Do you also feel guilty for not reading your old TBR and jumping right away to the new book you just bought?

As someone who's Brazilian and still lives in Latin America I can't help but feel a bit out of place here sometimes. I don't mean it in a harmful way or anything, but like, it's Spring here in the southern part of the globe while the whole app is actually doing stuff for fall season. As someone who's from a country that still mirrors some of itself in a lot in countries from the nothern part of the globe, such as countries from Europe and North America, it feels a bit wrong and kinda reinforces some of the whole "mutt" syndrome we have going around here (in Brazil we call it "síndrome de vira-lata"). I really miss the app being available in my country too, I feel like if that was possible maybe we could arrange some more quests regarding our geographical realities. Maybe have two sections of the seasonal quests for people from the opposite side of the globe. But again, it's just some slight criticism that I hope it can be seen as something towards the growth of this app/site that I love so much. I don't have the little crown on top of my user since 10 dollars equals 50 reais here and that's expensive when converting, but I hope someone can see this and relate and maybe take it to the roadmap quests for the app/site..? If that's possible of course.

Okay so I want to read both the Throne of Glass series and ACOTAR but I only have enough money to buy either one of the series. Which one do I buy cause I know ACOTAR has more books coming out in February so should I wait to read that? I could buy other books that are on my interested list that I would love to read instead of a series. What should I do? (I had no idea about the Mass controversy guys so I'mma reconsider buying her books in the first place. I don't understand why I've been so quickly voted down for just asking a question 😭 also my buying of books was going to be second hand anyways and not directly supporting the author)

Hi friends! This post just came across my feed on Instagram that I thought would be interesting to discuss! The basic jist of it is that there are some creators who are very angry about “not getting anything” (aka only getting an epub file) in exchange for ARC reading. The original poster seemed to think thanks, character art, or a physical copy was necessary to thank readers for their time. I was taken aback that this was even a discussion, as it’s voluntary and you do get a free copy of the book (which is also the conclusion of the person who made the post I saw), but I thought this could be an interesting question for PB!

Post here: https://www.instagram.com/p/DdMo8tokQl9/?stkn=bjlkazJ2OGZzbzV3

After the post in the forum, I decided to make one without AI! These choices completely depends on how I spend my fall, just in advance! 🫡

Hot chocolate

Baking Pies

Creepy Thrillers

Bone-chilling Horror

Cozy Animations

Stormy Fall Evening

Hearty Stew

Can the author not think to describe ANY of the women as more than “tiny,” “small,” “delicate?” ISTG every single female character in this book is the smallest woman he’s ever seen 🙃 it was bad enough him always describing his wife as some tiny “little girl,” now it seems every other woman is minuscule as well.

This is reminding me why I very rarely read books written by men lol

As someone who can never read more than one book at a time, I'm always fascinated and also confused when I see accounts on here that are reading 3 or more books at once

Sometimes I'll see a few accounts have around 10 books they are reading at once and it makes me wonder if that's true, and if it is, how?? To me, it sounds like it would be hard to remember what's happening in each book

I hope this is an ok question to ask on here, I'm just curious to know more about why people do it!

Yesterday, I read my 1,000th book.

I only started tracking my reading a decade ago, so anything from when I was in school isn't counted in this reading goal, but I'm still shocked and in awe.

A thousand reads in a decade... It sounds crazy to me.

I wanted to share this with someone, because everyone else in my life is like 👍 that's cool, and I'm like ...no, you don't understand 😭 lol, but I know that PBs will get me ❤️

I'm so happy I've reached this goal, and I hope everyone else who has a goal like this accomplishes it as well!!

To bring a bit of fun to what's shaping up to be an otherwise dreary day, I though we could play a little game based on the progress we've made toward our reading goals so far. Using the titles for books you've finished this year, can you complete the alphabet?

Looking at my reads for the year, I managed to find titles for all but eight letters. Definitely didn't think I'd have anything for X or Z, but the lack of a J title surprised me. I excluded "The", "I", and "An" for my list to make it a bit more of a challenge, but you can ignore this element if you choose. Can't wait to see what y'all have been reading!

A - Aquicorn Cove by Kay O'Neill B - Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison C - Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay D - Diavola by Jennifer Thorne E - The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow F - The Family Plot by Cherie Priest G - Guillotine by Delilah S. Dawson H - How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix I - If the Dead Belong Here by Carson Faust J K - Katabasis by R.F. Kuang L - Lost Girls of Hollow Lake Rebekah Faubion M - Mister Magic by Kiersten White N O - Obit by Victoria Chang P - Piranesi by Susanna Clark Q R - Rainbow Black by Maggie Thrash S - The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling T - The Tapestry of Fate by Shannon Chakraborty U V W - When Devils Sing by Xan Kaur X Y Z

Whilst I’m reading the TOG series, I’ve been reading a few books in between just so I am not too fantasy heavy and tire myself out with the fantasy genre, so if anyone has any book recommendations for anything that isn’t too long but maybe cosy and a standalone that would be so lovely. Genre doesn’t necessarily matter! I just need books to fill in the gaps between TOG✨

”The estrogen rush was invigorating”

Litterarly started laughing bc what?!? Sometimes Meyers writing is really odd

I don't know why, but I keep hearing people say "It's not the book's fault I couldn't finish it, there was just x y z going on," after soft DNFing. Now, this is interesting to me because there's an implication that, if you can't bring yourself to finish a text, there has to be some level of blame attached to either you or the work itself for you being unable to complete it.

Now, full disclosure: I don't think like this at all currently, but I definitely had this kind of mentality when I was a lot younger than I am now, especially if it received a lot of buzz or critical acclaim. Now I kind of approach reading a book kind of like going out with somebody: if you click immediately, great. If you don't click immediately, that's okay, give it another try. If you're both clearly not on the same page about anything? There's no shame in calling it quits.

Anyway, do you place blame on either yourself or the book when you DNF? Did you used to, like me? Do you even DNF books to begin with?

People who read physical books/ebooks and listen to audiobooks (not at the same time), how do you decide what format you are going to read a book in? Do you have strategies that help you decide? Or do you just go with whatever you're feeling at the moment?

As someone who likes both, I always struggle when picking up a book on choosing what format I should read it in and I'm curious to know what others think and if there's ways I can help make the decision easier

I'm one of those people that "see" books like a movie in my head. I'm either in the perspective of the main character or like a camera shot of the whole scene. Sometimes I'm seeing the movie so well that when I become conscious of the books' words again it kind of throws me off - kind of like when you're watching something with captions. You get used to them and they blend in, and then you notice them again and they become impossible to ignore until you get used to them again.

I was just wondering what you all "see". Is it like a movie? A picture book? Is it just the words? I feel like seeing just the words would make reading quite unenjoyable but that might just be me.

Hi, I was wondering where you put questions/discussion posts that are about a series as a whole rather than just one of its books? If there would be a Quest for the series or the author, that would of course be the ideal place, but for the series I am thinking about, there isn't any Quest. I know that those types of posts shouldn't be in the Club, and should instead go into either a Quest Forum or Book Forum, but I'm not sure which one to choose then? Is there any agreed upon etiquette? Do you put these types of posts in the forum for the first book of the series, or the one of the last book of the series? Do you specify 0% or 100% as progress? And what if there are prequels/sequels/spin-offs that were published later and it gets more fuzzy which one would be counted as the first or last? Wondering what your thoughts are :)