what are everyone’s favorite video games?? personal favorites rn are stardew, botw/totk, tiny bookshop, rainworld, and cult of the lamb. i’m always looking for more, pls talk up your faves!!

If you were a book, what genre do you think you'd be? I love anything historical, so I'd be a historical romance or historical fiction. I love fantasy as well, but I don't think I'd survive long in any of my favourite fantasy series.

So this year I’ve been getting into romance books (just normal romance, not romantasy or books with romantic subplots), and I’ve only read a few so far but I keep seeing something consistent pop up. A lot of the romance books have a # next to it like “#2 in series”, but the books all have different people and stories for the most part. I read an Abby Jimenez book and it seemed like its own story and then I noticed it was #3 in the series. I looked it up and for that one specifically it says they’re stand alones but in the same universe and that there’s just Easter eggs from the previous books. I thought it was just specific to Abby Jimenez but a lot of the time I look into a book I’m interested in it’ll have a #.

Is this a common thing? Like having a romance series but it’s all different stories with Easter eggs? Or are some of them legit like a trilogy of the same romance?

I’ve never read an Ali Hazelwood but she even has books with series #s. I just barely read my first Emily Henry and I liked that hers are all standalone it seems.

For some reason it makes me less likely to want to read a # romance book since I’d rather just read a standalone romance story (unless it’s like romantasy or something like that where the romance isn’t the main plot) than commit to a series.

For the Abby Jimenez one I did notice when they introduced some new people it seemed a bit random but apparently they were from the previous books in the series. But I didn’t fully love “Just for the Summer” so I had no desire to read the predecessors.

Do you guys read all the ones in a series for romance books? Or just read them as standalone?

Curious what bookish hobbies people have?

Talking anything from book journalling, collecting bookmarks to puzzles and video games that relate to books. They can also be fun hobbies you do while listening to audiobooks, for those that combine cozy hobbies.

I saw a video about someone embroidering symbols from books onto a sweater and kind of want to do that. Like a bookish Spotify wrapped, but with book symbols.

I’ve been convinced into starting audiobooks, but i don’t really know where to listen to them from.

i’m on a pretty tight budget, so if you have any free recommendations, please let me know!

What do you guys use?

She can't hear but she can't see either I dont care about Gale, I'm on Peeta's team

does anyone have any romance books that they ate up immediately??? i finished the books i had picked out for this week during my break 😭

look i know i'm ahead of the game, but i know there are also some fellow planners out there... i just love filling up the planning feature :)

any good winter/december/christmas must reads out there? i'm really not picky, just want something to cozy up to