Hi friends and happy Friday! One of the greatest features on PB, in my humble opinion, are all the cool niche lists that everyone is creating! I have saved so many and after some discussions in the club about how cool some badges for lists could be I decided to make a couple for fun!

Firstly, I made a Kingfisher badge for the Wonderful works of T. Kingfisher list by @endless_tbr_list as I’ve become a great fan of Kingfisher’s work and Kingfishers are just so pretty!

Then I made one for @The_bookishBug’s Marvellous Minibeasts lists! Check it out, insects are wonderful!

And thirdly, I made a badge for @notlizlemon’s nice to meet you, I’m Death list, as I’ve recently, gotten into discworld and Death personified is such a cool concept!

I just wanted to give some appreciation to all the list creators and hope it inspires more of you to create lists about any niche topics only you know about!🫶🏻

Here is the link where you can see all badges a bit more up close if you’d like!

Edit: It was brought to my attention that the links/embedded images are not accessible from the UK - so hopefully you can see them Here (I added them to a google doc) :)

This quest forum is meant to be used for fun discussions and shenanigans beyond book recs, so, with the new incoming people I think this question will be a nice point of introduction for us all. I'd really love for everyone to join in on the discussion 🥹💖 I'll go first : So I was watching Kaos recently, and I realised my least favourite trope in retelling myths in fantasy is when they forcefully try to shove on conflict between canonically paired couples that are meant to by symbols of love/devotion. I love a good "what happens if" myself but it will ruffle some feathers if it's not well done or the cause for conflict is not well placed/ explained. My favourite one always remains giving the side characters/ the forgotten ones a narrative frame it's a beautiful pov change.

Your turn ! I'd love to see all the comments 😌💖💖 P.S : please don't wait for me to start a discussion you can take over the reigns whenever you wanna talk myths and books here.

Hello how is everyone doing ?! Somehow (looks around quite disoriented) we have landed in the middle of December ( Miraculous I know) the year flew by , so I am holding on to books for dear life. How are we doing on reading Spinning Silver? I would love to hear everyone's take on it so far, personally I am in awe of the distinct style of narration chosen, took some getting used to but it is growing on me. Please share your thoughts/feelings use this post thread to interact because this lil quest is growing 😍. For those of us who have not started yet , we will be waiting here for you!!

For example, when I was maybe15 I remember reading a book, I cannot remember the title or author but I have a vivid memory of a single moment.

There was a ‘weird girl’ who was her friend when her old friends had ditched her for petty teenage reasons. Her old friends took her back and the chapter ends with her being mean to the weird girl friend in an attempt to save face.

The very next chapter opens with something like.

‘Perdita died on Sunday. I didn’t find out until Thursday.’

Crawled into my mum’s bed at 2am bawling my eyes out over that one 😅