Today I found myself at a local bookstore just looking around. I mainly listen to audiobooks and read on my Kindle so physical books are just trophies for me. I wondered if the employees thought I was crazy for just browsing around and not buying anything. It got me thinking…do you just browse at the bookstore? What is your favorite thing about going to the bookstore? What’s something no one knows about a bookstore?

hi everyone, I was just sitting here planning my next visit to barnes & noble hehehe and wanted to know what’s going to be your next book purchase? how do you go about picking the physical books you buy? have you ever returned a book? what’s the most you’ve spent at a book store at once? yes I’m nosy !!!

( doesn’t have to be barnes & noble it could be any book store! )

I will be buying mate by ali hazelwood, love is a war song by danica nava, the twilight deluxe hardcover 25th anniversary set, and hopefully browse some other books as well 🧚🏼‍♀️

how do you all manage to read several books at once like??? i saw some people having 5 current reads and i was like “thats like book danthology” 😭😭😭😭

I'm in a reading-intensive academic program, and while I technically still have time to read, I no longer have the mental capacity to actually enjoy or analyze what I read for fun without sacrificing my school work. If I read something that's for fun, it takes over my brain and it becomes harder to think about school materials. Do other people experience this?

Was reminiscing on how something that got me back into reading a few years ago was seeing a couple girls in a bookstore who just seemed to know SO much about the books on display. They were casually chatting through authors, what they've read, what's been popular, what has won awards, etc. At that time I was absolutely lost among the sea of books and just thought it was so cool and desperately wanted to develop that kind of knowledge myself. It inspired me to start reading more and try to get a finger on the "pulse" of the reading world!

Makes me wonder - what qualities do you find super cool and admirable in other readers that you would want to develop for yourself if you could?