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2h
hiee maybe We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson might be up your alley!! very creepy and interesting and not paranormal :)
Hi boundlings and happy fall!! As we move into spooky season, and as a thriller lover especially, Iām looking for your best recs for thriller/horror books that arenāt paranormal!! I prefer to steer away from those and I find with most lists/quests I have to really sort through to find what Iām looking for, and even then some books can be hit or miss. I can usually do as far as werewolves/vampires but thatās it. I also can do some gore but nothing too extreme (Stephanie Perkinsā Thereās Someone Inside Your House is like a perfect example of my limit). Thanks in advance!!
hey yall, i think i may be stupid, but how are you guys posting pics/reaction gifs in your reviews/forum updates? i just rlly want to do that lollll


smallbaggirl commented...
8h
i agree with everyone who has commented!! itās a mix of wanting a variety of genres as well as formats - i typically have anywhere from 2 to 5 books going at once š¤

As someone who can never read more than one book at a time, I'm always fascinated and also confused when I see accounts on here that are reading 3 or more books at once
Sometimes I'll see a few accounts have around 10 books they are reading at once and it makes me wonder if that's true, and if it is, how?? To me, it sounds like it would be hard to remember what's happening in each book
I hope this is an ok question to ask on here, I'm just curious to know more about why people do it!


smallbaggirl commented...
8h
my favourites include quiet, intense characters, and unreliable narrators!! i love when authors can create characters that capture the spiral into madness šāāļø
As we all know, Pagebound has the feature of showing off up to five books as your taste. But what if the books gets replaced by characters? What is your taste in characters?


smallbaggirl commented...
8h
very well said i totally agree!! thank you for your thoughts šāāļø
i am reading beartown by fredrik backman, and i went to the forum to see peopleās thoughts so far and ive come across dozens of posts that basically say the same thing.. it makes me wonder, do people not check what has already been said in the forum before making a post? i almost always check to see if someone has made the same observation i have or to engage with others, but it seems like many people just post without checking and it leaves the forum cluttered with many posts reiterating the same point, when it could be condensed into a few posts with more comments. let me know what you think!!

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Canon
Paige Lewis
āA scorchingly brilliant, wildly funny, and deeply moving epic.ā āJohn Green, #1 globally bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars Two unlikely heroes embark on quests to win Godās favor in this outrageously entertaining, profoundly heartfelt novel that announces an ingenious new voice in the tradition of Chain-Gang All-Stars, No One Is Talking About This, and Martyr! Yara canāt comprehend why God has chosen them to slay Dominic, the ruthless leader of the army of Bad Guys. Cast out by their family and reeling from a destructive relationship, Yara has never felt weakerābut with nothing left to lose, they strike a deal. Abandoning their solitary days of embroidery and obsessive cleaning, Yara reluctantly embarks on a perilous odyssey designed to prepare them for the daunting mission ahead. Meanwhile, Adrena, a disillusioned prophet with a terrifying secret power, is determined to become the hero of this story. Desperately seeking the glory of Godās approval and the promise of heaven, where she hopes to reunite with her beloved mother, Adrena must first persuade Harpo, the leader of the Good Guys, that her plan is Godās will. As their journeys unfold in a series of unforgettable adventures, Yara and Adrena are propelled toward each other and transformative revelations about life, death, and destiny in this intensely captivating, irreverent epic from a singularly brilliant new voice in fiction.


smallbaggirl is interested in reading...
11h

Canon
Paige Lewis
āA scorchingly brilliant, wildly funny, and deeply moving epic.ā āJohn Green, #1 globally bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars Two unlikely heroes embark on quests to win Godās favor in this outrageously entertaining, profoundly heartfelt novel that announces an ingenious new voice in the tradition of Chain-Gang All-Stars, No One Is Talking About This, and Martyr! Yara canāt comprehend why God has chosen them to slay Dominic, the ruthless leader of the army of Bad Guys. Cast out by their family and reeling from a destructive relationship, Yara has never felt weakerābut with nothing left to lose, they strike a deal. Abandoning their solitary days of embroidery and obsessive cleaning, Yara reluctantly embarks on a perilous odyssey designed to prepare them for the daunting mission ahead. Meanwhile, Adrena, a disillusioned prophet with a terrifying secret power, is determined to become the hero of this story. Desperately seeking the glory of Godās approval and the promise of heaven, where she hopes to reunite with her beloved mother, Adrena must first persuade Harpo, the leader of the Good Guys, that her plan is Godās will. As their journeys unfold in a series of unforgettable adventures, Yara and Adrena are propelled toward each other and transformative revelations about life, death, and destiny in this intensely captivating, irreverent epic from a singularly brilliant new voice in fiction.


smallbaggirl started reading...
13h

Nettle & Bone
T. Kingfisher
After years of seeing her sisters suffer at the hands of an abusive prince, Marraāthe shy, convent-raised, third-born daughterāhas finally realized that no one is coming to their rescue. No one, except for Marra herself. Seeking help from a powerful gravewitch, Marra is offered the tools to kill a princeāif she can complete three impossible tasks. But, as is the way in tales of princes, witches, and daughters, the impossible is only the beginning. On her quest, Marra is joined by the gravewitch, a reluctant fairy godmother, a strapping former knight, and a chicken possessed by a demon. Together, the five of them intend to be the hand that closes around the throat of the prince and frees Marra's family and their kingdom from its tyrannous ruler at last.


smallbaggirl finished a book
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Bunny
Mona Awad
Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other "Bunny," and seem to move and speak as one. But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled "Smut Salon," and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door--ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies' sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus "Workshop" where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision. The spellbinding new novel from one of our most fearless chroniclers of the female experience, Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination.


smallbaggirl is interested in reading...
15h

Johnny Got His Gun
Dalton Trumbo
This was no ordinary war. This was a war to make the world safe for democracy. And if democracy was made safe, then nothing else mattered - not the millions of dead bodies, nor the thousands of ruined lives... This is no ordinary novel. This is a novel that never takes the easy way out: it is shocking, violent, terrifying, horrible, uncompromising, brutal, remorseless and gruesome... but so is war. Winner of the National Book Award.


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Heart: A History
Sandeep Jauhar
The heart lies at the centre of every facet of our existence. Itās so bound up with our deepest feelings that emotional trauma causes it to change shape. Practising cardiologist Sandeep Jauhar beautifully weaves his own experiences with the defining discoveries of the past to tell the story of our most vital organ. He looks at some of the pioneers who risked their careers and their patientsā lives to better understand the heart. People like Daniel Hale Williams, who performed the worldās first documented heart surgery, and Wilson Greatbatch, who accidentally invented the pacemaker. Amid gripping scenes from the operating theatre, Jauhar interweaves stories about the patients heās treated with the moving tale of his familyās own history of heart problems, from his grandfatherās sudden death in India ā an event that sparked his life-long obsession ā to the ominous signs of how he himself might die. He also confronts the limits of medical technology and argues that future progress will be determined more by how we choose to live rather than by any device we invent.


smallbaggirl commented...
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oooh you KNOW i had to come in here and list OhMyDioās quest Plants, fung, and trees - oh my! this is my FAVOURITE quest that i have been actively working through, my fave novels iāve read from it so far are: the comfort of crows by margaret renkl entangled life by merlin sheldrake the serviceberry by RWK forest euphoria by patricia ononiwu kaishian would recommend any of these to anyone!! really versatile and truly beautiful š„° š±š³ššāØš«¶š»š¾šŖ»šŖ“šāš«
What quest have you enjoyed the most for the books you've read in it? The quest that you read the books for the books, not the badge, or not just the badge. What is/are your favorite book(s) from that quest? Which book(s) would you recommend to convince people to join the quest?
My favorite quest is The Monstrous Feminine. Since I'm indecisive, I have four favorite books from the quest: ⢠The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim ⢠Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang ⢠The Lamb by Lucy Rose ⢠Bed Rot Baby by Wendy Dalrymple


Beartown (Beartown, #1)
Fredrik Backman