Okay so I miiiiiiiiiight be on my second glass of wine and I’m just scrolling through my main feed and want to follow some more people sooooo comment a fun little fact and imma follow people so I have more cool PB friends to talk to (I’m v sarcastic so if that’s your vibe IM YOUR GIRL🙂‍↕️)

Happy Friday amazing PB readers! I’m in the mood for devastation and some healthy (or even unhealthy) crying.

I want a book that is going to absolutely destroy me. I’m talking ugly crying, can’t-see-the-words-through-my-tears, questioning-my-life-choices kind of heartbreak.

I want the one that left you staring at a wall after finishing. The ones you still think about. The ones that hurt so good you’d read them again anyway.

The last one that had me grasping for reality was The Last Letter by Rebecca Yarros

Make me cry, friends!

“Am I just your Ghislane?” Sylvie spat. “What?” Lila said. “You keep me close to help with you little schemes and then ditch me as soon as I become an inconvenience.” Sylvie put her hands on Lila’s shoulders and shoved her backwards. “Am I your Ghislane?” she cried. “I thought we were both Epstein.”*

I’m posting this, un-spoilered, because I think every future reader deserves to see that this is the disgusting bullshit this book will force you to read. A sapphic couple in a fight, and one of them compared themselves to a horrific pedophile child trafficker as if it’s a cutesy flirting bid for attention. I’m horrified the author wrote this, I’m horrified it made it past the cutting room floor and into the arc version. I can only hope it will be removed in the final printing, but buyer beware.

Hey y’all,

Im new to the thriller and horror genre so bear with me as I try to explain what im looking for 😭

I’m looking for horror reads that aren’t too scary but also dont really fall into the thriller category. Like still horror but if it didn’t have this one thing it would be considered thriller, ya know?? Baby-steps if you will.

I finished Bloom by Delilah Dawson and I loved the whole suspenseful-ness of it all. We didn’t really know how fcked she was until the last bit of the book and and then it got crazy…like CRAZY. I don’t want a thriller cuz after reading Bloom I feel like I would be underwhelmed…but maybe I’m wrong? Please help lmao 😭💀

Much like a public library culls its collection, I'm embarking upon a huge personal culling of my library. I've been in the industry for more than a decade at this point (which feels wild) and have been a reader my entire life. I had a blog on Blogspot in ye olde 2009 reviewing books, long before bookfluencers—my teenage self would be THRILLED to see how reading has exploded. But because of this, my personal library has grown exponentially and has been growing for about twenty years, and I've really not ever done a huge purge other than about 50-60 books once a year or so. I have about 2,600 on my physical TBR in my house. (Again, I have been collecting for my entire life, and am 34. This is in no way meant to make people feel like they don't have enough or have too many! Everyone's library is personal!)

Over the years, I've seen others do a purge and I had never felt the need to, because I loved being surrounded by all the books I wanted to read. But I have finally hit that point—I'm no longer in joy; I'm overwhelmed. By all the books I've carried from apartment to apartment to house to house and still haven't read. I have books on my physical TBR from 2015—I am an entirely different person now, and it's finally sinking in that it's okay that my reading tastes have changed and that I can let some to-be-reads go.

It's always scary for me because what if it's the book that got away? What if I gave away one that could have been a favorite?

What are your criteria for getting rid of books you haven't read yet? How do you decide what still fits you? (Personally, I no longer read YA, so that's an easy category for me to pull off my shelf, as well as women main characters written by men authors. These are the only two that have been relatively easy to pull off the shelf.) Would love to know how others go about this monumental task!

I'm a little in the dumps lately and overthinking everything surrounding romance (which makes up 90% of the books I read). I'm thinking of cutting down on my romance reads apart from what I already have. Genres I'm thinking of exploring are women's fiction, literary fiction, thrillers, fantasy, and memoirs. Looking to dive more into YA since it's likely to lack subplots romance in other genres. I'm also interested in reading family centric or platonic relationships. I'd love if you could suggest some recs with little to no romance!!

Much like a public library culls its collection, I'm embarking upon a huge personal culling of my library. I've been in the industry for more than a decade at this point (which feels wild) and have been a reader my entire life. I had a blog on Blogspot in ye olde 2009 reviewing books, long before bookfluencers—my teenage self would be THRILLED to see how reading has exploded. But because of this, my personal library has grown exponentially and has been growing for about twenty years, and I've really not ever done a huge purge other than about 50-60 books once a year or so. I have about 2,600 on my physical TBR in my house. (Again, I have been collecting for my entire life, and am 34. This is in no way meant to make people feel like they don't have enough or have too many! Everyone's library is personal!)

Over the years, I've seen others do a purge and I had never felt the need to, because I loved being surrounded by all the books I wanted to read. But I have finally hit that point—I'm no longer in joy; I'm overwhelmed. By all the books I've carried from apartment to apartment to house to house and still haven't read. I have books on my physical TBR from 2015—I am an entirely different person now, and it's finally sinking in that it's okay that my reading tastes have changed and that I can let some to-be-reads go.

It's always scary for me because what if it's the book that got away? What if I gave away one that could have been a favorite?

What are your criteria for getting rid of books you haven't read yet? How do you decide what still fits you? (Personally, I no longer read YA, so that's an easy category for me to pull off my shelf, as well as women main characters written by men authors. These are the only two that have been relatively easy to pull off the shelf.) Would love to know how others go about this monumental task!

i had my 2025 wrapped at the end of the year but i can't seem to find it right now (i'm putting my friend on the pagebound app and want to show him!!) where can i find it now?