And whoever else wants to chime in. How do you handle times when you can’t get to all of the books you planned for the month? I use Libby and have a kindle paperwhite. I adjust my monthly/yearly plan all the time. I’m finding that this month I really couldn’t “keep up” with my reads and fell behind. Of course I also just got another loan on Libby. I guess I’ll rearrange my books and try to get back to the ones I couldn’t get to but I’m always nervous that I won’t ever get back to them. Not to mention I need to place another hold on a loan and then it throws off my entire timeline. I set my kindle to airplane mode sometimes but then I can’t send anything new to my kindle so I can’t load up my next read either and the that loan might lapse and it’s a whole thing.

I don’t want reading to feel like a chore but it does stress me out a little when I fall behind. I’m wondering if anyone else feels the same and how you deal with it. In other words, where my anxious ppl at? 🤪

I recently read the The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow and Middlegame by Seanan McGuire a few year back. And I really enjoyed them both. Both of them have a time-loop where the main characters are doing the same thing over and over again, each time altering the outcome slightly. I really at first they didn't know they were in a time-loop because they kept forgetting other timeless. Are there any other similar books?

Hi! I love hiking, climbing and just being in the mountains but live quite far away from any, so I’m looking for some great books set in mountains to transport me there while I’m away! 👀 It could be any genre (fiction). I know some mountain thriller and horror books so I’d prefer something cozy or adventurous but I’m generally open to anything 😊 There’s this great crime series set in Polish-Czech mountains that I would recommend to you all but besides Polish and Czech it hasn’t been translated to any other language yet. („Schronisko, które przestało istnieć”)

Today's random question

What is something about books or reading that you think is misunderstood? This can be a genre, reading as a hobby, how books are discussed, it can be anything.

For me, it's the idea that reading romance is all about the smut, especially queer. For a lot of the romance I read, I skim or skip the smut entirely (it makes me uncomfortable). The reason I read mm romance? The differences in the way men have to be written. I like my romance driven by emotion; I've found the genre that serves that for me.

I’ve not seen anyone consistently using anything.

I’d like to submit PBuddies to the council for review, as a nickname for our mutuals.

Also, calling ourselves PageBounders.

Happy for suggestions! Was just a thought I had while interacting.

I think I read too many short books (which I consider <300 pages) this month, and I feel a little guilty about it. I’m not trying to boost up my numbers or anything, I just wanted to read books that just so happen to be short. Somehow I read 4 comic/graphic novels this month so far (3 being from the same series…I just wanted to reread the series from elementary school). Two for the badges (Serviceberry; You made a fool of death with your beauty), and This is how you lose the time war because it’s on my physical TBR.

Should I feel this way? Reading is reading after all, and it shouldn’t matter, right? It feels like a first world problem lol, and sorry for being a little melodramatic. I’m also curious if anyone else feels this way.