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The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

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Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI

The Little Book of Economics: How the Economy Works in the Real World

The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource

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An.nA

Mar 28, 2025

5.0

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my personal entry for the fifth day of the fourth week of the month of march in the year of the toucan came to the south eastern halls of itapira. i resolved to take up this book and its companion, the audiobook, and to read them. i sat on my chair overlooking the city lights, then ascended the staircase and lay upon my bed. i opened the book and read. in the span of two moons, it was finished. it was excellent.

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AFlockOfFuries

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12 recs for 2026

I saw other people do this and thought it was a nice idea, so: I want to read 12 books recommended by 12 different people, but since I don't have that many friends who actively read, I figured I'd ask here on Pagebound! Please only one rec per person (it's gonna be hard, I know), and feel free to use the comments to ask for recs yourself of course!!

Below are my reading preferences so you can actually gauge what you might want to rec if you want ⬇️:

Genres I like ❤️📚: litfic, sci-fi, horror, historical fiction, fantasy Genres I don't read 🚫: romance, thriller, romantasy

2025 favs ⭐️:

Piranesi
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
Erasure (or James, I really liked both)
Never Let Me Go
Chain-Gang All-Stars

2025 flops 👎:

The Silent Patient
The Castaway and the Witch
Katabasis (at least so far)

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KaiMasterOfFire

Annotations

I’m just curious….

Do you annotate or mark-up your books? Why or why not? How do you annotate them?

Personally, I mostly annotate books for school or non-fiction books. I don’t typically write in the margins, rather I highlight sentences that I like and are meaningful. For school, I look at tone, syntax, juxtaposition, metaphors, and character portrayals.

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anemotionsponge

Dec 27, 2025

3.5

Enjoyment: 3.5Quality: 3.5Characters: 3.5Plot: 3.5

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First of all: I expected much worse from this than it actually was. I heard people say that they hated the characters and they were irritating….they were fine? They were very human? They made mistakes, and they had improving to do but not more so than any other romcom? Was this an amazing book? No, and I won’t remember half of it next month, but it did its job! I loved learning more about the holidays I didn’t know a lot about, and I loved Anna and Maryam’s friendship. It was longer than it needed to be, and I think that even if it had to keep its length it should’ve been a little bit of a quicker burn instead of a slow one because the ending was far too rushed. The dialogue was also a little stunted, but it was fucking fine, and I almost have my sparkly badge; zero regrets.

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Time between hobbies

Hi everybody,

I need some other perspectives on my ''issue''! Quotation marks cus it's not an actual issue..

I love reading but also gaming, knitting, crocheting, doing puzzles, coloring books, diamond painting, you name it. How do you divide the time between these? Okay knitting etc. is easy with audio books but audio books are not my fave, so I rarely listen to them.

I just got a new game that I love and want to play allll the time but then obvi I can't read and there's so many books that I have to read. Also I've been knitting a beanie for myself for like two years that I would very much like to finish but alas, something else always comes up :D It is a never ending cycle and I always end up feeling like I'm neglecting a hobby.

Edit:// Thank you everybody for the great advice and kind words! 🫶 I do realize (now especially..) that I have way too high standards for myself and am impatient as hell, not everything needs to be done immediately. 😂

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The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource

Christopher L. Hayes

From the New York Times bestselling author and television and podcast host, a powerful, wide-angle reckoning with how the assault from attention capitalism on our minds and our hearts has reordered our politics and the very fabric of our society. We all feel it — the distraction, the loss of focus, the addictive focus on the wrong things for too long. We bump into the zombies on their phones in the street, and sometimes they’re us. We stare in pity at the four people at the table in the restaurant, all on their phones, and then we feel the buzz in our pocket. Something has changed for most of human history, the boundary between public and private has been clear, at least in theory. Now, as Chris Hayes writes, ‘With the help of a few tech firms, we basically tore it down in about a decade.’ Hayes argues that we are in the midst of an epoch-defining attention has become a commodified resource extracted from us, and from which we are increasingly alienated. Because there is a breaking point. Sirens are designed to compel us, and now they are going off in our bedrooms and kitchens at all hours of the day and night, doing the bidding of vast empires, the most valuable companies in history, built on harvesting human attention. The Sirens’ Call is the big book we all need to wrest back control of our lives, our politics, and our future.

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Thoughts from 1%

“My experience is what I agree to attend to,” William James

This might be the book that finally does me in for a flip phone. I’ve been thinking about it for a while.

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The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource

Christopher L. Hayes

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Iwigara: The Kinship of Plants and People: American Indian Ethnobotanical Traditions and Science

Enrique Salmón

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Iwigara: The Kinship of Plants and People: American Indian Ethnobotanical Traditions and Science

Enrique Salmón

The belief that all life-forms are interconnected and share the same breath—known in the Rarámuri tribe as iwígara—has resulted in a treasury of knowledge about the natural world, passed down for millennia by native cultures. Ethnobotanist Enrique Salmón builds on this concept of connection and highlights 80 plants revered by North America’s indigenous peoples. Salmón teaches us the ways plants are used as food and medicine, the details of their identification and harvest, their important health benefits, plus their role in traditional stories and myths. Discover in these pages how the timeless wisdom of iwígara can enhance your own kinship with the natural world.

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The four books in Tolkien’s main Middle-earth saga + several other collections published posthumously.

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Women Who Run With the Wolves

Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Within every woman, there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. She is the Wild Woman, who represents the instinctual nature of women. But she is an endangered species. For though the gifts of wildish nature belong to us at birth, society's attempt to "civilize" us into rigid roles has muffled the deep, life-giving messages of our own souls. In "Women Who Run With the Wolves," Dr Estes unfolds rich intercultural myths, fairytales and stories, many from her own family, in order to help women reconnect with the fierce, healthy, visionary attributes of this instinctual nature. Through the stories and commentaries in this remarkable book, we retrieve, examine, love, and understand the Wild Woman, and hold her against our deep psyches as one who is both magic and medicine. Dr Estes has created a new lexicon for describing the female psyche. Fertile and life-giving, it is a psychology of women in the truest sense, a knowing of the soul.

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gimmethathardcover

best way to find audiobooks?

hey everyone! I'm new to audiobooks and was wondering what an affordable platform would be? I've been using Spotify premium but I'm switching to Qobuz soon (don't want to give Spotify my money anymore) which doesn't have podcasts or audiobooks, and I'm not keen on Audible (don't want to give my money to Amazon) but other than that... I'm just not sure where to turn😅 thanks for your time!

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