I just got done reading Mate by Ali Hazelwood and it has drawn me back into me werewolf era so…any good books about werewolves? Extra points if there’s real good romance in it.

I enjoy having sports romance books in my rotation and I have quite a few hockey ones, but I’m looking for some baseball ones. I’ve read Liz Tomforde books (and enjoyed them), but would love to get some other recs to add to my list.

I'm a late-diagnosed autistic woman and I'm trying to read more books with female autistic characters. Does anyone have recommendations? I'm happy for it to be in any genre.

…and then by the end I was surprised to find myself crying. Such detailed world-building!

Title say all really. I've read and absolutely loved the Jacksonville Rays series. I was just wondering if yall amazing people had a suggestion. Bonus if it's a Canadian writer

does anyone have any romance books that they ate up immediately??? i finished the books i had picked out for this week during my break 😭

My current read details some of the libraries destroyed in our history - not just the Library of Alexandria, but also more recently the Mosul Library in Iraq, the Jaffna Public Library in Sri Lanka, the National Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as many libraries in Warsaw during WWII.

Thankfully, many of these libraries were rebuilt (with many people donating from their own personal book collections!), though many ancient books and documents were lost. It's hard to read about the destruction, but I'm also glad that for so long, people around the world have considered libraries invaluable to society.

So I'm posting to express gratitude toward my city's library 🥰 I know I'm very privileged to have access to a library with a great collection and many programs. I've participated in summer reading programs as a kid, and I've seen librarians very patiently assist older patrons who are trying to log onto the internet.

I'm curious whether others also feel this way toward their local library (whether it's flourishing, recovering, or just doing its best)! For those who don't have a library close by, I know we have this post about non-resident cards that are available 🤞

When it comes to readalongs on PB, do you aim to read one of the books, or all of them? I recently joined my local library and aim to use my library card to try and read all the books in the Autumn and Dia de los Muertos readalongs. I know I only need one for the Dia de los Muertos readalong, but I couldn't decide between the three options tbh 😂 And for the Autumn readlong, I really want the sparkly pumpkin tbh.

I'm terrified future readalongs will include authors I can't in good conscience support, because that would look me out of the sparks badges 😥 And of course I'm very sad that I can't get the past badges because I only found PB when the app was announced

Hi hellooooooo does anyone have any recommendations for poly books that fit the below “rules:”

• m/m/f or f/f/f or m/m/m
• isn’t just smut, has something of a plot
• the relationships are balanced in that they all feel for each other, no one is left out.

It can be a reverse harem or a harem as long as there’s queer relationships within. Basically, think of that line “I want my boyfriends to be boyfriends” kind of vibe - warrior princess assassin is a perfect example of this, but bride of brutal hearts (which I’m currently reading) feels a little too focused on the m/f for my own personal tastes so far (did anyone else see how long that book is????????? I’ 500 pages in of 1400 someone send help)

I recently got some flak on booktwt for calling out a person's reading hours. Again, nothing against them personally, I just pointed out the fact that they had 17 hours a day of reading, which only leaves 7 hours of sleeping and nothing else.

Then I took a look at the books they had read in the meantime. I was happy to find books like Middlemarch and others which I adore so much, but most of their reading hours were spent on books titled "Motherbucker" "Bucked up" and other books with naked men on cover and a pun on sex as title.

I just want to ask if anyone else finds it performative, something done just to boost their reading hours and post on internet or do people actually actively consume 17 hours a day of smut. Other's response to my criticism was that "Stop whining that you can not match their reading aptitude" but what aptitude does it take to read the same smut over and over? Would my consumption of porn be a fair addition to my letterboxd watch hours? I just want to engage in a sincere discussion.

A big head scratcher for me. László Krasznahorkai won this year's Nobel for literature and I have seen a lot of people talking more about him being a "zionist" than his work in literature. I sincerely understand the severity of the Israel Palestinian conflict and I do believe what Israel is doing is a genocide but I've seen so many people brushing an author or their career's work aside just because they happen to be Jewish or have a zionist view. László Krasznahorkai's work is staple in human pessimism and gives one a deeper look in how it takes root in everyday life but half of the people who wish to be on the "right side of history" wouldn't engage with those ideas or books just because this one reason.

I see these communities which, rather than being based on the quality of books or the topics discussed, are based on "Non-Zionist bookclub". I've seen people showing disinterest in books they actually were about to read because "oh, he's zionist now I have to get ride of everything I wanted to read." I do not understand this performative behavior and I do not think that these people care for reading literature but about being considered as morally right.

I want to have a discussion because if I stayed in my own brain's echo chamber I might miss upon any other sincere answer to why it's not performative.

This explanation of how see-you-next-Tuesday became an insult when humans began abandoning their nomadic ways just blew my mind:

“It wasn’t until human beings stopped moving that women with sexual independence started gaining a bad rap, because once owning land became desirable, people wanted to be able to pass it down to their children, and in order for men to know who their children were, female monogamy became a must. To create a system of inheritance, societies became patriarchal, and any remaining notions of goddess-like sexual liberation went kaput.”