There have been so many books that sound good but when I start listening (I do audiobooks), I just can't get into them. I push myself not to throw in the towel too soon but I never know what too soon is. I often hear "stick with it" or "it'll make sense in the end" and lately I have found that I've pushed through and not enjoyed the book at all. Do you have a hard and fast rule about when you DNF? Or how do you make that call? On the one hand, I don't want to spend my time with something I don't enjoy and on the other, I hate to think I wasted the time that I did spend with it if I don't finish it. (I'm very bad with all or nothing mentality sometimes.)

A shiver runs through Kent’s prostate, like right before he orgasms.

That’s a very unique way to describe excitement 😅🤣

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So I’ve been trying to get into audiobooks and I wanted to know if anyone knows any good audiobook apps. I’m currently using audible and with audible I hate that I have to have credits to listen to a book and can only use that credit to listen to a “free” book so if anyone knows any other app recommendations please let me know. Thank you so much!!!!!🥰🤍

hello friends! i’ve really loved whenever we do little getting to know each other games on pb club, so i wanted to start another little one! if you want to, i’d love to hear about some of your favorite things, and what makes them so special!! everyone here is just so passionate and excited about the things they love and it always makes my heart so happy to see :) you can answer multiple for one, you can just do one of the following or do them all, whatever you’d like!

• favorite book (for me: station eleven)
• favorite movie (for me: the martian among many others)
• favorite character (for me: ellie williams my beloved)
• favorite tv show (for me: station eleven or the haunting of hill house)
• favorite video game (for me: the last of us i and ii, i also love bg3 and stardew)
• favorite non-reading hobby (for me: video games)
• favorite random interest (this is really just an excuse to yap about something nobody ever directly asks about but maybe you know a lot about - for me: alien abduction stories 😭 and also the now-gone great movie ride at disney’s hollywood studios not in a disney adult way but in a media studies way)
• favorite color (for me: yellow)
• favorite animal (for me: cats and manatees)
• favorite meal (for me: all things pasta)
• favorite musical artist / album/ song (for me: samia anything by her) and if you have any other favorites of any other category you want to share, please do!!!!

So if you’re like me and are intensely motivated by ✨shiny things✨, all the Quest badges are so cute and beautiful and fun! And you want to collect them all because not only do they represent achieving a certain reading goal, but they also make your profile the most aesthetically pleasing one on the block!

I’ve joked about collecting a bunch simply because they look good together before, but with the most recent batch of Quests and avatar images that dropped, I thought there were enough options to try to make little themed sets of them as a way to procrastinate all my responsibilities. I’ve come up with a few just-for-fun “badge packs” below (solely based on the badge designs) that I think would look cool if I collected them all, but i would love to see what other people come up with! Go forth and mix and match!

Fairy Glen

For when you want your profile to resemble an enchanted meadow of sunlight and flowers and the shiniest lil critters you have ever laid eyes on

Quest badges featured: Plants, fungi, and trees - oh my!, Majestic Minibeasts, Intro to Poetry Possible avatar pairings: Fairy, elf, unicorn, satyr

Once Upon a Dream

For when you want to pretend you live in a castle in the clouds with a rainbow outside your bedroom window. And heaps of books littering the place, of course

Quest badges featured: Fairy Tale Retellings, Historical Fiction Starter Pack Vol II, LGBTQ+ Middle Grade Possible avatar pairings: Angel, princess, genie, witch

Valley of Monsters

For when you’re grinding a fantasy RPG and they throw you into a training arc. Scales and fangs and claws abound!

Quest badges featured: Those Who Lurk Among Us: Monster Manga, Flights of Fire, Mermaids After Dark Possible avatar pairings: Devil, goblin, monster, western dragon

Abducted by Aliens (but make it a grainy 1980s TV program)

For the classic sci-fi vibe. Lil green martians and flying saucers and questionable CGI (may or may not feature an “alien planet” that was filmed in some random area outside of LA)

Quest badges featured: LGBTQ+ Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi Charcuterie, Operation Epic Scope Possible avatar pairings: Alien, superhero, robot, astronaut

Queen of Hearts

For when you’re in the mood to plant a rose garden atop the beheaded corpses of your enemies. Beware the flesh-eating flowers!

Quest badges featured: Tragic Love: Queer Edition, Fantasy and Sci-Fi with a Side of Romance, Botanical Horror Possible avatar pairings: Vampire, Fabio, emo girl, Victorian Gothic

Museum Display

For when the vibe is walking into a collection of priceless artifacts and restored antiques, ready to learn about history!

Quest badges featured: Mythological World Tour, Classics Starter Pack Vol II, Greek Myth Retellings Possible avatar pairings: Detective, audiobook (you’re taking the guided audio tour)

Medieval Quest

For when you need everyone to know that you’re AOL on a quest for glory at the behest of the local monarch

Quest badges featured: Medieval Times, Gothic Literature, Universe Quest: The Cosmere + Cytoverse Possible avatar pairings: Knight, wizard, dragon, prince

Back From The Dead For The Purpose of Murdering Shitty Men

What it says on the tin

Quest badges featured: Blood Suckers, Supporting Women’s Wrongs, Sapphic Vampires Possible avatar pairings: Emo girl, vampire girl, punk

’Twas a Dark and Stormy Night

For those classic haunted house vibes. It’s a horror movie, and you’re for sure going to investigate the strange bump coming from the basement!

Quest badges featured: Whispers in the Walls, Queer Horror, The Macleaniverse Possible avatar pairings: Emo boy, ghost, Binx

Some other possible ones I thought of: The Vampire Lord’s Crusty Old Castle (Gothic Literature, Dark Academia, Blood Suckers), I’m A Magical Girl But I Love Cannibalism (Fairy Tale Retellings, Gothic Literature, Tragic Queers), A Bite To Eat (British & Irish Classic Literature, Classic Literature From the United States, Love, but Also Food), Serving Cunt in a Brutalist Hellscape (Feminine Rage, Fictional(?) Dystopian Societies, Every Villain is a Hero in Their Own Eyes), Day In the Life (Quiet Novels, Cozy Fantasy, punctuation: optional)

It's been a couple of weeks for me now. The addiction is getting quite out of hand.

The symptoms? -a quick peak turns to two hours -can't stop staring at your new avatar, I even have that same top! -endless yapping -forgetting to eat -when did I last use the ladies'? Yesterday?

I have tried everything: -walks (takes a quick peak while walking, see point above) -begging friends to join PB -other hobbies. Can't remember what they are anymore. Something about collecting dolphin shaped rocks? Not sure. -low and behold, actual reading.

Is anyone else in the grips of this and is there a known cure? What have I gotten myself into?

How do you guys make mutuals here? You can only see your own following and there isn’t a way to dm anyone. I’m fairly active but I haven’t really befriended anyone here yet. (Also hi if you want to be moots 😉)