Misaki’s interaction with Mamoru makes me appreciate just how much restraint mothers have to use in order to frame the world right for their children. 🥺

Just because I’m nosey 🙃. Where are my PB friends located? I’m from the UK and tend to notice my feed is very quiet in the mornings and was putting it down to different time zones.

It's not even been 24 hrs of joining here. I'm already loving it 🤭😍. Still figuring out a few things tho!!

this app is so cool!!! i unfortunately am not in a place where i can pay $10 a month or i would do the royalty thing to support! i could do $5 a month though if the owners see this if you ever wanted to try out a tier system for different levels of support that could be cool?! not that i have any idea what would go into that or if that would be possible but like lower tiers could get a party hat instead of a crown or something like that?? just a silly idea lol

When I first joined Pagebound I think the site had only been launched a month prior. There weren't a lot of people here so sometimes the activity felt slow, and I spent a looot of time posting suggestions in the forums. It's just amazing to me to see that a year later this site is so bustling with so many wonderful people and that there have been so many quality of life updates INCLUDING THE APP!! That's huge!!!! I still remember the days when you couldn't enter your own reading dates!

I've been wanting to make an Unreliable Narrator list for a while but I'm hesitant. Unreliable Narrator is a buzz-word to me, and I'll be immediately interested in a book if I'm told it's present in it, but people might also consider it's a spoiler, and lists have the first few books in it shown. What do you guys think ? It's fine, or better not?

Hiiii, I am excited to read some of these books, but I was also wondering if anyone had Indian specific recs? I'm half Indian but raised in New Zealand so I don't really have a ton of connection to my culture and would love some recs to get a bit more connected :)

Shannon : "like soccer?"

me: what? soccer? football you mean? is there a irish soccer? what? 🤯 Doing a little research online apparently both terms seems to be used in Ireland... or at least online maybe but why? 🤔

Public services are lovely beautiful things. There are many public services I take advantage of but one of them that I think the majority of us can appreciate is libraries! We have so many librarians on here (a reminder, infinite forehead kisses to you all) and just people who enjoy going to and being at the library for the books, programs, and resources!!!

I've mentioned VERY briefly before about how Amazon and other capitalistic centered for profit companies have a goal to eliminate most public services but right now Amazon is targeting libraries!!! BOOOO!!! Amazon is taking their physical book store plan a step further to start planning our AMAZON LIBRARIES.

Guys I think we are all smart enough to know it's so that politicians with enough influence and palm greasing from Amazon can say "We no longer require this public service it's not even good! They never have the books and you have to even wait for ebooks!" And then they can GET RID of libraries and use what are actually SUPER small portions of our taxes and instead of funding thousand of libraries there will now be one or MAYBE two "Amazon libraries" in states with low literacy and we will be flooded by large marquees that say AMAZON GROCERY, AMAZON ELEMENTARY, AMAZON LIBRARY, AMAZON MALL, AMAZON CAR DEALER, AMAZON SHIPPING AND POSTAGE, ALL of them requiring a monthly membership that would far outweigh any taxes you pay AND THEN you will still have to pay those same taxes! Because they will now be a former library funnel of revenue that Amazon will argue they need as support from the government and THEY WILL GET IT.

We will still pay the same taxes for all of our public services we will just also have to pay a membership to Amazon on top of it.

I am URGING, BEGGING, PLEADING, all of you who can, PLEASE go and get a library card. Go get your local city, county, state, university, what have you! In the US you are often entitled to a card for where you WORK as well as where you LIVE. People from outside the US please share tips, tricks, advice, or just anecdotes about your library and how you sign up for the library and how to get additional memberships.

Here is a link to an Instagram video where a librarian explains how AMAZON and AUDIBLE are making ebooks, and audiobooks incredibly scarce for libraries!!! https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPWpZVKkcHH/?igsh=MXF6ZjZ0YmozZmM0bQ==

September was a great month for me! It has been the month I have read the most (this year). Hopefully, October will be the same. I think I read more because I borrowed books from the public library, which means there is a time limit. That kinda motivated me to keep reading. It wasn’t like I could simply leave it for later. I had to finish it. Do you guys go to your public library? Let's see how this month goes. Happy reading everyone!

“What are you? A baby dispenser?” Setsuko laughed, scrunching up her nose. 🤣😅 I love their relationship so much

As a pregnant woman, Misaki story really breaks my heart 😭

Misaki.. the woman you are 🙂‍↕️🤏

Hello! I'm looking for recs for October reads that aren't part of a series as I'm planning to start a big series in November.

I'm curious what everyone is planning to read this month or recommends!

I like fantasy with a sprinkle of romance mostly but I am open to different things.