mimi_reads

Free Palestine 🇵🇸 | feminist legal academic who loves dark academia, fantasy, and history

188 points

0% overlap

My Taste

Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

Reading...

mimi_reads made progress on...

The Atlas Paradox (The Atlas, #2)

Olivie Blake

49%

Post from the The Atlas Paradox (The Atlas, #2) forum

mimi_reads

Gideon’s accent

spoilers

View spoiler

mimi_reads TBR'd a book

Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

bell hooks

Acclaimed cultural critic bell hooks offers an open-hearted and welcoming vision of gender, sexuality, and society in this inspiring and accessible volume. In engaging and provocative style, bell hooks introduces a popular theory of feminism rooted in common sense and the wisdom of experience. Hers is a vision of a beloved community that appeals to all those committed to equality, mutual respect, and justice. hooks applies her critical analysis to the most contentious and challenging issues facing feminists today, including reproductive rights, violence, race, class, and work. With her customary insight and unsparing honesty, hooks calls for a feminism free from barriers but rich with rigorous debate. In language both eye-opening and optimistic, hooks encourages us to demand alternatives to patriarchal, racist, and homophobic culture, and to imagine a different future.

mimi_reads TBR'd a book

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

Mikki Kendall

Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminists rarely talk about meeting basic needs as a feminist issue, argues Mikki Kendall, but food insecurity, access to quality education, safe neighborhoods, a living wage, and medical care are all feminist issues. All too often, however, the focus is not on basic survival for the many, but on increasing privilege for the few. That feminists refuse to prioritize these issues has only exacerbated the age-old problem of both internecine discord and women who rebuff at carrying the title. Moreover, prominent white feminists broadly suffer from their own myopia with regard to how things like race, class, sexual orientation, and ability intersect with gender. How can we stand in solidarity as a movement, Kendall asks, when there is the distinct likelihood that some women are oppressing others?

mimi_reads TBR'd a book

Burning my Roti: Breaking Barriers as a Queer Indian Woman

Sharan Dhaliwal

Part memoir, part guide, Burning My Roti is essential reading for a new generation of South Asian women. With chapters covering sexual and cultural identity, body hair, colourism and mental health, and a particular focus on the suffocating beauty standards South Asian women are expected to adhere to, Sharan Dhaliwal speaks openly about her journey towards loving herself, offering advice, support and comfort to people that are encountering the same issues. This provocative book celebrates the strides South Asian women have made, whilst also providing powerful advice through personal stories by Sharan and other South Asian women from all over the world.

Post from the Pagebound Club forum

mimi_reads

Academic reading as cheating?

Is it cheating to include books I read for my PhD as part of my yearly challenge? (nb: id love to be able to add books here that are not on goodreads since lots of academic books are nonexistent there!)

mimi_reads commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

steventoast

Priory of the Orange Tree reading order

Hi all,

I tried commenting on a forum post to ask, but no luck so far.

Does anyone have strong feelings about reading the prequel to Priory of the Orange tree before reading book 1 even though it was published later?

mimi_reads commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

mimi_reads

DnD recs

Hello all! I’m looking to start playing DnD this year as a new-try for 2026. I’m wondering if anyone has any recs for novels (or graphic novels) which might help familiarize me with the lore and terminology? I absolutely loved The Meighty Nein and The Legend of Vox Machina and am hoping for some books in a similar vein.

Post from the The Atlas Paradox (The Atlas, #2) forum

mimi_reads

Thoughts from 51%

spoilers

View spoiler

Post from the They're Going to Love You forum

mimi_reads

Thoughts from 38% (page 142)

spoilers

View spoiler

mimi_reads commented on mimi_reads's update

mimi_reads made progress on...

They're Going to Love You

Meg Howrey

38%

mimi_reads made progress on...

They're Going to Love You

Meg Howrey

38%

mimi_reads is interested in reading...

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

Sangu Mandanna

A warm and uplifting novel about an isolated witch whose opportunity to embrace a quirky new family--and a new love--changes the course of her life. As one of the few witches in Britain, Mika Moon knows she has to hide her magic, keep her head down, and stay away from other witches so their powers don't mingle and draw attention. And as an orphan who lost her parents at a young age and was raised by strangers, she's used to being alone and she follows the rules...with one exception: an online account, where she posts videos pretending to be a witch. She thinks no one will take it seriously. But someone does. An unexpected message arrives, begging her to travel to the remote and mysterious Nowhere House to teach three young witches how to control their magic. It breaks all of the rules, but Mika goes anyway, and is immediately tangled up in the lives and secrets of not only her three charges, but also an absent archaeologist, a retired actor, two long-suffering caretakers, and...Jamie. The handsome and prickly librarian of Nowhere House would do anything to protect the children, and as far as he's concerned, a stranger like Mika is a threat. An irritatingly appealing threat. As Mika begins to find her place at Nowhere House, the thought of belonging somewhere begins to feel like a real possibility. But magic isn't the only danger in the world, and when a threat comes knocking at their door, Mika will need to decide whether to risk everything to protect a found family she didn't know she was looking for....

mimi_reads joined a quest

Found Family in Fantasy 🏡⚔️🫶🏽

🏆 // 3622 joined

Not Joined

Outcasts, rebels, and misfits unite in magical worlds. Here, strangers become chosen family, facing every challenge together and proving that home is found, not given.

mimi_reads is interested in reading...

An Unlikely Coven (Green Witch Cycle, 1)

A.M. Kvita

After seven long years, Joan Greenwood has been called home.As the only one in her elite family of witches who cannot manipulate magic, her return to New York City is lukewarm at best. But it's upended by the disastrous news that someone has created a spell that can turn an unmagical human into a powerful witch.While her family covets the ability to create a new generation of witches, Joan is wary of such power in the hands of her conniving relatives. When her best friend - who happens to be a vampire - confesses he has secretly, accidentally, saved this human-turned-witch from an uncertain fate, Joan is thrust headfirst into a desperate race to undo the spell before it kills its unwilling host.But as the different factions of the magic world hunt Joan across the city, she gathers a new family of allies to help her. Soon, her race to the truth draws her deeper into the heart of the city's magic, through uncertain alliances with a (very attractive) family rival, and far beyond the limits of everything she thought her own magic was capable of. Only now does Joan see... her power could rewrite the rules of the magic world-or bring the entire city to its knees.This debut contemporary fantasy features a lovable cast of queer, BIPOC characters, witty writing, and a sapphic slow-burn romance, An Unlikely Coven is perfect for fans of A Discovery of Witches, An Unkindness of Magicians, and The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches.

mimi_reads commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

AliTheGamingHag

Non-Quantitative Reading Goals

Hello! 🐈‍⬛

I know a lot of us have yearly reading goals about reading X amount of books, but I’m curious to know your reading goals that have nothing to do with numbers! Here are some of mine:

💜Finish any fantasy series (I read the first book of like ten series last year LOL) 💜Read more nonfiction - I’m a fantasy & sci-fi nut, so I’m hoping to break out a little bit this year! 💜Find a new favorite poet - I love poetry, and want to find more poets that cut to my core

Feel free to share!🥰

mimi_reads commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

mimi_reads

DnD recs

mimi_reads started reading...

The Atlas Paradox (The Atlas, #2)

Olivie Blake

Six magicians were presented with the opportunity of a lifetime. Five are now members of the Society. Two paths lie before them. All must pick a side. Alliances will be tested, hearts will be broken, and The Society of Alexandrians will be revealed for what it is: a secret society with raw, world-changing power, headed by a man whose plans to change life as we know it are already under way.

mimi_reads commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

kdoveeco

Edited

dog earing library books

i was wondering how do you guys feel about the condition of library books and the idea of dog-earing them? i have checked out tons of books from the library that have previously dog-eared pages (although it is not usually that visible unless you're looking for it) and since i hate figuring out where to put my bookmarks while reading books i usually dog-ear my own books. i think that i find it to be a grey area because you're technically not ruining the book or putting permanent damage on them, just like you would by writing in them of tearing the pages. when i was a child i would dog-ear page regularly, with making sure i straightened them out the best i could after i moved on to another page. thoughts?

Post from the Pagebound Club forum

mimi_reads

DnD recs

Gift Pagebound Royalty Merch Store Roadmap Founder Announcements

Support

FAQ Contact Us Report a bug

team@pagebound.co

Company

About Us Terms of Use Privacy Policy Content Policy

Gift Pagebound Royalty Merch Store Roadmap Founder Announcements