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THIS BOOK y’all

im going to need a few days to recover

Not gonna lie- I’m struggling a bit with this book. I can tell that it’s very well-written and I can see why it’s impactful for many, but the prose just feels so flowery and heavy handed to me. I’m also not very invested in Constanta either? This book intrigued me initially, but I find my mind wandering away from the story more often than not 😔

The Winter Readalong picks are here! To see the selections (and the badge!) on web, head to the Discuss tab and click “View Winter Picks” by the Fall 2025 Readalong header. On the app, go to the Seasonal Readalong screen from the More menu (sorry app users, you’ll have to go to web to see the badge preview; I’ll add the badge in the next app update!) The Winter readalong starts December 1st and runs through the end of February. Recommend checking wait times at your library and planning ahead! (note: we are only doing 4 books instead of 5 starting this winter to make room for Special Events)

For our new users: Each season, Top Contributors vote on a selection of books to read as a community. You earn a special badge for reading one of the books and commenting or posting in the forum during the readalong.

Additional exciting updates! (NOTE: these are currently on web only, they will be available on the app with the next app release!)

MUTING BOOKS! yes yes yes you can now mute a book. When you mute a book, it removes all posts from that book’s forum from you Main feed, My Books feed, All Books feed, and Following feed. If someone you follow comments on a post, or posts in the forum, of a muted book you will not see it. You will however still see “reading status updates” from followers who engage with muted book. You can mute a book from the “...” menu on a post, or from the Book Status modal. To unmute a book, go to the Settings page (gear icon on your profile) and click “Manage Muted Books”

You can now mark a book as “owned” and filter your library shelves by "owned" books! While it works perfectly well to have a custom “owned” shelf, a separate toggle was highly requested (mini tip: you can add books to custom shelves right from the book status modal - you do not need to search for & add them from the shelf page).

Feed updates: we removed TBR books from your My Books feed and Main Feed entirely. We know how sensitive spoilers can be, and folks have different definitions of what constitutes a spoiler, so this is the safest option. We will have a way to customize this in the future if you prefer to see them. We also removed any activity related to the Pagebound Club from your main and following feeds. The club still exists as it always has for those that enjoy engaging, but for those that would rather opt-out, you won’t be forced to see PB club content in your feed. You will still have activity items on your profile from any Pagebound Club activity; it just will not be pushed to your followers.

For our app users: if you’d like to mute books now before the update is released, just log in on web, mute the books, and both your web and app feeds will be updated. You can do the same for “owned” books, however the filter won’t appear until the next update.

Thanks everyone and happy reading! Jennifer & Lucy

Gotta bad Case of the Mondays? We've all been there. The best way to chase away the blues, in my opinion, is with comedy. Laughter is the world's best medicine after all. So, with that being said, what are some of everyone favorite comedy books they've read. I will go first. This is unspecific, but anything by Terry Pratchet. I personally think comedy is one of the hardest genres to write, but the way Pratchet managed to write hit after hit was unparalleled. His books could genuinely make me laugh out loud. It is very rare for a book to do that for me. Truly an amazingly talented writer. Another book that I'm not sure if it's technically "comedy," but it had so many funny bits was This Princess Kills Monsters by Ry Herman. The characters were all great and hilarious, but my favorite moment had to be, without spoiling too much, an interrogation with 13 Identical Men and 1 woman undergoing a fever dream. Nothing but chaos and hijinks. Lots of fun all around. I'm sure I can think of more, but I want to hear from you all now.

what do y'all do for a reading slump? do you ride it out or try to power through and keep on reading? (and does it work?) asking for a friend,,, im tooooootally not in a slump right now :((

I can’t believe Halloween is Friday! I feel like October went by so fast!

In the spirit of Halloween week👻…

Is anyone dressing up (or has dressed up in the past) as a character from a book, graphic novel, etc? Or possible as an author (Poe comes to mind)?

If so? Who/what? 🎃

I saw a post on Instagram with a proposed 2025 update to the Myers-Briggs personality test that I thought was so funny link here! I’m most definitely an ITND. 😆

This made me wonder what a ✨book reading personality✨ would look like, so here is something I came up with:

• H/D/L/A (hold a physical book/digital ebook/listen to audio/all (or some) of the above)
• O/T (one book at a time/two+ books at a time)
• M/P (mood read/planner)
• W/N (written, annotated pages/no annotations)

lol sorry if it’s confusing!! I tried to make sure the letters weren’t doubled. Anyway, I’m an ATMN! 💁🏻‍♀️ What are you??

“I’d almost forgotten he was ugly” poor guy can’t catch a break 😭