Hihi! After seeing reels about PageBound on socials and having a friend recommend it, I decided to pop over! I love seeing people chat about things they love, so I figured it could be fun :) After being a super avid reader as a teen, I ended up taking a years-long hiatus from reading to pursue other hobbies despite my utter love for books. At the top of 2025 and after a lot of procrastinating and failing, I decided to take a leap of faith and dive into Babel by R.F. Kuang, mostly by intrigue of the front cover illustration and the book flap synopsis/blurb. It was difficult, I won't lie, it's a really dense book to try to start out with after a while of not reading at all, but it did kickstart my first reading year in a while and I ended up really liking it! Maybe conquering a book of its length made me feel brave enough to keep going~ For anyone who's dealt with prolonged reading slumps/hiatuses, I'm curious, what book sort of brought you back into reading again? Is there a particular reason why that book did it for you?

curious as to how often people take books off of their tbr, and decide that they’re not going to read a book? Does anyone do a spring cleaning of theirs? I usually review my tbr at least a few times a year and take off books that have been on it for a long time and I’ve lost interest in, or that I feel like I’m just never going to read. I also do this cause it’s easy for me to get overwhelmed if I think my tbr is too long

Meaning, you can’t find it at any local bookstore or public library? I feel like this happens to me all the time. There are a lot of little gems on my list that once I find them, I feel so excited because I’ve had to search or wait for them for so long. Right now I can’t find: - Strange Fruit by Lillian Smith - The Iliac Crest by Cristina Rivera Garza - All These Sunken Souls: A Black Horror Anthology by Circe Moskowitz I’m curious about what other elusive books other people might be looking for 🕵️‍♀️📖

Listening to this audiobook is a delight, I'm thoroughly entertained! I wonder what all the chords and sounds look like in a physical/ebook? Finally beginning to communicate and start to potentially learn-- very exciting time in the book!