i love witnessing a yoink-chain on the feed!! it’s just so fun to be able to see where it starts and where it goes like cotton eye joe and wonder who else yoinked the book beyond your field of view! what other little whimsical pagebound experiences have people witnessed or been a part of??

Hey y'all 👋🏻

It’s time for Who’s Who Wednesday where every Wednesday we introduce ourselves and make new friends. This is possibly part 14.

Jadelovesbooks originally started this. These were some of my favorite posts to read through so I'd like to bring it back if that's cool (or if these were ended on purpose, let me know and I'll remove this).

If you participated in any of the times before, you don’t have to introduce yourself again but you can share some different facts about you, an opinion you have, or how your week is going.

If you’re new, introduce yourself!

I’ll go first.

My name is Wibbily. I'm getting back into the habit of going to the gym (I had my gallbladder removed last month so I've been healing up). I'm sore, but honestly I can tell that my mental health is already getting a boost from it so I'm excited to keep going 💪🏻

Or: Are you as indecisive as I am?

Recently I’ve noticed that I’ve begun struggling to pick what book to read next, because I seem to want to read everything at the same time and it’s beginning to become a problem 😄 Like for example right now, I just finished Golden Son and I haven’t started a new book because I can’t decide: I want to read the third one because I want to know what happens. But also I feel like it was a sci-fi overload, so I want to go back and read a big fantasy book, but also that might be overwhelming, so I feel like reading a standalone or maybe a simple romantasy book. But also I kind of want to reread something, so my brain gets a break? So basically I’m just sitting here and don’t know what mood I’m in and in the end I just end up updating the tbr for hours, but not actually reading anything 😄

Does this happen to anyone else? And if yes, how do you pick? 🤓

Usually when I hear “cozy” in terms of books, I usually associate it to romance, fantasy, or contemporary. Are there any horror/mystery/scifi books out there that would be considered “cozy”? I know the first two seem contradicting to feeling cozy, but maybe they’re out there!!

Another round! Setting up a suggestion thread in the comments if you have one you would like to see next round!!

1. Characters who feel real OR characters who feel larger than life
2. A story that takes its time OR one that grabs you fast
3. Chapters you fly through OR chapters you sink into
4. A plot that keeps you guessing OR one that lets you breathe
5. A romance that sneaks up on you OR one that hits instantly
6. A cozy, familiar world OR a wild, unpredictable one
7. A narrator you trust OR one you’re not sure about
8. A book that leaves you smiling OR one that leaves you stunned
9. A cast you click with right away OR one you warm up to slowly
10. An ending that ties everything up OR one that lingers in your mind

I have a very strict way of scheduling books to choose what to buy. First, when I'm interested I store them in the interested here. Then I go through my list, look at the plots and trigger warnings of books and store the ones I actually would buy for how things are on a Google document.

I still keep the other ones here, cause in the future they might make it into the Google sheet list.

Right now I count 108 books in my document, waiting for the right moment.

This isn't the only process I go through. Obviously choosing from 100 books it's difficult. I start reading the blurbs again and I open the Amazon links only of the ones I kept reading till the end.

After that, I ask myself what genre I want to read, or what vibe I'm looking for and close all the Amazon tabs of books that don't fit that.

Later I come back on pagebound and see the general ratings and the bad reviews only. I eliminate at least an option based on that.

If there's still too many tabs I read the excerpts. Anything that doesn't have one is discarded immediately.

I make a list of pros and cons and eliminate one at a time until I didn't round it down to two.

Finally if they would cost max 25 euroes together I buy them. If not I ask my friends for advice on which one to choose.

Does anybody else have such a specific method?

i saw someone make a post abt icks so i wanted to know what makes you guys giggle and kick ur feet when ur reading! my top one has to be where a character tears off a piece of their clothing to bandage the others wounds AHH its so cute always no matter how many times i see it!!