Do you have a preference whether the above are located at the front or back of a book?

I think I put higher value on the materials that are included at the front, as they are before the story so must be needed, whereas the ones at the end feel like extras so I am less likely to look at them 🙈 interested to hear your thoughts!

Right now, there are 5 books i really want to finish, but I also feel the need to start at least 10 more and my reading folder is already so large. Especially as I also have paused books to finish.

Usually, not a problem, but I keep being stuck on those 5 books despite also feeling the need to read something else.

I can't be the only one, can I?

What do you look at on other people's profiles? I like looking at everybody's My Taste books, but I feel like that's usually not enough to know if we'll have the same taste in other things. I do like stalking other users' library shelves, but not everyone uses them. I feel like I haven't been able to use the percentages in common enough to identify what percentage range is actually similar in taste. What's the highest percentage in common you've come across?

I've started using my shelves like I make playlists; one for every very specific mood.

That way every time I'm in a specific mood again, I have a list of possibilities to pick from without having to keep spending an hour+ hunting down the exact thing I'm looking for.

But that made me curious about how everyone else uses their shelves. Do you use it to organize your tbr? Or to organize the ones you've already read? Or do you do crazy things like me?

My bookclube does a seasonal bingo and I just planned my reads, and I am wondering what others would do? I am doing one box per book, but we allow three boxes a book if it fits. What would you choose?

Set in big city, Blonde MMC, Ft. a beach, Morally grey MC, Fruit on cover, Genre hybrid, LGBTQIA+ Author, Portal Fantasy, Book you got for free, Southern Gothic, Author shares your zodiac, Middle grade, Dragon on cover, Sci-fi, Includes Fae in title, Includes a Flame in title, Anthology, Recommended by friend, Caribbean author, and Dream vacation.

(note: the book club is called Fae & Flame society, thus the 'fae' & 'Flame' themes)

This is what I am going to be doing: Set in big city: Jade City Fonda Lee Blonde MMC: Once Upon a Broken Heart Stephanie Garber Ft. a beach: The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea Axie Oh Morally grey MC: Lady Macbeth Ava Reid Fruit on cover: Woman, Eating Claire Kohda Genre hybrid: Even Though I Knew the End C. L. Polk LGBTQIA+ Author: The Empress of Salt and Fortune Nghi Vo Portal Fantasy: Bound to the Battle God Ruby Dixon Book I got for free: A Knight and the Moth Rachel Gillig Southern Gothic: The River Has Teeth Erica Waters Author shares zodiac: Stepsister Jennifer Donnelly Middle grade: First Test Tamora Pierce Dragon on cover: Fireborne Blade Charlotte Bond Sci-fi: The Mimicking of Known Successes Malka Older Includes Fae in title: Faebound Saara El-Arifi Includes Flame in title: These Feathered Flames Alexandra Overy Anthology: The Grimoire of Grave Fates Hanna Alkaf & Margaret Owen, editors Recommended by friend: The Binding Bridget Collins Caribbean author: Infinity Alchemist Kacen Callender Dream vacation: Meeting Millie Clare Ashton

If you could wave a magical wand right now and get any unpublished book into your hands right this second what would it be? This could be a planned but as-of-yet unpublished book or one that you wish an author might write! This is obviously not intended to pressure any authors since it is a magical hypothetical.

I'd like Naomi Novik to write an epic fantasy similar to Spinning Silver but loosely based on soviet Russia and centring feminist actors. (if I had a creative writing bone in my body that's the book I would write)

hi boundlings!! 🫛🐝 there has been a similar post recently by @Allonsythornraxx, so pardon me if this sounds a bit repetitive! sooo, a few fellow PBs inspired me to make a bucket list of 100 books to read ✨sooner or later✨ (that's genuinely gonna be the name of my list lmao), so i wanted to ask for advice! the reason im making this post despite there being a similar one is that i didn't find many recs under it 🥹 so my question is, what's a book you think everyone MUST absolutely read once? it doesn't have to be a classic, but if it is id lean on the "digestible" ones more! and i can't read romantasy for the life of me (not straight at least) but other than that I'm open to pretty much any suggestion! i have a few in mind already, but I'd like to build this list based mainly on community recs 🫶🏻 hit me with your favourite book(s) or the book(s) that changed your life !! 🪻🔮

Okay, so a few days ago, I learned that Robert Frost wrote The Road Not Taken as a joke. Basically it was not originally intended as a grand metaphor about taking risks or choosing an unconventional path. Instead, Frost was gently mocking his friend Edward Thomas, with whom he often went on long walks. Apparently, whenever they came to a fork in the road, Thomas would lament over which path they should take. And if the route they chose didn’t lead to anything especially beautiful or interesting, he would immediately regret the decision and insist that they should have taken the other path.

Frost found this quite amusing and wrote the poem as a playful satire of his friend’s tendency to second-guess every choice. The funniest part is that Thomas didn’t initially realize he was being teased. He believed Frost had written a profound and beautiful poem inspired by their walks together. But no. Robert Frost was being a LITERAL menace (pun intended). And I think this is such a wonderful reminder that literary interpretation is often far more complicated than we assume.

Sometimes the curtains aren't just blue because they're blue, sometimes the curtains are a joke.

What is most fascinating is how readers can shape the legacy of a poem. Once a work is released into the world, it no longer belongs solely to the author. It also belongs to the readers, who bring their own interpretations and meanings to the text. Those interpretations may differ from what the author originally intended, and in some cases they become far more influential than the intended meaning.

That realisation has really inspired me to go back to other classic poems and consider how our contemporary understanding may differ from what the authors initially meant. It also shows how we should approach books and poetry with nuance. Our interpretations are valid, but they are not necessarily definitive. The meaning we find in a work may be very different from what the author had in mind. This feels especially relevant to current literary controversies, including discussions around R. F. Kuang new book. I think it is important to remember that one reader’s interpretation—particularly of a small excerpt taken out of context—is only one interpretation especially when the book hasn't even been released yet. Other readers may understand the text very differently. I think, it is often better to wait until the full work is available before drawing firm conclusions especially when the author has made her authorial intentions quite clear in other books.

I went on a tangent there but I still think it is hilarious that a poem I cherished my entire life as a metaphor for courage and risk-taking turns out to have been a very sophisticated joke. And I love Robert Frost even more for that.

Do you have any bookish fun facts like this?

Hi P.Bees!

OK, so a few days ago, I made a post asking what the PageBound Public thinks about Dark Romance. And I really enjoyed reading through different opinions and thoughts. So I decided to bring in a new discussion topic: about A.I. in books.

This spans from using AI in a creative process to using its exact words and paragraphs to write the book or to even use AI art as the cover. There are two discussions under this really, bc there is the discussion of how A.I in general is harming our society in many ways, and how A.I undermines the very creativity in writing (and other art forms). Some people think that A.I. has its incredible uses and even when not writing the book itself, can bring in a wealth of information or ideas at the writer's disposal. While some believe that A.I, like I explained earlier, not only negatively affects the general public, but undermines real human creativity, ideas, capabilities, and soul.

So! Feel free to discuss any part of this prompt, whether it's for or against A.I, or an in-between, and give reason why.