I’ve been reading Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer and it’s a beautiful book but I feel the need to read it slowly. I think it’s the meditative and contemplative nature of the book itself, and essay collections especially lend themselves well to a slower speed. Now I want to read this more consistently but slowly. One chapter a day, maybe two today, finishing it at the very end of this month (I have 21 chapters left). Have you ever set yourself some sort of limit with a book? I want time to chew on the information. I’ve felt this before- when I read Atlas of the Heart by Brene Brown on Audiobook. I own the hardcover and want to reread it at some point at a similarly slow speed to take it in with more detail. I find myself leaning away more recently from the fast paced thrillers (I think the one for the spring reading challenge, Razorblade Tears by SA Crosby is the only high stakes thriller I’ve read in a while.) I’ve also read Ray Bradbury’s books, Dandelion Wine and others at purposely slow speed in the past. What are your favorite books to read slowly?

very intrigued

lets see how this goes!!!

Hi! I need to touch grass today, and maybe you do too.

What's your earliest positive memory of reading?

Reading has been complicated for me. My relationship with it has changed a lot over time, with some starts and stops along the way. But one memory still feels really warm.

I remember being six and learning to read. In class, we would move up to the next reader book after successfully finishing the one before it. I used to stay after school so I could keep working through whatever level I was on.

I also remember going into my school library and discovering the American Girl books. I can still remember the smell of the library, the feel of those books, and the crinkly sound of the plastic covers the librarian put on them.

It was such a simple, wholesome kind of joy. I miss that feeling.

What about you? What's one of your earliest happy reading memories?

Hello cuties!

My question is for those of you who read 10+ books a month : how do you do it?

I’ve seen a lot of users on this app having already 50, 80 books read in 2026 and I can’t understand how someone can read that many books! I’m impressed!

What Izzy did to her racist teacher was indeed diabolical but Mrs. Peters absolutely deserved that treatment🫣🤪

The Yorkshire accent has puzzled me to the utmost, even Mary couldn't understand what Ayah was saying. It reminds me of Joseph in Wuthering Heights lol

And I found an interesting thing if Ayah means a nanny employed by European in India, because in other languages it means something different 😄

Another week… another complaint! What is your complaint of the week (no matter how big, small, dramatic, silly, serious, etc). Shout it to the void!!