I feel like this is a Swedish equivalent of a personal number. You cant do shit without that thing, I'm getting flashbacks

There was a lot of data stored in that thumonail-sized piece of tech - her ID file, her bank account details and a medical interface

I'm wondering how many quest badges the person with the most quest badges has. Is there a leader board? Am I thinking too competitively 😅? How many badges do YOU have? I currently have 23 (counting my level badge and read-alongs) .

I almost never listen to audiobooks at 1x speed. I don't know what it is but it seems like almost every narrator speaks so slowly. I typically listen at 1.24-1.75x depending on the narrator. But I've also noticed that my interest in a book impacts my listening speeds. For books I'm really enjoying I tend to listen at slower speeds so I can really soak it all in. But I find with books I don't like as much my listening speed tends to creep up and up. I don't think there's been any book I listened to at 2x speed that I really enjoyed. What speed does everyone else typically listen at? Has anyone else ever noticed a correlation between listening speed and enjoyment?

I am genuinely bored and I can't find any good books to read 🫩 I have no one to give me recommendations since none of my friends read😭😭 Sooo help meee my fellow bookworms!!!! I am almost at a reading slump!!!🥲

Hello everyone!! Just popping in here to remind everyone, but especially my fellow european boundlings to take extra care of yourself during this very extreme heat wave rn and the next days ‼️

And i don't mean drinking enough water, and sitting in the shade of a tree. I mean stay inside during the day, don't take the temperatures lightly and push yourself to work out or go for a run, try to reschedule them to the early morning hours or later in the evening if necessary. Cancel appointments or dates if you don't feel well. Try to minimise your daily activity to the bare minimum and only things necessary! Heatwave's should get treated like s snowstorm, bc it's nothing else than an extreme of the other end of the scale.

The temperatures we're currently experiencing are seriously no joke, people DIE bc of heatstrokes every day. People in central europe are not used to this conditions, our daily life is designed for colder temperatures, our buildings don't have integrated cooling systems and most private households don't have AC. These temperatures in central europe feel different from the same temperatures in other usual warm countries and regions.

Take care everyone!! 🫂☀️

Europe is currently getting hit by an extreme weather situation, scientists call "the omega situation". Warm air masses are getting firmly trapped between two cold air masses on each side, which leads to a very stable and long holding heat over central europe atm. These week the temperatures are rising over 40°C (104°F), which is a new heat record documented for these time of the year.

Good morning Bookaholics!

How is everyone doing?

We have officially hit heatwave weather in the UK, so i wanted to ask this question...🤔

What is everyone's go to genre during the summer? And do you have any little summer reading rituals you like to do? 📖

(I know that two questions, sue me 😝)

I just saw that Bookshop.com is having a Pride sale and idk if anyone's posted about it yet! It's 15% off with the code PRIDE26. I am not an affiliate/don't make money off of letting you know this, I just think this is nice to know.

They're also offering free standard shipping today for Anti-Prime day! Idk if it lasts past today, but I hope it does!

So today I sold a series from my shelf that I ended up not actually liking that much on fb marketplace. Long story short a lady asked me to ship it to her and she’d pay $10 extra plus whatever shipping was. Super nice to offer that. So we were chatting back and forth a lot for details and then she was talking about how excited she was to have them and she wants to do a tandem with audio and the physical copies.

THEN she says she has no friends who read books and her husband doesn’t really either and doesn’t get the hype and so she said she was sorry for chatting books she just never gets to.

So I was like oh I don’t mind at all, I love chatting books! I tried to chat more with her to engage her and then she just kind of stopped acting excited lol. I told her she could add me on IG or GR or PB and she just was like okay. And didn’t.

The whole thing was cool and then it was like well… okay. What would you do in this scenario, would you keep chatting like you originally said you liked/enjoyed or just completely stop after I said oh I love to lol. I’m so confused.

I quite enjoy learning new words. I like words that can be fun to say, and I like words with deep meanings as well.

Sonder - the profound realization that every random stranger is living a life as vivid, complex, and central to them as your own is to you.

Grotesque - describes something that is unnaturally odd, bizarre, or hideously distorted in shape or appearance.

Petrichor - pleasant, earthy, and fresh scent that fills the air when rain falls on dry soil.

Fracas - A noisy quarrel. A brawl.

Fiddle-faddle - Trivial matters.

I have a bunch of other words that I enjoy, but these were the ones I could think of right now. Are there any words that you like? Words that may be difficult to understand or words you just like saying? Words that you wish would be used more?

Right, it cannot just be me who goes into slumps during the summer. 😅

Summer in general is the worst time of the year for me. I hate the vibes and I most definitely hate the heat. And this season makes reading unenjoyable for me 🤣

For me, the perfect reading session has to be when it is dark outside despite it only being 6pm and you have to wrap yourself in heavy blankets for warmth. I love reading when I’m laying in bed with my blankets and pillows, with a pumpkin spice candle beside my bed. 🎃 And for this, autumn and winter are for sure my favourite reading seasons. I also prefer the vibes a whole lot more. And for me, I need to be content with my environment to be able to enjoy reading. If I’m sweaty and overheating, I will most definitely not enjoy my book as I will be too focused on the feeling of my skin heating up 😫

I’m curious to see if anyone else goes into reading slumps during certain seasons!

I got the idea from Mancarryingthing's youtube video called "I "love" the way we talk about books". It a 1 minute skit depicting two people talking about books and one of them always finds reasons why the other's reading is "not valid reading". In the end it is revealed that the "insufferable reader" archetype hasn't read a book in a very long time and is just regurgitating stuff he sees online. If you don't get the jist, just watch the video, it is really short and gets the point across way better.

So it got me thinking about how my reading habits wouldn't clarify as "valid reading" in the eye of a person like this. So far I got:

• While I like reading classics it isn't my main genre, so i would probably get called "performative" for even picking them up.
• Some classics I read were written by people who would get deemed "problematic" by modern standards (for being racist, sexist etc..). So for reading them I would also be probably called "problematic" despite not agreeing with any of their views and not supporting them financially either (cuz ykow they are dead).
• I started reading manga this year so that (depending on the type of insufferable reader) would get me called a "larper", since I have only gotten to the more popular titles or a "cheater" as I also add mangas to my reading challanges.
• Since my main genre is fantasy and sci fi and I like to read for fun some would also assume that I am too stupid to read "real literature".

Of course this is all good natured fun, remember to not take anything seriously that people like this say, as you can never do something that pleases everyone. Also don't go on booktwitter, its not worth it.

Question for the people here, has life been the same as you initially planned it to be? Did life deviate from the major plans you initially had about it? Your dream career for which you worked really hard, dreamt really hard, are you still pursuing it or something else entirely? The vacation you always wanted to go to? Your dream partner, your dream house; anything that has been entirely different than you initially wanted it, good or bad. Please share it. Here is mine. I have always wanted to be a doctor, for years and years I have dreamt about it. There was no doubt that I would definitely become a doctor. But amidst entrance exams, competition, the dream seems to be blurring now, I might not become a doctor. That's heart breaking and sad and hard to cope with, but life throws at you what you didn't expect. Everyone goes through it, it will be okay.

Hello lovely Boundlings 💜

What could you use a little extra luck, love, or positive energy for?

Share it below! Big things, little things, exciting things, scary things, all are welcome! Let’s lift each other up and send some good vibes and positive energy ✨✨

I quite enjoy learning new words. I like words that can be fun to say, and I like words with deep meanings as well.

Sonder - the profound realization that every random stranger is living a life as vivid, complex, and central to them as your own is to you.

Grotesque - describes something that is unnaturally odd, bizarre, or hideously distorted in shape or appearance.

Petrichor - pleasant, earthy, and fresh scent that fills the air when rain falls on dry soil.

Fracas - A noisy quarrel. A brawl.

Fiddle-faddle - Trivial matters.

I have a bunch of other words that I enjoy, but these were the ones I could think of right now. Are there any words that you like? Words that may be difficult to understand or words you just like saying? Words that you wish would be used more?