First of all, thanks for creating this space on the internet! Pagebound feels more and more like a safe place of refuge, the app and page I turn to when real life and the other internet spaces gets a little too much.

I suddenly realized I hadn't seen any posts from the Pagebound club in a long while, but then I remembered not seeing posts from the club in the home feed being part of an update some time ago.

So, fully aware that you might go mad from always having people wanting different things, and sorry about that, I just wanted to voice the suggestion of letting users choose themselves whether to see posts from the club in their home feed or not. I would really like to, at least. (And sorry if there are other posts about this already!)

I really appreciate the discussions not directly related to single books, so I'll try to remember checking in on the club myself as well. And of course there are more important features to prioritize than this one.

Thanks again for making this space, and thanks to everyone for making it a pleasure to stop by :)

Finally starting this!

The blurb itself made me smile — “high fantasy, low stakes” is exactly what I need right now.

“Every living thing causes damage to others.”

I know this was meant to be reassuring, but… As a generalized anxiety disorder girly, Mosscap, I’m begging you… some of the truth bombs can go undetonated. I’m reliving all the harms I have caused!

I have read a LOT of dystopian novels, but somehow this one was more brutal and extremely difficult to get through.

“ You keep asking why your work is not enough, and I don’t know how to answer that, because it is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live.”

Mosscap is really out here healing our souls. I felt this in my toes. Especially when he points to his factory plate. We truly are always existing for what we think the world wants versus just ourselves.

"How are you?" "I am well in body although considerably rumpled up in spirit, thank you ma'am"

I love Anne so much! This will be my new go to-answer for this and all similar questions.

I've been really struggling getting through the Discworld books so far :( i noticed that i really enjoy them when i'm reading the physical copies of the books. Unfortunately, i don't have the funds for that! So I have been reading ebooks from Libby on my phone.....with a broken screen..... I finally found all the books in audiobook!!! So i'm back at it people!!!! Thinking about reading on my phone was literally sending me on a reading slump, so i'm super happy to be reading again! ps.: any favorite format for the Discworld? or any book?

I have to admit that this was kind of a rough start after having read mostly cozy fantasy for a long time (as a way of coping with, you know [pointing vaguely at everything]).

This author does not want me to feel cozy at all, and I am quite intimidated by that. I am a little scared of this book, because it seems like the same kind of book as The Road was for me, where the way the book was written, the language and phrasing itself, made me feel like a part of the utterly depressed and doomed characters of the book. It was a physical sensation to read The Road, and so far, this book is giving me the same vibes.

The upside of that is, if course, that I'm getting more and more invested in the characters and the story. So now I really want to know how things turn out. I am not very optimistic, I can tell you that. Neither about the characters and the way things will turn out in the book, or about my own emotional condition throughout this book. Please send help.

Onwards!

I'm confused now, more than before. Hope it passes 😬