wanderingstar
the blackness, the darkness, forever...
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wanderingstar commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
[reposted due to messing up the hyperlink first time i posted]
hey everybody, i was glancing through past founder announcements recently and saw one that caused some worry in me, link here
i’ll copy here the specific section of the post that concerned me, so you don’t have to click through and read the full announcement if you don’t want to: “We will start a new program, community-voted Member of the Month (exact language TBD). Each month starting in the Fall, the entire PB community can nominate a user they believe embodies PB values. The user with the most nominations will be awarded a badge and the ability to create a Quest.”
i’d love to hear what other people here think about this feature. personally, i’m concerned that it could turn into a popularity contest/a value system based on who is the most active on PB and which usernames are recognized by the most people. i really hope that there will be something in place to prevent that sort of result, because a popularity contest doesn’t feel like the PB spirit i know. i just don’t believe that voting for a member-of-the-month will be the community-building exercise that it is intended to be.
478wanderingstar commented on wanderingstar's update
wanderingstar commented on wanderingstar's update
wanderingstar commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
[reposted due to messing up the hyperlink first time i posted]
hey everybody, i was glancing through past founder announcements recently and saw one that caused some worry in me, link here
i’ll copy here the specific section of the post that concerned me, so you don’t have to click through and read the full announcement if you don’t want to: “We will start a new program, community-voted Member of the Month (exact language TBD). Each month starting in the Fall, the entire PB community can nominate a user they believe embodies PB values. The user with the most nominations will be awarded a badge and the ability to create a Quest.”
i’d love to hear what other people here think about this feature. personally, i’m concerned that it could turn into a popularity contest/a value system based on who is the most active on PB and which usernames are recognized by the most people. i really hope that there will be something in place to prevent that sort of result, because a popularity contest doesn’t feel like the PB spirit i know. i just don’t believe that voting for a member-of-the-month will be the community-building exercise that it is intended to be.
478wanderingstar commented on kittygoons's review of The Tapestry of Fate
I'm so fucking flabbergasted by the end of this book that I don't even know if I can formulate my thoughts for a review. I'll do my best though!
Amina al-Sirafi is an adventurer at heart, and yet there hangs over this book a level of reluctance from her that is so intriguing to me. She seems ready to retire and settle with her family, and yet she now has this pressure from a magical people forcing her to leave. Her back and forth on continuing to be a pirate really adds to her discontent in this book.
We get a lot of alone time with Amina this time around, and as a reader, I found getting to know her extremely compelling. Actually, almost everything about the plot in this sequel is compelling for me. The setting is fascinating and unnerving, and the new characters we meet are incredibly complex. The twist and turns in the plot had me at the edge of my seat and desperate to see what would happen next.
Speaking of what will happen next, Shannon Chakraborty, you absolute genius, you have left me wanting more in a very serious way with the ending of this story. I can't wait to see what happens in the next book. I have so many questions and theories, and I can feel my brain churning in such a fun and exciting way. These books are my new favorite thing, and I can't recommend them enough!
Special shout out/thanks to @wanderingstar for sending me a copy of this book that they got at an event with Shannon Chakraborty! 💖 Your love for these books is contagious, I'm so glad I read them, and you're extra cool for having met Shannon herself.
2wanderingstar commented on wanderingstar's review of The God of the Woods
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The Book of Form and Emptiness
Ruth Ozeki
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We Were Forbidden
Jacqueline Harpman
0wanderingstar wrote a review...
Strange Buildings is the third novel from Japanese writer and Youtuber Uketsu in his Strange “Things” series. I’ve read the previous Strange Houses and Strange Pictures, which were both fun and entertaining reads, even though they didn’t blow me away. This trend has continued with Strange Buildings, although I do think that this one was the strongest of the three so far.
With Strange Buildings, Uketsu adds a lot more different storylines for readers to follow along with. The storylines all interconnect (which is not a spoiler, it’s stated in the author’s note in the beginning) and it’s fun to follow along and notice the places where the stories might overlap. The different stories are creepy and definitely had me theorizing throughout.
Uketsu’s books are far from the peak of literature, but as a form of horror entertainment with some suspense and mystery, they are fun and easy to read. Nothing life changing, but I had a good time.
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Strange Buildings
Uketsu
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