I’m new to Pagebound and wondering how people are using the “Interested” shelf. For me, books I’m interested in go on my TBR so I’m curious how others are using that feature. Right now I’m just using it for books that I’ve heard about but haven’t officially added to my TBR yet. I’m wondering if there are other uses for it that I haven’t thought of yet.

I know I read the Princess Diaries as a kid but it somehow feels sneaky to mark it as read, especially because it’ll be my 20th book for this quest!

Anyone have any throwback books that you’ve marked for a little boost?

(edit: I think the way I worded this brought us into the eternal “does it count??” discussion. everyone reads and logs books in their own way and for their own reasons, I’m just curious about old reads you’ve dredged up/a quest brought back into your consciousness!)

So many book tracking platforms/apps out for our use but nothing has been as effective as Pagebound for me in discovering books I had never heard of. Like this one for example: The Dragon with the Chocolate Heart

I'm nearing my 40s but I'm pretty sure I'll be reading that one of these days. The title alone has charmed me so quickly. Other titles I've never heard of to name a few:

• Seven Devils
• The Bone Harp
• Gearbreakers
• The Keeper of Lonely Spirits
• Slayers of Old
• Interesting Facts about Space
• The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter
• Velocity Weapon
• A Letter to the Luminous Deep
• Lucha of the Night Forest

Again, thanks Pagebound, a.k.a. Jennifer Dobak and Lucy Zhao. Your work has been amazing! 😁

This is my first real cozy fantasy and I’m enjoying it so much! I found this book in the thrift store with having no previous knowledge on it besides the summary on the back and I’m very pleasantly surprised!

What do you value in a book the most based on Nancy Pearl’s Four Doors of Reading? Link here if you want to learn more, including TED Talk at the end: https://teralynnchilds.com/nancy-pearls-four-doors-reading/ (I tried to embed link but I forgot how)

Excerpt from above link:

🚪 The Four Doors 🚪 📖 Story — Plot. Action. The sequence of events that the character(s) go through to reach the end. These are page turners, the books you can’t put down, and that keep you needing to find out what happens next.

🙂 Character — People. Protagonists. Villains. Heroes. The cast of characters who embark on the story. Books in which the characters feel real and you miss them when the book is over.

🌆 Setting — Worldbuilding. This is what makes you feel like you’re in another place or time (or even this exact place and time). Makes the world feel familiar, and makes you want to live in or visit that place.

✍️ Language — Words. Grammar. Style. These books make you want to savor every word, to the point where you’re not sure you even know or care what the book is about.

Every book contains all four of these elements to varying degrees. You can’t write a story without character, plot, setting, and words. But often (usually) one or more doorways are bigger than others. The blockbuster books, the ones that become huge bestsellers across audiences and age groups, have four really big doors.

🚪 Find Your Door 🚪 Discovering your door to reading! Which doorway is yours? Or what order would you rank the four doors from most to least important? Think about your favorite book. Usually the first thing you describe is a clue.

My Doors Ranked: 🌆 📖 🙂 ✍️ I would rank world building as most important for me. Closely followed by plot. I need a great setting and often magic system to keep me hooked. I also need plot throughout. Character driven books don’t work for me as well as plot driven books or a mix. I enjoy character arcs but I value setting and plot more. I also don’t need good writing to enjoy a story so that one is very much last for me.

I look forward to hearing about yours 🥰

Currently I've been reading Pride and Prejudice, right? So today I decided to watch a movie on YouTube to kill some time as a break and I decided to watch Northanger Abbey.

AND LET ME TELL YOU. It was so adorable 🥺 like first 15 minutes and Mr Tinley had me blushing like crazy lol plus catherine is just also so relatable and honest. Those two were just very wholesome along with Eleanor. It was also very funny so there's that!

Anyways for all you Jane Austen lovers, what's your favorite book or adaptation of hers? I really enjoy Persuasion but I think Northanger Abbey is also up there now and I can't wait to read it

What’s a quest you’d like to see to help you explore a genre/area/niche that you’re a newbie in/haven’t explored enough?

I often see people talking about quests they’d like to see based on their interests, but I find the quests that expose me to knew-to-me authors/titles the most interesting!

I’m trying to make a point this year of reading more Black authors. Although I already read very diversely I found Black authors to be less represented in my reading last year than I’d have liked. This is my official call for a black lit fic quest so I can find some titles outside the most popular/classics!

Editing to add: if you have some niche black lit fic picks (especially LGBTQIA+, and especially sapphic, drop them in the comments please)

Hey there fellow Pagers 😁

I need your help. I'm compiling a chunk of a list containing only duologies and I'd like your recommendations. It's not genre locked so you can recommend any you can think of. If you wanna check it out, it's here: Two and Through

Much appreciated! 🌹