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A Dead Man's Memoir: A Theatrical Novel (Penguin Classics)

Mikhail Bulgakov

A new translation of one of the most popular satires on the Russian Revolution and Soviet society Best known for The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov is one of twentieth-century Russia's most prominent novelists. A Dead Man's Memoir is a semi- autobiographical story about a writer who fails to sell his novel, then fails to commit suicide. When the writer's play is taken up for production in a theater, literary success beckons, but he is not prepared to reckon with the grotesquely inflated egos of the actors, directors, and theater managers.

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Black Cake

Charmaine Wilkerson

We can’t choose what we inherit. But can we choose who we become? In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett’s death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a black cake, made from a family recipe with a long history, and a voice recording. In her message, Eleanor shares a tumultuous story about a headstrong young swimmer who escapes her island home under suspicion of murder. The heartbreaking tale Eleanor unfolds, the secrets she still holds back, and the mystery of a long-lost child challenge everything the siblings thought they knew about their lineage and themselves. Can Byron and Benny reclaim their once-close relationship, piece together Eleanor’s true history, and fulfill her final request to “share the black cake when the time is right”? Will their mother’s revelations bring them back together or leave them feeling more lost than ever? Charmaine Wilkerson’s debut novel is a story of how the inheritance of betrayals, secrets, memories, and even names can shape relationships and history. Deeply evocative and beautifully written, Black Cake is an extraordinary journey through the life of a family changed forever by the choices of its matriarch.

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Jan 21, 2026

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Enjoyment: 2.0Quality: 3.5Characters: 2.5Plot: 1.5

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And if I said I was hoping there would be more outrageous gore? Really, this book is so short and yet felt like it took forever to read because there's so much time spent trying to build tension before a crescendo but it just doesn't land for me. I think where it fails is that it took itself a little too seriously - it leaned into campy territory but didn't fully commit, so tonally it ended up being all over the place. Thankfully it wasn't a chore to read, and I did have some laugh-out-loud moments, but overall I wouldn't recommend it

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Victorian Psycho

Virginia Feito

From the devious author of Mrs. March comes a gruesome and gleeful new novel that probes the psyche of a bloodthirsty governess. Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House prepared to play the perfect Victorian governess—she’ll dutifully tutor her charges, Drusilla and Andrew, tell them bedtime stories, and only joke about eating children. But the longer Winifred spends within the estate’s dreary confines, and the more she learns of the perversions and pathetic preoccupations of the Pounds family, the more trouble she has sticking to her plan. Whether creeping across the moonlit lawns in her undergarments or gently tormenting the house staff, Winifred struggles at every turn to stifle the horrid compulsions of her past. When her chillingly dark imagination breaches the feeble boundary of reality on Christmas morning, Winifred is finally ready to deliver on her generous gifts. Wielding her signature sardonic wit and a penchant for the gorgeously macabre, Virginia Feito returns with a vengeance in Victorian Psycho.

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Am I old? Yes I am. Are you?

Hi all! I'm new here and SO PLEASED I found this site. I've been dreaming of a book place like this.

I'm old enough to have been an avid reader for literal decades. Now I just wish to make sure there are others here too (age does not matter when it comes to reading, just curious).

Were you listening to Nirvana and reading The Secret History when it first came out?

Nice to meet you all!

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Well-timed snow storm

I just got finished reading this all of two days ago and now I'm hearing on the news that in my area we're supposed to get so much snow that it could take down trees and powerlines and that we all should double check that our generators are working. I think if I was still in the middle of reading this when the snow hit I would start freaking out a little bit 🫣 now that's what I call immersive reading

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my first book club!

i just wanted to share the joy and community i felt being a part of an online book club for the first time. i was invited by one of my online mutuals who is chronically ill and so wanted an opportunity to connect with books online. as someone who is very secluded in my small town, i took up the opportunity. we just had a meeting about the book milktooth by jaime burnett (highly recommend, by the way), and it felt just so much fun! i am really really happy to be a part of something, you know?

tell me about your experiences with book clubs!

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Do you feel more inclined to annotate your nonfiction or fiction?

I'm usually not one to annotate since I usually sell or give away my books after I read them, but sometimes I will buy physical copies of books specifically because I want to annotate them as I read. I've only ever annotated fiction books before, and for those it was for the purpose of trying to read the text deeper. However, I did just buy a nonfiction book (off pangobooks, shoutout!) after some deliberation because I feel like I am going to enjoy reading it and know I will encounter interesting passages that I will want to look back on later. I've already decided that this year I'm going to read a lot of polar exploration books and the thought of annotating them is making me excited!

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bookish trinkets!

☆ Aside from books, do any users on here collect other bookish things? If so, what's everyones favourite bookish trinket/bookmark/memorabilia etc that you have? 🐈‍⬛️

☆ Me, i am known for hoarding bookmarks haha. Everytime i go a new place i look for a bookstore where i can pick up a new bookmark with the town/city name on it or the bookstore name on it, or a library one! I have amassed so many bookmarks now that they have their own book 🤣

☆ My personal faves would maybe be the coldwire sticker i got from the chloe gong booktour or the alchemy of secrets bookmark and pin i got from the booktour of stephanie garbers! ✨️

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Greta & Valdin

Rebecca K. Reilly

An irresistible and bighearted international bestseller that follows a brother and sister as they navigate queerness, multiracial identity, and the dramas big and small of their entangled, unconventional family, all while flailing their way to love. It’s been a year since his ex-boyfriend dumped him and moved from Auckland to Buenos Aires, and Valdin is doing fine. He has a good flat with his sister Greta, a good career where his colleagues only occasionally remind him that he is the sole Māori person in the office, and a good friend who he only sleeps with when he’s sad. But when work sends him to Argentina and he’s thrown back in his former lover’s orbit, Valdin is forced to confront the feelings he’s been trying to ignore—and the future he wants. Greta is not letting her painfully unrequited crush (or her possibly pointless master’s thesis, or her pathetic academic salary...) get her down. She would love to focus on the charming fellow grad student she meets at a party and her friendships with a circle of similarly floundering twenty-somethings, but her chaotic family life won’t stop her mother is keeping secrets, her nephew is having a gay crisis, and her brother has suddenly flown to South America without a word. Sharp, hilarious, and with an undeniable emotional momentum that builds to an exuberant conclusion, Greta & Valdin careens us through the siblings’ misadventures and the messy dramas of their sprawling, eccentric Maaori-Russian-Catalonian family. An acclaimed bestseller in New Zealand, Greta & Valdin is fresh, joyful, and alive with the possibility of love in its many mystifying forms.

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Literary lesbians?

I recently watched Two People Exchanging Saliva (phenomenal short film, and it's available on youtube for anybody who wants to check it out!) And ever since I've kinda been itching for some litfic that revolve around lesbians but aren't necessarily about being lesbian. Where it's part of the plot or even central to it but the book itself is about something else. You get what I mean?? Kind of like how those guys in The Lighthouse get freaky but the movie is still ultimately about the lighthouse LOL

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Which is your favorite position to read?

I always read lying down face down in my bed because that's the position I've found I can focus better and it helps me sustain my book the way I like. Sometimes I've felt awkward because I can't read in another position (except if I'm traveling and it's my last source to be sitting down). Do you have a preferred body position to read or a specific way of holding your book? Because I've seen many readers change position without any inconvenient. Any tips to do that?

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