Happy Tuesday my big, beautiful Boundling brains!! It's the time of the week to share what you learned about yourselves, others, or the world through your reading this week! Whether it's a quick piece of trivia, a deep dive, or a sudden realization - all are welcome here!!

Not gunna lie - personally my brain is mush from a rollercoaster of a week ending on the high of the quests dropping yesterday so I feel like I can barely remember what I read last week let alone any fun facts haha but I'm excited to learn from y'all!

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..??

The way she describes her days in the lake reminds me of cozy games. I wouldn't like being in a lake in real life but I want to play this non-existent console game now.

hey guys, does anyone have any recs for books that feature the ocean deeper than just being about pirates or including one scene where the main characters' boat is attacked by a sea monster?

I'm looking for stories that spend a considerable amount of time fleshing out ocean environments and its creatures. Is this too niche? I feel like it's kinda difficult to find books like this. I'm open to any genres but I specifically love Fantasy and Sci-fi 🐙