save_the_kat
I'm Kat (not literally haha). Reviewer, reader, and writer. I also currently work in a library!
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save_the_kat commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Hi Boundlings 🪄
Its me Moonchild, How are you all? Hope you are fine😇
Just wanted to know if you have controversial opinions about books or authors 😅👀??!!
141save_the_kat commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
hi 🫛🐝s!!! what is a dealbreaker in a book that will make you dnf (or make you enter a hate-read for those who refuse to dnf 😉)? is there a trope or word or situation or writing style that just overwhelms you with ick?
for me a big ick is all of the euphemisms for vulva or vagina (lady cave, SHEATH 🤢) or even miscommunication trope sets me off too 🤣
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Three Bags Full (Sheep Detective Story, #1)
Leonie Swann
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"It's wonderfully quiet here. Nothing seems to be going on, and nobody seems to want it to." Literally my dream life. Oh to be an elf of Lothlórien...
2save_the_kat commented on dorouu's review of The Subtle Art of Folding Space
A solid 2 star book. The cover is 5 stars though.. I just wish the story lived up to it.
I wish I could summarize this for people interested but I don't even know how I would do that.. Family of universe plumbers. One sister is constantly trying to murder the other. The mom has died. Conspiracy??? Also very hot cousin!
The world building was done poorly. I could kind of imagine- OK, plumbers of universes, fixing physics and making sure laws of nature are respected. But then the characters would be in Boston or New York or Taiwan, and it just did not feel like these two ideas fit together. It's not that you're not smart enough to get it- it's that it was badly written! Also why is food appearing??? The scene where they're trying to fix the universe and a ton of food kept popping into existence was so funny but also made zero sense.
The relationship between Ellie and her sister was just unbelievably bad and the sister- who seems to be narcissistic (?) is so much of a 'big bad' that every time Ellie tries to defend her, it makes me feel that Ellie is a masochist because no way is she that smart and that naive. Ah yes, she keeps trying to kill me because she loves me. MA'AM PLS. WHAT.
Then of course.. there is Daniel. Never before have I read a book where the author was so blatantly in love with his own creation lol. Every other page was about how solid Daniel was and how big and broad and strong he was. Lots of people have mentioned this, but once you know it's there, it's kind of funny to read.
7save_the_kat commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
I just opened a book from a library and a drugstore receipt fell out. People use the most random things as bookmarks so receipts are not a rare sight. What's the most interesting/unusual thing you found in a library or second-hand book? For me it must have been a keycard from a hotel in Dubai.
41save_the_kat commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Aloha Bookaholics!!
My question for you all is....
What is your favourite animal that was ever mentioned in a book?
I remember specifically an Emuraffe (Emu and Giraffe) hybrid called Deirdre mentioned in the Miss Peregrine series which was super cool 😎
16save_the_kat commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Happy Friday, Boundlings! 💜
Do you have plans this weekend? Are you doing something adventurous and bold or keeping it lowkey and chill?
Drop your weekend vibes with a gif or string of emojis!
Wishing everyone the best weekend! ✨
225save_the_kat commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
What are your thoughts on chapter titles? Personally, I love them, especially when they're clever and hint at what may happen in the chapter. But I feel like so many books don't have them! Perhaps they're just more common/popular with YA and middle grade books, so publishers don't want to include them in adult books.
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Jade City (The Green Bone Saga, #1)
Fonda Lee
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I think that books marketed as both mystery and thriller should be at least either thrilling or mysterious after a third and yet this book is so bland I could fall asleep reading it. there is no interesting mystery and there is no real threat to the characters. There's also not a lot of urgency in any of the POVs to feel the time limit they're all operating under.
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Three Bags Full (Sheep Detective Story, #1)
Leonie Swann
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A very in-depth recount of Native history by DuVal. While informative, it's also very dense, written like a textbook which made it difficult for me to read through. I also noticed how her attitude of 'they did it soooo much better than us' continued throughout the whole book. After a while, it began to feel less like an acknowledgement of their culture and more like someone who just discovered that Japan has cool tech stuff.
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Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
Kathleen DuVal
0save_the_kat commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Hello Boundlings! Hope you're having an amazing week! I have a question for you: does your IRL bestie read, and if so, what is their reading taste is like?
For me, my bestie does read! Although we are basically the same in everything—habits, clothing style, family relationships, school, literally everything—our reading tastes are COMPLETELY different. Polar opposites, really. I read in English, she reads in our native language (Arabic). I'm trying to get into reading Arabic, meanwhile she's trying to get into reading in English. I primarily read fantasy, thrillers, and romance (at least as a subplot), whereas she prefers horror, psychological thrillers, on occasion dark romance, and just anything really dark and bloody and has murder in it. I am quite the scaredy cat when it comes to horror, meanwhile she can read it with a straight face. I easily cry during emotional scenes, she doesn't even budge. I'm usually a fast reader, while she's a slow reader.
It's quite funny to me how such similar people can be attracted to such different books. I was wondering if anyone has the same experience!
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