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steventoast

Real life librarian on the hunt for something to make me feel as alive as I did when I was tearing through the Twilight saga for the first time.

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Iconic Series
British & Irish Classic Literature
My Taste
A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)
The Secret History
A Thousand Acres
Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)
If It Makes You Happy
Reading...
Blood Over Bright HavenThe Little Shop of Found Things (Found Things, #1)Queen of Shadows (Throne of Glass, #4)

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  • Junior High (Tegan and Sara #1)
    Thoughts from 32% (page 96)

    I’m slightly confused/less immersed at the minute because it’s unclear if it’s supposed to be memoir/autobiographical because of the updated technology. I know this is to make it more relatable to modern day children but also I’m just unsure of what they’re trying to put across. I think from here on out I’ll just read it as fiction. If you’ve read this how did you read it tone-wise?

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  • Tower of Dawn (Throne of Glass, #6)
    Thoughts from 63% 🫨
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  • The Knight and the Moth (The Stonewater Kingdom, #1)
    Thoughts from 63%

    I think the gargoyle and I probably cry about the same amount lol

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  • Blood Over Bright Haven
    Thoughts from 92%

    love-hate relationship with this one

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  • Community Appreciation!

    Since joining this platform, I have never been part of a community so welcoming! Everyone seems incredibly friendly and supportive, and it never fails to make me smile 🤍🌸 A massive thank you to you all and I hope to be friends with many more of you!

    Feel free to drop your favourite ever read below! 🌸🤍

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  • Readers with Similar Taste

    Hi all,

    Is there a way to find people to follow based on % shared in someone's library? When I use the Readers with Similar Taste browsing option, it only shows me people with 1 book in common in the My Taste section. I would rather follow someone with more of a shared library because taste can change and I tend to read a wider range of books than I show on My Taste.

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  • The Hallmarked Man (Cormoran Strike, #8)
    Thoughts from 75% (page 677)

    Bloody hell this book made me wait for it, it was downright frustrating at times, but it has now delivered in a big way...

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  • The Hallmarked Man (Cormoran Strike, #8)
    Thoughts from 48% (page 433)
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  • Readers with Similar Taste

    Hi all,

    Is there a way to find people to follow based on % shared in someone's library? When I use the Readers with Similar Taste browsing option, it only shows me people with 1 book in common in the My Taste section. I would rather follow someone with more of a shared library because taste can change and I tend to read a wider range of books than I show on My Taste.

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  • What I love about PageBound the most

    Apart from the obvious things like being Anti AI and women owned and women run, the thing I love about PageBound the most is how I don't feel the need or the pressure to constantly being here and build an online presence because I want my silly little thoughts to be heard. This community has been built in such a way that it's asking people to take a step back and breathe and write and post with authenticity. I love not having to worry about algorithms or likes or follows. I love that I can come here whenever I feel like it and leave whenever I feel like it without it negatively impacting anything.

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  • The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
    Thoughts from 36%

    The node keeper situation might be one of the most messed up things I have read this year. Holy moly.

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  • The Great Gatsby
    Thoughts from 100%

    This is a good book, though it is so ridiculously overrated. The plot is basic and relatively unengaging and consequently I think an inattentive reader has a lot to miss here. I enjoyed The Great Gatsby though I certainly did not love it. Its popularity baffles me to a degree, I can think of books from the same era that deserve far more attention. Still, I enjoyed reading it and I’m glad I finally did so.

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  • New Moon (The Twilight Saga, #2)
    Thoughts from 19%

    Home girl was about to put herself and JESSICA in danger to see her MAN…

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  • Bookish Friends Have Been Hard to Find

    Last December I moved away from my parents back to my hometown for work. I have not made much progress of making friends here where I live. I would appreciate any tips or even just support/commiseration in making friends, especially bookish ones. A bit about me: I work in a public library I love to read fantasy, manga and literary fiction I’m queer

    Thank you in advance. 📚 I’m hoping becoming more active on this app will help too! 💖

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  • The App is live!!

    I am over the moon to share that the app is officially live on both iOS and Android!!

    We've quite literally poured our blood, sweat and (lots of) tears into the app development over the past 9 months and we could not be more thrilled for everyone to experience it!

    We're still being indexed in app store search so you may have to scroll to find us, or type in Pagebound: Social Book Tracker. Here's links to iOS and Android: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pagebound-social-book-tracker/id6751526412 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.pagebound.app

    There are quite a few improvements and new features in the app, including:

    • Book Journeys (click the map icon on the book cards in your library and other user's library to see their posts, comments, and updates for a specific book)
    • Quick access to "add to plan"
    • Filtering your activity on profile
    • Save posts
    • upgraded Read Dates editing

    This is the first release, so there will be many more additions and improvements to come. (PS for Android users: we're aware of two bugs related to library imports from Goodreads/Storygraph, and issues with editing read dates - these have already been resolved and are pending Google approval for release.)

    We owe a huge thank you to our beta testers who worked diligently over the last month to report hundreds of bugs and help us get the app prepared for release. A huge round of applause to them.

    We hope you love the app as much as we do; it definitely makes engaging on PB so much more convenient and fun. If you have a great experience with the app, we'd love if you'd consider supporting us through Pagebound Royalty; Lucy and I have worked for $0 over the past year to bring the app and website to fruition, and have been covering business costs with our savings accounts. Your contribution means we can continue to work full-time on Pagebound without influence from investors or advertisers, and keep Pagebound 100% for readers by readers. Thank you so much to all the Royalty who have already contributed; it truly means the world to us and keeps Pagebound online!

    ok now go download the app and tell us what you think!

    Happy Reading, Jennifer & Lucy

    PS - leaving us a review in app stores also helps tremendously :)

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  • House of Flame and Shadow (Crescent City, #3)
    Thoughts from 28% (page 232)

    Somebody tell me this book gets better 😅 im STRUGGLING

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