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squirtle commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Currently the discussions are a bit hard to navigate. If we could search by book name or sort them to be organized by book on my book, it would be better. But honestly, just started using this and it's great, I love it! I'll just love it a bit more if someday that feature becomes available :D
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the Iranian revolution is complicated, but satrapi did a wonderful job at explaining it in a way that made sense and allowed me to connect with her story. i highly recommend!
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art imitates life 🎨🖌️
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
Marjane Satrapi
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Has Matt Haig ever met a human woman? Scrap that, a human person? Who talks like this 😭 This is my first Haig book and I gotta say, I kinda hate his writing 😬
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What's a book you wish you could read for the first time again?
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I usually read before bed. But I’m getting really excited reading (yay) and end up more wired, instead of relaxed. I’m trying for earlier nights. Any relaxing book recs? Yes, I’m essentially asking for bedtime stories lmao.
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0squirtle commented on celestialviolence's review of Martyr!
Honestly, this is one of the best books I've read in the past year. You can tell the author is a poet - not because of flowery language, but because of the conciseness and depth of the prose. It's at once easy to understand and yet weighted in emotion and meaning. There's no wasted words in this book. It has almost a surreal quality to it when discussing Orkideh and her project. The twists and turns are so humanly convoluted, reflecting back our own stories and actions, painting them with a meaning. Not only that, but the way the queer relationships and sobriety are portrayed in this book is done incredibly well. It doesn't just pander and shove morality down your throat. It's realistic representation, showing the flaws and the imperfections in ways that are effective and move the plot along. I am the first to admit that I side-eye tf out of any book that's a NYT bestseller, but this is one that fully earned that title. I could not recommend this one enough.
2squirtle commented on Claire's review of Martyr!
Probably the best use of multiple POV I've read. Each character was unique, and the overlapping, past & present storylines kept the story fresh and exciting the entire way through.
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"It was the only time he got to hear his mother's voice" Why do I believe Cyrus's trouble with sleeping has pretty much related to the abscence of his mother? Yes he's practically a baby when the incident happened but the inner bond, an emotional red strings between mother and her child, in my opinion, trespassed everything including distance and age
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I'm a couple chapters in and I have to say. this book is cracking me up. is Theo supposed to be this sarcastic? because I love her. the whole 'we're cousins' thing made me giggle. like what kind of convo was that
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no idea if anyone is familiar with/from Bristol in the UK but i went book shopping there today and just wanted to rave about how happy i am with my book haul. 4 new books and such a lovely day (books: small boat, hungry for what, a house at the bottom of a lake, the trees grew because i bled there). also a side note: ‘the last bookshop’ has improved so much since i last went there, so many recent quirky books for such a cheap price!!
10squirtle commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
hiii everyone. i just joined after a couple years on Goodreads. im so excited to be on a reading platform that is soooo much more user friendly and fun to use! I recently graduated from college with my bachelor's in English. I feel like one of my *quests* was always to read as many classics (including modern classics) as I could. I often intersperse this with newer texts, but I'd definitely love to see a quest channel for classics in the future! I'd love to connect with some of you, and looking forward to seeing this platform grow :)
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