I'm trying to find more people to be friends with who have similar reading tastes or simply other things in common for me to be able to yap with them. So let's write about ourselves in as little or as much detail as we'd like and find like minded folks to be friends with! I'll start with my intro in the comments :)

Hi fellow boundlings 🥰📚

recently my algorithm has flooded me with so many articles and videos about the ongoing literacy crisis. Which I think everyone here is aware of and I have already seen multiple discussions about that topic here, but it is still something that really alarms me. And then the constant (rather concerning) debates on social media, like some people claiming to only read the dialogue in books, or that time someone on social media accused authors or being ableist for using difficult words in their writing, or even worse authors who use more complicated words then being accused of using AI.

Thankfully, PB is a safe haven far away from all this, but still, reading about all of that scares me enormously. And it also reminds me of Newspeak in Orwell’s 1984 and how that was used to simplify language more and more and thus increasingly limiting people’s vocabulary. (Please correct me if I remember this wrong, since I read that book a good while ago 😅)

Long story short, that gave me the idea to suggest a little challenge to expand our vocabulary for those want to participate.

My idea was that everyone could comment a word or two (or as many as you want) that you recently learned about, and their meaning. That way we can maybe all learn some new words by looking through the comments. And by writing them down and talking about them maybe we can also remember them better.

I use the term new words rather loosely here, so please feel free to interpret it however you like. For example you could share: 📚 a word you recently read that you truly didn’t know before and had to look up 💡 a word you had never encountered before but could infer the meaning from context 🙊 a word you technically know the meaning of but don’t often use in your active vocabulary when you are speaking or writing (but wish you did) 🗣️ or honestly even just a word that you know and love but that is not well-known and that you wish more people knew about

Also, you are obviously completely free to write the definition in your own words, or copy from a dictionary.

I hope you like this idea and I look forward to reading all of your comments! 💜🥰

Hello~ One of those subgenres I really enjoy (but certainly don't read enough of) is retellings - which made me wonder: what are some of the most unique retellings you've read? Those that got you because the premise was so interesting or unexpected? (and, of course, bonus points if the execution was equally 10/10)

Is there any book length that is your maximum limit? Like beyond that you nope out?

For me any book over 1K pages is a hard pass unless it's interesting enough

I need to read a book that I'm kind of intimidated by because it says it's over 1500 pages on my Kindle, 850 pages on paperback and I thought why not grab it on audiobook to make it a lil easier.... it's 36 hours long... 😶