sulkingscissors

恩 (ēn) i read sometimes 🦄 just a gorl with her e-reader 🧚🏻‍♀️ immersive reading fiend 🎧📚

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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)

Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)

A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses #1)

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The Assassin's Blade (Throne of Glass, #0.1-0.5)

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Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)

Tracy Deonn

After her mother dies in an accident, sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or childhood home. A residential program for bright high schoolers at UNC–Chapel Hill seems like the perfect escape—until Bree witnesses a magical attack her very first night on campus. A flying demon feeding on human energies. A secret society of so called “Legendborn” students that hunt the creatures down. And a mysterious teenage mage who calls himself a “Merlin” and who attempts—and fails—to wipe Bree’s memory of everything she saw. The mage’s failure unlocks Bree’s own unique magic and a buried memory with a hidden connection: the night her mother died, another Merlin was at the hospital. Now that Bree knows there’s more to her mother’s death than what’s on the police report, she’ll do whatever it takes to find out the truth, even if that means infiltrating the Legendborn as one of their initiates. She recruits Nick, a self-exiled Legendborn with his own grudge against the group, and their reluctant partnership pulls them deeper into the society’s secrets—and closer to each other. But when the Legendborn reveal themselves as the descendants of King Arthur’s knights and explain that a magical war is coming, Bree has to decide how far she’ll go for the truth and whether she should use her magic to take the society down—or join the fight.

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The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1)

S.A. Chakraborty

Nahri has never believed in magic. Certainly, she has power; on the streets of 18th century Cairo, she’s a con woman of unsurpassed talent. But she knows better than anyone that the trade she uses to get by—palm readings, zars, healings—are all tricks, sleights of hand, learned skills; a means to the delightful end of swindling Ottoman nobles. But when Nahri accidentally summons an equally sly, darkly mysterious djinn warrior to her side during one of her cons, she’s forced to accept that the magical world she thought only existed in childhood stories is real. For the warrior tells her a new tale: across hot, windswept sands teeming with creatures of fire, and rivers where the mythical marid sleep; past ruins of once-magnificent human metropolises, and mountains where the circling hawks are not what they seem, lies Daevabad, the legendary city of brass, a city to which Nahri is irrevocably bound. In that city, behind gilded brass walls laced with enchantments, behind the six gates of the six djinn tribes, old resentments are simmering. And when Nahri decides to enter this world, she learns that true power is fierce and brutal. That magic cannot shield her from the dangerous web of court politics. That even the cleverest of schemes can have deadly consequences. After all, there is a reason they say be careful what you wish for...

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These Burning Stars (The Kindom Trilogy, #1)

Bethany Jacobs

A dangerous cat-and-mouse quest for revenge. An empire that spans star systems, built on the bones of a genocide. A carefully hidden secret that could collapse worlds, hunted by three women with secrets of their own. All collide in this twisty, explosive space opera debut, perfect for readers of Arkady Martine and Kameron Hurley. Jun Ironway—hacker, con artist, and occasional thief—has gotten her hands on a piece of contraband that could set her up for proof that implicates the powerful Nightfoot family in a planet-wide genocide seventy-five years ago. The Nightfoots control the precious sevite that fuels interplanetary travel through three star systems. And someone is sure to pay handsomely for anything that could break their hold. Of course, anything valuable is also dangerous. The Kindom, the ruling power of the star systems, is inextricably tied up in the Nightfoots’ monopoly—and they can’t afford to let Jun expose the truth. They task two of their most brutal clerics with hunting her preternaturally stoic Chono, and brilliant hothead Esek, who also happens to be the heir to the Nightfoot empire. But Chono and Esek are haunted in turn by a figure from their shared past, known only as Six. What Six truly wants is anyone’s guess. And the closer they get to finding Jun, the surer Chono is that Six is manipulating them all. It's a game that could destroy their lives and devastate the stars. And they have no choice but to see it through to the end.

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Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1)

Matt Dinniman

The apocalypse will be televised! A man. His ex-girlfriend's cat. A sadistic game show unlike anything in the universe: a dungeon crawl where survival depends on killing your prey in the most entertaining way possible. In a flash, every human-erected construction on Earth—from Buckingham Palace to the tiniest of sheds—collapses in a heap, sinking into the ground. The buildings and all the people inside have all been atomized and transformed into the dungeon: an 18-level labyrinth filled with traps, monsters, and loot. A dungeon so enormous, it circles the entire globe. Only a few dare venture inside. But once you're in, you can't get out. And what's worse, each level has a time limit. You have but days to find a staircase to the next level down, or it's game over. In this game, it's not about your strength or your dexterity. It's about your followers, your views. Your clout. It's about building an audience and killing those goblins with style. You can't just survive here. You gotta survive big. You gotta fight with vigor, with excitement. You gotta make them stand up and cheer. And if you do have that "it" factor, you may just find yourself with a following. That's the only way to truly survive in this game—with the help of the loot boxes dropped upon you by the generous benefactors watching from across the galaxy. They call it Dungeon Crawler World. But for Carl, it's anything but a game.

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Physical Books vs. E Books vs. Audiobooks

heya boundlings! 💕 just a random discussion that popped up to mind!

what type of a reader are you? what have made you stuck to this reading habit?

have you tried the other ways? how did it make you feel? (ie. did you become a convert or hated it?)

personally, i've been reading on my e-reader for a long time and recently incorporated audiobooks (immersive reading) because just listening to the audiobooks distracts me quite a lot.

though i've been seeing spotify playlists for different book series but im so stuck with the audiobooks that i can't abandon them! 😆🤣

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"if you can learn to endure pain, you can survive anything. some people learn to embrace it - to love it. some endure it through drowning in sorrow, or making themselves forget. others turn it into anger." 🥹🥹🥹

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sulkingscissors

Physical Books vs. E Books vs. Audiobooks

heya boundlings! 💕 just a random discussion that popped up to mind!

what type of a reader are you? what have made you stuck to this reading habit?

have you tried the other ways? how did it make you feel? (ie. did you become a convert or hated it?)

personally, i've been reading on my e-reader for a long time and recently incorporated audiobooks (immersive reading) because just listening to the audiobooks distracts me quite a lot.

though i've been seeing spotify playlists for different book series but im so stuck with the audiobooks that i can't abandon them! 😆🤣

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CaitlinByHerShelf

Let’s Talk Quests ✨

I’m a hardcore Questie. Before PB I just kind of entered the void and found books at random, often having to do some serious digging to finally find something to read. PB has really helped me find books, primarily via Quests!

I’m also absolutely ✨obsessed✨ with badges. I’m in more Quests than I can count, and I love working my way up to different badge levels 😍

That being said I’m struggling to organize my reading around said Quests/Badge collecting.

I recently created something in my Notes App where I’ve broken down:

Which quests I’m actively trying to earn my first badge in
Which quests I’m working towards getting silver, gold, platinum, etc.
Which quests I’m actively prioritizing in April

For those who also read in a Quest-driven frenzy, are there any other methods you use to organize or plan? Or just advice in general? I’m not a fan of excel and my brain struggles to make sense of it so I won’t be doing that 😬 but open to other suggestions!!

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MackCheese14

🗣️Support ur library so they can support u

TLDR; go get a damn library card (please. Pretty please. And thank u 👉👈)

Story time

I was a cryptic pregnancy 😱😱 My mother didn’t find out till 7 months in and I was also born prematurely… at 7 months. As a young single mother, she needed a fun, cheap, and easy way to keep me entertained. Introducing the library! Not only do I have a plethora of fond memories there, but it also gave my mom the ability to be a better mom and be more present (by giving her breaks and entertainment for her two young children).

Growing up I had always utilized my library card, even after we worked our way out of financial struggle.

Now that I am a (broke) adult the library continues to support me. I don’t spend much on myself, I repair my old clothes, make my own coffee at home, I use all the coupons I can find, ect. But the one thing I do like to splurge on is Spotify. Unfortunately bc of this lovely economy, I’ve had to give that up temporarily. Bit of a first world issue but I was honestly really struggling with not being able to listen to music without wifi. But yet again incomes the library to save my ass. Specifically hoopla!! I just found out that if u have a hoopla account, u can download and listen to music offline?? For free???

Honestly considering abandoning Spotify… (Esp cuz all of their ai slop and rumoured price increases)

Anyways, all this to say SUPPORT UR LIBRARY!! THEY CAN SO SO MUCH FOR U!! I could go on for hours abt all of the resources they provide but this post is already getting long…

(Ps, if u can’t make it to ur library in person u can apply for a digital card online)

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