Hello my dear Boundlings! ✨

For a few years now I've been using a bullet journal and notion to keep track of my mothly and yearly goals. I still find a lot of joy in the creative outlet my journal gives me and in organizing everything in Notion when I actually find time for it, but I've noticed that for the past six months or so I've been slacking on both, mostly because of work and other things going on in my life. Finding Pagebound made me drift away from them even more.

I do love Pagebound though and I really want to include it in my tracking more so I'm thinking of transfering everthing (lists, tbr, goals etc.) I have in Notion over. I haven't really been using my templates anyways and it gets really tedious to keep everything nice and tidy. I'm still kind of on the fence about it though.

So my question is basically: do you use other tools or methods to track your reading? If so, how time-consuming is it for you, and how do you make time for it? I'd be really thankful for recommendations, especially tools for personal notes with easy organizations of books 👀

I am going through a pretty rough time right now, I am always going through something rough but this time with tears. So naturally I haven't been reading much and also finding it very difficult to read in the digital format. I turned to my most trusted format of entertainment which in the past has helped keep my brain off of difficult patches of life, that is kpop. The problem is, after consuming the k content for a stretch, or spending a long time on the television, my brain kind of gets numb? Or dumb? Something like that. It never really happens with reading. I end up feeling more terrible after spending hours on television and computer and just consuming all that k content. It feels suffocating. I am not sure why I am even writing this. Reading is taking a lot of effort these days and I am not really enjoying it. It feels like a chore. I want to read more fantasy but everything is just exhausting. Sometimes I feel as if I like the idea of being a reader and do not like actually reading. This makes me feel terrible and like a performative person. Sometimes out of nowhere I would get excited to read but when actually with a book, I would just try to escape reading. What the hell.

I know, I know. It’s only August. Buuuuuuuttttt Anyone else already psychotically drafting their 2027 new release reads? What’s on your list?

I’ve got:

• Emily Wilde’s History of Dark Faerie by Heather Fawcett
• Champagne Problems by Hannah Grace
• Longtime Listener by B.K. Borison
• The Hollow King by Kelly Andrew
• A New Kind of Clean by Iain Reid
• Wishspun by India Holton
• Villain Origin Story by Ruby Dixon
• Strange Harm by Ainslie Hogarth
• Merciful Carnage by Sara Hashem
• Chimera by Gretchen Felker-Martin
• Necromantica by Ava Reid

And I’m sure many more to come! If you want to see my whole anticipated releases shelf click here

Hello, I'm looking for cozy-comfort books recommendation other than Korean-Japanese books. Hoping to read more books similar like Korean-Japanese but from other countries.

I need to know if anyone else has any like basically irrational pet peeves when it comes to books. Yesterday I read the first couple pages of The Empress of Salt and Fortune (one of the readalong books) and I immediately put it down because there’s a talking horse on the first page. I absolutely cannot stand talking animals in books unless it makes sense in the universe, but I was just so unprepared for that I couldn’t go on lol 🥲. I’m sure it’s a good book I just can’t. I was wondering if anyone else has any pet peeves like that, or if I’m just insane lol.