skylar commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Hello everyone,
I am in a mood to be destroyed emotionally. Therefore, could you please give me book recommendations that feel like the below:
I told you things - Gracie Abrams You’re losing me - Taylor Swift tolerate it - TS this is me trying - TS my tears ricochet - TS How Did It End? - TS So Long London - TS
I am looking forward to every title!!! 🤍
skylar wants to read...
Quartet in Autumn
Barbara Pym
Post from the Excellent Women forum
"In any case, I am leaving for Derbyshire immediately." "Derbyshire?" I repeated stupidly. It seemed like such an unlikely place. "Yes, the Prehistoric Society is holding a conference there," he said quickly. "You will be able to hide in a cave," I said.
Mildred kills me
Post from the Excellent Women forum
I love how a thing that keeps happening in this book is, "Do you think he'll bring us some tea... it would be rude not to" and then they DON'T bring them any tea. Peak comedy
Post from the Excellent Women forum
Why is William like....... all up in her business omg let my girl Mildred do what she wants
skylar commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
I watched a reel recently where a few librarians were shown book covers with their titles & authors removed, and had to guess which books they were. It was a lot of fun! It also got me thinking about which book covers are iconic/recognizable just from the image alone... some that stood out to me are:
Classics (maybe more memorable since they've been around for so long): The Great Gatsby Catcher in the Rye The Handmaid's Tale
More modern books: Yellowface (for sure instantly recognizable) The Memory Police (maybe just iconic to me haha) The Goldfinch
Are there any covers you find iconic (either very recognizable in your opinion, or just iconic to you personally ✨)? I do recognize that this might differ by country!
Post from the Pagebound Club forum
I watched a reel recently where a few librarians were shown book covers with their titles & authors removed, and had to guess which books they were. It was a lot of fun! It also got me thinking about which book covers are iconic/recognizable just from the image alone... some that stood out to me are:
Classics (maybe more memorable since they've been around for so long): The Great Gatsby Catcher in the Rye The Handmaid's Tale
More modern books: Yellowface (for sure instantly recognizable) The Memory Police (maybe just iconic to me haha) The Goldfinch
Are there any covers you find iconic (either very recognizable in your opinion, or just iconic to you personally ✨)? I do recognize that this might differ by country!
skylar commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
I love putting bookish videos on in the background while I do chores. Who are your favorites? Bonus points if they are underrated gems. I watch a lot of the popular ones and would love to branch out and find more in my niche.
skylar commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Does anybody get sad when you're about to start a book and there's 0 posts in its forum or just me? Lol especially when you end up liking the book but you got no one to talk to besides yourself. 🤣💀 But at the same I'm also thrilled because whoever reads it next will see your posts. Like come on, let's talk about it. I've been waiting for you. 😂 Totally not in a creepy way. 💀🤣
skylar finished reading and wrote a review...
Yes, you need to put in some work to get through it, but on the whole this novel is so moving, so melancholy, that it might be worth it. I can imagine this gets better with time and rereads too, once you're not trying to remember the characters or figure out the plot, and can get lost in the characters' thoughts instead, letting them in your brain as well.
Woolf covers a number of topics in this book, and the one I keep thinking about is, "what time takes from us."
skylar started reading...
Excellent Women
Barbara Pym
skylar started reading...
White Walls: Collected Stories
Tatyana Tolstaya
Post from the To the Lighthouse forum
I feel like I need to use 125% of my brain to read Virginia Woolf - because of the stream of consciousness, if I lose focus for a little bit, I'll realize that 5 pages have passed without me absorbing a single thing 🥲 To me this is something you should read when you have absolutely nothing going on for the rest of your day.
I really like reading about some of the topics she touches on though, so I'll power through!
skylar wants to read...
I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness
Irene Solà
skylar wants to read...
Spring Torrents
Ivan Turgenev
skylar wants to read...
White Walls: Collected Stories
Tatyana Tolstaya
skylar finished reading and wrote a review...
The first half to 75% of the book had some great parts, but the ending was a letdown - like Roth lost interest in the book, or wrote the ending and couldn't be bothered to connect it with earlier sections. I still find the premise and the characters super compelling, but the pacing was so inconsistent I overall feel disappointed...
skylar commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
my goal is to read three books this month, and i've already started on the year of magical thinking and i who have never known men. i'm still unsure on what the third book should be. my choices are 1. kitchen (banana yoshimoto), 2. poppy war (r.f. kuang), or 3. mythology (edith hamilton). please help me decide, i am so torn ;;
Post from the The Plot Against America forum
What's really heartbreaking about this story is that not only is it about violence against Jewish people in America in this alternate history, but it's also about the small violences we commit against the people closest to us as well - friends, family, neighbors.
When our societal safety net is gone, why do we also attack our own? Or is it because that safety is gone that we become a harsher, more insular version of ourselves?