wormariwood
Mariano! I mainly read litfic, classics, and manga :)
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Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
Julian Sancton
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wormariwood commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
I recently bought two books, which finally made their arrival at my doorstep. I was literally jumping and kicking my feet as I opened the package, but I've been staring at them unable to read them.
They are from two different authors which could be my favourite ever. In the sense that I only read one of their books each, and I don't know if that one was just phenomenal or if they are phenomenal yet.
These are both novels which came out before the ones I read this summer. One is the first book of one of them, and it's a different genre. Which makes me a little anxious about possibly not liking their previous style.
The ratings of these are over 4 stars wherever I checked. It gets my hopes up so bad, but I'm still terrified.
They are A thousand perfect notes by C G Drews (I had read Don't let the forest in this summer), the one I'm thinking of starting with, considering it's the shortest;
and Hell followed with us by Andrew J White (I had read The spirit bares its teeth this summer, go read it because this should become a classic of our times in my opinion).
Does this happen to anyone else?
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Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
0wormariwood wrote a review...
Silly ghost story that was fun for a majority but I feel like the tone towards the end shifted so the ending felt kinda meh to me. Still a fun little read, regardless
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Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient
Edward W. Said
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In this scenario, it's your first day working at a bookstore in your entire life. The interview process was simple and your boss is nice, and you're starting to become acquainted with your coworkers. You're chatting with them when they bring up one of the aspects of the job, which is to give recs to customers. They mention what their genres of expertise are, and remind you that if a customer is ever asking for a rec in a genre that you're not familiar with you can always redirect them to somebody who is.
They ask you: By the way, what are your most-read genres?
You reply and they nod, and decide to do a test run. They say: Pretend I'm a customer. I am looking for a rec in [your preferred genre], and I'm hoping to get a rec from an author who's not very well-known. I prefer characters who are underdogs, especially if they have dorky personalities or who tend to embarrass themselves. What do you recommend?
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(P.S. I'm thinking of doing various RP scenarios, and strongly leaning towards doing a guess-the-book for my next one, but what does everybody think? 👀 fun or nah?)
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My first kind of introduction to this story was the book Hungerstone, which I read a while back and was intrigued by. During my reading of that book, it felt like there was an element of the story that I was missing, and so decided that one day I would get around to reading Carmilla so that maybe the gaps in the narrative I was feeling would be addressed. I definitely see clear parallels between the two stories, although they end up going two drastically different routes. I thought that here, the character of Carmilla has more substance and is intriguing in the way that she has an unpredictability about her. I enjoyed the first half of the story, but I feel like around the halfway mark when the narrative shifts over, it lost me a little bit (maybe just because I wasn't expecting it?) and was missing some of the aspects of the story thst I had enjoyed about the first half. It's interesting how as I was reading I was also picking up on some of the things about it that definitely carried over into the inspiration for Dracula, which then became the blueprint for vampires as a whole. Sometimes I felt impatient in a 'yea yea we know this already' way and then had to stop myself and go - 'wait. But if I was reading this at the time it was written it wouldn't be obvious to me where this was going, would it??' I have to give this book grace as it is the blueprint, but the curse of the blueprint is that by nature of being inspirational it becomes more cliché as it ages. Figures. And by the way, had anybody written a book from the perspective of Carmilla yet?? I feel like it would be so interesting to see her perceptions of the events of this book (though, maybe with a different, more lesbian ending?)
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Carmilla
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
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Carmilla
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
0wormariwood commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
As the winter storm winds down, I thought we could do a reading check-in since so many of us had big plans for cozy read-a-thons. ❄️ How'd you do on reading? Did you read more or less than you anticipated? Any standouts? Did you get to snuggle under blankets and drink some warm drinks?
The windchill got down to -5° F here in Texas, but thankfully we kept our power. The roads weren't treated at alllll where I am, so we were trapped inside for a few days with a couple inches of ice on the roads. The local schools are still closed today but everything is finally starting to thaw. Hoping I can squeeze in finishing one more book today before it's back to real life!
Books I finished: 📘 The Serpent and the Wolf by Rebecca Robinson (re-read), 4⭐️ 📘 The Wicked and the Damned by Rebecca Robinson (ARC), 4⭐️ 📘 King of Ravens by Clare Sager, 3⭐️ 📘 Splintered Kingdom by Gretchen Powell Fox, 4⭐️ 📘 Servant of Earth by Sarah Hawley, 4⭐️
Cozy drink MVP: Cinnamon hot chocolate
8wormariwood commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
I don’t know about y’all, but I am always on the hunt for new friends to steal books from—yes, even from those who are pro-tomato even if they’re WRONG. /t
I wanted to make a post so we can all share our ISOs for niches of books we like and find folks we want to follow so we can hop on board their TBR Trains 🚂
The idea in general is for each of us to make a comment with what we’re looking for, and for those who read something on our list and want to be followed to reply so we can find them! Not sure what that looks like? You can find my own post in the comments. 🫶
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Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
Julian Sancton
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wormariwood commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Does anyone else feel as though the horror genre is more respected than fantasy?
How do I explain this, I've seen a lot of people who are into horror books but not fantasy ones rather than the other way around
Horror media get more serious discussions than fantasy media in platforms like yt and tumblr
And you don't see people hyping up fantasy icons the way they do horror icons (except for like the super popular stuff like lotr)
Maybe it's just me being biased, but I don't understand why horror is more popular than fantasy considering they both count as speculative fiction and a really intervined in their craftmanship
What do you all think?
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You Should Be So Lucky
Cat Sebastian
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Sometimes you want to look at a guy and say: Well, he’s fucked, but he’s trying.
I feel like this is the way people talk about me sometimes LOL
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