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steventoast

Real life librarian (she/her) 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. I ❤️ @raypurchase

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Gothic Literature
Fairy Tale Retellings
Dark Academia
Queer Horror
Blood Suckers
Every Villain is a Hero
My Taste
A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
The Secret History
Rebecca
The Everlasting
Reading...
The Iliad & the Odyssey
36%
Daughter of the Forest  (Sevenwaters, #1)
28%
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
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  • Anna Karenina
    What is with so much French in the books?
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  • Fungarium
    Thoughts from 74% (page 48)

    "Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778), the "father of modern taxonomy", actually set back the study of fungi rather than advance it."

    If Linnaeus has no haters I am dead.

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    Add more than 5 books to a list before hitting "create"

    Hi! I searched and didn't see this, but I apologize if this has already been requested. I definitely agree with a minimum number of books to start a list, but I was wondering if it would be feasible at some point to be able to add more than the initial 5 books to a list before publishing it/making it live and viewable by others.

    Typically when I make a list, I have more than 5 books in mind, and (this may be a me problem) while I love getting suggestions of books to add, to my anxious brain, it sometimes feels like a race against the clock to add the books I had in mind to the live list before folks comment suggesting the same ones.

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    Trans Rights Readathon - Future Badge?

    I am not sure if this is the right place to ask this, and I think it is likely too much of a time crunch to be done this year, but I wanted to ask about doing a time limited Trans Rights Readathon badge in the future. This year the Trans-Rights Readathon takes place from March 17-31st.

    I was thinking that in the future, if approved, it would be similar to the limited time badge like the current Best of @SimonBooks Quest.

    StoryGraph has a challenge for the Trans Rights Readathon with more than 500 participants, so I think that it is likely that there would be demand here for a quest as well. That challenge is curated by the Trans Rights Readathon socials (@transrightsreadathon) and maybe a time limited Quest on PageBound could be too?

    For more information on the Trans Rights Readathon here is a link: Trans Rights Readathon

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    Stats Badge Organization

    Looking at my Stats section and the badges in it, it doesn't look like there's a reason to how they're ordered. I'm proposing two different potential possibilities for that section:

    1. Order the badges by date received (ex. newest received higher up and older further down)
    2. Let users organize how they want to display the badges (ex. grouping seasonal readings together or golds together)

    Apologies if this is actually something that I've missed, but thanks as always for making this app great! 🙂

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  • Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
    Thoughts from 22% (page 74)

    I'm enjoying the writing but something is keeping me from being fully immersed. It might be too early to tell but overall I think it will disappoint me. Definitely different from what I anticipated. I will give it an honest try and I do find the narration entertaining if not a bit monotone.

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  • Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
    Thoughts from 15% (page 52)

    And what page does Lestat get his shit rocked 😐

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  • Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
    Thoughts from 8% (page 28)

    Going from Louie in the AMC show to racist slave owner Louie in the book is craaazzzyyyy

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  • Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
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    Daughter of the Forest  (Sevenwaters, #1)

    Daughter of the Forest (Sevenwaters, #1)

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    steventoast commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

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  • Blessed reading streak 📚 ✨

    I realised I've lucked out in 2026, every book I've read so far has been a 4 or 5 star ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 👏 Has anyone else been this lucky? What's been your absolute favourite? I think Golden Son (Red Rising #2) takes the top spot for me.

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    Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)

    Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)

    Anne Rice

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    steventoast commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

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  • Have you ever been sent an ARC? Let’s share stories!

    I got selected for my second ever ARC (and my first trad publish ARC) this week and it made me feel SO warm inside! There’s such a special feeling to it.

    I have been asked to wait until a specific date to release my review, so I’m going to keep my own ARC title hush hush, but I would love to hear your stories about getting selected for ARCS! How did you feel? Was it a random choice or an author you adore? Do you have the physical copy with that special lil legal text on the top? Tell me everything!

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  • steventoast commented on CaitlinByHerShelf's update

    steventoast commented on alienshe's review of Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)

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  • Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)
    alienshe
    Mar 03, 2026
    4.0
    Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 4.5Characters: 5.0Plot: 4.5
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    I liked this book. It was a slow start for me but halfway through I was definitely into it and invested. I wish the author had spent more time explaining the different houses at the beginning, but it didn’t take away from the plot so I was okay with it.

    Also, this book made me think about the Epstein files a lot and about how the wealthy get away with so much.

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    Daughter of the Forest  (Sevenwaters, #1)

    Daughter of the Forest (Sevenwaters, #1)

    Juliet Marillier

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