Really enjoying it so far. One of those books that would have benefited from not being YA. Still too early to judge since I feel neither the characters nor the world have completely unraveled yet but despite that it's a pleasant read and I'm enjoying the pirate vibes.

“In your heart you’d prefer to stick to Oldspeak, with all its vagueness and its useless shades of meaning. You don’t grasp the beauty of the destruction of words”

Syme just making clear that the only way forward is with Newspeak and its principles. And after bring excited that it losses words every year, my guy that’s not a self functioning language you’re building, it’s a way to put more control on everyone

It feels so right that Brittany Spears ™ is the first in line for this emoji - but ngl whoever was responsible for getting Oscar Wilde on there has my respect. Keep the emoji game strong, Pagebound 💪

I absolutely LOVE doing this - it lets me see all kinds of things people have read, are reading and plan on reading. I get off work in an hour and I finished the book I was reading on shift tonight.

So. What I want to know is everyone's Last - Now - Next! I started another one right after, but I am a mood reader and have no idea what I am going to read next.. so I need ideas from you all with your answers!

Last - Fixiation of the Mind by Kira Stanely Now - Black Ties & White Lies by Kat Singleton Next - IDK lol. Maybe the 2nd in the series for my NOW book.

I am reading a book right now with cuss word that aren't technically cuss words. Think fak, lol

In this book I think it because the book is ya so it doesn't have cussing but also the main character cusses. It is mostly just funny but it does snag my attention every time.

I've read lots of fantasy books with unique to their world curse words that I really enjoy though.

I think the difference is the other books the curses make sense to the world. It is a reference to a unique to that world religion for example, not just away around cussing in ya.

Has anyone else noticed this? What do you think? Do you have a favorite curse from a book?

Am I the only one who finds that the more someone wants me to read something, the harder it is to get myself to read it? Or the more people that recommend a book, the less interested I am??

I really hate that I am this way but it is out of my control. Is anyone else similar? How do you combat that so you can check out the things your friends love?

“Of course men were uninteresting her her, they were fundamentally uninteresting” so real Joan

I DNF'd a book last night, and it got me thinking about what makes me decide to finally put the book down and give up ... so I was curious what you all think !

I've noticed that once I get to the point where I'm ranting about how much I don't want to keep reading it specifically to another person, it's probably time to put it down. most of the time I don't talk to other people about books unless we've both read it, so it's a good indicator for me when I, unprompted, start telling someone about how awful of a time I'm having

I also have noticed my DNF habits have changed since I used to DNF books rarely if ever, and going into the new year that seems to have changed ! I'm a lot more willing to give up on a book and move on if I'm not vibing with it enough

i usually tandem read my books but sometimes i'd like to just put the audio on and keep myself busy. i've tried to play games while listening and it never seems to work, but maybe i'm picking the wrong games!

i like to play things like WoW but it takes way too much focus to listen to a book i've also tried "cozier" games like Stardew Valley and Fields of Mistria but i still seem to lose too much brainpower to the game to focus on the book the only one i've had success with is Powerwash Simulator lmaoooo but that one gets boring pretty quickly

any ideas? preferably something i can play on PC!!

Ok so basically this post is made because IM CURRENTLY SOBBING MY ASS OFF READING KEEPING 13 AND MY MUSIC IN THE BACK IS JUST GOING "When did you get hot? All the sudden, I could look you up and down all day."😭😭

LIKE EXCUSE ME NO STOP PLAYING HAPPY SONGS WHILE IM DYING THANK YOU VERY MUCH.💔

But then other times its ACTUALLY GOOOD TIMING like I was reading Keeping 13 (again) and IT STARTED PLAYING FAMILY LINE IN THE BEGINNING I STARTED SOBBING SO MUCH

I actually need this app where the music corresponds to the part of the book SO FRICKIN BAD

and dont get me started on the book playlists because SOME OF THEM ARE SO SHORT OR TOO LONG like personally Im a VERY FAST READER and the playlists are like 10h long and Im already done the book by the time the "falling in love" songs are playing.😔