I am happy to be a hater and give bad reviews for books I genuinely didn't enjoy. But for some reason! For some books, when people are like, 'tysm I can remove this from my tbr' I'm like noooo, but what if you love it?? 😭? Then I start defending the book I just poured haterade all over lmao.

I get that it's a good thing people can remove books from their growing TBR lol. And I'm also happy to remove them myself after reading good critical reviews. So why am I like this.

let me get this straight ok the weavers ASK.... for the tree's CONSENT..... before felling it??????

well that's fucking beautiful

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?

I've been watching wayyyy too many c-dramas and k-dramas recently, and I'm really curious as to whether there are any good books with that sort of mythological, xianxia-genre vibes? You know, like The Untamed (and no I haven't read the actual stories, I've heard they're good, and I do want to eventually! but I'm mostly looking for standalones or MAYBE duologies), or Who Rules the World, or Word of Honor, or Mr Queen... the list goes on. Can you tell I'm a Netflix user?

This doesn't have to be specifically Chinese-inspired, I'm really open to anything, as long as it's fitting of a wild plot and a dash of whimsical magic systems. Romance is welcome, but so are books with darker themes—I'm not necessarily picky. Anyway. Any recs?

Edit: I would definitely take recs for actual xianxia or wuxia novels now that I know that they aren't as long as I thought! Sorry for the misunderstanding there 😭

I am sick, so I made this! Some of these are supposed to be hard, some are genuinely only about preference. All lighthearted of course, don’t take them TOO seriously (unless it would be funny to do so)

1. Would you rather read 🛖in a lonely cabin infested with spiders or 🏢standing up on a busy sidewalk where you keep being bumped into and run danger of having things spilled on you and your book?
2. Would you rather 😍love a book that everyone else hates with a passion or 🙄hate a book that everyone else loves with a passion?
3. Would you rather 🔮know the ending of every book you read from now on as soon as you read past the third chapter or 🤔struggle to fully understand every single ending unless you have someone explain it to you or look it up?
4. Would you rather have dinner with ✍️your favorite author or 🥸your favorite character?
5. Would you rather have your favorite book turned into a screen adaptation that 🌇is wildly inaccurate but incredibly good in its own way, or 🌃is incredibly faithful but still bad in pretty much every other way (acting, editing, effects, colour, costuming, …)?
6. For the next five years, Would you rather only be able to read 🎵booktok™ books or ✖️books from your least favorite two genres?
7. For the next year, Would you rather 🤖only read books generated with AI or 🤓have listen to a litfic bro™ explain to you why every genre but litfic is not real literature every time you start a new book?
8. Would you rather be 🕴️be kidnapped by a hot mafia billionaire or 👽abducted by a hot alien?
9. Would you rather 🔜only be a able to read books published from this very second onward or 🔙only be able to read books published up until this very second?
10. Would you rather read ❓a series that ends on a cliffhanger and the author has no intention of finishing it or ❗️a story that ends with no happy ending for no narrative reason other than shock value?

Feel free to elaborate on some or all (or not at all) on why you chose the way you did & to add other tricky questions in the comments, I’m curious to see what pagebound thinks 🫶

There’s a recent thread about age gap books And I was just scrolling through it and someone mentioned a book titled “Your Dad Will Do” and I’m not gonna lie I almost laughed so hard I cried. It’s just such a hilarious title for a book to me. I don’t care for regular romances and I don’t care for age gaps but I may actually read this book simply for the title.

What hilariously titled books have you stumbled upon?

Fully know teenage girls are obsessed with brands and maybe its bc when I read I feel I'm getting away from all the social media ads but it's starting to feel like I have ads in my book