Happy Friday, fellow fiction fans! (I love alliteration).

Drop the first line or two of the book you're currently reading, and let fellow Boundlings try to guess the title and author. If no one gets it by the end of the day, come back and reveal the answer!

A few friendly guidelines: • Keep it to the first line or two only (no spoilers!) • Don’t include the title or author right away • Feel free to add a hint later if people get stuck

I used to be a big jrpg girly so I really like to imagine Raybearer as a turn based rpg similar to the persona franchise

ALSO GIDEON WOULD BE AMAZING

I am sick of reading romance stories of teenagers falling in love in unatural ways and always the same dynamics in the relationship between a white "powerful" man and the "in need for help desperate" white girl.. Do you have any recommandations of books where we can follow a couple and maybe be bored by their life because love is not alwyas butterflies and fireworks, I love Sally Rooney for that but already devoured all her books :(

I saw some posts on here about good vs bad books adaptations, and it got me thinking about books that probably shouldn't or can't be adapted and why.

I know before the recent Dune movie releases people were saying that it would be too difficult to make a good adaption of the book due to the scale, need for special effects, etc. (Yet, the movies turned out really really good imo.) I just finished Coldwire and that's another one that I don't think can be adapted in a way that would work well- iykyk.

What are some books that you think shouldn't or can't be adapted into a tv show or movie?

Thrilled to be back in this book, and back after so many good reads. Amongst which: several of Zadie Smith’s catalogue. And could not the following fit just as well in a modern Smith novel:

And despite the fact that neither science, nor art, nor politics actually interested him, he clung to the views on all these subjects held by the majority and by his newspaper, and only changed them when the majority changed them, or to be more precise, he did not change them, as they themselves imperceptibly changed within him. Stepan Arkadyich did not choose either his tendency or his views, as these tendencies and views came to him by themselves, in just the same way that he did not choose a style of hat or frock coat, but plumped for the ones which other people wore.

Excepting the Russian name and the use of “plumped,” this could be a pull quote from On Beauty. Concise, hilarious, observant, and so fun to see the old masters renewed in modern lit.

I hate you Henry David Thoreau I hate you I hate you you’re so pretentious and pompous and not even a good writer I hate you so much