‘China. This country is gorging itself on imports from the Orient. They can’t get enough of China’s porcelain, lacquered cabinets, and silks. And tea. Heavens. Do you know how much tea gets exported from China to England every year? At least thirty million pounds’ worth. The British love tea so much that Parliament used to insist that the East India Company always keep a year’s worth of supply in stock in case of shortages. We spend millions and millions on tea from China every year, and we pay for it in silver.’

It’s honestly wild to realize how little is uniquely British beyond the accent, sorry to the British. This passage made me think about how even their so-called famous tea culture isn’t originally theirs. There’s no such thing as “British tea” in origin, it was built on imported Chinese tea and colonial trade systems. I genuinely never thought about it that way before. It’s similar to how many of the artifacts in British museums were acquired from other countries during colonial expansion. That’s crazy!

During a book hangover, what has been your sign that you're in far too deep and you may actually need help to over come it?

Today, mine was being able to identify the book by a corner and a small sliver of title text. Not even the full cover, just a freaking corner 🙈

Before you come at me, I know this isn’t exactly the best place to ask this but I really don’t know where else to. I know that a lot of readers are also writers/authors. I’ve been wanting to actually get back into writing for a while now but I don’t want to use Google Docs. I’ve seen too many posts saying that they use the data to train ai so I’d rather be safe than sorry. So if there’s any writers reading this: what website/app do you use? (Preferably only free sites/apps)

Edit: Thank you so much for all the suggestions 🙏

As someone with a never-ending tbr, I know there are some books on my list that I’ve been so excited to get to and they end up being absolutely amazing, and then sometimes end up being absolute duds. What are some books that you were excited to read and then ended up being disappointed by?

What's all of yalls' biggest opinions on books covers? Like what's the one thing that usually you see on a cover or you don't see on a cover that makes or breaks a book buy for ya?

Like I personally, I don't like seeing the male lover interest on the cover, like I'll read it but I'm not buying it. I don't particularly enjoy having that in my bookshelf. (No hate if you like it, I just most enjoy having books I can display.)

HAPPIEST FRIDAY EVERYONE

I hope this week was wonderful for everyone. Sadly, for me it has been one of the most draining week of this year. It has been a great learning experience (sarcasm) that has really led me to a not fun place.

Surprisingly, I didn't read much freaky, feral, and/or funny reads this week!! I KNOW IM SHOCKED TOO. I am finishing up The Long Game by Rachel Reid so this is the only book that will be added towards this week. What freaky, feral, and funny book have you read this week?

I hope next week I will back to full feralness, I'm sorry this week it's shorter and bit sadder, but I will be fine!!

a few days ago i made a post asking for people’s favorite things, and since so many cool people gave me their favorite songs and musical artists, i thought i’d compile a little community playlist! it’s a wip still ofc! linking it below!

please comment your favorites songs or artists and i’ll add them right away! if you comment an artist i’ll just pick one of their top songs, for albums i’ll just pick one at random :) also you can comment as much as you want or come back to this whenever, i’ll keep it updated!

pagebound favorites playlist

Okay so I know this topic might have the most engagement potential and maybe is kinda dumb but it's something I think about, so...

I'm just saying, I love a deckle(d) edge.

I think they're underrated and unfairly maligned in today's world. First of all, there are a lot of people who don't even know what a deckled edge is and think that they've purchased a damaged or poorly manufactured book when they receive one, and then there's people who know what it is but hate them because they think it looks shabby. I'm always seeing deckle haters out there 😱

But I love it and I think it looks great! 🥰 More than that, I love what it represents, which is ode to original book making/papermaking process when it was done by hand with a deckle and that was how all books were made and thus how all books looked (pre 19th century). I just think it's cool that publishers (namely Penguin) still pay tribute to that heritage.

Anyway, If there's a book I want to read and I find out an edition with a deckle edge is available, I'll probably buy that edition. So that's it, basically. Deckled edges are underrated, and I like them. So there 💅

Bye 🐙

Happy Lunar New Year and Pancake Day!

I hope this time is filled with good fortune, prosperity, food or however you celebrate during this time!

For those who celebrate Lunar New Year, tell me how you celebrate!

And for Pancake Day: What's your pancake topping of choice? Would it be weird to make a book sculpture out of pancake? 👀

So, Heated Rivalry has left me in a book hang over which I'm trying very poorly to over come. I went down a very deep rabbit hole on both TikTok and Youtube... now my recommended content is nothing but hockey

...I'm going to touch some grass now... will it help? Probably not 🤣

Hello PB beauties!

I want to know your literary “hear me out”!

This is anything book related that may be an unpopular opinion or even controversial 😏 just remember to keep the comments kind!

Some examples are (but are not limited to):

• character traits
• tropes
• kinks
• author prose
• narrator POV
• where and when you read

The sky is the limit and I want to hear them all 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️