Who was your first book boyfriend and where did you find him? Did you find him in the depths of KU or did you find him on the covers of a penguins publishing co book?or If you're like me, you found him on wattapad. My first book bf was Blake Eaton from the book "i sold myself to the devil for the vinyls, pitiful i know". He was everything and more I could ask for, still one of my top book bfs of all time🥺🫶 So, who was yours?

I support women’s rights and wrongs, what’s your favorite story that has to do with feminine or female rage? I’ve read Hungerstone, They Never Learn, and a few others. I have Poppy War on my list to read. Anyone got book recommendations for a lady angry at the world? 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↔️

fun little question for y’all: if you could choose one of your favorite books/book series to be adapted to the screen, which would it be and why?

follow up questions to that: would you want it to be a tv series or movie/movie series? animated or live action? and for extra fun, who would you cast for some of the main characters as actors for a live action, or voice actors for animated?

Anyone else in here an aspiring writer? Or even a published author?

I'm finally ready to do the damn thing, and am working on a first draft of a fantasy/romantasy. Anyone else? Share what you're working on or your books so we can hype each other up in the comments. :)

EDIT: okay, since there is some interest in having a place for writers on here to chat and encourage, I made a discord! All are welcome!

https://discord.gg/8NWeH8fj

This seems to be a favourite genre which authors seem to be taking these days. What’s your take on it? Especially when so much of abuse is being normalised in the name of love. :/

pleeasse give me suggestions for classics that make you want to close the book and wash your eyes. but in a good way. in a "im disturbed" way. in a "I need to put on something happy so I can sleep tonight" way. like Dracula, Frankenstein, and Sleepy Hollow vibes. But also taking Wuthering Heights vibes. That book truly made me want to chuck it across the room. but I think about it ALL THE TIME. I see it in my mind and Kathy is haunting me. When I hear a branch outside my window I know its her.

Hello everyone! I just finished the show Wednesday on Netflix (I adore the Addams Family franchise) I was wondering if anyone has recommendations for Horror (?) with a lighthearted tone - much like the show. The joking combined with the grim plot entertained me so much. At that, does anyone have Addams Family akin books?

so... do you guys have a hard limit on how many books you'll read at once? what is that number determined by? i somehow keep reading like 6 books at the same time and now i'm curious what other people do and how y'all manage!

i tend to just... borrow 1 book that has like no one waiting for it, 2 books of different genres that i can pause at any time and not feel pressure about it, and then the rest on top of that are whatever holds become available and i want to read them next. especially if it's a book that has been on hold for a looong time and i've been waiting quite a few weeks, i'll just go ahead and borrow it and collect my loans like a little gremlin.

...i also want to note that someone had mentioned in a previous discussion (i forgot who - if they show up or i remember, i'll add their user here!) that once you borrow a book on libby and make sure you have the book downloaded, you can go on airplane mode, return the book on a different device, and keep the book for however long you need to read it. i only just now did it because i amassed too many delicious books this time around, whereas the last time this happened i just devoured them fast enough before my loan deadlines. so thank you to whoever that was!

ngl I picked up this book solely because of the pretty cover; it's giving me cardcaptor x sailor moon vibes! halfway thru the book and I can definitely tell that it's far from the light, whimsical vibes I'm expecting it to be (but I'm not mad about it tbh!)

i'm just wondering if 176 pages will be enough to cover everything the author has introduced so far. hoping for a more cohesive ending.

The first time I read Fahrenheit 451 completely changed my brain chemistry. I couldn't even articulate it at the time, but the power of that moral reckoning changed me as a person. Montag realizing that he was destroying his own society from the inside, stopping himself, and changing without turning back was something I'd never seen before. His resistance to the trajectory of society, even when it meant he would be totally alone, became a permanent part of my psychology. Bradbury is a poet and a philosopher that is one of my favorite authors of all time. And as someone who exists in a community that gets very trigger happy with book bans, it inoculated me from ever believing in censorship.

What's yours?