I love the concept of this book, I do struggle a bit with the language of this sometimes

a hundred or so pages in, I'm still not sure what to feel overall. I really, really wanted to read this book when I first heard of it and now that I am - I can't even decide what I feel about it so far. Maybe just whelmed

I want to preface that this could absolutely be a personal thing, but I still wanted to share my thoughts. I’ve been thinking about this for a while now, and honestly, I think PageBound has serious potential to do something great for the book community. The way it’s set up with the forums, the quests, and the front page (that's incredibly engaging & also catchy, like it makes me want to look at it and scroll haha), it actually feels like it could change things when it comes to getting people to pick up new books and pick up diverse books. I’ve been using PageBound since, I think, March? and in that time, I’ve seen so many little instances where I’ll leave a discussion post or review and then i'll notice someone add that book to their TBR. I’ve even personally bumped books up my own TBR just because I saw people chatting about them or sharing reviews that caught my attention (e.g. An Ember in the Ashes, I saw people chit chatting about it and felt like I wanted to be involved haha so then it was the next book I read) or I’ll see someone add a book to their TBR so I’ll check it out. The Quests have also helped me pick up books that I may have never picked up on my own. I’ve been on Goodreads since 2012, jumped on StoryGraph when it launched, and I’ve tried apps like Tome and Fable too but I’ve never really felt this kind of interaction before. With PageBound though, the community vibe is so real, and it’s already proving it can influence what people read. I do sometimes use TikTok for recommendations, but I’m less likely to trust those since a lot of influencers get paid to make videos and I don’t really take recommendations at all from Instagram. There’s reddit, but again, sometimes the authors are sneakily in there recommending lmao, but It’s good if you’re looking for books with similar vibes to ones you like. So yeah, I can totally see this becoming a major space for building hype, especially for ARCs and helping books gain early traction. There’s something really exciting here.

not just "i really liked this character" but something deeper, like the author somehow had access to your inner monologue and turned it into a sentence. for me, that kind of connection doesn’t happen often, but when it does, I really carry that book with me. i’d love to know what book made you feel seen? maybe it was a character, a moment, or even just the way the author thinks ; their voice or thoughts felt so familiar it was like they have been living in your head.

I'm looking for recommendations of books that are funny, witty, or have a unique and clever writing style. I'm especially looking for adult fiction (though memoirs and etc. are good too), and specifically books with female protagonists and/or non-white leads. They don't have to be Comedy books either, just ones that are entertaining and put you in a reading flow state :-)