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sunnysunshine

I'm Sunny! they/them I mostly read literary fiction, fantasy, and nonfiction but I love a good mix of everything.

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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
I Who Have Never Known Men
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
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Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)A Girl Called EelThe Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World

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  • Mix and Match game: author/genre

    Obviously authors have their specific story style and sometimes genre for a very good reason. It’s what they do best, fits their taste and the craft that they have perfected.

    🌸 But for fun, what author would you imagine trying to write a genre they are not known for? It can be a completely crazy exchange. I am asking because I know you guys are creative hahaha

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    The Spellshop

    The Spellshop

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  • Books First, To Friends (Forever)

    While I came to Pagebound looking for a more ideal bookish space (which I did find), I found that the PB community came to be one of my fav things and I'd love to highlight that today 🫶🏼

    For new and older users, what is maybe the first book, or most memorable book, that led to you finding your PB friends? If you've been around for a hot minute, maybe it's not the first book, but when/whomst did you suddenly feel welcomed by and from what book? For our new user-friends, if you are still learning how to interact, let us know which books you've been so excited to interact with on PB and maybe you'll find your friends in the comments :) I'd love to see how big our community is growing and which books have really helped make this place special for all of us! ♥️✨📚

    I'll go first: while it wasn't one of my first books, The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin forum was when I really started to get active—and lo and behold is was our feral lovely @Fantasy who kept flirting scaring me in the forums (iykyk).

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    A Short History of Trans Misogyny

    A Short History of Trans Misogyny

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  • The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)
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    Oct 11, 2025
    4.5
    Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 4.5
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    Continuing Essun’s journey, this book now includes other perspectives. For me, this will never be as good as the perspectives in the first book though to explain why would introduce spoilers for the first book. These perspectives do, however, introduce entirely new questions and plot lines that have me hooked. My only real critique is the slower pace - because the book largely takes place in the single places that our characters are in, we don’t get the sweeping journeys showing us the vast land and different people that we get in the first book which slowed the pace down for me.

    This series is spectacular: from one of the most interesting magic systems I’ve ever read to characters that feel so real and complex, I’m in awe of Jemisin’s skill for both storytelling and the writing craft itself. It is no wonder why this series won 3 consecutive hugo awards.

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    reading plays vs. watching them

    Similarly to discussions of whether listening to audiobooks counts as reading (consensus seems to be that is does 🙌), I've been wondering if watching a play counts as reading it as well? Curious to hear everyone's opinions on this! Additional discussion questions: Does it only count for specific plays? How faithful do you feel the production needs to be? Does every line need to be spoken, and if so, does this change your perception of watching it counting as reading it? What about movie productions of a play?

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  • The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
    sunnysunshine
    Oct 09, 2025
    5.0
    Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 5.0
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    From an incredibly unique and highly skilled writing style to a fully immersive world that feels lived in this book did not stop wowing me. The characters are all full and complex and mysterious making them easy to get invested in, cheer for, and mourn with. The world is filled with mystery and intrigue and the magic system and associated socio-political system is one of the most interesting and well-thought I’ve ever read. I have no idea how I read this book in 2 days - only that it would not let me stop reading it and at no point did I not feel an intense desire to read just one more page then one more chapter and then the book was at its end and oh my goodness what a ride. I was able to predict some things which felt very rewarding while I was completely blindsided by others which felt equally rewarding The stuff I don’t know yet has me ready to start the next book IMMEDIATELY. 11/10 I’ll recommend this to anyone though I’ll advise readers who appreciate content warnings to please check those as this book deals with heavy topics.

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    Is this whole thing abt twink death

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