PageHabit is a monthly book and bookish item subscription. The subscription costs $29.99 per month, and you can choose from a variety of genres available like Mystery, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Romance, and Young Adult Fiction. PageHabit also gives back to the community – each month, they partner with different organizations to make sure that children around the world have books to read.
DEAL: Save $10 off your subscription! Use this link to get the deal.
This month, children from Ethiopia will benefit from PageHabit purchases! It also includes an infographic-style trivia about the country.
You can now add selections! They’re $18.98 each.
Everything in my February 2018 box!
I picked SciFi this month. My box includes one (1) newly released book, plus several bookish goods.
PageHabit has started providing variations based on the relative values of the books. Here are the books in the other subscriptions:
- Romance – The Wedding Date Jasmine Guillory ($12)
- Mystery – The Glass Forest By Cynthia Swanson ($17.10)
- Young Adult Fiction – The Apocalypse Of Elena Mendoza ($12.32)
- Literary Fiction – The Great Alone By Kristin Hana ($17.39)
- Fantasy – The Midnight Front By David Mack ($18.29)
- Horror – Look For Her By Emily Winslow ($10.93)
- Historical Fiction – Song Of A Captive Bird By Jasmin Darznik ($17.70)
PageHabit Bookmark. Every box includes a new bookmark. One side features the PageHabit logo…
…while the other side of the bookmark features a quote from George R.R. Martin, the author of A Song of Fire and Ice which was later adapted into the series Game of Thrones.
Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.
My 9 year old gleefully scurried off with this one!
Fred Mark My Words Bookmark ($6) These are not your ordinary bookmarks!
The bookmarks are made of ABS plastic and features a retro-comic styling!
Here’s how it looks like when you put it in a book.
Bookworm Black Knitted Beanie. This black knitted beanie is a great way to keep yourself warm and toasty in the last days of winter. Since it’s black, it’s easy to pair with various outfits. It even comes with a bookworm tag so I know it’s really meant for me.
Kikkerland Talking Bubble Sticky Notes ($11.99) It’s a set of 3 sticky notes that look like talking bubbles!
The notes come with adhesive strip that sticks anywhere easily.
They definitely go well with the retro comic bookmarks. They’re perfect for adding notes on books without damaging the pages, and they would also look great on planners and journals.
RIP Van Winkle: Washington Irving ($2.99)
Rip Van Winkle is a classic short story by celebrated writer Washington Irving. The stories protagonist, Rip Van Winkle, is an American Revolutionary War era Dutch-American villager who, while in the Catskill mountains, miraculously travels forward in time to discover that he is decades into a future that he doesn’t recognize.
The short story first appeared in Washington Irving’s The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., which was published in 1819, and now considered as a classic.
The protagonist of the story successfully travels forward in time. It’s a pretty interesting time-traveling story! I would love to see more public domain classics and fairytales in lieu of the short stories that have been in previous months.
Les Johnson sent a note along with the book, telling us about his inspiration in writing.
He also included some annotations inside the book!
Mission To Methone By Les Johnson ($11)
Humanity is not alone in the universe. Across the galaxy, a war rages between advanced alien races. And its about to be brought to our doorstep.
The year is 2065 and an accidental encounter in space leads to the discovery that we are not alone in the universe—and that our continued existence as a species may be in jeopardy.
Chris Holt, working in his office at the Space Resources Corporation, discovers that one of the asteroids he is surveying for mining is actually not an asteroid at all but a derelict spaceship. The word gets out and soon the world’s powers are competing to explore and claim for themselves the secrets that it holds.
WAT how did they not know it was a spaceship?!
What they don’t know is that across the galaxy, a war has been underway for millennia. A war between alien civilizations that have very different ideas about what should be done about emerging spacefaring civilizations like our own. The artificial intelligence resident in the derelict Holt discovered has been in our solar system since before the dawn of human civilization, watching, waiting and keeping quiet lest the interstellar war return and wipe out the sentient race that now resides there—humanity.
And that war might soon be again coming to our front door. The truth can only be discovered on Methone, a tiny, egg-shaped moon of the planet Saturn. Who will get there first? And will it be in time?
The book is about discoveries and outer space. The story is inspired by the author’s career during his stay at NASA.
A short aside – if you’re at all into space, Kennedy Space Center is amazing! We love space! And NASA!
This annotation for an instance tells us that the characters in the story are based on real people!
The author even tells about de Broglie matter waves, which he learned about during his years in graduate school.
de Broglie Waves. In 1924 a young physicist, de Broglie, speculated that nature did not single out light as being the only matter which exhibits a wave-particle duality. He proposed that ordinary “particles” such as electrons, protons, or bowling balls could also exhibit wave characteristics in certain circumstances.
One of his annotations is about the Fermi Paradox, which is the apparent contradiction between the lack of evidence and high probability estimates for the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations. He even mentioned the now-late Stephen Hawking and what he said about not telling the universe that we exist. That made me wonder, are there other beings in the whole universe that exists, and if they do, do they have any idea about humanity?
The universe is vast and there are lots of things we still don’t know about. This month’s title is such an interesting and mind-boggling book – it might be a fictional work, but it can make anyone think and reflect. I think I did the right thing by choosing the SciFi category (but the other books are promising too). What I love about this subscription is that there’s an option for add-ons if one book per month is not enough to feed your hunger for reading. The bookish goods are also cool and, best of all, PageHabit gives back to the community of young readers all over the world! Such a nice gesture to share knowledge and love!
What genre is your favorite?
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