What are your top 5 book genres? I'm curious which one comes out on top.

Exactly as the title suggests, question is do y'all remove the dust jacket to your books while reading? The one on the book I'm reading was annoying the heck out of me with the sliding and I realized it never occurred to me to just...take it off. Curious if that's actually the established approach haha!

Militancy was at the core of suffragette identity: ‘To be militant in someform, or other, is a moral obligation’, Pankhurst lectured. ‘It is a duty which every woman will owe her own conscience and self-respect, to women whoare less fortunate than she is herself, and to all who are to come after her.

"The incongruence of Gandhi has a different slant. Anyone who sees inhim a paragon should pick up Kathryn Tidrick’s masterful biography of themahatma. During his time living in South Africa, he found his Britishmasters marching off to the Boer War – and ran after, begging them to enlisthim and his fellow Indians. A few years later, the British again paraded outto the provinces, now to the Zulus who rebelled against oppressive taxesand had to be flogged and mass executed into submission, and again Gandhiasked to serve. To his disappointment, he was taken on only as a stretcherbearer and nurse on both occasions, but in his autobiography he claimed hisshare of martial glory by arguing that medical staff are as indispensable towar as any soldiers on the front. ‘Gandhi famously resisted any use ofviolence’, runs the standard characterisation, here in the words of yetanother writer who thinks the climate movement should model itself on themahatma. Did he? Perhaps the Boer and Zulu episodes were youthfulblunders?"

What do you prefer? I used to be adamant that physical books are it. That nothing could beat holding actual paper but the past few years, I have come to love reading ebooks (mostly because i didn't have access to paperbacks for a while) and ever since i got myself a kindle, i haven't been able to pick up a physical book (its been 8 months)!!!

Started this one while having tea in Mofteratu's room, seems promising thus far: "It is strange and striking that climate change activists have not committed any acts of terrorism. After all, terrorism is for theindividual by far the modern world’s most effective form of politicalaction, and climate change is an issue about which people feel justas strongly as about, say, animal rights. This is especially noticeablewhen you bear in mind the ease of things like blowing up petrolstations, or vandalising SUVs. In cities, SUVs are loathed byeveryone except the people who drive them; and in a city the size ofLondon, a few dozen people could in a short space of time make theownership of these cars effectively impossible, just by running keysdown the side of them, at a cost to the owner of several thousandpounds a time. Say fifty people vandalising four cars each everynight for a month: six thousand trashed SUVs in a month and theChelsea tractors would soon be disappearing from our streets. Sowhy don’t these things happen? Is it because the people who feelstrongly about climate change are simply too nice, too educated, todo anything of the sort? (But terrorists are often highly educated.)Or is it that even the people who feel most strongly about climatechange on some level can’t quite bring themselves to believe in it?"

What the title says! I personally used to only read one book at a time until VERY recently - like the other week, lol. I used to worry about my attention being divided, but someone on here suggested that as long as they were two different genres, it would work out okay. So, I'm trying it out with the Hunger Games series and (currently) What Moves the Dead. If you read more than one, do you have a method to it? Can you read twenty fantasy books at once? A fiction and a non-fiction? I'm curious to know!

i wish norman finkelstein was on pagebound so i could read his entire bookshelf. what a guy.

I keep seeing this talked about in my book groups, so thought I’d ask. Edit to clarify what I meant: I meant when you're having a hard time picking up the book the first time to start the book in the first place but you know you want to read it, and may even know you'll enjoy it. And also share what I do! 1) I tell myself I’ll only read a chapter a day. And then if I end up finding it hard to put down, bonus! It makes it feel less daunting than “I have to read this book”. 2) Join book challenges (rainbow cover, abc, etc). Including a “book chain” one where the next book links to the last one. Example: Book cover is same colour as title of last book. Having it in a challenge feels extra motivating. 3) Join a buddy read to talk about the book. I was curious if anyone else had strategies to share! Sometimes I truly and really want to read the book but for some reason it’s just intimidating or otherwise hard to push myself to read.