Readers of queer romance who like knights and princesses and enemies/bantering to friends to lovers and she's helping her achieve her dream, PLEASE PLEASE, READ LADY'S KNIGHT, trust me you'll love it

Hey fellow Boundlings! Long time listener, first time caller here!

I’ve been an avid reader my whole life, but a personal goal of mine this year was to read new genres or genres I stopped reading a long time ago (looking at you, YA)

So far, my goal is going really well! I’m breaking into sci-fi and finding what subgenres I really like! I’m also getting back into YA & Dystopian books after I got burnt out on them in high school 🫣

I’ve been thinking a lot about which books really helped “pave a path” for me into these genres, which made me curious…

What book(s) have you read that got you into a new genre/subgenre or brought a genre/subgenre out of “retirement”?!

I just love hearing about book lovers finding new things they like in books 🥰

One of my close friends is in medical school and she was telling me how she uses ChatGPT to write all her emails and just for fun like guessing her favourite clothing brand. And I'm like bro not only is that bad for your brain but it's also so harmful to the environment. Her response was oh haha you would hate my classmates and I was like you guys are future doctors and she got annoyed with me.

I feel like AI is being shoved down our throats. Every single app nowadays seems to have an AI feature, everyone I know uses it for the most basic tasks. And sometimes I just want to scream and be like USE YOUR BRAIN THIS ISN'T A DIFFICULT TASK JUST THINK.

I love how Pagebound is so anti-AI. It feels like one of the last spots on the Internet that's AI free. I get that AI may have some useful applications but I genuinely just feel like it's a can of worms that we should never have opened. I feel like people don't think critically anymore and just be like, "Oh I'll ask chat". So I love how Pagebound is just real humans sharing their thoughts. I love how this app always promises to be strictly anti-AI which again is getting to be quite a rarity nowadays.

I thought this might be fun to try! Pick up the nearest book and share your favourite sentence on page 42! (At first, I was going to say the first or last sentence, but it might just end up being "He blinked" or something else not fun 😂)

I'm just counting page flips on my ereader since I'm traveling and I don't have a physical book with me.

Mine: A conjuring of birds to keep mocking vigil. -Gardens of the Moon, Steven Erikson

i rarely see any and I've been thinking if i want to get into more of dark romance it should at least be queer, to get back to my roots after reading too many straight romances

waiter! a mix of wlw and mlm please! ☝

I've read quite a few sapphic books with a murder mystery (A few that come to mind are Burning Heaven by Haydn Hubbard, The Bianchi Family Duet and The Colombo Family Duet by Persephone Black) but I haven't been coming across as many recently, any recs?