English is not my first language and I always feel cautious when writing comments in forums because of all the potential grammar errors/misunderstandings (I'll never understand English prepositions, but I've made peace with that).

Just wondering how many of us are there? What's your native language? It'd also be great to see a map showing where Pagebound users are.

Edit: wow, so many comments! I love to read about all the different native language, thank you! It's nice to think that, no matter how big the world is, there'll always be someone sharing the love for reading ❤️ (and now that I got cheesy it's time to find my exit).

In my country (Sweden) we celebrate Midsommar, or summer solstice, this weekend. It's a celebration of the longest day of the year and in my country the earliest time the sun goes down is all the way in the south, and that is still only about 5h without sunshine. Up north we have the midnight sun! It's celebrated with family, friends and community, and we have a lot of fun silly rituals and things we do (no we don't sacrifice people in general) and we have this fun video explaining it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yx0IiIvgK5Q&pp=ygUVbWlkc3VtbWVyIGZvciBkdW1taWVz

EDIT: pinned comment has a functioning link! If you wanna search on youtube, look for: midsommar for dummies, by embassy of sweden

It's silly but it does cover most of what we really do, the weird dances, the food, the music and the pole😂 It's my favorite celebration of the year and I wanted to share a bit of my culture with everyone here in the PB community🥰 I'm spending my day outside mostly and waiting for rain, because it always rains on midsommar, it's the start of our summer rainy season.

What is your favorite celebration of the year? What books do you love that take place during your favorite time? We don't have many translated to english so I'm sorry I have no recs🫣

Glad midsommar! 🌞

That post about PB usernames yesterday has ignited in me a desire to change mine, but I can’t decide! Im actually hyperfocused on this now thankfully. Here are the contenders:

• theangrywitch (bc I’m an angry feminist legal academic by trade and love to read witchy books)
• vulpix (my fave Pokemon)
• something with vampira (but that’s already taken so I’ll have to change a letter or something. My family calls me vampira bc I’m always overly warm and hate the sun for that reason and go around constantly closing curtains)
• emiliewithane because of Anne of green gables

EDIT: I WENT FOR VULPIX

I’m just genuinely curious about readers reading reviews. So I have a three part question.

1. Do you read reviews? Do you read before the book or after the book?
2. When you read the reviews, what are you going into them expecting to see?
3. What is something (beside unmarked spoilers) do you hate to see in reviews?