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sxmuel98

Lab rat by day, reader by night 🔬📖 Favourite genres are literary fiction, contemporary and horror. I rate books based on vibes alone (mostly)

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My Taste
Beartown (Beartown, #1)
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Angels Before Man
The Employees
Rebecca
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The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre
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House of Leaves
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sxmuel98 commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

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  • Blair.
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    Convince me to read your favorite book by dropping a quote from it!

    Drop a quote from your favorite book that would convince me or others to read it. No need for explanation and context (unless someone asks). Make it spoiler free please đŸ«¶đŸ»

    I thought this would be fun. I love annotating beautiful prose and saving quotes from books so I would love to see some memorable ones from you guys and maybe get some recommendations out of it too! Why not add more to our growing TBR 😆

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  • Nothings good after a banger!

    Does anyone else get a reading high when they’re reading a really good book or series and when they finish they’re still high, wanting to read more, and suddenly hit a wall and no book is good enough??

    I’ve noticed over the past couple of months that after I read 10/10 books/series, I am incapable of finishing anything afterwards until some time has passed. I’ve tried reading similar books to carry on with the vibes, tried reading very different books to see if that worked. And nothing! I will devour a book and just want to consume more and more but nothing hits for me.

    Does this happen to anyone else??

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  • Don't Let the Forest In
    sxmuel98
    Mar 10, 2026
    1.0
    Enjoyment: 1.0Quality: 1.0Characters: 1.0Plot: 1.0

    I hated it 😭 the writing was awful, it felt like something a teenager who spends too much on tumblr would write. It was trying way too hard to be deep.

    On the other hand, I also understand why someone would like this. It wasnt for me. Ive read and loved so many books like this before so I'm a bit hypercritical of the genre

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  • Don't Let the Forest In
    Thoughts from 40% (page 130)

    I feel like this is trying way too hard to be pretty and deep

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    Thoughts from 40% (page 130)

    I feel like this is trying way too hard to be pretty and deep

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  • Horns For Hell (Angels)
    sxmuel98
    Mar 08, 2026
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    Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 4.0Plot: 4.0
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  • Heated Rivalry (Game Changers #2)
    sxmuel98
    Mar 02, 2026
    3.5
    Enjoyment: 3.5Quality: 3.0Characters: 4.0Plot: 4.0

    The book was basically identical to the show, but it was a better experience watching it

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  • Strange Houses
    sxmuel98
    Mar 01, 2026
    3.5
    Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 3.0Characters: 4.0Plot: 3.5

    Very interesting story where you'll probably never know what happened. Really fun to discuss though. Unfortunately I think the plot holes are a bit to major where nothing you really come up with can make sense which makes it a bit confusing

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