do you have any to recommend? this year i want to more intentionally support smaller and indie publishers. they tend to select books that are more off the beaten path and aren’t concerned with what will mass sell commercially, and i want to put my money towards that! a few that i love are NYRB and McNally Editions for their rediscovered classics and Two Dollar Radio for their fun and unique picks.

Hi Boundlings, I hope you're having a great day/week🩷✨️

I made this post because I've been wanting to do something bookish with my non-reading hobby for a while and thought we could all just chat about them as well!!

I've been beading since December 2021, and because of Pagebound I've gotten out of my slump and managed to 30 books so far, which is so much more than I've managed to read in the past 3 and a half years! So to commemorate this, and to make my beading hobby a bit more bookish (besides my 10+ beaded bookmarks) I wanted to bead something for each book I've read! (i.e, a lobster for Lobster!)

Has anyone else done anything like this with their hobby? Or wants to try something like this?👀

If you had to pick one book to rate six out of six stars, what book would you choose? 👀

Bonus question: if all of Pagebound had to collectively decide on a singular book to rate six stars, what book do you think would have the best chance of collective agreement?

2026 marks thirty years since the Academy of American Poets first designated April as National Poetry Month. I personally love having an annual reason to celebrate poetry, so I try to read poetry more intentionally during this month.

In honor of the occasion, I thought I’d ask some poetry questions of you all!

✍️ Favorite poet(s)? 📖 Favorite poetry collection(s)? ✔️ Last collection you read? ⌛️ Collection you’re currently reading, or plan to read next? 🫶🏽 Favorite lines from a poem?

Friends, please: talk poetry to me. 🙏 (I’ll put my answers in the comments below.)

For me it's, "I immediately like them." I have never liked someone after they said two sentences to me, and this is almost always used on an extremely minor and/or annoying character.

Another is "But (this person/the government/the cult I've been indoctrinated into since birth) wouldn't (lie to me/be wrong) ... right?" ESPECIALLY if it is early in the book or the character is still supposed to be deep in their denial or indoctrination. It feels so lazy, like the author doesn't know how to actually write that transition.