Hi everyone! Happy Thursday or Friday, depending on your time zone 😎

I wanted to ask what books have changed how you think about reading/have changed what you look for in books. It could be anything—maybe a book that introduced you to a new writing style, a book that changed how you think about certain genre conventions, a book that changed your expectations for what gets published... Mostly, I just want to hear about which books changed things for you!

For me, Tamsyn Muir's The Locked Tomb series (but especially the second installment, Harrow the Ninth, because wow) changed how I think about modern lit entirely. The series gave me such a renewed love for reading, as well as a love for sci-fi, which is a genre I'm not typically partial to. Muir's writing is so evocative and strange and intentional; I found that her books made me want to improve my own creative writing abilities. I appreciate books with clever, well-polished prose ten times as much now, and I find that my standards are higher in general for novels I choose to read.

Just to be clear, I'm not judging anyone who reads them. Everyone has their own taste and that's wonderful.

For me it would be: Red rising, Persépolis and Throne of glass🤔

Hi everyone! Happy Thursday or Friday, depending on your time zone 😎

I wanted to ask what books have changed how you think about reading/have changed what you look for in books. It could be anything—maybe a book that introduced you to a new writing style, a book that changed how you think about certain genre conventions, a book that changed your expectations for what gets published... Mostly, I just want to hear about which books changed things for you!

For me, Tamsyn Muir's The Locked Tomb series (but especially the second installment, Harrow the Ninth, because wow) changed how I think about modern lit entirely. The series gave me such a renewed love for reading, as well as a love for sci-fi, which is a genre I'm not typically partial to. Muir's writing is so evocative and strange and intentional; I found that her books made me want to improve my own creative writing abilities. I appreciate books with clever, well-polished prose ten times as much now, and I find that my standards are higher in general for novels I choose to read.

everyone's always talking about and romanticizing new mlm romance books, shows, and movies (which is amazing and they deserve it) but I wish there people talked about wlw the same way. same thing with other sexualities and identities. I'd be nice if the media appreciated it all instead of just focusing on one

this is just my opinion

this is the second time, the first being Fall 2026, that all four books in the seasonal readalong are all in one or more quests!

A Master of Djinn is in three quests!

• LGBTQ+ Sci-Fi & Fantasy
• Queer Detectives on the Case!
• Mythological World Tour

Goddess of the River is in two...

• Asian-Inspired Fantasy
• Mythological World Tour

Razorblade Tears is in Thriller Starter Pack Vol II, and When We Lost Our Heads is in Supporting Women's Wrongs!

just thought the PB community would appreciate knowing this 🫶🏼🫶🏼 did any of these titles surprise you?

There are these cozy feline lit like The Kamogawa Food Detectives, The Calico Cat at the Chibineko Kitchen, We'll Prescribe you a cat, The Goodbye Cat, The Cat Who Saved Books, The Travelling Cat Chronicles, The Blanket Cats, and many more.

I love both cats and dogs, so I was wondering are there any books about dogs like these?

Anyone else feel like going to work is getting in the way of their reading?! It's such an inconvenience!

Okay so I just saw Bunny's post abou what everyone here does for work and it is so lovely to see how diverse this community is in terms of jobs. And a new question occurred to me: do you see your job represented in books often? Have you ever seen it? What did you think, was it done well, or did it annoy you? How could it be done better? I'm curious!

(This question brought to you by my grandparents who were doctors, and watched medical dramas with loud and angry commentary :D )

Hi cuties! I'm so excited, because today I made a new recipe that I read about in a book. A couple months ago I read The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden, and in the book the main character describes a type of bread, and it just sounded so good I knew I had to try it. I baked it today, and not to toot my own horn 😗📯 but it turned out soooo good. I used the King Arthur Baking Company Recipe for Russian black bread, and it was so unique and interesting. Another book that had me baking recently was Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree, and I think a lot of other readers have been drooling over the descriptions of coffee and cinnamon rolls in that one!

All this to say, I'm a person who is heavily influenced when reading about food in books. I love when authors really describe food and drinks, I feel like it adds so much to the environment in a story. I think sometimes it can be the thing I most remember about a book!

So friends, have any of you been inspired to cook after reading, and if yes, what have you made? If not, what books have you read that have left you salivating after vivid food descriptions?

Side note: the "Love, but Also Food" quest pairs nicely with this post ☺️

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I have never really tracked the books I own but recently my wife and I updated are living trust and realized that the inheritor of my book collection is going to have no clue of the value some of the books are worth. I have started looking around for software to help me catalog. The one rule I have been trying to stick to is that I would prefer to stay away from subscriptions. Want to buy something so that I can just leave a password with no fear of the subscription turning off.

I looked at ICollect everything but was not a fan for various reasons. If anyone has a suggestion I would appreciate it. Trying to avoid building a spreadsheet.

Did anyone else see that Lucy was on this podcast??? I’m normally not into listening to things myself (I need it to be written text or I zone out lol) but I’m so excited to check out the episode!

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For those of you who like to write (or have to do a lot of it even if you don't like it), or like to annotate books, what are your favorite writing instruments?

For general writing, I like fountain pens (and my dozens of bottles of ink). Day to day, I use the Lamy Safari, but I have a handful of cheap Japanese "Preppy" fountain pens that write well and I have some other fountain pens of various quality/price.

I also recently got a brass pen with a Japanese made felt tip that also takes fountain pen ink and writes wonderfully. I have a dip pen and some acrylic inks somewhere but I rarely use that one.

All of the above require paper that will take the ink, so they're not ideal for annotating. I typically use a mechanical pencil when annotating, rather than ink. Unless I am annotating in my Kobo Libra Colour.

But for general writing I do lik pens and I try to pick up a variety of different or unusual pens when I can!

Anyone have recommendations for mystery books where I can try to solve the mystery/puzzle alongside the book characters? This can include books that happen to be written in such a way that the reader can solve the mystery (e.g., the reader has all the same information as the detective) or books that are intentionally written for the reader to play along.

I just found out that apparently Mass Market Paperbacks are going to be discontinued 😥 I love them because of their size and ability to travel well. They're perfect. Just sucks. Anyone else feel that way? https://goodereader.com/blog/digital-publishing/mass-market-paperbacks-are-discontinued