reached my reading goal for the year already!! happy my postgrad studies have been completed so i can get back into reading regularly!! :D

How many unfinished series do you guys have?

So far, these are mine:

• The Housemaid (are the rest really worth it? I feel like it should've stayed a standalone 😭)
• One of us is Lying (read the first one)
• the mortal instruments (read the first one and I'm CR city of ashes)
• the hunger games (I have yet to read tbosas)
• Truly Devious (I've read the first 3 books only, I still have to read the other 2, but I think there's another book to be released?)
• powerless (I hope this offends no one, but the only reason I'm finishing the series is so I can hate it properly lmao, I don't know why I torture myself)

I am aiming to finish these this year, but I'm not really sure if I can do it. 😭😭 I didn't include series that still have books to be published though (ex: shatter me the new republic and the grandest game trilogy)

Hello! When reading a book set in our own world, which do you prefer: -reading a book set somewhere you've never been (but at interested in) -reading a book set somewhere you have been (and are excited to see in a book)

I personally really love when I start reading a book and it is set somewhere I've been (especially if the people in the book are traveling and happen to go somewhere I have been).

Honestly, the only reason I want to read the latest Dan Brown is I've been to Prague.

If you can believe it, we’ve only got three months left of 2025 😵‍💫

- Are your reading goals and challenges on track? I surpassed my reading goal mid-year and now I’m one book away from 100, let’s gooo!

- Any books you’re determined to get to before the year is out? I will be finishing Robin Hobb’s Liveship Traders this year, so I can start her next trilogy The Tawny Man in 2026.

- Any new favourites you’ve read in the past few months? Some for me were The Fury of the Gods (John Gwynne) and A Dowry of Blood (ST Gibson). Loved them so much I honoured them in the My Taste section of my profile.

- Any surprises or disappointments? A surprise was Turning Darkness Into Light (Marie Brennan), which acts as a nice bookend sequel to the main series, The Memoirs of Lady Trent. I was shocked at how much I loved it, so if you’re someone who is reading this series don’t skip it!

Let me know your Q3 updates! I love finding new books to add to my TBR from your recommendations 💖

Hii, I'm desperately looking for good fantasy books with no or very little romance. 🫡 It doesn't matter if it's ya or older characters, I'm just tired of romantasy rn. Idk if it's just me but I have the feeling that almost every new fantasy book is more romantasy/has a big romance plotline. Which is totally fine, but I miss fantasy without a focus on romance. 🤧

I recently bought Fifth Season! Id heard of it but I didn't realize it was in 2nd person. I flipped it open and it started with "You did [something]" and I was like "Me?????" I really want to know if there are more second person books out there! Not necessarily entirely written in second person but I love when books bring their reader into the story!

Hey all. Lately, I have been struggling a bit with my mental health and have been spending my afternoons and evenings rotting in bed reading. 🛏️ I don't have as much mental energy as I did a couple of weeks ago, when I'd be super proactive and interacting with everyone.

To be honest, I'm not sure if this is particularly healthy, but having notifications on the app makes that moment a bit better. However, I get a little bummed out if I open the app and see I have no new notifications.

Does anyone else feel like this?

But I just want to note that PB community has been helping me a lot. Seeimg so many wonderful people here makes things feel brighter. ✨

hi friends! i just received my first arc, which i'm soso excited about reading. i just wanted to ask, for those of you who have read arcs before, do you do anything different when reading an arc as opposed to reading a regular book? are there things you pay extra attention to? do you rate arcs differently than regular books? any thoughts and advice would be greatly appreciated :)

I really really really love the monthly planner feature because I love organizing my readings even though i end up reading everything but the ones i planed hahaha.

I was really curious what you guys put on your TBR list on here, as in do you only put books from your physical TBR (aka books you own but haven‘t read yet) or also in general all the books you want to read even if you don‘t have them yet. Because on my old goodreads account I added any book that sounded interesting, except it got out of hand and I ended up having a TBR of over 600 books 🙈😂. Which is exactly why I DIDN‘T transfer my goodreads data on here to kinda have a fresh start and my TBR here on Pagebound is only books I actually own — and my physical TBR is already a whooping 130-something sooo yeahhhh. Oopsie tee hee 🙈🎀✨ But then I get sooo frustrated when I see a book that I REALLY want to read in the future but don‘t own yet and so I don‘t put it on my TBR to not mess up my system. Right now my solution is that I have a googledocs document where I just write the titles of books suggestions ✨for the future✨. But so yeah i was curious how y‘all do it?☺️

I thought it would be kind of fun to see where in the world people are, and then folks can make friends with people from the same countries/areas (if they way, not pressure obviously).

I'll go first. I'm Canadian, and more specifically I am in British Columbia (Vancouver Island if you want to get fancy).

Try to find your country and join that thread!

Everyone else?