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EN/SP reader of anything. I'm also a small writer and I tend to overanalyze everything I read, not in a really coherent way tho nor in a fast way. 25 Mexicana

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Liu Yao: The Revitalization of Fuyao Sect

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The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination

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The Names We Buried

Mia Siegert

A thrilling, twisty homage to The Face on the Milk Carton about a trans boy who discovers that he was kidnapped as a child, and that his birth parents are still out there searching... for their daughter. Jaden's seventeenth birthday was meant to be monumental. As a surprise, his dad and Jaden’s boyfriend, Andy, arranged to take him to the courthouse to get his name changed to reflect his gender. But, horrifyingly, the clerk accuses Jaden's dad of forging Jaden's original birth certificate, and due to his criminal past, he's arrested. Heartbroken but also suspicious, Jaden secretly takes a DNA test and makes an even more shocking he's not biologically related to his dad. Jaden can't imagine his mother cheating, but the truth might be worse -- further DNA testing also identify Jaden as a perfect genetic match for a couple who have spent the last seventeen years searching for their kidnapped child. Their kidnapped daughter. After years struggling to come to terms with his gender identity as well as his parents' complicated pasts, Jaden is forced to re-evaluate everything. Who is he really? And where does he belong? With the dad who raised and loved him, and supported his transition without question? Or with the parents Jaden's never met, who might never be able to accept Jaden as their son?

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Tiricias

Yeni Rueda López

Suele pensarse en la tiricia como esa tristeza que se filtra en lo habitual. Silenciosa, y muchas veces permanente, persiste en el cuerpo. La memoria y los vínculos se deshacen ante su aparición. Conscientes de ello, los personajes de estas historias atraviesan duelos, se enfrentan a la descomposición del tejido familiar, hieren o son heridos por las personas que más aman. Con prosa sensible y directa, Yeni Rueda López explora desencantos y dispone relatos en los que múltiples emociones organizan y amplifican la escritura. Las calles de Cuernavaca, sus hogares y jardines, contienen fragilidades y son los escenarios de un libro donde el acto de sentir trasciende la inmediatez.

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I like my castles cold, my moors windswept, and my heroines swooning.

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Dungeon Crawler Carl

Matt Dinniman

The apocalypse will be televised! A man. His ex-girlfriend's cat. A sadistic game show unlike anything in the universe: a dungeon crawl where survival depends on killing your prey in the most entertaining way possible. In a flash, every human-erected construction on Earth—from Buckingham Palace to the tiniest of sheds—collapses in a heap, sinking into the ground. The buildings and all the people inside have all been atomized and transformed into the dungeon: an 18-level labyrinth filled with traps, monsters, and loot. A dungeon so enormous, it circles the entire globe. Only a few dare venture inside. But once you're in, you can't get out. And what's worse, each level has a time limit. You have but days to find a staircase to the next level down, or it's game over. In this game, it's not about your strength or your dexterity. It's about your followers, your views. Your clout. It's about building an audience and killing those goblins with style. You can't just survive here. You gotta survive big. You gotta fight with vigor, with excitement. You gotta make them stand up and cheer. And if you do have that "it" factor, you may just find yourself with a following. That's the only way to truly survive in this game—with the help of the loot boxes dropped upon you by the generous benefactors watching from across the galaxy. They call it Dungeon Crawler World. But for Carl, it's anything but a game.

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Magic's Pawn (The Last Herald-Mage, #1)

Mercedes Lackey

Mage-Craft— Though Vanyel has been born with near-legendary abilities to work both Herald and Mage magic, he wants no part of such things. Nor does he seek a warrior's path, wishing instead to become a Bard. Yet such talent as his if left untrained may prove a menace not only to Vanyel but to others as well. So he is sent to be fostered with his aunt, Savil, one of the famed Herald-Mages of Valdemar. But, strong-willed and self-centered, Vanyel is a challenge which even Savil can not master alone. For soon he will become the focus of frightening forces, lending his raw magic to a spell that unleashes terrifying wyr-hunters on the land. And by the time Savil seeks the assistance of a Shin'a'in Adept, Vanyel's wild talent may have already grown beyond anyone's ability to contain, placing Vanyel, Savil, and Valdemar itself in desperate peril...

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At eighteen years old, Lin Qingyu was married as part of a Chong Xi into the Nan’an Hou Mansion, becoming the ill Lu Wancheng’s male wife. On the eve of their wedding, Young Master Hou lay lazily on the bed and said, “Beauty, to be honest, I really don’t want to engage in domestic struggles. I just want to drift along, eat and wait to die. I want to be a salted fish.” A year later, Young Master Hou became gravely ill. He took Lin Qingyu’s hand and sighed, “Wife, I’m going to die, but I think I can continue to transmigrate. In order for you to properly recognize me in the future, let us set a secret code.” After the death of Young Master Hou, Lin Qingyu was prepared to stay a widow all his life. Unexpectedly, after only half a year, the great general who had rendered outstanding military service, actually came to propose marriage. Lin Qingyu would rather die. But the general said but one statement, “If odd, change; if even, remain the same?” Lin Qingyu: “…I will marry you.” After two years, the general died in battle. Before Lin Qingyu even had time to grieve, he was recruited into the palace by the Emperor. The emperor complained aggrievedly, “Baobei, this time I have became the Emperor. My salted fish dreams have been completely shattered…” Lin Qingyu knew that although his husband was a bag of lazybones, no one was his equal when it came to conspiracy and schemes. He rubbed the Emperor’s head. “Don’t think about it. Get started on those reports. Behave yourself.”

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Recommendations?? Step right up!!

Have a recommendation for this quest?? I wanna hear them all!! But please read this first!

As I mentioned in the Welcome & Introductions post - I'm keeping the specific criteria for this quest close to my chest until other similar quests drop and I don't want to potentially ruin the surprise! However, I will say this quest is multi-genre, so don't worry about trying to stay in a specific niche. If it feels like a fever dream (surreal, absurd, dreamlike), I would to know about it so I can consider it! Please be patient with me as I make my way through the recommendations!

You can suggest as many books as you like, but please submit one book per comment so other Boundlings can upvote the books they'd love to see on this quest tooo! Your comment should include the book title, author, and a link (or just the url) to the book's page on Pagebound so I know exactly which book to check out!

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I Hear the Sunspot, Vol. 1 (I Hear the Sunspot, #1)

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Jul 25, 2026

I Hear the Sunspot, Vol. 1 (I Hear the Sunspot, #1)

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It was so cute 🥰

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Bronze: Finished 5 Main Quest books.

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Jul 24, 2026

The Iliac Crest

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Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 5.0Characters: 4.5Plot: 4.5

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Más que una novela surreal o incluso de realismo mágico que muchos estarían tentados en clasificar esta novela por ser mexicana, La cresta de Ilion es una historia liminal. Habla sobre dualidades, sobre bordes de una manera muy sutil que los desdibuja, como un sueño febril, a través de la atmósfera de las palabras de Cristina Rivera Garza, sus paradojas y a través de su homenaje a Amparo Dávila.

Cristina habla sobre la identidad, el género, las desapariciones de mujeres, sobre la vida y la muerte, así como la identidad nacional, y el olvido de escritoras en la memoria colectiva mexicana, así como el lenguaje, cómo nos comunicamos con otros. Es una novela muy sutil con sus temas y a la vez muy compleja, he tardado en comprender varias cosas y seguro no capto del todo otras.

Aún no he leído a Amparo Dávila además de su cuento de Los Árboles Petrificados, así que es posible que muchas cosas se me hayan escapado. Pero me pareció ingenioso el juego de palabras y personajes con Amparo.

Solo diré que es mi primer acercamiento a Cristina y la verdad, he disfrutado su lenguaje, su atmósfera, y sus palabras.

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The Iliac Crest

Cristina Rivera Garza

Surreal and gothic, The Iliac Crest is a masterful excavation of forgotten Mexican women writers, illustrating the myriad ways that gendered language can wield destructive power. On a dark and stormy night, two mysterious women invade an unnamed narrator’s house, where they proceed to ruthlessly question their host’s identity. The women are strangely intimate―even inventing together an incomprehensible, fluid language―and harass the narrator by repeatedly claiming that they know his greatest that he is, in fact, a woman. As the increasingly frantic protagonist fails to defend his supposed masculinity, he eventually finds himself in a sanatorium. Published for the first time in English, this Gothic tale is “utterly weird yet deeply resonant in its portrayal of gendered violence” ( The Millions ). Through layered and haunting prose, Cristina Rivera Garza unravels the cultural and political histories of Mexico, probing at the misogyny that fuels the disappearance of women in literature and in real life.

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