hi loves! i’m going through a tough time right now and was wondering if anyone had any recommendations for fantasy books that are more on the lighthearted side? i don’t mind cozy (i’ve read Legends & Lattes and Bookshops & Bonedust) but i also looooove a good epic fantasy, which i know can run a bit dark. i don’t really vibe with romantasy as much nowadays but if anyone has really high standards and a good rec i’d love to give it a try :”) just tired of the contemporary right now with discussions of jobs and the world around us (i’m unemployed as hell 🥲) so need a bit of an escape!! anyway thank youuuuu hope everyone has a lovely weekend!

I always think back to the childhood books that got made me into the reader I am today so I wanna know what books everyone on here got them into reading! It also doesn’t have to be childhood books if you became a big reader later in life but I would still love to know what your answer was! One of the first books that I remember really loving and becoming obsessed with is the first Percy Jackson book that my mom recommended to me when I was about 7-9. So I owe my reader journey to her. I also really love the Pixie Hollow series so I’m super excited to read Wings of Starlight soon. (I’m also using this post as an opportunity to get some reading recommendations 🤭)

I feel like sometimes a 5 star book is really a feeling, like it might not be perfect but you're obsessed and you don't care. I've reread three of my 5 star books and they don't hit the same, so now I'm scared to reread any of my 5 stars ever because right now in my mind they are perfect, and I don't want to taint them. Has anyone else had this same problem/fear?

For the 5 books in the “My Taste” section on your profile, how did you pick them? Are they all 5-star reads, personal favorites, books that give off your general reading vibe, or do they all just scream "me"? I’m always curious how people approach it. Mine are all 5-star reads that kind of reflect my reading vibe, even if they don’t totally scream “me.”

I swear some of y'all can speed read (not a bad thing) and maintain so much detail. It will take me days to a week to get through a 400 to 500 page book and I will miss so much context sometimes. I also find myself sometimes becoming easily distracted when reading slower parts of books which definitely extends my reading time. Sometimes I just can't focus on whatever is going on and then will need to reread the parts. I'm reading for enjoyment of course and the discussions here, but I find myself feeling inefficient, which shouldn't really matter but I was curious what everyone's strategy was to read so quickly. I feel like some of y'all will start a 500 page book in the morning and have a detailed review by the evening, which is awesome and I need to know your secrets.

i just joined pagebound and i decided to manually add my books rather than import my goodreads data lol i joined goodreads in 2009 when i was 12 and i'm now 28 so there were sixteen years worth of reading that i didn't necessarily want to import. granted, i was in a reading slump for a while and i only got back into reading this year so i didn't have a crazy amount of books to go through but as i scrolled through my read shelf deciding on what to add, it definitely made me think about how i would rate certain books now. i feel like i would be a little more critical of some series that my younger self enjoyed haha anyway, i'm really looking forward to using pagebound and to engaging with the community here ☺️