Having to keep reading a book that disappointed you, despite wanting to come back to it later, because it's the bookclub book

Having someone recommend you a book, saying it's like your favourite author, only to find out it's Not Really

Being a writer, reading a sentence, and saying "HOW DID I NOT COME UP WITH THAT"

Knowing you probably wouldn't have come up with that anyway

Seeing someone in public transport reading your favourite author and feeling guilty for interrupting to say OMGGG YESS

The silent bookclub becoming filled with conversations before it's even started

Lending a book to a friend who apparently does not know their way around soup

Reading the same sentence several times, thinking it senseless, until you realise you either interpreted the Subject wrong, or you were stressing the wrong word

An author with one single amazing book and plenty of others that don't work for you

Reading and not liking your newfound flirt's favourite book

I may be late to this, but I watched Obsession (2025) 🥪🐈 a couple of weeks ago, and now I'm craving that exact kind of dread.

The kind where a woman (can be another gender) slowly loses herself to someone else's fantasy of who she's supposed to be.

💜 Feminist horror 🎭 "Nice guy"™ horror 🕸️ Obsession mistaken for love 🥀 Dangerous devotion ⛓️ "Love without autonomy is not love" 🪞 Loss of autonomy

The realization that the real curse was never the wish... it was the person.

Give me your darkest, most unsettling feminist horror. The books that made your skin crawl for all the wrong reasons. 🧱🩸

I want to be disturbed. 👀

ETA: I just made a list with your recommendations + some others + a few of my own called my little “book” critic ♡.

Tysm for all the amazing recs!! 🫶🏻 I’ll keep updating it, so if you think of any more books that fit the Obsession (2025) vibes, I’d love to add them.

https://pagebound.co/lists/287c9f5b-625c-498e-abf1-de9cc1cd753a

Good morning Bookaholics!

I have really fell of the wagon with these, so I will try to remember them when I can, but life is busy busy busy right now 😭

My question for you all today is:

What are some of your controversial takes about books or the bookish community? 🤔

alice at the party is so wattpad coded

Oh no! Pagebound has had a glitch and all your My Taste books have been replaced with the exact opposite. What (up to 5) books would be displayed to show who you aren’t as a reader? These aren’t necessarily your least favorites, but books that are the opposite of who you are as a reader. Books you would not be found reading because it’s not to your taste.

My Anti-Taste

• The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
• Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• The Shining by Stephen King
• Haunting Adeline by HD Carlton

So, I’m about halfway through queen of shadows, everyone says to tandem read this and tower of dawn together. Is it necessary or can they still be properly enjoyed sequentially??

This is kind of a silly post. I just started a new book, and one of the characters has the same name as someone I used to know and do not like to think about anymore. I find the name in the book a little distracting. What do you do when you encounter a character with a name you associate with someone you don’t like?

I don’t think I’ll DNF over this name, but I know there are other names that would make me stop reading, no matter how interesting the book sounds. Am I just too picky? LOL 😭

hello everyone!!

(long post ahead!)

as a birthday present to myself, I got myself a kindle and I've had it for only a week. I decided to start with a reread of Pride and Prejudice (in Spanish) to get used to it and now I'm about 30% into The Other Bennet Sister, I'm loving it (both the book and the kindle) so much after years of not being able to pick up a book again.

That has left me a little bit far away from the reading community and therefore far away from more organic recommendations like I was used to years ago. So, I come here to ask for your favorite books or something you would highly encourage anyone to read!

English isn't my first language, so Spanish recs are also welcomed, and if you recommend a title in English and find it particularly difficult, I can always find if there are any published translations.

I don't have any particular inclination towards any genre, I favor books written by women too. I'd say anything but what you would consider "A Classic™️" (ie, Moby Dick, Le Mis, The Count on Monte Cristo) since most of those are already on my TBR!

Sorry if there are any grammar mistakes and thank you for reading this!!

edit: also, I'd love to have some mutuals in here, so let me know if you want that too!

Hi guys, just joined! Just Looking for book recommendations really- something to get me out of a slump :)