This book is a beautiful story so far- I'm still currently reading it as I post this -

But I think it should be visually read (if possible, unless accessibility requires audio of course), our do an immersive read - but the illustrations are some of the most gorgeous artwork I've seen in a novel for quite some time.

You can tell Vanessa Vida Kelly (the author) spent days and weeks into their creation and they are inserted in some of the most poignant and emotional places in the story. They also add a layer to the world building and create visualization of some of the more fantastical and circus like aspects of the book.

Plus, reading the book helps me learn the language and other non English speaking characters insert vocabulary as well that I've been enjoying reading and translating too.

Hope you will enjoy this book too! And if you are listening, maybe there is a way to see the art work too somewhere?

@Boundlings: What are some of your favorite books that have illustrations in addition to the text too?

Hi, everyone. I really don't know where I should put this post or where it belongs but I don't really know where else to put it. So I'm sorry! If anybody wants it removed I can do that if you just ask! A couple weeks to months ago I posted something asking for a recommendation for books. It ended up blowing into this whole thing because some people felt that I was unfairly excluding the LGBTQ+ community by asking for books that excluded those characters and I wanted to say that I'm sorry that I posted that. It wasn't nice of me to do that and I was being extremely immature with how I responded to some of your comments. While my beliefs haven't changed, I shouldn't have done that and I know it hurt a lot of you. When I look back on it now I cringe with how I acted. I'm really sorry, everyone. I wanted to directly message the people who originally commented as to not bother the rest of PB, but since we don't have that, I didn't know where else to post. Another thing is that most of you guys were being very kind and understanding and, at the time, I didn't grasp onto that. I'm truly sorry, you guys!

Hi, everybody. Right after I posted this I had to go, so I just got back on and saw all the comments. I didn't think how it would disrespect the LGBTQ+ community if I posted it during Pride month because I had been thinking on it for weeks, and had time and the opportunity to post. A lot of people are also commenting about the fact that I said that it still doesn't align with my beliefs. I said that because I didn't want to be deceitful and make it sound like I had now accepted it. I understand that my apology might not do anything to fix the situation, but I wanted to do something to at least try to. ( I can delete the post by the end of the day or tomorrow morning so people can see my edit).

Last quarter, we trialed a new way to create Quests. Lists were nominated by Pagebound Royalty, the entire community voted, and 3 Quests inspired by 3 winning Lists were created.

It’s time to do it again 🎉 How this will work:

1. Royalty members can nominate a List (their own or any community List) that would make a great starting point for a Quest. Royalty members will receive a notification today with a link to a form to fill out by EOD June 23rd to nominate. The form will include context about what makes for a great Quest. Folks who join Royalty through June 23rd will receive an email with a link to the form.
2. The entire Pagebound community will then vote on which nominated Lists will inspire Quests. Everyone will receive a notification on June 24th with a link to vote.
3. The creators of 3 winning Lists will be emailed and can accept/reject.
4. If they accept, we will create a Quest inspired by their List, adapting the title & book list if necessary to fit Quest guidelines (for example, if a List has 20 books, we will reduce it to 15 for a Side Quest; if a List includes all 7 books of a series, we would put book 1).

We will be introducing another avenue to Quest creation in the fall: community-voted User of the Month (exact language TBD). The entire PB community can nominate a user they believe embodies PB values. The user with the most nominations will be awarded a badge and the ability to create 1 Quest.

The community-voted List winners and future Users of the Month will be listed as the Quest creator, and for Main Quests, this means they’ll be able to add new releases over time (capped at 100 books). The evergreen nature of Main Quests ensures their relevancy for many years to come, but of course, that’s a big commitment to ask of a Quest creator, so Jennifer & I are always available to take over curation if the original creator becomes inactive.

Looking forward to seeing the wonderful Lists that get nominated!

Jennifer & Lucy

hello fellow boundlings

🙂‍↕️ my period is fast approaching (ugh 🫠) and as usual I need to feel more emotions What books could you recommend with deep yearning? I just want to feel that longing, you know?

Thanks everyone 🫶

I'm a public librarian and soooo much of my life outside of libraries is being surprised and disappointed with how bad libraries are at promoting themselves to both non-users and even regular patrons! I thought it could be fun to have a little post where I could try to answer any questions you've had about public libraries or librarianship (other librarians please pipe in! I don't know everything!)

Ask away! No stupid questions!

How is everyone organizing their physical books? I am having such crisis over this haha. I currently have it mostly organized by genre, but there is sooo much overlap in genre for each book that it's starting not to make sense.

I have genre & author grouped together, but it still feels chaotic because of all the overlap in genre. As someone who has a lot of lit fic books and a tinge of the perfectionism around organization, I am struggling. 😬😬