Happy Friday, Boundlings! 💜

Looking for your next read, but you’re not sure where to start? Let’s play a quick game to get some great recs with a unique twist. 👾✨

Drop these 3️⃣ random things in the comments, and see what recommendations people can come up with based on those things alone:

• a texture • a scent • a hobby

Get as creative and chaotic with your answers as possible! I’m curious what recommendations will be made 😍

I recently read The Piss by Matthew J. Gleason (nsfw, engage at your own risk, yes it is as it sounds!).

It was a weird, quirky, very out-there bizarro horror. And while I was enthralled by its weirdness, I just couldn't get over the fact that I felt it didn't really have a point, or a message or a moral. I completely understand creating art for the sake of it, and maybe this was just that. A weird and wacky tale for the sake of it. To disturb and unnerve and entertain but not really to say anything. (There is also the possibility I missed a very profound message in the story).

I think because I was one of those insufferable kids in English class, I always expect to read a book and think "this is what they were really trying to say". I read mainly romance and horror. In very different ways, both of these genres are on a deeper level, about why people do what they do, their trauma responses, their desires and there is a message about humans, the world, justice, kindness, morality etc etc.

Does anyone else feel more called to books that have a clear "moral of the story"? Does every book innately have a message? Do they have to?

🔪 Horror trope edition 🔪

Time to step into the shadows, where nothing is quite what it seems this week ...

You know the rules! Pick your side, defend your choice, and tell me why in the comments 👇

Would you rather ...

🌑 Be hunted by something you can’t see OR 👁️ Be watched by something that never leaves?

🏚️ Spend a night in an abandoned asylum OR 🌲 Get lost in a forest that won’t let you out?

📖 Read a cursed book that knows your future OR 📼 Watch a tape you can’t stop once it starts?

🪞 See something move in the mirror behind you OR 🚪 Hear something breathing on the other side of a locked door?

🕯️ Be alone in a house where lights turn on by themselves OR 🔦 Be in total darkness with something moving nearby?

👻 Be haunted by a spirit that wants to talk OR 😈 Be followed by something that never makes a sound?

⏳ Relive the same terrifying night over and over OR 🩸 Experience a new nightmare every time you sleep?

🚗 Be stranded on a deserted road at night OR 🏨 Check into a hotel where no one else seems to leave?

🧠 Slowly realize you’re losing your mind OR 👀 Know something supernatural is real, but no one believes you?

🪦 Explore a graveyard at midnight OR 🕳️ Discover something buried beneath your house?

🎭 Trust someone who might not be human OR 🔪 Be completely alone ... with something hunting you?

🧬 Uncover a horrifying secret about yourself OR 📡 Discover something out there is watching humanity?

Choose carefully, some decisions follow you home! 😈

Another week kicks off, and somehow the TBR pile didn’t just survive, it multiplied. Again. Absolutely no explanation for this phenomenon.

One minute it’s Sunday night, the next it’s Monday morning and you’re deep in a "just one more chapter" situation that somehow lasted half the night.

At this point, let’s not pretend it’s about organization. The TBR isn’t a list anymore: it’s a lifestyle.

✨ What are you currently reading? 📖 What’s next on your list (intentionally or otherwise)? 🔥 And real talk: how many new books quietly joined your collection over the weekend?

Drop your current reads, surprise additions, or the book you can’t stop thinking about. Let’s start the week a little unhinged and very well-read.

I just saw someone do this on instagram and thought it would be so much fun for PB!

Share with us your 7 Deadly Sin book choices:

1. Lust (or books you picked up just because of the cover)
2. Pride (or difficult book you’ve read)
3. Gluttony (or books you’ve read more than once)
4. Sloth (or the book that’s been on your TBR the longest)
5. Greed (or books you’ve read own multiple copies of)
6. Wrath (or books that you despise)
7. Envy (or books you want to live in)

I’ll go first. Mine are:

1. Lust - sadly, I do this a lot 🫣 I love to judge a book by its cover…Heart the Lover, When I Open the Shop, Tom Lake, How to Loiter in a Turf War to name just a few
2. Pride - The Beguilled was a tough read. So was The Tin Drum. I also loved One Hundred Years of Solitude but found it a challenging read.
3. Gluttony - haven’t done much rereading since I was a child so probably Alanna: The First Adventure would be my most reread
4. Sloth - The Count of Monte Cristo has been on the list since forever
5. Greed - I don’t have more than one copy of any book! I just don’t know why you’d need/want that 😂😂
6. Wrath - I thought Rodham was such a creepy book to have written about real and still alive people. Especially, putting words and thoughts into Hilary’s mouth about such sexualised moments and passing the whole thing off as supportive of her and feminist in general? I felt yucky reading it.
7. Envy - probably any cosy magical place…Emily Wilde’s academic magic adventures seem like a bit of me 😊