I just heard the word "percolate" in a book podcast and I physically cringed. Not because there is anything wrong with the word or the context in which it was said. Because as a lawyer in the (evil and dying) United States, I've heard "percolate through the lower courts" far too many times by now and my immediate reaction is to roll my eyes. It doesn't help that such percolation usually results in the Supreme Court (🤢) having a final say on critical matters.

I'm curious--do you all have specific words or phrases that you can't stand because of your job or background?

Inspired by a conversation with a few of the lovely people here, I am curious how others feel about knowing spoilers or other information about a book when they start reading it? Do you enjoy knowing what's going to happen, or do you prefer to jump in blind?

Personally, I like going in with as little information as possible. The genre and maybe a vague plot premise is all I want, and if I know more I'm less interested in picking up a book (unless it's a reread). This is one reason I don't like the trope-ification of book marketing, I feel like knowing what tropes are present in advance spoils a bunch of things for me. It's also why I generally dislike retellings. Inspiration and allusions are fine but obvious/direct retellings don't interest me. I really enjoy the process of piecing together a story and trying to guess where it's going and knowing big twists or plot points in advance doesn't let me do that.

just thought of asking this a few minutes ago, as it feels like i see a ton of people around here who love Hozier and Florence + the Machine, and i wanna see if there are any correlations between peoples favorite genre of books and favorite genre of music/favorite artists! for me, favorite genre is nonfiction, and my music tastes tend to lean towards rock, punk, and metal🙂‍↕️

Recently I noticed how we only get 5 taste books on out accounts, do any of you think that we need more? I want to add a book on but I don’t have any space left, do any of you have recommendations on how to deal with this or maybe do any of you think that we should get more space there? Thank you for any answers or comments 💕 ~ Annie

I’m so curious, and I have too many questions about everyone’s relationship to reading in English vs. reading in ur native language.

Do you pay it any mind? Is this something you actively try to balance? Can you decide to pick up a book translated from English to your native language?

Also for the people who, in addition to English and their native language, have a heritage language* they can read in. How comfortably can you read in your heritage language? Does that require A LOT of focus and effort like it does for me? In that case, how often do you make time for that focus and effort?

* = i was unfamiliar w this concept for a long time, so pasting this here from wikipedia for convenience: "A heritage language is a minority language (either immigrant or indigenous) learned by its speakers at home as children, and difficult to be fully developed because of insufficient input from the social environment."

Feeling very sentimental about pagebound with the recent post about when people joined but I’m also thinking about the books I would’ve never known about if not for joining here.

Notably, The Six Deaths of the Saint by Alix E Harrow (and eventually the Everlasting); I probably wouldn’t have ever known about this book if not for the PB yoink train and general chat while reading it awhile ago and I absolutely love it. It’s so amazing to have a community where things like this can and do happen on the regular 🥰

So, curious what books others have found (and hopefully loved) through PB?