MclarenMercedes44

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Complete Grishaverse

by MclarenMercedes44

10 books

The complete grishaverse series’s in the correct order including novellas. The novellas aren’t required to read the main 3 series but are highly recommended and give greater insight into characters.

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MclarenMercedes44 commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

whatemmareads

rose, bud, thorn (but with books!)

rose: a recent read that you loved bud: what you're reading next OR a release you're excited for thorn: a book that you didn't like (or DNF'd)

MclarenMercedes44 commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

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juelibrary

POV: Your favourite library is burning down

Hello my fellow Boundlings!

I was just sitting in the library studying for my upcoming exam, when suddenly the fire sirens started 💀🚨

This has inspired me for a little POV game:

Imagine you're sitting in your favourite library and suddenly the fire sirens start. You smell smoke, but before you can bring yourself to safety, you manage to grab one book to save. Which Book are you saving from the fire ? 👀🔥

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MclarenMercedes44

QOTD- would you rather?

Here’s some bookish would you rather that I’ve been pondering over the past couple of days, some may be slightly basic but I’m still curious to hear others opinions.

Have all your favourite movies turned into books or your favourite books turned into movies

Only read books published before 2020 or after 2020

Live in your favourite book or have the characters from your favourite book live in our world

Only read fiction or non-fiction

Have a pet from your favourite fantasy book or your current pet

Have your favourite author never release another book or for them to still release books but something controversial surface about them

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kieva.x

Question of the Day!

Good morning Bookaholics!

Your question of the day is...

What is today's reading goal?

Mine is 159 pages 😎

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Aidan (Aidan Trilogy #1)

Angela Auten

It's been ten years since he found his mother dead on the kitchen floor. Ten years and still the nightmares haunt him. At sixteen, Aidan is deep in the vortex of depression and anxiety. He's supposed to be enjoying his summer, meeting girls, trying to be a normal teen, but he's anything but. His mother was murdered and the killer never found. Interacting with his peers seems almost impossible. As the anniversary of his mother's death rolls around for another year, his dreams grow with intensity, leading him to unlock the truth about his mother's death. Suspicions begin to grow in his mind, pulling him away from the people he's supposed to trust and leading him to find comfort and strength in a new relationship. If you enjoy intriguing mysteries, relatable characters and the beauty of first love, then check out Aidan today.

ebook • 20 copies • everywhere

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The Iliad

Homer Homer

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Goddess of the River

Vaishnavi Patel

A powerful reimagining of the story of Ganga, goddess of the river, and her doomed mortal son, from Vaishnavi Patel, author of the instant New York Times bestseller Kaikeyi . A mother and a son. A goddess and a prince. A curse and an oath. A river whose course will change the fate of the world. Ganga, joyful goddess of the river, serves as caretaker to the mischievous godlings who roam her banks. But when their antics incur the wrath of a powerful sage, Ganga is cursed to become mortal, bound to her human form until she fulfills the obligations of the curse. Though she knows nothing of mortal life, Ganga weds King Shantanu and becomes a queen, determined to regain her freedom no matter the cost. But in a cruel turn of fate, just as she is freed of her binding, she is forced to leave her infant son behind. Her son, prince Devavrata, unwittingly carries the legacy of Ganga’s curse. And when he makes an oath that he will never claim his father’s throne, he sets in motion a chain of events that will end in a terrible and tragic war. As the years unfold, Ganga and Devavrata are drawn together again and again, each confluence another step on a path that has been written in the stars, in this deeply moving and masterful tale of duty, destiny, and the unwavering bond between mother and son.

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The Bog Wife

Kay Chronister

In this atmospheric Appalachian gothic, the Haddesley siblings of West Virginia must unearth long-buried secrets to carve out a future when the supernatural bargain entwining their fate with their ancestral land is suddenly ruptured Since time immemorial, the Haddesley family has tended the cranberry bog. In exchange, the bog sustains them. The staunch seasons of their lives are governed by a strict covenant that is renewed each generation with the ritual sacrifice of their patriarch, and in return, the bog produces a “bog-wife.” Brought to life from vegetation, this woman is meant to carry on the family line. But when the bog fails—or refuses—to honor the bargain, the Haddesleys, a group of discordant siblings still grieving the mother who mysteriously disappeared years earlier, face an unknown future. Middle child Wenna, summoned back to the dilapidated family manor just as her marriage is collapsing, believes the Haddesleys must abandon their patrimony. Her siblings are not so easily persuaded. Eldest daughter Eda, de facto head of the household, seeks to salvage the compact by desecrating it. Younger son Percy retreats into the wilderness in a dangerous bid to summon his own bog-wife. And as youngest daughter Nora takes desperate measures to keep her warring siblings together, fledgling patriarch Charlie uncovers a disturbing secret that casts doubt over everything the family has ever believed about itself. Brimming with aching loss and the universal struggle between honoring family commitments and the drive to strike out on one’s own, The Bog Wife is a haunting invocation of the arcane power of the habits and habitats that bound us.

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Graveyard Shift

M.L. Rio

Author of sales sensation If We Were Villains returns with a story about a ragtag group of night shift workers who meet in the local cemetery to unearth the secrets lurking in an open grave. Every night, in the college’s ancient cemetery, five people cross paths as they work the late shift: a bartender, a rideshare driver, a hotel receptionist, the steward of the derelict church that looms over them, and the editor-in-chief of the college paper, always in search of a story. One dark October evening in the defunct churchyard, they find a hole that wasn’t there before. A fresh, open grave where no grave should be. But who dug it, and for whom? Before they go their separate ways, the gravedigger returns. As they trail him through the night, they realize he may be the key to a string of strange happenings around town that have made headlines for the last few weeks—and that they may be closer to the mystery than they thought. Atmospheric and eerie, with the ensemble cast her fans love and a delightfully familiar academic backdrop, Graveyard Shift is a modern Gothic tale in If We Were Villains author M. L. Rio’s inimitable style.

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Thoughts from 93% (page 462, chapter 40)

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jenniferPagebound

Product & App Updates [3/16/2026]

Hi everyone, we've been quietly releasing new features and quality of life updates over the past month on all platforms, please make sure your app is updated to see the latest improvements!

One of the biggest updates is moderation improvement. We have new tools for both our moderators (who run the PageboundGuide account) and for the community:

You can now report a post, review, or comment for spoilers
You can send a post or comment to PBGuide for Content Guideline violations
Of course, you can still flag a post, comment, review, or user profile for hate speech, harassment, self-promo, etc

PageboundGuides will review all reported content and either:

add a spoiler tag to posts & reviews
flag comments with spoilers
approve flags for posts/reviews/comments/profiles that violate the Terms & Conditions (hate speech etc)
archive Posts that do not meet the Posting & Content Guidelines

What is archiving? When a post does not meet the Content Guidelines (link here, quick version under Account & Settings -> Posting Guidelines in the app) PBGuide can archive the post from the book forum. The post is hidden from the default forum view but stays on your profile and book journey. You can include archived posts in your forum view by changing the forum filter from "All Posts" to "Include archived posts"

The PBGuides have been working hard behind the scenes to clean up very busy forums (especially the readalong forums). We know this has been a point of frustration for many, and giving everyone the ability to send these posts to PBGuide for review is just one of many ways we will be improving forum quality over the coming months.

Other New Features & Improvements

Feed filters on your Main Feed and Following feed
Message on your Yearly Challenge letting you know if you are ahead or behind on your goal
Streaks! & editing past reading progress (click the streak widget to edit and view historical progress)
Navigation changes on app: Profile is it's own tab where More menu used to be. The More menu is now on the top left next to the Pagebound logo
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Right now we are working on a huge, exciting project: Format tracking, stats, and monthly wrapups. Goal is to have this out in the next month!

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Happy Reading, Jennifer & Lucy

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