I love when new quests are released and suddenly my feed is full of people joining them, getting autobadges, and adding a bunch of books from them to their TBRs it feels like we’re all picking course electives in a literature program together 🩷 very excited about the new dystopian quest btw!

I love a good embed . Give me your favourites so I can hoard them. Or drop one to describe the experience of the book you're currently reading!

A book community that memes together, stays together.

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Hey everyone, small announcement that we've completed our "New Avatars" Roadmap item and just released an additional 33 avatars. Most are new color variants of our existing avatars but we have some brand new characters as well!

-"Fabio" aka long haired Victorian romance novel type character, in 2 colors variants -"Victorian", candle-holding character available in 3 color variants -"Audiobook lover", wearing headphones! available in 3 color variants -"Matcha" and "Coffee", available in the food pack avatars that are unlocked for level 4 users -"Astronaut" in 2 color variants, unlocked for level 5 users

We now have a grand total of 103 avatars to choose from ! Big shout out to our illustrator Mariam Chagelishvili (@lokokinart on Instagram) who did an amazing job bringing these characters to life. We hope these new variants and characters help everyone feel more represented in their avatar and give more variety in the avatars you see around PB !

ps, these are the avatars you can unlock as you level up:

• level 2: Pet pack, 2 cats and 2 dogs (inspired by Lucy's gray dog Rooney and my black cat Binx 🥹)
• level 3: Dragon pack, 2 eastern inspired dragons and 2 western inspired dragons
• level 4: Food pack, 2 croissants, 2 rice bowls, 2 chili peppers, coffee & matcha
• level 5: Astronaut pack, 2 astronauts

what books were you OBSESSED with as a kid? I'm trying to build a book tour list of all the books I read and loved as a kid, but the more I look, the more I realize that I read sooo many that I'm struggling to remember ALL the books I really loved.

I'm Italian. In my country basically everything you find if you go in a library are either old classics, trending books from English speaking countries translated in Italian, and very few books from Italian authors which change their name for it to look as English as possible.

I never had a problem with it, especially now that I read in English. But a lot of English speakers, and in general readers from many different countries, have been looking for recommendations from literature around the world. I love giving recommendations, both of the books I read and of books I heard about. Due to this I noticed how I could give a whole list of titles from classic authors, from middle ages to 1900s, but no contemporary one. Maybe just a bunch of Italian authors I followed on tiktok, but whose books I never got my hands on. Most adopted English names as well, so if you stumble on them in the library you don't even realise they are Italian. And not even one of my friends would know them or their books if I told them about it.

To be honest, this is making me a little sad. I want a favourite author in my native language. One who still publishes. One that I can be excited about over a new book coming out. One to follow on social media. One to recommend when people ask me about literature from my country.

I love the classics I studied at school (after I'm done studying them that is), and think people from other countries absolutely should read those, but how is it that there's nothing new to recommend? How is it that the two lists about Italian literature don't have any title published in the past ten years, or just about one or two? How is it possible that I can barely think of a contemporary author from where I live? I find it to be pretty unfair. Once, in the past, my country had flourishing literature. Authors everywhere.

Does anyone else live this? Does any Italian speaker have any recommendation for books from Italian authors?