I love this list, but I’d really love to see even more diversity here. Since it’s ANHPI month, “Asian-inspired” should leave room for a much broader range of stories and voices than what’s currently represented.

This especially stands out to me because of a recent discussion in the German book space about how publishers often use “Asian-inspired” as a marketing label and then using the most stereotypical things to show the books.

It would be really cool if we could collect more diverse recs here!

So I was thinking about how some apps make us spend more time that we were planning on spending. Don't get me wrong, Pagebound is AWESOME (i am loving it here), it really encourages debates, book forums, recommendations and high quality content!!! So I really don't think Doomscrolling is a thing in this app. Still, I do think some people can end up their day feeling like "oh wow, I wanted to read more but i have ended up checking this site every hour instead of actually reading". Of course this is not the apps "fault", is just a pattern, a habit of that user. How do you feel about all of this? (And sorry for the typos hahaha).

For myself and im sure many others reading books and being creative (in one form or another) go hand in hand. Reading and book journalling, or crafting. Listening to an audio book and crocheting, knitting or crosstitching etc! What is the craft the you like do do when/after reading? Or are the hobbies completely separate for you? I like to make specific bookmarks for the book im reading, drawing and using stickers to represent the book!

Is the pace supposed to be so slow? Or am I finding it not interesting enough? Nothing is honestly going on and I find Feyre to be kind of annoying?

I am listening to the dramatized audiobook atm, I’m sure if I was reading it I might have either paused or DNF the book at this point.