Do y'all ever think about authors of the books you're reading being on pagebound? Especially some of the more internet savvy writers. Sometimes when I'm writing a good review or a compliment in the forum I think to myself 'it would be so cool if they read this' but also the opposite, if I'm being negative I think 'oh no, I hope they never read this'. I know if I was an author I would absolutely be scrolling the forum for my book!

Editing to add that one of my favorite parts about pagebound is that it is anonymous, and I wouldn't ever want to know that an author was lurking, it's just something I think about from time to time.

”Oh my God. You cannot be one of those people who thinks queer is a slur. Like I am going to walk out of this restaurant and leap into the river if you say that to me right now…Yeah. Sorry. I was just really thrown by the possibility that you had bought into TERF rhetoric about queer.“

Literally wtf is this!!! This author desperately needs to touch grass bc heLLO “queer” has 100% been used as a slur??? And hence some people don’t like using it??? Even reclaimed slurs don’t resonate with everyone??? Trash take!!!

When I added emoji to Hemlock & Silver, I wanted to choose a mirror emoji. (It’s a very obvious choice for anybody who’s read it.) There was no mirror emoji available.

But, I see that it is one of the overall emoji chosen by other readers. Why are some available or not?

(I previously had this happen with a missing 🩸)

I was going through my books, everything I've read in the past 10+ years and came across authors that I had almost forgotten.

For example, Ali Martinez was an author I really enjoyed reading for a few years, she was on my radar, and I was always aware of her new releases. But at some point, I'm not sure how or why, she slipped through the cracks. Now it's been years since I've read one of her books.

Do you have authors like that on your shelves? Would you be tempted to revisit their catalog, maybe try again?

As for myself, I've just picked up Ali Martinez's latest release, trying to bridge that gap and maybe fall back in love with her writing.

Note: I'm not talking about authors we actively chose to forget for various reasons or that stopped releasing books.

In the British mandate of Palestine, Jewish settlers had revived the ancient scriptural language of Hebrew and taught it to their children as a mother tongue. They got far enough with Hebrew that in 1948, when Palestine gained independence from Britain as the State of Israel, it dropped English as an official language.

well this feels... like a wildly disingenuous way to describe the formation of israel. you'd think a book about empire would, i don't know, do a little better? be more honest?

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The xe/xir playing havoc to my scrambling brain.

Hiii! Looking for some more indie authors to support. Any good recs?

Thanks💜

I'm asking this purely out of curiosity. I tend to look up reviews after I've finished a book already because I want to know what other people think of it. I RARELY look up reviews beforehand; I don't want them to influence my impression of a book, since I know tastes are subjective. The only exception to this is monthly roundups people do of their reading, where they share little reviews of what they read throughout the month, but I think that's different since I'm not going out of my way to look up reviews of a specific book.

I'm interested in hearing why you read reviews!