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mordi

k-6 school librarian. can be found @ a sewing machine w/ an audiobook playing or under a blanket w/ my kobo at its largest font size. SF/F, classics, books where nothing happens, weird girl lit, etc.

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Cozy Fantasy
British & Irish Classic Literature
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Matrix
Milkman
Nettle & Bone
Pride and Prejudice
The Book of Three (The Chronicles of Prydain, #1)
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The Seven Year Slip
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Emma
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  • The Seven Year Slip
    needlessly specific thoughts from 16%

    my fatal flaw is that i cannot relax and skim over editing weirdness because “taffeta-colored curtains” has me mind-boggled right now. taffeta is a type of fabric. it comes in any color. that’s like saying the silk-colored curtains. i need to know what color she is imagining!! taffy??? it’s such a weirdly specific word to use wrong!

    the romance/tasy genre is so lucrative, yet so poorly edited as a whole it drives me insane.

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  • The Marriage Portrait
    mordi
    May 06, 2026
    4.0
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    this was good, but did not possess the breathtaking magic of Hamnet. O’farrell writes interesting (neurodivergent) female characters that you get to know well over the course of the novel and places them in lush historical settings. this one just didn’t click for me & actually put me in a bit of a slump.

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    mordi commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

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  • unapologetic chronic 5 star rater 🙋‍♀️

    i’m like that lizard meme… every time i finish a book, i’m likely to rate it a five or four star read. i have high standards for quality of writing, but aside from that i can pretty much enjoy anything. my reasoning for high ratings is wanting to recommend it to other readers without having to write a whole review and them not having to read it. high average ratings? people are more likely to pick it up.

    i also understand the motivations to be more discerning. but, we’re all just vividly hallucinating while flipping sheets of organic material around 🤷‍♀️

    this is a place to share your rating system, if that’s something you can verbalize! (i couldn’t until very recently) i’m very interested in reading other people’s thoughts on this matter.

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  • Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness, #1)
    mordi
    Apr 22, 2026
    3.5
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    tortall? more like tortally naked because why has every character seen everyone else nude in this book.

    (also spent most of this book trying to figure out why it’s on a love triangle list… you can’t mean the 1 leg is between the characters who meet at ages 10 & 17? And one of whom also, of course, gets seen naked by the other.)

    other than all the children exposing themselves 24/7, this was paced INSANELY and I disagree with the comments about the magic system being well-developed, but fine for its purposes (cozy low-stakes bedtime audiobook).

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    Biography of X

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