hiii! as we near the end of the year, i've been reflecting a lot on my reading journey this year and wouldn't feel right not taking a moment to praise pagebound (although i already do this all day everyday to anyone who will listen :p).

i was very much the matilda-lover (for many reasons) as a child and identifying with her love for reading was definitely a main reason! i would spend all day in my room reading, my gifts were always books, you get the picture!

however, as my mental health declined more and more rapidly as i got older, i found myself not being interested/able to focus on reading anymore and that was a heartbreak and grief journey in itself. i feel like i've been on that grief journey ever since (i'm 28 now and probably stopped reading-reading when i was around 11/12) because as much as i maybe was able to pick up a book here or there or go on random "reading eras", it was never the same way as when i was little, that is until i found pb!

i started using pb in august and since then, i went from thinking i wasn't even going to hit my 20 book reading challenge for the year to now having read 25+ books in one month both last month and this month! it is really reminiscent of when i was little and would leave the library with baskets of books and that is something that warms my heart so deeply. i feel like my inner teen (and myself in general) is finally healing a part of themselves that they grieved for so long. it feels like coming home! to myself! and i have pagebound to thank for that!

the book organization options (yes i'm a virgo stellium, yes it's very obvious), the quests and readalongs - all of the fun features, attention to detail and the very obvious desire to foster community all keep me so entertained and wanting to contribute. i thought maybe i would just fixate on this for a while and move onto something else but book lover has always been in my heart and i think it's here to stay (i've already created 3 separate reading challenges for myself to work on in 2026! amongst just whatever books i want to get to! i'm a mix of a mood-reader and a planner!) 💗

anyway, hopefully others can relate and want to share their favorite thing about being on here or favorite memory on pb! memory/moment-wise for me would have to be a tie between having connected with so many cool people and having discovered such incredible reads this year!

i look forward to reading y'all's sweet moments! thank you for reading all of this if you did 💗

I’m not ready for this story

Hiiii It’s time for Who’s Who Wednesday where every Wednesday we introduce ourselves and make new friends. This is part 9. I think

If you participated 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 JadeLovesBooks.

I just found diamond painting and I am obsessed with it I don’t like thanksgiving food My middle name is Noelle because I was born on Christmas Eve

Phew, what an ending, this has been the best book so far. It really brought all the previous books together. Now I’m also convinced, CONVINCED, that it’s better when people read assassins blade first and not after a couple of books. It really gave the ending extra feels 😭 cannot even imagine it being a good idea reading it after book 3 or something. Anyway… I need to heal my heart after this book 🥲, so I’m taking a little TOG break again. Gonna read a random book before continuing the series.

HIS FUCKING PHONE RINGS ARE YOU KIDDING ME this is why i never have my volume on 😤

enjoying this a lot so far and the audiobook is an ✨experience✨ the dual pov is exquisite; makes you feel like you are watching a movie 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

maybe I should've read assassin's blade first.. there are so many mentions of things I don't understand