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I can't join any quests before I finish a personal one I've been working on for a long time. I need to read all those damn books I've purchased and put on a shelf for a rainy day.

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Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

The Moomins and the Great Flood (The Moomins, #1)

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Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

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Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

Dean Spade

Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world. Around the globe, people are faced with a spiralling succession of crises, from the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change-induced fires, floods, and storms to the ongoing horrors of mass incarceration, racist policing, brutal immigration enforcement, endemic gender violence, and severe wealth inequality. As governments fail to respond to—or actively engineer—each crisis, ordinary people are finding bold and innovative ways to share resources and support the vulnerable. Survival work, when done alongside social movement demands for transformative change, is called mutual aid. This book is about mutual aid: why it is so important, what it looks like, and how to do it. It provides a grassroots theory of mutual aid, describes how mutual aid is a crucial part of powerful movements for social justice, and offers concrete tools for organizing, such as how to work in groups, how to foster a collective decision-making process, how to prevent and address conflict, and how to deal with burnout. Writing for those new to activism as well as those who have been in social movements for a long time, Dean Spade draws on years of organizing to offer a radical vision of community mobilization, social transformation, compassionate activism, and solidarity.

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Aug 19, 2025

5.0

Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 4.0Plot: 5.0

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Book Lovers Day 8/9

Happy Book Lovers Day! Even a made up holiday, there is still fun and joy in celebrating the people who love books and the book community. I'm out of town for a wedding, and so to celebrate I visited the public library and bought two books from the library's Friends (the nonprofit organization that helps raise funds for the library). However you choose to celebrate, whether buying a book from your local bookstore, visiting the library, or treating yourself to a nice relaxing day with a book, cheers to everyone here who has helped make Pagebound what it is. Happy reading friends. 💖

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Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

Hwang Bo-Reum

Yeongju is burned out. With her high-flying career, demanding marriage, and busy life in Seoul, she knows she should feel successful, but all she feels is drained. Yet an abandoned dream nags at her, and in a leap of faith, she leaves her old life behind. After quitting her job and divorcing her husband, Yeongju moves to a small residential neighborhood outside the city, where she opens the Hyunam-dong Bookshop. For the first few months all Yeongju does is cry, but the long hours in the shop also give her time to mull over what makes a good bookseller and store. As she starts to read hungrily, host author events, and develop her own bookselling philosophy, she eases into her new setting. Surrounded by friends, writers, and the books that connect them all, she finds her new story as the Hyunam-dong Bookshop transforms into an inviting space for lost souls to rest, heal, and remember it's never too late to scrap the plot and start again.

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A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)

Becky Chambers

ASIN B08H831J18 moved to the more recent edition Centuries before, robots of Panga gained self-awareness, laid down their tools, wandered, en masse into the wilderness, never to be seen again. They faded into myth and urban legend. Now the life of the tea monk who tells this story is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honor the old promise of checking in. The robot cannot go back until the question of "what do people need?" is answered. But the answer to that question depends on who you ask, and how. They will need to ask it a lot. Chambers' series asks: in a world where people have what they want, does having more matter?

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knickiknack

Recs to shift my perspective??☹️🙃

Lately I’ve been wandering along a path in life that’s getting a bit too nihilistic for my comfort, and one of the worst side effects has been this huge reading slump in a very “what’s the point” way. So do y’all know any entertaining books or characters that capture that shift from “Life is pointless so it doesn’t matter what I do. (😢)” to “Life is pointless so it doesn’t matter what I do! (😜)”?? I’m trying to turn this ship around!!

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Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day

Kaitlin B. Curtice

In an era in which "resistance" has become tokenized, popular Indigenous author Kaitlin Curtice reclaims it as a basic human calling. Resistance is for every human who longs to see their neighbors' holistic flourishing. We each have a role to play in the world right where we are, and our everyday acts of resistance hold us all together. Curtice shows that we can learn to practice embodied ways of belonging and connection to ourselves and one another through everyday practices, such as getting more in touch with our bodies, resting, and remembering our ancestors. She explores four "realms of resistance"—the personal, the communal, the ancestral, and the integral—and shows how these realms overlap and why all are needed for our liberation. Listeners will be empowered to seek wholeness in whatever spheres of influence they inhabit.

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The Sunny Nihilist: A Declaration of the Pleasure of Pointlessness

Wendy Syfret

A positively rebellious take on a traditionally negative philosophy offers an antidote for our anxious times.Career success, a beautiful life, a beautiful Instagram account—what's the point? In a world where meaning has become twisted into a form of currency that everyone is very keen to cash in on, journalist Wendy Syfret invites you to change the way you think about the way you think.In her seminal work, The Sunny Nihilist, Syfret presents the optimism in Nihilism, encouraging us to dismantle our self-care and self-centered way of living and accept a life more or less ordinary. Syfret re-examines the meaning of worth, value, time, happiness, success, and connection, and guides us towards the alternative path of pointless pleasure.When you let go of the idea that everything must have purpose, you will find relief from stress, exhaustion, and anxiety. Most importantly, you can embrace the opportunity to enjoy the moment, the present, the chaos and luck of being alive at all. The Sunny Nihilist is an inspiring call to action and survival adaptation for modern life.

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Furiously Happy

Jenny Lawson

#1 New York Times Bestseller In Furiously Happy, a humor memoir tinged with just enough tragedy and pathos to make it worthwhile, Jenny Lawson examines her own experience with severe depression and a host of other conditions, and explains how it has led her to live life to the fullest: "I've often thought that people with severe depression have developed such a well for experiencing extreme emotion that they might be able to experience extreme joy in a way that ‘normal people' also might never understand. And that's what Furiously Happy is all about." Jenny’s readings are standing room only, with fans lining up to have Jenny sign their bottles of Xanax or Prozac as often as they are to have her sign their books. Furiously Happy appeals to Jenny's core fan base but also transcends it. There are so many people out there struggling with depression and mental illness, either themselves or someone in their family—and in Furiously Happy they will find a member of their tribe offering up an uplifting message (via a taxidermied roadkill raccoon). Let's Pretend This Never Happened ostensibly was about embracing your own weirdness, but deep down it was about family. Furiously Happy is about depression and mental illness, but deep down it's about joy—and who doesn't want a bit more of that?

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Nonfiction focused on social identity, diversity, equity, inclusivity, class, and belonging. Together, we find history, identity, love, compassion, and community.

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moss-mylk

Non fiction/essay/academic paper recs please<3

Heya! I’d love non-fiction/essay collections/academic paper recs please! Something not too dense or violent/graphic, nothing too hard to read. Happy with something reflective or lit just “omg listen to this”. I love learning about social history. And anthropology, food, linguistics, feminism, anything leftist or anti-imperialist, utopian stuff, nature, historical fashion. But it doesnt have to be this. And either way, doesn’t have to be heavy. Please give me a little detail (can just be topics and vibe) about the recs if you can <3 thank you so much!

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Fanfiction readers

For my work I have to understand alternative forms of reading, and that kind of made me spiral back in the world of fanfic. I'm basically curious, do you read fanfictions? Is it something you can talk about IRL (I def feel like it used to be more taboo)? What are your go-to tags ? What are your biggest icks? What do you think about fanfiction oozing it's way in mainstream publishing? Basically let's chat about fanfics :)

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