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Pages Unbound@pagesunbound.bsky.social · 43m ago

Baffled by this book I am reading where the premise is the entire town goes all out for Christmas. It’s a tourist attraction. The neighbors are painted as the obnoxious bad guys for having a million lights and music playing. Which are . . . standard things people who go “all out” for Christmas do.

Pages Unbound@pagesunbound.bsky.social · 6h ago

Why Are Sci-Fi and Fantasy Often Grouped Together? And Should They Be? (Fantasy with Friends) pagesunbound.wordpress.com/2026/11/02/w...

Why Are Sci-Fi and Fantasy Often Grouped Together? And Should They Be? (Fantasy with Friends)

Fantasy with Friends is a meme hosted here at Pages Unbound that poses questions each Monday about fantasy, either as a genre as a whole or individual works. Feel free to leave a comment, even if y…

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Pages Unbound@pagesunbound.bsky.social · 4d ago

I am sympathetic to the arguments you can't "fully" teach a book in 3 college class period, but that's kind of what happens if the course isn't based on just reading one single book at length. An English degree isn't like, "You took 12 classes and only read 12 books but DEEPLY."

Pages Unbound@pagesunbound.bsky.social · 4d ago

YA book I am reading very overtly was making a point that was clearly a dig at generative AI, but then it had to really drive the point home by explicitly stating it was the same thing as if writing could be produced with the push of a button. Ah, YA, always directly stating the point. 🤣

Pages Unbound@pagesunbound.bsky.social · 4d ago

The book I’m currently reading: Protagonist screaming at a police office: “Why don’t you understand I could have been killed?!” Second police officer shows up and explains the offender killed someone else and probably wanted the protagonist next. Protagonist: “You mean I could have been KILLED?”

Pages Unbound@pagesunbound.bsky.social · 5d ago

Someone asked me why someone would bother AI generating book reviews. I assume it's the same reason(s) people used to plagiarize them the old-fashioned way. They don't know what to say. They think it makes them look impressive to have many reviews. They think it will get them ARCs. 🤷‍♀️

Pages Unbound@pagesunbound.bsky.social · 5d ago

Goodreads should crack down on AI-generated reviews. How can I think the "reviewer" actually read the book if they can't say anything about it in their own words? They're essentially fake reviews ruining the trustiworthiness of the site.

Pages Unbound@pagesunbound.bsky.social · 5d ago

I think "YA has few 'boy books'" is a fair statement, but I am baffled by the number of people who keep saying everything from picture books to middle grade has none. There are many books in MG! And many that try to be "neutral" like IMPOSSIBLE CREATURES, which is big right now.

Pages Unbound@pagesunbound.bsky.social · 6d ago

Someone at work is explaining how great AI is by mentioning she almost once put a fake statistic in a presentation until she thought about it and asked AI for the source and there was none. Yes, but you can avoid this entirely by finding your own sources the old-fashioned way.

Pages Unbound@pagesunbound.bsky.social · 7d ago

Sometimes I wonder what exactly constitutes a "boy book." Is The Hunger Games ok for boys? The protagonist is a girl, but it has violence, which is a stereotypical thing people think boys wish to read about. Is The Golden Compass for boys? The protagonist is a girl, but a man wrote it.

Pages Unbound@pagesunbound.bsky.social · 7d ago

If nothing else, the people claiming there "are no books for boys or men" demonstrate that publishing needs to reinvent its marketing strategy. These books 100% exist, but everyone's claiming not to know this.

Pages Unbound@pagesunbound.bsky.social · 7d ago

This article is gathering some rather amazing responses on Twitter, where people are claiming all the "boy books" like Tom Sawyer have been banned and that "there are no books for boys ages 3-7." That's right. No PICTURE BOOKS or LEVELED READERS that "aren't girly" exist. People say anything online.

Pages Unbound@pagesunbound.bsky.social · last wk.

I went out and came back home to find some family members using my Easton Press books and some MinaLima books as weights for crafts in direct sun in the window, and I don't even know who to complain about this to who would understand why I'm annoyed. 🤣

Pages Unbound@pagesunbound.bsky.social · last wk.

Apparently if you post that you disagree with how morality is portrayed in a book, you get accused of "wanting books to be religious instruction manuals." Look, I still enjoyed the book, but I also think its morality is completely wrong! Both things can be true at the same time!