As PageBound gets bigger and bigger, I start to see new names! I’d love to learn things about all those new to PB, and those I’ve seen for quite some time but want to learn more about and know where all my fellow readers are around the world!

My name is Sam (she/her) and I live in the hot state of Arizona. I’m 26 years old, and I got back into reading about 3 years ago. My favorite genre is Fantasy or Dystopian (always sapphic, hence the name😉) and I have a hard time reading books less than 250 pages because I need DETAILS!🤣 My all-time favorite book is Charon Docks at Daylight by Z. Reed, a sapphic zombie book I’ve now read multiple times over. A fun(more like funny) fact about me is a have a phobia to cotton balls. Crazy right? No, but actually everything is wrong about cotton balls. Their density, weight, the feel of them. All of it gives me the chills and I break out in a sweat if I see one.

Please don’t feel pressured to give the same info as me. Whatever you’re comfortable with! I can’t wait to meet more of you and learn more about you!🫶🏻

Do you guys dream about books, or stories?

I had the weirdest book dream last night. Like a literal dream relating to a book. Before I tell yall about it, you need to know two things:

-I had just finished the second book of the Emily Wilde series. This dream I was about the third one, Compendium of Lost Tales. I have not read it yet.

-VÆB, the Icelandic music duo. They performed for Eurovision 2025.

The dream was that apparently the whole Compendium of Lost Tales book was a promotion of their duo? In this (imaginary dream book I haven’t read yet, based off the real book?) Emily goes to Iceland to talk to these two mfs (for something, i dont know it’s a dream man). Anyway væb was going on some meet and greet tour with the book, for some reason and they were stopping by my school. Those two were sitting outside by the school, by a square table. I sat beside a classmate instead of by them and a conversation went down like this:

Me: “I loved the book! You know I could’ve sat beside you guys…”

Classmate: Rips the biggest fart ever

And everyone was losing it, and then I dropped my book in the mud.

I know the dream does not make any sense but I’m just here to ask: Do you have dreams about books or stories?

“he was six and a half feet tall and had a jaw so straight it made other men question if they were.” i can’t with this bookkkkkk 😭😭😭

Growing up with a reading specialist mother, a retired librarian aunt, and cousins who semi-frequently attend author events, I've acquired a small collection of signed/personalized books over the years. Some personal highlights include:

• Six of Crows and The Familiar signed by Leigh Bardugo
• The Fragile Threads of Power signed by V.E. Schwab
• Shatter Me signed by Tahereh Mafi
• Divine Rivals signed by Rebecca Ross
• Legend and Red City signed by Marie Lu
• Daughter of No Worlds signed by Carissa Broadbent
• Trials of Apollo: The Burning Maze signed by Rick Riordan
• Land of Stories signed by Chris Colfer
• Artemis Fowl signed by Eoin Colfer
• The Wild Robot signed by Peter Brown

Do you have any signed copies that you're excited about or proud of? Any signings you've attended where your interactions with the author made a memorable impact on you?

I posted this on the Club forum and was helpfully reminded that I might want to ask here as well!

I'm listening to Actress of a Certain Age narrated by Jeff Hiller and it's been so fun to hear him read his own memoir! It feels more like a conversation than a book, ya know? So if you have recs for other entertaining audiobook memoirs read by their authors, send em my way please!

Hey y'all 👋🏻

I noticed that the Who's Who Wednesday posts have ended. I looked it up and saw that the user who started it originally deleted their account 😔😭

These were some of my favorite posts to read through so I'd like to bring it back if that's cool (or if these were ended on purpose, let me know and I'll remove this).

It’s time for Who’s Who Wednesday where every Wednesday we introduce ourselves and make new friends. This is possibly part 13.

If you participated in any of the times before, you don’t have to introduce yourself again but you can share some different facts about you, an opinion you have, or how your week is going.

If you’re new, introduce yourself!

I’ll go first.

My name is Wibbily. I'm a radio nerd. I worked at my campus radio station in college and I still like to make dumb audio things with my friends from time to time 📻💖

If you could live in ONE book's world, what book would that be? Who would you be in that world? I'd probably want to live in Howl's Moving Castle's world personally. 🏰 Being a witch sounds like something I'd love to do. I was also thinking about The Master and Margarita, but it's a bit more of an upsetting world haha. Not gonna lie, riding a broom naked in the night, running away from everything sounds tempting. 🧹 ✨

Very curious to see who some authors are that you will read anything they publish, no matter what.

The only author I can think of for me that's an instant read is Andy Weir. I've loved each of his books- although Artemis isn't quite as good as Project Hail Mary or The Martian.