Hi everyone! 👋📚

I'm Alexandra, a bilingual book reviewer and ARC reader from Chile. I'm excited to finally join the Pagebound community!

I mostly read fantasy, romantasy, dark fantasy, romance, mystery, and thrillers, but I'm always open to discovering new favorites. When I'm not reading, I'm usually reviewing ARCs, creating bookish content, or adding far too many books to my TBR. 😅

I'd love to get to know you all!

✨ Where are you from? 📖 What's your favorite genre? 💙 And what's one book you'd recommend to someone you've just met?

Looking forward to discovering new books and meeting fellow readers!

A general question, but where do you all get your recommendations from for books? Every so often I surf a particular sea and look at new releases and like anything that I think sounds interesting or good, I install download it on my kindle or I’ll look through Pinterest for recommendations. But I’m curious as to how everyone finds books to read so please let me know so we can all maybe find recommendations. Any unconventional or unusual ways. Bookshop wandering. I want to hear about everything! ✨

Today is the last Monday of my teaching career. I retire on Thursday of this week. I am looking forward to all the new reading time I will have. I have been a teacher for 32 years, and I am ready to begin the next adventure. While I am not young, I still feel like I have some good time left (I am 58). I am going to start a Substack on books, board games, movies, and anything that catches my interest. I will also be writing a novel. I spent the last two weekends setting up my home office (it looks great!). To say that I am excited would be an understatement (although I am not sure if I will really notice until the first day of school next year. My wife has one more year to go, and seeing her leave for the classroom in the morning will be weird.)

I would love to hear what June celebrations you are looking forward to. I don't care how big or small it might be. I just want to have a chance to share in your joy, too!

I have a collection of many different types of bookmarks I've accumulated during the years.

Today I started reading The Priory of the Orange Tree and found myself searching for the bookmark that matches the book vibes the best. I suddenly realized I've been subconsciously doing this my whole life 😂 I feel like either I don't care at all and can use a receipt, a spare piece of paper or whatever to mark my progress or I have to use the perfect bookmark, no inbetween. Do you do the same?

Btw, I ended up choosing a deep dark blue cloth bookmark with red and gold flower embroidery for The Priory. Hope it does match the story, hahaha

New ick is the word “balls” when referring to male anatomy. Really took me out of the scene. Will be reporting back soon for a more detailed review. I have some things to say. edit: i had NO IDEA that this would blow up. thank you guys lol pls do not start a war. i didn’t mean to abandon you guys 🥺 i should been more detailed in my stance lol. i just dont think anything regarding draining, refilling, or slapping or like anything to do with balls should be in the scene 😭😭😭 cause i’m like 🤨 whenever im really into something and it’s like “yeah i can feel my balls slapping” LIKE EW NO BAD NO squirt bottle.

It's been a bit since I made that "get to know you/friending meme" post here, and we've had a lot of new names and people that I've seen around regularly since then, so have a Get To Know You: PB Edition for today!

Username/Name: Where is your username from: How did you find PB? How often are you on PB? Favorite Quest: Favorite Quest Badge: (Doesn't even have to be from a quest you're in, just based on design) Recommend a List: Favorite book in My Taste: Last book you finished and how you rated it: (Or if you don't use star ratings, just how you liked it!) (optional) Favorite review you've either read or written:

Okay romance readers, this one is for you.

Which romance do you love, mine are: -enemies-to-lovers -roomates-to-lovers -forced proximity -dark rom-coms -one bed (cliché but can be fun) -grumpy/sunshine -grumpy/grumpy (a new found love, as a grumpy person 😄 ) -found family -small town -spicy

Not a trope, but love it! -queer, especially sapphic, MFM MAYBE MMFM (how any woman can handle more men than that is BEYOND me!), MM

And those you hate, here are mine: -Slow burn (I have no patience to wait for the good bits, 🤣 I came for romance give me the spice! 🌶) -age gap (especially if it's an 18-24 yr old woman-girl, with some old dude, although some reverse age gap isn't bad, but please make the dude either super mature for his age or at least 27) -fated mates-type in a non-magical romance -forbidden love, see age gap -surprise pregnacy/breeding kink -non-humanoid monster smut -pitch black romance (my MCs need some redeamable qualities or I'd just rather read a horror book)

I'll give recs to those who comment with tropes they like that I have a good rec for, feel free to do the same. I'm also just curious what everyone's fav are. NO TROPE SHAMING.