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Welcome to Would You Rather! I give you two books you pick which one you like better with little to no context! (Vaguely based on my book clubs bracket system of choosing books)

1. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain V.S Lobster by Guillaume Lecasble
2. American Gods by Neil Gaiman V.S Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel
3. To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee V.S Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
4. The House on the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune V.S Life for Sale by Yukio Mishima
5. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir V.S Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid
6. Blood Over Bright Haven By M.L Wang V.S Gideon The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
7. Parable of The Sower by Octavia E Butler V.S Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
8. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee V.S The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein
9. Yellowface by R.F Kuang V.S. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
10. You weren't Meant to be Human by Andrew Joseph White V.S The Foxhole Court by Nora Sakavic

Enjoy making your picks!

I was encouraged by a fellow Pagebounder (boundling?) to seek the help of you all in my search for two books that I cannot find the titles for. I read them YEARS ago and only remember some details, but maybe there's a super sleuth amongst you 😂 Not getting my hopes up though because I've done Internet deep dives with no success. So I'll just list the details I do remember for each book (which are completely unrelated books)

Book 1: -Middle-grade, YA novel -Cover was a chartreuse/greenish-yellow color with some painted picture of 2 people on a wooden boat on a river -Title contained maybe one or more of the words "rain," "forest," "river," "dream," or "jungle" -The FMC was a Native girl with deformed feet, specifically webbing between her toes, I think she was [nick]named Duck -The MMC was a white boy (American or British possibly) who went into the jungle/rainforest as part of a military(?) mission, met "Duck," and then set out to find her a doctor to fix her feet because it made it hard for her to walk

Book 2: -Also a middle-grade, YA novel -The MMC and FMC are a young brother and sister, the sister slightly older -The little brother had this inability to identify faces, including his sister's, unless there was a very identifiable characteristic to tell a person apart (I think the sister dyed one strand of hair different color so she would stand out to her brother) -Took place in some kind of coastal community -Book cover was blue and potentially had some oceanic imagery/illustrations on it -Amelia Earhart was a character that was mysteriously introduced later and her plane, Canary, was referenced I think

Some of this may be inaccurate considering I'm pulling these recollections from the depths of my mind lol. Any help or resources is/are appreciated. I would love to be able to find these books again 🥹

Okay guys this popped into my head after going to see Project Hail Mary. I know there have been discussions on Pagebound about how people imagine characters even if there are physical descriptions etc. Now.... a weirder topic.... authors. They showed Andy Weir talking about the making of the PHM movie in the previews at the movie theatre, and i'm like that is NOT how i imagined him!! (He looked like Philip Seymour Hoffman to me). I kind of pictured him looking like a philosophy prof i had 😂 But, when I looked up John Dickson Carr, I was like ohhh yes he is exactly the vibes I expected from an author who wrote detective fiction in the 30s.

So, are there any authors you had a sort of.. image or vibe you thought they'd give off, but saw what they looked like and were not expecting it, or the opposite and you're like yeah that's totally what I expected!

Have you found your first 5-star read of 2026? If so, what was it? How many have you had?

I am really picky with giving out five stars. I am hoping to come across one real soon. In the meantime, I am interested to see what books have met the mark for you!!

All right, Boundlings. I am up early and have already been to the lab to have blood drawn. In honor of having blood sucked out of my body, let's talk vampires. I have loved them since I read Dracula back in middle school. Watched all the horror movies with Christopher Lee, and of course, who could forget Abbott and Costello meeting Dracula?

What are your favorite Vampire or Vampire Adjacent books? MY favorite from childhood was Salem's Lot by Stephen King. My honorable mention from childhood is I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. Both of those books brought the heat as a kid. I read them multiple times and have reread them as an adult.

My favorite adult book is Carion Comfort by Dan Simmons. My honorable mention is The Keep by F. Paul Wilson. Both of these books made me an instant fan of the author, and I thought they did something slightly different with the world of Vampires.

My last category is Vampires out of left field. The top of this list is The Truth by Terry Pratchett. Otto, the vampire photographer, had me in stitches throughout the book. One of my favorite Terry Pratchett characters. Runner-up in this category is Blood Sucking Fiends by Christopher Moore. I have been a lifelong Moore fan, and this book was a delight.

I would love to hear yours. Maybe I will get lucky and see something I haven't read and would like to. Don't let me down people. I gave blood for this post!