What book would you like to forget and read all over again for the first time to experience it again? 🤔💭📖

For me would be the Vampire Academy series. 😊 It's soooo good and not so cliche for vampire lore. 🩸🧛‍♂️

What is a book or series you would recommend that you believe everyone should read in their lifetime? Even if they tell you it’s not their type of genre or style etc. You just really believe it’s worth giving a chance.

I’ve seen that some carefully plan to work on badges, while others avoid quests altogether and some see them more like themed recommendation lists. I love how differently everyone uses PB, so I’m curious: how do you approach quests and badges, and why? 😍

To make it less vague, here are a few questions I’ve had: (EDIT: the formatting looks a bit wonky on the website, sorry)

If you’re a planner

• How do you plan? Do you plan months ahead?
• Do you work on one quest at a time?
• Why do you plan, what motivates you to plan, and what do you enjoy about it?

If you avoid quests

• Why? Do they just not appeal to you?
• Have you tried them before and decided to stop? If so, what made you step away?

If you use quests as recommendations

• Do you join quests and see badges as fun bonuses, or do you skip joining and use them similarly to how you might check out lists made by other users?
• What made you choose this approach? preference, experience, or something else?

Personally, I rarely plan which books to read to actively work on specific quests. The one time I tried working on one specific quest, I jumped ship after a couple of books. I’m a moodreader and forcing myself into a genre or theme when I’m no longer feeling it kills my motivation fast. That’s a quick slide into a reading slump, which for me can last anywhere from a week to years. 🥴

But I am also a huge sucker for rewards, especially when they ✨sparkle✨, so I use quests mostly as recommendation lists with (very🤭) fun rewards. I also read outside the quests, but if I don’t have something not quest-related on my TBR-shelf that I am excited to pick up at that point in time, I instead check out the quests that fit what I’m in the mood to read and choose a book from one of those. If I’m not craving anything specific and none of my own books speak to me, I scroll through my joined quests and choose something from one of the three quests I’m closest to getting a badge in. If I really, really can't choose something, I'll grab a couple of books of our bookshelf at home and my partner will choose something for me (which sometimes helps me figure out what I didn't actually want to read😅)

I've had this book on my shelves for a while now and I think it's time I finally read it.

are you guys SURE this is a cozy fantasy??

The new location of the hamburger menu icon thing is throwing me off 😭😭 anyone else? loving the new streak feature though!!

Last time I made a post asking for a random fact about you to match with a book recommendation. It's been so fun and I'm so happy so many people commented, and a few still are. It's been fun trying to match everybody, so I want to try again.

Give me your favourite song or the one that you're listening to the most at the moment or the first one you instinctively think about when you read this post.

You can request a specific genre.

I'll start: Surely not my favourite, but these weeks I'm always listening to dumb dumb by mazie.

Edit: I know I'm really late with the replies this time. I have some deadlines till the end of next week that I didn't expect to come up this soon. As soon as I'm avaliable I'll answer to everybody.