I want to preface that this could absolutely be a personal thing, but I still wanted to share my thoughts. I’ve been thinking about this for a while now, and honestly, I think PageBound has serious potential to do something great for the book community. The way it’s set up with the forums, the quests, and the front page (that's incredibly engaging & also catchy, like it makes me want to look at it and scroll haha), it actually feels like it could change things when it comes to getting people to pick up new books and pick up diverse books. I’ve been using PageBound since, I think, March? and in that time, I’ve seen so many little instances where I’ll leave a discussion post or review and then i'll notice someone add that book to their TBR. I’ve even personally bumped books up my own TBR just because I saw people chatting about them or sharing reviews that caught my attention (e.g. An Ember in the Ashes, I saw people chit chatting about it and felt like I wanted to be involved haha so then it was the next book I read) or I’ll see someone add a book to their TBR so I’ll check it out. The Quests have also helped me pick up books that I may have never picked up on my own. I’ve been on Goodreads since 2012, jumped on StoryGraph when it launched, and I’ve tried apps like Tome and Fable too but I’ve never really felt this kind of interaction before. With PageBound though, the community vibe is so real, and it’s already proving it can influence what people read. I do sometimes use TikTok for recommendations, but I’m less likely to trust those since a lot of influencers get paid to make videos and I don’t really take recommendations at all from Instagram. There’s reddit, but again, sometimes the authors are sneakily in there recommending lmao, but It’s good if you’re looking for books with similar vibes to ones you like. So yeah, I can totally see this becoming a major space for building hype, especially for ARCs and helping books gain early traction. There’s something really exciting here.

I mainly read fantasy (all age groups) but my favorite sidepiece genre is nonfiction animal books. I know that's kinda broad but I mean nature books, and memoirs from people who work with or are otherwise close to animals. What are yours?

the writing in this book is so juvenile but in such a fun way, it reads exactly like a toddler wanting to surprise you with something but being unable to keep the surprise to themselves. michael crichton i'd say struggles with intrigue and plot setups, but the horror and the politics in this book are phenomenal, like this book will not let you mistake its stance on scientific developments and the errors of capitalism. i will say though its making me raise an eyebrow how the people doing all the blunders so far seem to be from the southern hemisphere or of latine descent. something to think about.

Are you a mood reader or do you strictly abide by your TBR for the month?? I have a monthly and yearly tbr and I seldom follow it 😆 I'm afraid I'm a notorious mood reader ✋😭

This post is coming to your from a tiny, backyard pub that only seats three people, but since the owner knows/loves me, it has four bookshelves. What are some fun places you have read at? (If you want to see the Frogmore Pub, I just posted a couple pictures to my Instagram, and I have definitely posted more in the past. I use the same username there.)

Sometimes I feel like I'm not a true reader because it does take me a little while longer to read compared to so many ppl I see on social media or even my friends. I have always been a bit of a slower reader.

Was thinking to myself how I have this ridiculous habit of intentionally speeding through book blurbs trying not to learn too much, leaving a book on my TBR for ages, starting to read it going off the memory of the blurb, and then being completely thrown by what the book is actually about because I realize I didn't actually know. Case in point: started the castle knoll files series today, DEAD CERTAIN the MC was an old male detective. It is about a 25 year old girl and her kooky aunt. This is abundantly clear in the blurb and I have no idea how I misremembered that badly. I spent the first 20 pages going "oh? Oh?? Oh!" So anyway, that got me thinking, do any of y'all have reading quirks like this that are ultimately harmless but kind of weird? A beige flag, if you will?

What is one popular book you've read and didn't like, where you didn't get the hype or don't understand how many people can genuinely like it? I'll go first : Le Petit Prince I've never understood how everyone loved the book, as a kid I was forced to read it every year and go to see plays about it and until today I don't understand the hype.

What are some tropes or storytelling decisions/concepts that have you immediately interested? And on the opposite, what are the things that you hear about a book that immediately make you go "no, not reading that" ? Generally, "there's dragons" will get me to read anything. Magic schools; elemetal magic; marriage of convenience in romance; a MC infiltrating the antagonist side and risking to "lose themselves" while doing it (actually, generally a FMC being unhinged); heroes struggling with what to make of themselves AFTER they've saved the world/defeated the bad guys; unreliable narrator ! all top tier to me. Love Triangles will kill any interest I have in reading a book. Too much smut; love interests alternating between threatening and flirting; miscommunication; I also struggle with generational stories because I don't like "abandonning" characters to follow another one

I'm dnfing this book. It's just too much of a pain to read. Everything feels so slow, and there has been too much character-related conflict without the attachment or explanations necessary, and every sentence feels like a slog to get through because of the writing and pacing. I also feel so constantly lost because of this lack of explanation and this overuse of new and underexplained terminology that I can't do it I think. Maybe some day I'll pick it up again when I have nothing else to read, but today's not that day.