(I'm fairly new to pagebound so I'd appreciate knowing whether I can post feature suggestions in the club since I don't have the royalty tag - if not that's perfectly okay and I'll delete this post.)

I was thinking maybe the Author pages could be more organised? Like sometimes when I read a book I'm just really drawn to the writing style but it takes a while for me to find other books from that author as the author pages have all the languages and editions kinda mixed up. So maybe there could be an option to filter or sort them? And secondly, I'd like to be able to find a whole series in one place, so that could be a thing too.

Well those are just a couple small suggestions, overall I've really been enjoying PB since I started using it!

This story feels like listening to your great grandmother tell the story of her life, only it has a sense of absurdity to it. It keeps you at the edge of your seat, with a way of storytelling that makes you constantly want to know what happened next while simultaneously wishing the story would never end.

If I had a nickel for every time I read a book where the nonbinary main character is an artist who paints murals on local buildings, falls in love, learns abt their immigrant family, finds queer community, and grieves a tragic loss by the end, I'd have two nickels, which isn't much but it's weird it's happened twice. (Thirty Names of Night x Anders & Santi Were Here)

If I had a nickel for every time I read a book where the pale-and-purple-themed MC is raised by a nefarious girlboss with significant political power who sends 'em to a school where students are abused and made to risk their lives in learning to fight each other as well as a mysterious foreign enemy, until the MC- who is, despite being pathetic in many ways, The Best To Ever Do It, having a special magical inner strength- learns about the concept of propaganda and begins to doubt the orders and intentions of the nefarious girlboss and the political structure she's affiliated with, I'd have two nickels, which isn't much but it's weird it's happened twice. (Homeland x Fourth Wing)

Do you have two nickels? What's the most specific pair (or maybe a few?) of not-intentionally-related books you've read? I think I was originally going to make this one w Thirty Names x The Astonishing Color of Grief because of the birds and the maternal ancestors and the family history- Anders & Santi doesn't have the same focus on history/ancestry, but the murals is just sooo specific, I know loads of folks w moms but nobody who paints on buildings. I've also read two books where an author who plays dungeons and dragons writes a story abt a miserable little orphan boy who everything bad happens to and he has to eat moldy bread until he learns to fight and do magic and then he becomes the greatest hero in all the land; but the similarities between Name of the Wind and Saga of Old City feel more derivative than coincidental, and the coincidences are simply more delightful to me than derivations. (although, if I find out Becky Yarros read abt Drizzt Do'Urden and his lavender orbs before writing abt Violet Soar In Gale I'll be pretty impressed!)