hey guys!! i need some help!! i was JUST informed last night that i’ll be going on a vacation to the east coast in just a few weeks!! (my bf is an impulse planner i can’t with him sometimes 😅) so on top of shopping for new outfits/vacation supplies, i need to borrow/buy a goodddd book for reading while relaxing on the beach. whether it’s a romance with a beach/ocean setting or a maybe even a mermaid fantasy?? let me know what your favorites are and i’ll try to check out as many as i can!! thanks in advance💓🧜‍♀️🏖️

Hello my fellow boundlings! I hope you guys are all well! I was supposed to post this yesterday but here we are! I just wanted to check in and know how everybody's doing! Has June been kind to you so far? Are your plans for the month going well?Have they been accomplished? Or have things gone a little left? Let me know!

As for me, things have been going great! Book wise, I've done my first batch of Poirot books then read another book in between and I'm working on my second batch then I read a different book afterwards. Life wise,I've submitted one of two remaining documents for my degree application 🥳! This one helps in credit transfer so that I won't have to repeat any units I've done and in turn my fees will be cheaper! I finally got it on Thursday after my mum and I (mostly my mum) were on my former institution's necks about it, edited it and sent it on Friday then got the response from where I'm applying to yesterday saying that they'll let me know the results of the credit transfer when they're done and I'm excited! At least that's one less thing to worry about and I have one more document to go, which I'm working on. So yeah, things are going great!

Once again, let me know what's been going on for you guys!

Love you guys so much! Nicotherelative❤️

Ok so when I am typing in discussion forums, on posts, here, etc I get the whole selection of emojis. But when I am selecting emojis for when I am doing a book review, they aren’t all there! (I realize this is minor in the grand scheme of the world, but I do love a good emoji).

My most recent example is “Disappoint Me” by Nicola Dinan. I wanted to use the Trans flag (🏳️‍⚧️) as one of the emojis, but the only one available was the Pride flag (🏳️‍🌈).

My app is fully up to date, so I’m not sure why I don’t get all the emojis 😅🫠 Does anyone else have this issue? On the desktop version do you get all of them but not the app? If others are having this issue then I will send a note at some point to J&L and see if it can be fixed!

Life has been busy (bold, underline, highlight… BUSY). Tell me something that’s happened in the last few weeks (good, bad, dramatic, exciting, sad, idk I just wanna hear from you guys)🥹🥺

Last quarter, we trialed a new way to create Quests. Lists were nominated by Pagebound Royalty, the entire community voted, and 3 Quests inspired by 3 winning Lists were created.

It’s time to do it again 🎉 How this will work:

1. Royalty members can nominate a List (their own or any community List) that would make a great starting point for a Quest. Royalty members will receive a notification today with a link to a form to fill out by EOD June 23rd to nominate. The form will include context about what makes for a great Quest. Folks who join Royalty through June 23rd will receive an email with a link to the form.
2. The entire Pagebound community will then vote on which nominated Lists will inspire Quests. Everyone will receive a notification on June 24th with a link to vote.
3. The creators of 3 winning Lists will be emailed and can accept/reject.
4. If they accept, we will create a Quest inspired by their List, adapting the title & book list if necessary to fit Quest guidelines (for example, if a List has 20 books, we will reduce it to 15 for a Side Quest; if a List includes all 7 books of a series, we would put book 1).

We will be introducing another avenue to Quest creation in the fall: community-voted User of the Month (exact language TBD). The entire PB community can nominate a user they believe embodies PB values. The user with the most nominations will be awarded a badge and the ability to create 1 Quest.

The community-voted List winners and future Users of the Month will be listed as the Quest creator, and for Main Quests, this means they’ll be able to add new releases over time (capped at 100 books). The evergreen nature of Main Quests ensures their relevancy for many years to come, but of course, that’s a big commitment to ask of a Quest creator, so Jennifer & I are always available to take over curation if the original creator becomes inactive.

Looking forward to seeing the wonderful Lists that get nominated!

Jennifer & Lucy