happy world book day! what are you doing to celebrate?

I would never read The Odyssey because a musical made me...nooo I could never...

Are there any books for this quest that you have DNF'ed? So far I've only read "Beloved" and the 2nd book that I've tried to read for this quest is "Catcher in the Rye," but it is very hard to finish. I'm kind of bored with the story and the way Holden thinks and talks just annoys me (maybe it's because he's a teenage boy and I'm a 20 year old woman). I'm a little over halfway through the book and am trying so hard to finish but I don't know if I'll make it.

So, if you have DNF'ed any books for this quest, why?

good morning pbuddies🩵

just wanted to say hi! i’ve been having an excruciatingly rough week in my personal life and i’m glad i have energy enough to start a new book towards a badge i’m close to completing and still check up on what 🫛🐝 shenanigans have been going on.

what are your most sought after badges right now? are you close to getting them? or do you not really pay attention and just read what you want and get them eventually 😼

for me, i love horror movies but i realized i haven’t read much in the genre so i’d love to finally work towards one of the horror quests i’m in later this year ☺️

hope you have a good rest of your week!!

Have you ever read a dictionary cover to cover? Or an encyclopedia? A thesaurus? A car manual? A very niche magazine about tractor engines?

My mum tried to get me to read the dictionary cover to cover when I was a child, but I only got to the end of c before getting too bored. I did read an encyclopedia of the human body, though.

On flights I read the evacuation and emergency pamphlets cover to cover every time 🫡

Before using a new piece of equipment/machinery I'll literally read the manual cover to cover like a book before touching anything 😂

Gethenians could make their vehicles go faster, but they do not. If asked why not, they answer "Why?" Like asking Terrans why all our vehicles must go so fast; we answer "Why not?" No disputing tastes. Terrans tend to feel they've got to get ahead, make progress. The people of Winter, who always live in the Year One, feel that progress is less important than presence.

such an interesting expansion of the timekeeping concept that called out to me on page one – how our constructs of time shape our behaviour. it’s not simply that Gethenians are slower, they have structured their entire existence around being here and now. we Terrans are restless, always searching, always hungry.

an eye-opening alternate reality. maybe if we as a society weren’t so busy chasing the future, we would have time to live in the present. but then again, i appreciate that Le Guin doesn’t make a judgement on this matter. there are clear pros and cons to both approaches. ”No disputing tastes”, says Genly.