Who was gonna tell me she's essentially MaoMao from Apothecary Diaries?!?!

I mean, wow, what an opener!!!!! I'm all in already!!!!

technically speaking, i’ve only read 36 actual books and the rest are just manga volumes, does that count?

in my head, mangas aren’t technically books. i mean they are art, that’s not where im getting at, it’s just not the same type of art as actual novels. the same way you see movies and tv shows separate from broadways and novels. they’re all arts, just different forms.

so does that make adding mangas in my reading goal as cheating? i did it so i can track what’s the last volume i read and where i need to pick it back up from. but i gotta admit, it does make me feel accomplished that i read 100+ books even though they’re just manga volumes. i can get through 3-4 volumes in a day easily, on top of my regular reading.

Tbh… I’m not a fan of the percentage update while reading. I don’t get the hype 🤷🏼‍♀️ I think it’s more work than necessary. I totally get the reading list updates, or reading goal updates. What does everyone else think?? What am I missing??

I’m curious why it was important enough to be added

hi all,

what does today look like for you? when do you read, am or pm? do you have a specific amount of time you allow yourself to read? do you read at work?

lately I have been reorganizing my room, and will be putting shelves up so I can finally display my books heheh (: i will also be displaying all my bratz doll because why not?!!!

the weather here is all over the place,,yesterday it was 80 degrees & I just want to to be cold already 🧍🏻‍♀️

I've got a question for you all: Why you show the badges you currently have? (I mean the three on your profile) Like why then and not the others?

There's only about 2 months left until 2025 is over (WHAT?!). I'll give you a moment to cry.

Moment over.

I'm wondering what everyone's plan is? For those that do reading challenges are we focused on finishing those up? Is anyone focused on finishing some quests maybe? Are you randomly picking out of a jar? Or are we just vibing until the end of the year? (relatable really)

I have a couple quests that's I'm 1-2 books away from gold so I was considering working on those but I still have to work on reading at least one of the seasonal books. I guess I'm just struggling to decide what I want to do! The seasonal readalongs are timely so it makes sense to get some of those done but finishing quests also makes me happy 😂 I'm a bit of a completionist!

What about you guys? Tell me all your plans, the more chaotic the better!

"If cats were helpful, they'd be dogs." "Promises are human inventions."

I really love this cat🐈‍⬛

I find myself guilty of using the sometimes annoying phrase, “The book is so much better”. What are some of your favorite book to movie adaptations of all time? Any that you feel were even better than the book or just as good? Any movies weren’t as good as the book, but still really good? Any that you were looking forward to but extremely disappointed with? One that comes to mind for me is “The Giver”. It was one of my favorite books growing up, and the movie was so disappointing.