Happy Valentine’s Day, PB! Wishing you all a lot of love today, in whatever forms that looks like for you! 💌

In honor of the holiday, I was wondering, what are some of your favorite examples of non-romantic love in books? This can include love between family members, friends, love of community, humans and their animal companions, just anything other than romantic love! All genres are welcome too, whether nonfiction, fiction, poetry, etc.

One of my favorites is the familial love between cousins Hero and Roni in America Is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo!

I have some poetry collections that I’m not sure how to get through. I usually end up flipping to a random page and let fate decide what to read. But I know at that rate, it will likely be very difficult to finish unless I start intentionally going back to the ones I missed. But then it feels weird reading a poem that I found instead of it finding me. And reading straight through also feels strange to me? At least, multiple poems a day feels strange. I don’t read a whole lot of poetry so that may just be me getting in my own way right there.

Anyway! I’m curious how everyone reads poetry collections because I have a feeling my approach may be unconventional.

tell me your favorite graphic novels (especially if it's fantasy), i want to read them! i love them very much, and i always have this newfound underrated appreciation whenever i read a 5 star one. here is a list of mine:

• shubeik lubeik (the one that inspired this post)
• wash day diaries
• tea dragon society
• laura dean keeps breaking up with me
• the magic fish
• the prince and the dressmaker
• one hundred nights of hero
• messy roots
• the chromatic fantasy

I know that this is in the premise, but the main characters are very homophobic. However, it's not just offhandedly mentioned in the beginning, nor is it background noise—it's there, it's real, and it can be very triggering seeing the way they think of their sons.

I'm pansexual myself and I wish that I was made aware of how heavily homophobic this novel was before starting, so I hope you can all take this PSA and understand what you're getting into before you start. I just began reading this and am at page ~50 so I cannot speak to what occurs beyond this point, but so far, it's very very hard.

Much love 🫶🏽🫶🏽

I love when new quests are released and suddenly my feed is full of people joining them, getting autobadges, and adding a bunch of books from them to their TBRs it feels like we’re all picking course electives in a literature program together 🩷 very excited about the new dystopian quest btw!

I'm just getting started and was wondering how other people sort their stuff. I am always slow to make decisions in how to set up things. I am between ordering by books from each series not read yet (would be many shelves) or genre or... decisions! I'm bad with them.

tell me your favorite graphic novels (especially if it's fantasy), i want to read them! i love them very much, and i always have this newfound underrated appreciation whenever i read a 5 star one. here is a list of mine:

• shubeik lubeik (the one that inspired this post)
• wash day diaries
• tea dragon society
• laura dean keeps breaking up with me
• the magic fish
• the prince and the dressmaker
• one hundred nights of hero
• messy roots
• the chromatic fantasy

I'm currently suffering my way through my 3-hour seminar class and desperately need something to keep me awake lol. So, here's a little theoretical question: if you could tell the main character (of the last book you finished) something at the beginning of the book for them to know for the end, what would it be?

For me, that would be Anne from Persuasion by Jane Austen and I'd tell her to just make a move already. That man wants you! 😂

I have tried so hard to but it really ruins a book for me if the speaker’s voice or acting is annoying. I also think my listening comprehension isn’t as good so that probably plays a part. No hate to those who love audiobooks, it’s just not the same experience for me.

what books were you OBSESSED with as a kid? I'm trying to build a book tour list of all the books I read and loved as a kid, but the more I look, the more I realize that I read sooo many that I'm struggling to remember ALL the books I really loved.