tortuguita21

🏳️‍🌈🇵🇪🏳️‍⚧️| he/him | 🦞 ~the right side of history includes the universe itself~ such a trail mix of genres: flavor of choice? usually queer

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A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)

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The Charm Offensive (The Charm Offensive, #1)

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Happy last day of the month, Boundlings. Today I am in a super good mood. Why, asked almost no one? Yesterday afternoon, I turned in all my paperwork to my school district and the state to officially retire on June 4th after 32 years of teaching. There is no going back now. Just open roads and a ton of books to read.

If you have any happiness you would like to share. I would love to read about it. I think everyone can use a little joy. What is going on in your world, big or small, that is bringing you happiness and joy?

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I got so caught up in the retirement joy and asking the question that I forgot the other piece of joyful news. Today is my 32nd wedding anniversary. I didn't forget this morning with my wife, thankfully. That could have been trouble. Actually, that's not true. She forgot about it for a year and has been waiting ever since to get even. I refuse to lose my advantage. This is clearly all the ingredients for a happy marriage.

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A Tragedy

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I've not been recommended a Heated Rivalry edit, book discussion, an update on Season 2 or people ranking or discussing the series for 3 days

Is the bubble popping? Noooo!

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No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: A Lyric Essay

Julian Aguon

A collection of essays on resistance, resilience, and collective power in the age of climate disaster from Chamorro human rights lawyer and organizer Julian Aguon. Part memoir, part manifesto, Chamorro climate activist Julian Aguon's No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies is a coming-of-age story and a call for justice—for everyone, but in particular, for Indigenous peoples. In bracing poetry and compelling prose, Aguon weaves together stories from his childhood in the villages of Guam with searing political commentary about matters ranging from nuclear weapons to global warming. Undertaking the work of bearing witness, wrestling with the most pressing questions of the modern day, and reckoning with the challenge of truth-telling in an era of rampant obfuscation, he culls from his own life experiences—from losing his father to pancreatic cancer to working for Mother Teresa to an edifying chance encounter with Sherman Alexie—to illuminate a collective path out of the darkness. A powerful, bold, new voice writing at the intersection of Indigenous rights and environmental justice, Julian Aguon is entrenched in the struggles of the people of the Pacific to liberate themselves from colonial rule, defend their sacred sites, and obtain justice for generations of harm. In No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies, Aguon shares his wisdom and reflections on love, grief, joy, and triumph and extends an offer to join him in a hard-earned hope for a better world.

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Apr 29, 2026

5.0

Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: Plot:

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Sometimes all I have are words and to write them means they are no longer prayers but are now animals. Other people can hunt them.

this collection was written so artfully. the way she describes the death of everything her mother touched, everything in that time period is so haunting and beautiful and like nothing i’ve ever read before. her language is clear yet laden with meaning. i also loved the way she spoke about writing, about hope, and about what death means. she tries to capture and describe something we have never experienced or explored, something we are only touched with in the aftermath. a world we have never visited or experienced, left only with a question mark when our loved ones depart from us. and when it takes us, we will no longer be able to depict what that means, and even this feeling she manages to hold onto long enough to put onto the page.

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The Charm Offensive (The Charm Offensive, #1)

Alison Cochrun

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Fictional(?) Dystopian Societies

Bronze: Finished 5 Main Quest books.

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(qotd!) childhood book

what is your favorite childhood book (or series)? and why?

mine is Linnea in Monet’s Garden

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Apr 29, 2026

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Obit

Victoria Chang

After her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies. Rather, she distilled her grief during a feverish two weeks by writing scores of poetic obituaries for all she lost in the world. In Obit, Chang writes of "the way memory gets up after someone has died and starts walking." These poems reinvent the form of newspaper obituary to both name what has died ("civility," "language," "the future," "Mother's blue dress") and the cultural impact of death on the living. Whereas elegy attempts to immortalize the dead, an obituary expresses loss, and the love for the dead becomes a conduit for self-expression. In this unflinching and lyrical book, Chang meets her grief and creates a powerful testament for the living.

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“My Taste” Ranking? 🤔

This is might have been asked already or might be a dumb question but I’m genuinely curious as to how other peeps have their “my taste” books on their profile organized. Do you guys rank the books you put on there? As in the first book that shows up (to the left) is your fav book of all time? Or is it random? And would you say the books you add to “my taste” are your fav books ever or are they books you feel encapsulate your identity/fav genres as a reader (not necessarily your favorite of all time)?

Personally, I don’t rank them it’s more kinda random and I’d say the books I’ve added aren’t necessary my favorite ever?? (I feel like that’s such a hard task 😭) but they are the general vibe of what I enjoy? If that makes sense? For example I love the River has Roots for its writing but I love Legends and Lattes because of the coziness of it but it’s not really one of my top 5 or fav books ever

Not sure if I’m making sense but looking forward to your replies 😅

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The Charm Offensive (The Charm Offensive, #1)

Alison Cochrun

Dev Deshpande has always believed in fairy tales. So it’s no wonder then that he’s spent his career crafting them on the long-running reality dating show Ever After. As the most successful producer in the franchise’s history, Dev always scripts the perfect love story for his contestants, even as his own love life crashes and burns. But then the show casts disgraced tech wunderkind Charlie Winshaw as its star. Charlie is far from the romantic Prince Charming Ever After expects. He doesn’t believe in true love, and only agreed to the show as a last-ditch effort to rehabilitate his image. In front of the cameras, he’s a stiff, anxious mess with no idea how to date twenty women on national television. Behind the scenes, he’s cold, awkward, and emotionally closed-off. As Dev fights to get Charlie to connect with the contestants on a whirlwind, worldwide tour, they begin to open up to each other, and Charlie realizes he has better chemistry with Dev than with any of his female co-stars. But even reality TV has a script, and in order to find to happily ever after, they’ll have to reconsider whose love story gets told. In this witty and heartwarming romantic comedy—reminiscent of Red, White & Royal Blue and One to Watch—an awkward tech wunderkind on a reality dating show goes off-script when sparks fly with his producer.

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The Foxhole Court (All for the Game, #1)

tortuguita21

Apr 29, 2026

4.0

Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 3.0Characters: 3.0Plot: 3.0

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this book really kept me so captivated the whole time, and i can’t even place my finger on why. a lot of questionable things happened, but the characters were compelling in that they were showed with all their flaws. nothing was flinched away from. i’m interested to see how it’ll continue, and how neil will continue to develop as a character.

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The Foxhole Court (All for the Game, #1)

Nora Sakavic

Neil Josten is the newest addition to the Palmetto State University Exy team. He's short, he's fast, he's got a ton of potential—and he's the runaway son of the murderous crime lord known as The Butcher. Signing a contract with the PSU Foxes is the last thing a guy like Neil should do. The team is high profile and he doesn't need sports crews broadcasting pictures of his face around the nation. His lies will hold up only so long under this kind of scrutiny and the truth will get him killed. But Neil's not the only one with secrets on the team. One of Neil's new teammates is a friend from his old life, and Neil can't walk away from him a second time. Neil has survived the last eight years by running. Maybe he's finally found someone and something worth fighting for.

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continuation of Shadow Daddy research

🔗original post here life has calmed down enough for me to finally make good on my promise to create a chart of the Shadow Daddies and the Shadow Daddy Adjacent characters wheeeeeeee! this is just a draft as i am unfamiliar with some of the characters fellow boundlings have contributed to the research. please feel free to continue contributing feedback! i cannot complete this Shadow Daddy research alone 🫡 the titles in black are ones i'm more familiar with, the ones in blue are ones i'm not very familiar with. i'm open to moving anything anywhere (except for heathcliff... i think he has to stay where he's at).

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Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I've Cried About: A Memoir

Isabel Klee

From the social media superstar behind @SimonSits, Isabel Klee—known for her heartwarming tales of dog rescue—comes an utterly winning memoir about a twentysomething woman’s search for true love in New York City and the dogs who helped her find it. A Jersey girl by birth, Isabel Klee had always wanted to live in New York City. At age 20, she got her chance, ditching her college upstate for Marymount Manhattan and moving into a tiny basement apartment on the Upper East Side. Dog-obsessed since childhood, her first post-grad job was managing content for the mega-popular account The Dogist, and something clicked into a career focused on helping dogs was the new dream. Isabel quickly found a passion for using her own growing platform to help rescue pups find their forever homes. At the same time, she was caught up in a whirlwind of friendships, parties, fickle boyfriends and grand romances, which she recounts in honest, tender, and sometimes devastating chapters about the search for love and belonging. Isabel’s first true love, though, was Simon, a fluffy puppy who’d been saved from the meat trade. As the highs and lows of this classically-turbulent decade hit Isabel in wave after wave, it was Simon who kept her grounded. Together, Isabel and Simon created an online community of dog-lovers, fellow foster advocates, and girls just trying to get through the trenches of their twenties. In this adorable and moving memoir, Isabel weaves together the stories of her foster dogs—and the challenges she helped them overcome—with tales of bad dates, hard decisions, and great loves in New York City, all leading to a happy ending not only for the rescue pups, but for Isabel herself.

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Victoria Chang

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