Hullo, Pagebound! My first post here, so I thought I would share some insight into my reading journey!

From August of 2016 to February of 2026, I was stuck in the middle of the biggest reading slump I had ever been in. In middle school and high school, I voraciously devoured books, close to the 100s every year, sometimes over it. And yet, when I went to college to become a teacher - I found myself slowly beginning to read less and less for pleasure and more just for classes. I was exhausted, and kept telling myself that I needed to actually do some fun reading, but often I fell through on it. Couple that with entering into the commercial writing world for a time, everything that I loved about reading became work - especially when I became a teacher during Covid.

2020 to winter 2026 was a wild time: teaching for four years as lead humanities and English teacher, a myriad of different seasonal jobs, getting married, becoming a dad - a lot of life changes. And in that, I started to find the spark again - it clicked back into place: I wanted to read again, not needed, wanted. Finding this app has been a godsend, truly, cause it has given me a way to actively track what I am reading, follow what I am doing, and connect with other readers all over. It has been wild that comic books were my way back into reading, finding what my ten year old self loved about the page all over again.

I went from reading maybe ten books in ten years to now almost 40 in just a few months! And I can't wait to read more and meet more folks here!