i saw a post a while back where someone suggested a book for everyone based on their favorite song and i would love to reverse that!

if you leave your favorite book (or just one you really like) in the comments i’ll try to recommend a song or two that i think matches the vibe :)

I’m so curious, and I have too many questions about everyone’s relationship to reading in English vs. reading in ur native language.

Do you pay it any mind? Is this something you actively try to balance? Can you decide to pick up a book translated from English to your native language?

Also for the people who, in addition to English and their native language, have a heritage language* they can read in. How comfortably can you read in your heritage language? Does that require A LOT of focus and effort like it does for me? In that case, how often do you make time for that focus and effort?

* = i was unfamiliar w this concept for a long time, so pasting this here from wikipedia for convenience: "A heritage language is a minority language (either immigrant or indigenous) learned by its speakers at home as children, and difficult to be fully developed because of insufficient input from the social environment."

Feeling very sentimental about pagebound with the recent post about when people joined but I’m also thinking about the books I would’ve never known about if not for joining here.

Notably, The Six Deaths of the Saint by Alix E Harrow (and eventually the Everlasting); I probably wouldn’t have ever known about this book if not for the PB yoink train and general chat while reading it awhile ago and I absolutely love it. It’s so amazing to have a community where things like this can and do happen on the regular 🥰

So, curious what books others have found (and hopefully loved) through PB?

Questions for discussion & Making/Finding recommendations.

• Has fanart/fanfiction ever made you read or TBR a book? Bonus if you are able link the artwork - see "How can I format text on Pagebound" (from the FAQs) linked HERE. PS - If you're sharing art here on PB, please credit the original artist.

• What makes you create OR go seek out fanart/fanfiction for the books you read?

• What books already have a strong fanart/fanfic presence—and what books do you think could inspire that kind of creativity but haven’t yet? Recommend them below!

My answer in the comments.