I get the books "Where'd You Go, Bernadette" and "Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine" confused as the same book despite the titles being pretty different. I watched the movie version of "where'd you go, Bernadette" and didn't feel compelled to read it. I wasn't until I saw "eleanor oliphant is completely fine" taking booktubers by storm and seeing many people talk about the big feelings it gave them before I could tell that they were actually separate entities.

Are there any book titles that you always get confused for one another?

I just moved so I’m currently unpacking which means rearranging my bookshelves. It makes me wonder about other organization systems.

How do you organize your books? Do you double-stack your books? Do you stack your books up on the shelf sideways or just put them like normal? Do you organize by author? genre? color? Do you separate out annotated books from pristine books?

I'm pondering something this morning (and admittedly probably have had too much caffeine this morning) but in most non fiction, and really specifically "self help" type books, there's no plotline, no big twists or surprises, just an author's take on various concepts really. Is it considered a spoiler to take one of the author's concepts and expand on it?

I feel like there's no such thing as a "spoiler" in books such as this. But I'm curious about others' thoughts on the matter?

So a few days ago I think there was a discussion here about people skipping prologues/epilogues and stuff like that In a similar vein, i've seen videos/comments of people say that they only read dialogue, or they skip big paragraphs... or use AI to "read" (aka summarize an entire book in a paragraph) Now my question is.. is this real? Or is it rage bait?

Personally I can understand people skipping prologues/epilogues. I think there might be a confusion between prologues/forewords/introductions, so fair enough, I get it. (Enough about this bc it is not the focus of this post and has already been discussed 😂)

But... only reading dialogue? That can't be real right? Does anyone actually know someone who does this stuff? I'm feeling like it must be something for engagement, right?? To get people to interact..??

Anyone have any book recommendations I can add to my never-ending TBR? I’m looking for some 4 or 5-star reads, as most of the books I’ve read this year have disappointed. Any genre is fine. Also, do I have any birthday twins out there in the nether?

I know a lot of readers love gloomy days to be cozy inside. But my question for you is, what is your ideal reading weather and location? Do you love the beach when it’s sunny? Or do you love the rain and overcast?

I’ve been reading some short books lately, which has meant I’ve had to consider whether I want those books to count towards my overall reading goal for the year. This led me to set a rule: the book must be at least 100 pages, or else I won’t count it towards my yearly reading goal on Pagebound. So like, I just read Of Mice and Men, which was 107 pages and juuuust barely counted, but a couple of months ago I read The Little Prince, which is only about 70 pages and did not count. Does anybody else have similar rules? And if so, what’s your minimum page length?

Edit: For clarification, I am referring to my book goal and not a page goal; I do not have a page goal for the year at all. Also I had not meant to suggest short books/stories are bad or do not count as reading! Many of my five-star reads have been short books! I love short books and short stories, I just rarely count >100 pages to my book goal because I have a small book goal 🤷