What has your reading taught you this week about yourself, others, or the world??

My tidbit - I'm learning that I need to have some kind of balance when it comes to audiobooks because I like to have "casual" listening for when I'm doing chores, mindless work, etc. BUT because my TBR is so stacked with amazing books (thanks to y'all/Pagebound), I didn't want to listen to the holds that came up "casually". I'm still playing around with what will work for me - I'm thinking some cozy mysteries might be a good fit!

The only thing close to trivia I had this week was I learned through talking about a book with some friends that I didn't understand what a breeding kink was and they educated me haha

How about you? Share your knowledge with us!!

**I mainly read classics and adult fiction, am open to crime and thriller, and don't really touch much fantasy or romance. But anything welcome for anyone.

Let’s play an easy and quick game - Review Chain!

1️⃣ Post a book in the comments - just the title and author is enough. 2️⃣ Scroll through the books posted and leave a ONE WORD review (keep it spoiler free please) 🤫

Let’s see how many words can be used to describe each book, and how much they’re alike - or different! Feel free to kindly debate one another’s words!

Hope everyone is having a good week! 💛

hey gang 👋🏻 not sure if this has been done before but i'm going ahead anyway because i've been feeling really down as of late about all that's been going on in my work / the world / online space. everything feels very disheartening and bleak (jeez sorry for the negative turn)

BUT! just wanted everyone here to share 3 things that you're grateful for this year / month / week. anything counts 😊 so that we can all count our blessings and realise that there are still things to be appreciative of 🌸 i'll go first!

the three things i'm grateful for are:

1. had a two days off work because of the festive szn last week so i managed to get some much needed rest + tons of reading done
2. managed to smash a tough workout
3. finding out about PB(!!!)

I'm curious, what everyone's preferred medium of reading. And I'll just preface that none of that audiobook-ebook doesn't count as reading nonsense. That's not what I'm asking here. If you prefer reading:

Printed books: Hardbound or paperback? E-books: What device? (Phone, e-reader, Ipad - etc) Audiobooks? Scrolls? gold plates? papyrus? 😂😂 If it's a combo, what combo?

Personally, I'm flexible. But when I started immersive reading (audiobook + ebook/printed combo), that became my preferred medium since it helps with my dyslexia. Now your turn. Rants your what and why 🎤🎤

edit: Paperbacks are popular choice, followed closely by e-books

So I would love to be someone that listens to audiobooks. In my car, at work, cleaning my house. Its probably the only way id be able to manage reading more than one book at a time. But, I always zone out. I miss stuff. Or the voices annoy me. I constantly feel like i need to go back and re listen to the same part because it just wont stick.

Did any of you have these issues and found solutions?

I listen to DnD podcasts and do OK. I dont know if its because its usually less monotone sounding. Or because I dont expect the characters to sound like anything other than the person playing them.

I just dont feel immersed in audiobooks.

Any tips?