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Pages Unbound @pagesunbound.bsky.social · 20h

Sometimes influencers go too far. I saw someone talking about a "reading reset." What is that??

Pages Unbound @pagesunbound.bsky.social · 20h

I asked someone for the source of a claim they were making & they said, “I think it was some threads on Twitter a while ago.” I am now thinking about the effect of any kind of academic work apparently solely on an ephemeral medium that makes it difficult for anyone to find what you said ever again.

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Pages Unbound @pagesunbound.bsky.social · 22h

I thought R. F. Kuang’s whole thing was dumping all her academic research into her fiction novels, and now I have a bunch of people telling me it’s inaccurate and this is a known issue and common criticism. There are whole other worlds out there because this is news to me!

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Pages Unbound @pagesunbound.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I keep accidentally finding bloggers who are participating in Fantasy with Friends, but they never comment on our blog or link to a post so we get a ping back. (Linking to the homepage doesn't generate a ping back.) If you want me to know you are participating, please alert me in some way!

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Pages Unbound @pagesunbound.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

About once a week, someone leaves a blog comment so insightful, I wish I had thought of it.

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Celeste | A Literary Escape @alitescape.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today’s review is about FALLEN CITY by Adrienne Young. It’s the first book in the Fallen City duology, which draws inspiration from ancient Rome. #booksky aliteraryescape.com/2026/09/28/f...

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Fallen City by Adrienne Young

A book review on A Literary Escape about Fallen City by Adrienne Young, the first book in an ancient Rome-inspired fantasy duology.

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H.C. Newton - The Irresponsible Reader @hcnewton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Fantasy with Friends: Can Fantasy Help Us See Reality More Clearly? irresponsiblereader.com/2026/09/28/f...

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Pages Unbound @pagesunbound.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I know no one means it this way, but I feel like I am being gaslit. I have people telling me that of course YA books are about adults because teens like that sort of thing. Ok but in the VERY RECENT PAST the defining characteristic of a teen book was that the protagonist was a teen. 18 or younger.

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Pages Unbound @pagesunbound.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In 2017, I published this post addressing the discourse of whether YA books should ever be set in college. People thought not. Today, I have people telling me it's normal and expected that a YA character would be in their 20s. pagesunbound.wordpress.com/2017/09/18/c...

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Can We Have College-Aged Characters in YA Books? (Discussion)

I’ve recently seen a few conversations happening around social media on the possibility of featuring college-aged characters in young adult books. While some readers are excited about the ide…

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Pages Unbound @pagesunbound.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Twitter is bringing back the "Adults who read YA are losers who can't read!" discourse. Except this time there's the new angle of some commenters implying adults who read YA are child predators. I have to be honest: I haven't seen that take before.

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Pages Unbound @pagesunbound.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

On one hand, I want to say YA is refocusing to go back more to teens as the audience as adult readers pull away to romantasy. On the other hand, I've read a weird amount of YA books in the past couple years that involved the main character getting/being married.

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Pages Unbound @pagesunbound.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Interesting how anytime there is discourse about how time-consuming chores are, people just come in like, "You wash your bedding twice a month? You're doing too much! That's on you! Simply wash your sheets twice a year, you crazy clean freak! Laundry isn't that hard."

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Pages Unbound @pagesunbound.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I think AI tells are less things like em dashes and more things like inane details that are supposed to be "dramatic." I just saw a post about a toddler running off that claried the yard had no fence and "a driveway straight to the street." Yeah, that's usually where driveways go.

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Pages Unbound @pagesunbound.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Every YA fantasy books sounds the same. You have to write things like, "My midnight dark cloak was slung over my shoulders, slumped as if I couldn't bear the weight of the silky garment, and my eyes skittered to the rooftops where I'd heard a too-hoarse cough from a ravaged throat."

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Pages Unbound @pagesunbound.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Going to post this on Substack and see if the authors get mad at me. 😅 I'm sorry, but it's a disappointing roller coaster going from thinking I got a comment on MY writing to realizing I'm just getting an ad. Marketing is tough, but I don't know if this is even an effective tactic for authors.

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Pages Unbound @pagesunbound.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I know marketing is tough for authors, but 50% of the comments I get on Substack are, "Interesting topic. I have a book with similar vibes! Check it out here!" I have never checked it out because it feels like not a genuine interaction with my blog post.

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Pages Unbound @pagesunbound.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I think someone just (derogatorily) accused me of being a litearture teacher. Too bad for them that I'm not?

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Pages Unbound @pagesunbound.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

There's Twitter discourse about how both parents should work because "kids like to have alone time." I feel like I'm going insane. There are SO MANY factors people consider when deciding if one parent should stay at home, and "my middle schooler likes to sit in the house alone" isn't one of them!

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Pages Unbound @pagesunbound.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It is rather amazing the AI guys can declare they're inventing something with a 10% chance of wiping out humanity and apparently that's just . . . allowed. No official reaction. No attempt to stop it. Is it because everyone assumes they're always lying about how capable AI is?

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Pages Unbound @pagesunbound.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Now in the book I am reading, a girl makes a dramatic speech about how she will speak for others bc she was assaulted before and she was believed, so she is sorry the others were not, but she can help. Very inspiring - except her whole storyline was that she was NOT believed when it happened to her.

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Pages Unbound @pagesunbound.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I am reading a book where the summary says the two main characters "work together" to solve a mystery. 75% through the book, these two characters have just met each other.

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Pages Unbound @pagesunbound.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I wonder if listening to audiobooks makes me rate the book lower because they just feel so LONG when someone else is reading them.

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Pages Unbound @pagesunbound.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I was looking up college literature class syllabi for something, and I found one that ended explaining that the reading is not outrageous and the students can definitely do it if they try and they should devote 30-60 min daily to reading and they CAN totally do it all. I guess it’s bleak out there.

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Pages Unbound @pagesunbound.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I woke up this morning and realized I hadn't done this week's Fantasy with Friends post. So I whipped something up. Now, hours later, I realize I was going on about prologues and epilogues in my post when the prompt was actually only about prologues. Whoops.

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Pages Unbound @pagesunbound.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Can anyone recommend a window privacy film that cannot be seen through even if someone presses their nose against the window from the outside? I seem to always come across reviews that are like "great unless you stick your nose against it." But I need to ward off against noses against it!

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Pages Unbound @pagesunbound.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I see a lot of discussion about Harvard closing its writing center, and I think that's a mistake, but I also remember every time I went to the writing center at my undergrad that it was such a bad experience, I finally stopped going. I gave it 4+chances, and none were good. In fact, actively bad.

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Pages Unbound @pagesunbound.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I am pretty sure I have accidentally stumbled across a decently ranked Goodreads reviewer who is plagiarizing other reviews. At least occasionally.

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Pages Unbound @pagesunbound.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I just finished IMPOSSIBLE CREATURES by Katherine Rundell. Fun middle grade plot. I see why it's popular. Reminded me slightly of Avatar: The Last Airbender, of course.

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Pages Unbound @pagesunbound.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It's a bit disheartening when people say they don't like AI writing, but then accounts clearly using AI in their posts (not just here, also on other platforms) get a lot of followers and interactions. I guess many people like the way AI sounds after all?

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