shaasiaa

I love all genres. I spent my 20s thinking I had to read nonfiction as much as possible, and that fiction was a privilege. Now, I read to satisfy every curiosity.

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The Fragile Threads of Power (Threads of Power, #1)

The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King, #1-4)

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The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

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The Committed (The Sympathizer, #2)

Viet Thanh Nguyen

The long-awaited new novel from one of America’s most highly regarded contemporary writers, The Committed follows the Sympathizer as he arrives in Paris as a refugee. There he and his blood brother Bon try to escape their pasts and prepare for their futures by turning their hands to capitalism in one of its purest forms: drug dealing. No longer in physical danger, but still inwardly tortured by his reeducation at the hands of his former best friend, and struggling to assimilate into a dominant culture, the Sympathizer is both charmed and disturbed by Paris. As he falls in with a group of left-wing intellectuals and politicians who frequent dinner parties given by his French Vietnamese “aunt,” he finds not just stimulation for his mind but also customers for his merchandise―but the new life he is making has dangers he has not foreseen, from the oppression of the state, to the self-torture of addiction, to the seemingly unresolvable paradox of how he can reunite his two closest friends, men whose worldviews put them in absolute opposition. Both literary thriller and brilliant novel of ideas, The Committed is a blistering portrayal of commitment and betrayal that will cement Viet Thanh Nguyen’s position in the firmament of American letters

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Favourite Reading Year??

Hi everyone! Going through my logs for the past few year to answer chloee's earlier post: https://pagebound.co/posts/50102, I suddenly thought "Wow, 2020 was such a good reading year for me" because I saw that a lot of my favourites I have actually read for the first time in 2020

Do you think about this too?? Having a good year in regards to reading? What determines if it is a good year or not? Quantity or quality or something else?

Which was your favourite year that you can remember and why?

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ljkerrybooks

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I'm New!

Ello, I'm new! I have no idea what I'm doing and just pressing buttons, so far it's working

Any tips would be helpful!

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knickiknacks

Thoughts from 33% (page 82) — go in blind, I BEG YOU

This is not at all what I expected in THE BEST WAY. It is so hard to search for mysterious fantasy books since they don't technically belong in the "mystery" genre but they're written around a mystery you get to try and solve while you read, all set in a beautiful and fantastical world you get to explore at the same time. THIS FELL INTO MY LIFE ON ACCIDENT AND I AM SO GRATEFUL FOR IT. I am only halfway through but hooked. Blessed to have a day I can dedicate to reading because I'm pretty sure I'll blaze through the rest. I have a few theories I'm working on but hoping I get to be completely blindsided by the end. I have a feeling I'll need other book recs after this to cope. Y'all I am having the best time!!!

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Spud-dragon

What are your childhood nostalgia reads??

my husband and i just bought the full Chronicles of Narnia box set (second hand for $12!!) and i'm so excited to read them with him!

context: he is learning english and wanted a novel or novella to help him with reading comprehension. we chose these because while they are for children, they have great vocabulary with easy to follow stories

i'm stoked!

what are your nostalgia books??

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Twelve and a Half: Leveraging the Emotional Ingredients Necessary for Business Success

shaasiaa

Oct 02, 2025

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Enjoyment: 3.0Quality: 3.5Characters: Plot:

It was great that he included what he was still working on himself to grow and develop.

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Thoughts from 78%

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AlysasPaiges

What are you go-to fall reads? 🍁

I want to beef up my fall reading list and am curious what stories everyone is visiting in autumn 🤎 Looking for spooky / fall cottage / witchy vibes 💫🍂 Mine is A Far Wilder Magic, I read it every year! 🥰

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laynabetty

New to Reading (sort of)

Hi everyone!

I’m new to reading (used to read a TON when I was younger but life happens 😅). I’m also a writer so of course to be a good writer, you have to read. Would love reccs!

I love: -Historical fiction (all fiction really) -Romance -Classics

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Thoughts from 58% (page 177)

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shaasiaa

Thoughts from 7% (page 29)

“We were still in our orange shirts. Mine had a small tear at the sleeve, and I worried no one could see it. No one would know how much I was hurting.”

My tween self feels very seen.

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Nonformulaic memoirs

by shaasiaa

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Memoirs where the authors play with the format and make their own rules for how to tell their stories.

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Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove

A Man of Two Faces: a Memoir, a History, a Memorial

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Women, Race & Class

Angela Y. Davis

From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the women’s liberation movement and the tangled knot of oppression facing Black women. "Angela Davis is herself a woman of undeniable courage. She should be heard." —The New York Times Angela Davis provides a powerful history of the social and political influence of whiteness and elitism in feminism, from abolitionist days to the present, and demonstrates how the racist and classist biases of its leaders inevitably hampered any collective ambitions. While Black women were aided by some activists like Sarah and Angelina Grimke and the suffrage cause found unwavering support in Frederick Douglass, many women played on the fears of white supremacists for political gain rather than take an intersectional approach to liberation. Here, Davis not only contextualizes the legacy and pitfalls of civil and women's rights activists, but also discusses Communist women, the murder of Emmitt Till, and Margaret Sanger's racism. Davis shows readers how the inequalities between Black and white women influence the contemporary issues of rape, reproductive freedom, housework and child care in this bold and indispensable work.

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Nonformulaic memoirs

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Sorcery of Thorns (Sorcery of Thorns, #1)

Margaret Rogerson

All sorcerers are evil. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. Raised as a foundling in one of Austermeer’s Great Libraries, Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of sorcery—magical grimoires that whisper on shelves and rattle beneath iron chains. If provoked, they transform into grotesque monsters of ink and leather. She hopes to become a warden, charged with protecting the kingdom from their power. Then an act of sabotage releases the library’s most dangerous grimoire. Elisabeth’s desperate intervention implicates her in the crime, and she is torn from her home to face justice in the capital. With no one to turn to but her sworn enemy, the sorcerer Nathaniel Thorn, and his mysterious demonic servant, she finds herself entangled in a centuries-old conspiracy. Not only could the Great Libraries go up in flames, but the world along with them. As her alliance with Nathaniel grows stronger, Elisabeth starts to question everything she’s been taught—about sorcerers, about the libraries she loves, even about herself. For Elisabeth has a power she has never guessed, and a future she could never have imagined.

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Penelopia

Margaret Atwood

Şimdi herkesin soluğu tükendiğine göre, artık masal anlatma sırası bende Homeros´un Odysseia´sında, Odysseus´un karısı ve Troyalı güzel Helena´nın kuzeni Penelope´nin başından geçenler çağlar boyunca bir ibret öyküsü olmuştur. Odysseus´un Troya savaşına gitmesiyle birlikte yirmi yıl yalnız kalan Penelope, ortalığı sarsan dedikodulara karşın İthake krallığını ayakta tutmayı, dik başlı oğlunu büyütmeyi ve kendisine talip olan yüzü aşkın erkeği aynı anda avucunun içine almayı başarmıştır. Odysseus evine döndüğünde, onca yıl kendisine sadık kalan Penelope´nin bütün taliplerini ve nedense hizmetçilerinden on ikisini öldürür. Antik öyküyü eşsiz bir biçimde bugüne uyarlayan Margaret Atwood, olayların Penelope´yi ve ipe gönderilen on iki hizmetçisini nasıl etkilediğini anlatmayı seçer. Atwood´un kıvrak dili, bilge ve duyarlı yaklaşımıyla öykü, düşündürerek eğlendiren, aynı zamanda da rahatsız eden bir anlatıya dönüşür. Penelope´ye yeni bir yaşam ve gerçeklik kazandırdığı gibi, okuru eski çağların gizemine yanıt aramaya davet eder.

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Time Loops & Meet Cutes

Jackie Lau

The “masterful, inspiring, and full of heart” (Ali Hazelwood, New York Times bestselling author) Jackie Lau returns with a thoroughly unique love story about a woman reliving the same Friday over and over again—and the intriguing man who can’t quite remember her. Noelle Tom really shouldn’t have eaten those dumplings at the night market. But the old lady at the stall said they’d give her what she needed most, and what Noelle desperately needed after another long workweek was food. Except now she’s reliving the same Friday over and over. Every morning her alarm goes off at 6:45 no matter what, the Wordle answer is always “happy,” and she watches a silly squirrel video go viral day after day. And no matter how much she works on the same proposal, it’s always erased when she wakes up. It seems Monday will never come in this workaholic’s worst nightmare. Noelle has no idea how being trapped in a time loop is the “thing she needed most,” especially now that everything seems meaningless. Sure, three fancy meals in a row is a fun treat, but it’s getting repetitive. Noelle’s not sure what lesson the old lady was trying to impart. Even a trip to the dumpling stall doesn’t help…because there’s no sign of it. But then she meets a young woman who also ate the dumplings, and good-looking Cam, who appears in multiple places on her Friday. While he seems to have no memory of their encounters, there are signs he might be the key to getting un-stuck. But Noelle will have to put work aside and live a little in order to make him notice her. As their flirtation progresses, Noelle begins to worry that if she ever gets to turn the calendar page, Cam won’t know who she is and her life may never return to what it was before that fateful Friday…

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Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)

Octavia E. Butler

In 2024, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey toward a better future. Lauren Olamina and her family live in one of the only safe neighborhoods remaining on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Behind the walls of their defended enclave, Lauren’s father, a preacher, and a handful of other citizens try to salvage what remains of a culture that has been destroyed by drugs, disease, war, and chronic water shortages. While her father tries to lead people on the righteous path, Lauren struggles with hyperempathy, a condition that makes her extraordinarily sensitive to the pain of others. When fire destroys their compound, Lauren’s family is killed and she is forced out into a world that is fraught with danger. With a handful of other refugees, Lauren must make her way north to safety, along the way conceiving a revolutionary idea that may mean salvation for all mankind.

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