is mine. It has less than 10 posts as well, mostly mine probably and another person's from what I remember. There's no one to talk to about it so I'm kinda losing my mind. 😇 It's a contemporary fantasy thriller, something I don't think I've read before, but it's really unique! The characters are diverse as well, which I loved.

Fun fact, I found out about this book through a giveaway on here! If it weren't for PB, I probably wouldn't have discovered it, so thank you PB 🙂‍↕️

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Story of My Life

Lucy Score

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The Wicked Deep

Shea Ernshaw

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Jun 21, 2026

Women Talking

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Enjoyment: 2.0Quality: 3.5Characters: 3.0Plot: 2.0

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The rare instance that I think the quality was great, but the overall experience was not really one I enjoyed or feel like I got anything from. I think this book could have been a novella and executed better, but since this was a whole novel, it dragged on with endless morality dialogue that, yes, was useful and necessary for the women to have, but it did feel like so much of it was repetitive.

The most frustrating point was having August as the narrator, instructed to transcribe the minutes of the women’s meeting. I know some reviewers have mentioned that this didn’t make sense to them, but but it was very clear that was a large point from the author, that the women, even in their own dialogue, can’t exist freely without a man in their space to help them do something, because of the structure of the patriarchal society in which they live. Was it frustrating? Yes. Was it extremely pointedly on purpose from the author? Also yes. It is supposed to be frustrating.

Extremely devastating to know this was based on real events.

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The Wicked Deep

Shea Ernshaw

Hocus Pocus and Practical Magic meets the Salem Witch trials in this haunting story about three sisters on a quest for revenge—and how love may be the only thing powerful enough to stop them. Welcome to the cursed town of Sparrow… Where, two centuries ago, three sisters were sentenced to death for witchery. Stones were tied to their ankles and they were drowned in the deep waters surrounding the town. Now, for a brief time each summer, the sisters return, stealing the bodies of three weak-hearted girls so that they may seek their revenge, luring boys into the harbor and pulling them under. Like many locals, seventeen-year-old Penny Talbot has accepted the fate of the town. But this year, on the eve of the sisters’ return, a boy named Bo Carter arrives; unaware of the danger he has just stumbled into. Mistrust and lies spread quickly through the salty, rain-soaked streets. The townspeople turn against one another. Penny and Bo suspect each other of hiding secrets. And death comes swiftly to those who cannot resist the call of the sisters. But only Penny sees what others cannot. And she will be forced to save Bo, or save herself.

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Women Talking

Miriam Toews

One evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past two years, each of these women, and more than a hundred other girls in their colony, has been repeatedly violated in the night by demons coming to punish them for their sins. Now that the women have learned they were in fact drugged and attacked by a group of men from their own community, they are determined to protect themselves and their daughters from future harm. While the men of the colony are off in the city, attempting to raise enough money to bail out the rapists and bring them home, these women-all illiterate, without any knowledge of the world outside their community and unable even to speak the language of the country they live in-have very little time to make a choice. Should they stay in the only world they've ever known or should they dare to escape? Based on real events and told through the “minutes” of the women's all-female symposium, Toews's masterful novel uses wry, politically engaged humor to relate this tale of women claiming their own power to decide.

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Thoughts from 43% (page 94)

“We do not have to be forgiven by the men of God, she shouts, for protecting our children from the depraved actions of vicious men who are often the very same men we are meant to ask for forgiveness. If God is a loving God He will forgive us Himself. If God is a vengeful God then He has created us in His image. If God is omnipotent then why has He not protected the women and girls of Molotschna?”

One of those quotes that made me think how relevant this is to our own everyday lives, when people pretend that their religion is what causes them to be hateful and spiteful toward those who don’t follow their “rules” of religion. It is not our place to do so as humans, and if there is a God you believe in, shouldn’t you do as he says, and love all, and leave the “deciding of fates” up to him?

Everyone deserves love and respect, no matter what.

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Thoughts from 7% (page 15)

“On my way back to my shed that afternoon I saw the wash lines of Molotschna, I saw the women’s dresses flapping in the wind and the men’s overalls and the linens and the bedding and the towels. I listened carefully but I couldn’t make out what they were saying. Perhaps, I know think, because they weren’t talking to me. They were talking to each other.”

This observation is so well written, that the women can’t even talk to each other, but must whisper between the laundry, to keep themselves safe.

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Geleni

Share your weird, super-specific favorite genres and sub-genres!

A couple of mine:

Historical polar exploration horror
Queer botanical horror with an older protagonist

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Age vs Spice

Hello beautiful people ! I recently realised that my younger sister read books that, in my eyes, are wayyyy too explicit for a 13 years old (ie Not in love by Ali Hazelwood). I have no control over what she reads but do you have romance recommendations that are more teen friendly ? I am also curious about when people encounter spicy books because for for me 16 to 18 would be a better age to start.

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