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Here the Whole Time

Vitor Martins

The charm and humor of To All the Boys I've Loved Before meets Dumplin' in this body-positive YA love story between two boys who must spend 15 days living with each other over school break. What would you do if you had to spend the next 15 days with your lifelong crush? Felipe gets it -- he's fat. Not chubby. Not big-boned. Fat. And he doesn't need anyone to remind him, which is, of course, what everyone does. That's why he's been waiting for this moment ever since the school year began: school break. Finally, he'll be able to spend some time far away from school and the classmates who tease him incessantly. His plans include catching up on his favorite TV shows, finishing his to-be-read pile, and watching YouTube tutorials on skills he'll never actually put into practice. But things get a little out of hand when Felipe's mom informs him that Caio, the neighbor kid from apartment 57, will be spending the next 15 days with them while his parents are on vacation. Felipe is distraught because A) he's had a crush on Caio since, well, forever, and B) Felipe has a list of body image insecurities and absolutely NO idea how he's going to entertain his neighbor for two full weeks. Suddenly, the days ahead of him that once promised rest and relaxation (not to mention some epic Netflix bingeing) end up bringing a whirlwind of feelings, forcing Felipe to dive head-first into every unresolved issue he has had with himself -- but maybe, just maybe, he'll manage to win over Caio, too.

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Who made you a reader

A not so simple question for you all Pagebound. Who turned you into a lifelong reader?

A teacher, a family member, a librarian? Can you remember what book it was that turned the light on?

My main reading influence was my maternal Grandmother and Aunt who used to read to me when they looked after me as a child and teen (to help with writing and language issues). The book that made me read as a teen was eitherPeeling the Onion by Wendy Orr or The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton.

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🌟EUROPE UNITE🌟

So there's this huge post here for readers around the world, but It's lagging so much for me and I seem to mostly see people from the USA and Canada, so here's one for my European fellows🌟 Which country are you from/live in? I'm from Lithuania!🇱🇹🦅🦅🦅

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Books marked as Re-reading?

Just seen someone's update on my feed (like when it says 'User is interested in reading...' etc and the update said 'User is re-reading...'

How did they do that?! I haven't got that as an option? Or does PB automatically do that if you mark a book as reading for the second time? And would those books auto register on your reading goal?

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Books like spotting a rainbow! 🌈

This might be oddly specific, but you know that feeling when you see a rainbow? At least for me, it just makes me feel so happy!

I was wondering whether there were any books that give you that feeling of pure happiness for no real reason — just like rainbows do (for me).

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Favorite tense and POV

What's you favorite narrator tense and POV and why? Is it the same for reading and writing?

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siennaxx

Books like spotting a rainbow! 🌈

This might be oddly specific, but you know that feeling when you see a rainbow? At least for me, it just makes me feel so happy!

I was wondering whether there were any books that give you that feeling of pure happiness for no real reason — just like rainbows do (for me).

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The Catcher in the Rye

J.D. Salinger

It's Christmas time and Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from yet another school... Fleeing the crooks at Pencey Prep, he pinballs around New York City seeking solace in fleeting encounters—shooting the bull with strangers in dive hotels, wandering alone round Central Park, getting beaten up by pimps and cut down by erstwhile girlfriends. The city is beautiful and terrible, in all its neon loneliness and seedy glamour, its mingled sense of possibility and emptiness. Holden passes through it like a ghost, thinking always of his kid sister Phoebe, the only person who really understands him, and his determination to escape the phonies and find a life of true meaning. The Catcher in the Rye is an all-time classic in coming-of-age literature- an elegy to teenage alienation, capturing the deeply human need for connection and the bewildering sense of loss as we leave childhood behind. J.D. Salinger's (1919–2010) classic novel of teenage angst and rebellion was first published in 1951. The novel was included on Time's 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923. It was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. It has been frequently challenged in the court for its liberal use of profanity and portrayal of sexuality and in the 1950's and 60's it was the novel that every teenage boy wants to read.

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Animal Farm

George Orwell

Librarian's note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book here. A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned –a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible. When Animal Farm was first published, Stalinist Russia was seen as its target. Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner, the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell’s masterpiece have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh.

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The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 0553213695 / 9780553213690 "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his domelike brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which the bed quilt could hardly keep in position and was about to slide off completely. His numerous legs, which were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk, waved helplessly before his eyes." With it's startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first opening, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing—though absurdly comic—meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. As W.H. Auden wrote, "Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man."

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The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1)

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Pre-Read: Annotating

I am just about to start this book, but because it’s pretty big I wanted to annotate it (this usually helps me take in the book better and feels like i’ll remember more). However, I don’t know what would be the best things to tab. I was thinking of doing my generic “quotes, plot, characters, emotions” but that doesn’t feel good enough, if you get what I mean.

Does anyone have any recs specific to Priory of the Orange Tree so I can really understand it? Maybe some themes I could be on the lookout for (unless they’re too spoilery lol)?

Or do you have any suggestions for other ways to annotate this book?

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Pre-Read: Annotating

Does anyone have any recs specific to Priory of the Orange Tree so I can really understand it? Maybe some themes I could be on the lookout for (unless they’re too spoilery lol)?

Or do you have any suggestions for other ways to annotate this book?

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Vengeful (Villains, #2)

Victoria Schwab

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Feb 05, 2026

4.0

Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 4.0Characters: 4.0Plot: 3.5

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V. E. Schwab has yet to write a bad book for me 🤭 Her writing style in this one is the closest thing to a film in book form: I could vividly imagine everything, the way it would be filmed was so perfect in my head. She’s certainly got a power in terms of writing.

Plot wise it was interesting, although the execution felt a bit lacking to me. At the end, it was just slightly too random.

It’s supposed to be middle grade to YA and I am technically the target demographic for YA’s, but I’ve switched to mainly adult books because the quality always seems so bad — Schwab proves me wrong there!

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Gallant

Victoria Schwab

Everything casts a shadow. Even the world we live in. And as with every shadow, there is a place where it must touch. A seam, where the shadow meets its source. Olivia Prior has grown up in Merilance School for girls, and all she has of her past is her mother’s journal—which seems to unravel into madness. Then, a letter invites Olivia to come home—to Gallant. Yet when Olivia arrives, no one is expecting her. But Olivia is not about to leave the first place that feels like home, it doesn’t matter if her cousin Matthew is hostile or if she sees half-formed ghouls haunting the hallways. Olivia knows that Gallant is hiding secrets, and she is determined to uncover them. When she crosses a ruined wall at just the right moment, Olivia finds herself in a place that is Gallant—but not. The manor is crumbling, the ghouls are solid, and a mysterious figure rules over all. Now Olivia sees what has unraveled generations of her family, and where her father may have come from. Olivia has always wanted to belong somewhere, but will she take her place as a Prior, protecting our world against the Master of the House? Or will she take her place beside him?

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anti-capitalism for babies

by BooksErgoSum

23 books

books to inspire your anti-capitalism; a mix of short introductory economics nonfiction and books that bridge anti-capitalism with your other interests

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