Hello lovely Boundlings! 💖🌸

If your week was a novel, what would the critic blurbs on the cover of the book say about it? Have you had a "This book is overflowing with magic and joy" kind of week? Or was it more of a "a gentle exploration into the mundane nature of everyday life" kind of vibe?

I thought this might be a fun, creative way of taking a moment to reflect on the week before we head into a brand new one. We could even do this each Sunday if we enjoy the conversations! 🧚🏻‍♀️

Mine for this week would be: "a quiet novel which speaks tenderly about mental health and the underlying determination required to be well." (Had an anxious week so the novel would likely be some kind of poetic analogy about fear when in reality it was me doing jigsaws and watching a lot of ASMR 😂)

Let me know what yours would be and whether you'd be interested in this being weekly! 💕

Rank your top 5/10 (depending on how many you've read, or if you read less then 5 just tell your favourite so far) from 5th/10th place up. You can also do a top 3 or top 6 or anything between 1 and 10 depending on how many books you've read/how many books you really enjoyed so far. Only ONE book per rank on the scale. That is the hard part. Pick your favourite child.

I'll go first: 7th Tress of the emerald sea - Brandon Sanderson 6th Gallant - V E Schwab 5th A thousand perfect notes - C G Drews 4th Where the dark stands still - A B Poranek

3rd The decagon house murders - Yukito Atsuji

2nd Mistborn: The final empire - Brandon Sanderson

1st First love: essays on friendship - Lilly Dancyger

Loved all of these so much!

I've been reading this morning and I have thought of something weird to ask! This is lretty much about reading physical books because ebooks sort of.. save your place already

First, how many of you use bookmarks? How many use something else (dog-earing pages, memorizing the page number (i used to do this when i was reading one book at a time))?

For those of you that use bookmarks, do you take it out when you read and then put it back in to the new spot when you're done reading? Do you move the bookmark ahead to the spot you're aiming to read to? Do you move the bookmark with every page turn? (I've done all these 😂)

I've recently read the Dark Profit Saga and The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet and enjoyed both immensely. While completely different genres, what they both have in common is that they are very relevant to the world we live in and have some poignant points to make about our societies. What other fantasy/sci-fi books or series would you recommend that also have this social commentary aspect to them?

Edit: Just to clarify, because perhaps I didn't express myself well (my bad). As some have said, practically any form of writing is in itself social commentary. What I meant however, was the deliberate, intentional kind, as exemplified by the titles I mentioned above.

I LOVE my streak colour today. I think they last for a week? So I get that amount of time to admire it. It’s this soft lavender and it’s definitely my favourite so far (for reference I’m at 124 days).

What’s your colour right now? What has been your favourite(s)? Please share! 🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜