I joined page bound three days ago and am loving it! But not seeing a ton of romance readers like myself. So please say hi in the comments so I can follow you & get my rom recs 💕💕💕

Was wondering if you ever come across a book with a dull or not that best story line but the narrator was so good at what they do that you didnt mind listening to them even though you would have otherwise dnfed the book?

Bookriot has written an in depth article about the declining sales of historical romance with quotes from many well-known HR authors, like Mimi Matthews, Sarah Maclean, Joanna Shupe and Liana de la Rosa. I am a huge fan of historical romance and this trend of established HR authors being pushed into other genres by publishers makes me very sad. I also learned from this article that the mass market paperback is officially dead per the end of 2025. I knew this was happening (even Harlequins shifted to a larger format), but this also makes me very, very sad. I adore my large collection of mass market historical romances. Are you still reading HR? Article link: https://bookriot.com/unmaking-of-the-historical-romance-genre/

Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir The daughter of a former aide to the king of Morocco, who was executed after a failed assassination attempt on the ruler, describes how she, her five siblings, and her mother were imprisoned in a desert penal colony for twenty years. OR Reader, I Married Him: Stories Inspired by Jane Eyre by Tracy Chevalier Part of a remarkable family that produced three acclaimed female writers at a time in 19th-century Britain when few women wrote, and fewer were published, Brontë has become a great source of inspiration to writers, especially women, ever since. Now in Reader, I Married Him, twenty of today’s most celebrated women authors have spun original stories, using the line from Jane Eyre as a springboard for their own flights of imagination. Vote below! :)

My friend (meggosand) told me about an app to create an inventory of your books and I’ve fallen way down the rabbit hole. I have scanned my romance physical shelves, I’m tagging things and organizing things and having a blast. I’m not using this to log readings and reviews (I draw the line at that). But I like having a way to inventory what I own that is more streamlined for when I’m at the bookshop! Anyone else do this? What was do you tag or group your inventory collections.

I just had to rave about this. I feel so emotional about it. I have so much anxiety, but we were driving today and a little community library run by volunteers was doing a $1 book shelf thing, so I went in and got a membership for $6, and borrowed some books and bought a couple books. I have wanted to get physical library books so many times, and going in and seeing a book and like 'OH that's on my TBR', I grabbed it because I figured with a time limit, it's a great way to get through my TBR because choosing is hard. Either way, I added all my library borrows onto my 'currently reading' to make me get through them in time and I'm just so so excited about this. I use Libby a lot, but a physical library book just makes me feel like a teenager again.

How has everyone's June been? Read anything good? My favorite so far is my reread of the Outsiders since it has been my favorite book since 8th grade when I had to read it!

I have two tbr jars, one with books I'm most excited for and another with all the other books on my tbr. I alternate picking a book from each and that'll make up the queue of books I will read. I usually pick about 10 at a time. I find that doing it this way has helped me find some books I really enjoyed that I might not have picked over others! How do you pick your next reads? Anyone else have a tbr jar?

I'm currently reading three books at once (one is for a book club), and I was wondering: Do you like reading just one book at a time or you'd rather pick more titles and read them simultaneously?