I haven't really done a post like this before, but I'm hoping this is within the PB guidelines because I'm mostly just wanting to follow people who read the same books as me and get some recommendations!!

get to know me cozy fantasy - The House in the Cerulean Sea, The Spellshop, Howl's Moving Castle, Tress of the Emerald Sea, Demon World Boba Shop, Impractical Magic, Muscles & Monsters, A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking high fantasy (but not grimdark) - Mistborn, The Tainted Cup, Discworld graphics - The Tea Dragon Society, Solo Leveling, Hi, I'm a Witch, and My Crush Wants Me to Make a Love Potion, The Other World's Books Depend on the Bean Counter, Blue Lock, The Savior's Book Café Story in Another World funny goofy - The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love, Assistant to the Villain system/lit rpg - Dungeon Crawler Carl, Solo Leveling, Demon World Boba Shop retellings - The Lunar Chronicles, Lost Boy, A Spindle Splintered, Sour Cherry, Conceal Don't Feel romantasy - Caraval, Powerless, Six Crimson Cranes, The God and the Gumiho, The Crown of Oaths and Curses, The Half King, The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy childhood nostalgia - Alex Rider, Percy Jackson, The Three Doors Trilogy favourite authors - Matthew Reilly, Mariana Zapata, Rick Riordan, Terry Pratchett

some of my favourite reads: Demon World Boba Shop, Long Live Evil, The Discworld, Caraval, Anne of Green Gables, A Wrinkle in Time, Wayward Children, Project Hail Mary, All Rhodes Lead Here, Kulti, Wolfsong, The Invisible LIfe of Addie Larue, The Edens series, A Court of Silver Flame, Her Radiant Curse, Jurassic Park

I am over the moon to share that the app is officially live on both iOS and Android!!

We've quite literally poured our blood, sweat and (lots of) tears into the app development over the past 9 months and we could not be more thrilled for everyone to experience it!

We're still being indexed in app store search so you may have to scroll to find us, or type in Pagebound: Social Book Tracker. Here's links to iOS and Android: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pagebound-social-book-tracker/id6751526412 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.pagebound.app

There are quite a few improvements and new features in the app, including:

• Book Journeys (click the map icon on the book cards in your library and other user's library to see their posts, comments, and updates for a specific book)
• Quick access to "add to plan"
• Filtering your activity on profile
• Save posts
• upgraded Read Dates editing

This is the first release, so there will be many more additions and improvements to come. (PS for Android users: we're aware of two bugs related to library imports from Goodreads/Storygraph, and issues with editing read dates - these have already been resolved and are pending Google approval for release.)

We owe a huge thank you to our beta testers who worked diligently over the last month to report hundreds of bugs and help us get the app prepared for release. A huge round of applause to them.

We hope you love the app as much as we do; it definitely makes engaging on PB so much more convenient and fun. If you have a great experience with the app, we'd love if you'd consider supporting us through Pagebound Royalty; Lucy and I have worked for $0 over the past year to bring the app and website to fruition, and have been covering business costs with our savings accounts. Your contribution means we can continue to work full-time on Pagebound without influence from investors or advertisers, and keep Pagebound 100% for readers by readers. Thank you so much to all the Royalty who have already contributed; it truly means the world to us and keeps Pagebound online!

ok now go download the app and tell us what you think!

Happy Reading, Jennifer & Lucy

PS - leaving us a review in app stores also helps tremendously :)

Matt Kirkland had a really cool idea to create Dracula Daily which is a free email 'newsletter' that sends you the letters, diaries, telegrams and newspaper clippings on the date they occur in the book following the same timeline and content (between May 3rd and November 7th).

The FAQ is here. Its such a novel approach I'm quite interested, has anyone else read Dracula this way? I think I am going to catch up on the archives and have joined to give it a go.

brandanadei mentioned it in their review here as adding to the tension and another reader I follow on GR also just recommended it as an engaging and interesting way to read it.

Listening to the audiobook and I had to move the playback speed from 1.5x to 1.2x. It's not because I'm struggling to understand the narrator, but because as ever, Muir is writing things that make me go "waitwaitwait back up, what was that? What are we talking about?"

And I know I won't understand the wider implications of the crumbs she's dropping until later in the book (maybe) but I still want to make sure I slow down enough to take everything in 😅 I feel like these books very much require active listening!

5 stars. This book ripped me apart, put me back together and gave me hope. Beautifully created characters and a storyline worth following until the end. Would love to know what others thought. This was my first by Backman and cannot wait to read more🤗