I wish I could get paid to simply read books (just sulking at the fact I gotta work this holiday and wanna QUIT to pursue my passion ((grandma energy and reading for hours on end))

Hello boundlings! I want to hear about songs that remind you of books. It can be a direct reference to a specific book, a general vibe that matches a genre or theme, or a totally obscure link that’s maybe only a connection for you personally (tell us why!).

Backstory here is that in response to Spotify’s immensely disappointing AI-generated Wrapped experience last year, this year I have an ongoing 2026 playlist that I am curating for myself by adding songs that speak to me in a specific moment in time. It’s 100% vibes based, and because I also kinda measure my life in books, unsurprisingly several of the songs I’ve added so far are also connected to books. Made me curious to hear if anyone else out there connects songs and books like this!

Here are my bookish songs and why:

Kate Bush’s “Wuthering Heights” and Tame Impala’s “Dracula” - obvious connections there 😁 Delta Rae’s “Bottom of the River” and “I Will Never Die” - these give dark witchy feminine vibes, which is a main theme of a lot of what I read. Also a Gothic vibe, I think Southern Gothic, though I don’t have a lot of experience in the Southern Gothic genre yet. Glass Animals’ “A Tear in Space (Airlock)” reminds me of Atmosphere even though the song has nothing to do with the themes of the book 🙃 It’s just that every time I hear the chorus of the song, I picture Vanessa in space and imagine a single tear rolling down her cheek (or rather, not rolling down her cheek, because space). Mika’s “Relax, Take it Easy” - The lyric ”Relax, take it easy, for there is nothing that we can do” reminds me of this line from Elizabeth Gilbert’s memoir All The Way to the River: Letting it [life] unfold, like an opening hand. Despite my resistance, without my command. (Don’t get me started on how problematic that book is, but I’m problematic too because I got a ton of relatable quotes from it 🙃)

Tell me your bookish songs!!

Hey y'all!

I know there's an option to import your Goodreads/Storygraph library/info, and that you get an extra 50 points for it. Pagebound says 80% of users import their reading history.

However, I've decided that I'm going to manually input my reading log going all the way back to 2016. The reasons for this are threefold: Goodreads maintenance has always been terrible, with multiple editions of the same book on various shelves (read, want to read, etc); I don't want to have to then work to cull books on my TBR once they are with me on Pagebound, but rather start fresh; and there is a quiet sort of joy in looking through my reading history through the years, and in remembering where I was in my life.

If you input manually or auto-imported previous reading history, tell me more. Why? How has the process felt?

Do you put the fanfictions you've read on pagebound/import them from goodreads to put them on pagebound ? I read a lot of fanfictions and I have already seen fanfictions on pagebound. But last time I read one, the author (it was on ao3) asked the readers to not put their books or goodreads and I was a bit surprised by it. Do you personally put the fanfiction you read on pb? /do you think people shouldn't put the ff and why? Thank you for your answers?

I just opened a book from a library and a drugstore receipt fell out. People use the most random things as bookmarks so receipts are not a rare sight. What's the most interesting/unusual thing you found in a library or second-hand book? For me it must have been a keycard from a hotel in Dubai.

Happy Friday, Boundlings! 💜

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Wishing everyone the best weekend! ✨