your votes are in!! this (unofficial) readalong we will be reading…

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sleep donation by karen russell!

i am so excited for this one and i hope you all are too!!! loosely i’ll say the readalong will be wrapped up around the end of july/at some point in august. read at your leisure and make sure to check out my pinned post containing trigger warnings to make sure this book is a good and safe one for you to read!!!

This has no business being the best romance I've ever read

Hi Pagebound!

I hope everyone is doing well and reading a lot :) I was hoping to get some recommendations for books/plays/short stories/anything really written by women throughout the world. I am teaching a global women’s writing class this fall and have a TON of ideas but also feel like I want to explore even more before I finalize, so I was hoping to find some recs here! I’ve already looked through some lists of translated works, but haven’t quite found a list with what I’m looking for exactly.

Works I’m heavily considering for the syllabus rn: The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington Kissing the Witch by Emma Donoghue Some of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s work Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami The Vegetarian by Han Kang Orlanda by Jacqueline Harpman My Name will Grow Wide like a Tree by Yi Lei Maybe works by d’Aulnoy, Tove Jansson, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

As you can see, what’s driving me crazy is I am missing out on the entire continent of Africa (I am sad that most of the works I’ve read are typically Nigerian or South African and always by men!), India, and the SWANA region.

Any recommendations would be amazing and so appreciated!! Thank you for taking the time!

Last quarter, we trialed a new way to create Quests. Lists were nominated by Pagebound Royalty, the entire community voted, and 3 Quests inspired by 3 winning Lists were created.

It’s time to do it again 🎉 How this will work:

1. Royalty members can nominate a List (their own or any community List) that would make a great starting point for a Quest. Royalty members will receive a notification today with a link to a form to fill out by EOD June 23rd to nominate. The form will include context about what makes for a great Quest. Folks who join Royalty through June 23rd will receive an email with a link to the form.
2. The entire Pagebound community will then vote on which nominated Lists will inspire Quests. Everyone will receive a notification on June 24th with a link to vote.
3. The creators of 3 winning Lists will be emailed and can accept/reject.
4. If they accept, we will create a Quest inspired by their List, adapting the title & book list if necessary to fit Quest guidelines (for example, if a List has 20 books, we will reduce it to 15 for a Side Quest; if a List includes all 7 books of a series, we would put book 1).

We will be introducing another avenue to Quest creation in the fall: community-voted User of the Month (exact language TBD). The entire PB community can nominate a user they believe embodies PB values. The user with the most nominations will be awarded a badge and the ability to create 1 Quest.

The community-voted List winners and future Users of the Month will be listed as the Quest creator, and for Main Quests, this means they’ll be able to add new releases over time (capped at 100 books). The evergreen nature of Main Quests ensures their relevancy for many years to come, but of course, that’s a big commitment to ask of a Quest creator, so Jennifer & I are always available to take over curation if the original creator becomes inactive.

Looking forward to seeing the wonderful Lists that get nominated!

Jennifer & Lucy

Save a horse, ride an alien cowboy 🤠👽

I've read alien romance, I've read cowboy romance, but never thought to combine the two. What a nice discovery

Ehlers-Danlos-Syndrome I always have a feeling nobody knows about EDS (including my doctors 😒), so I never expected to read this book with the MC having it!! No matter how this books pans out for that alone it was worth it. ✨ Representation matters ✨