It tasted like...skin.

Finally a valid description!!! 😮‍💨

I can't read only one book at the same time, I need to use as many medias I can. Paper book, digital book, fanfiction, etc. And I like them to be complementary, it feels sooooo much more complete lol. How do you do ? How many books do you read? Do you have favorite complementary books?

hiii! as we near the end of the year, i've been reflecting a lot on my reading journey this year and wouldn't feel right not taking a moment to praise pagebound (although i already do this all day everyday to anyone who will listen :p).

i was very much the matilda-lover (for many reasons) as a child and identifying with her love for reading was definitely a main reason! i would spend all day in my room reading, my gifts were always books, you get the picture!

however, as my mental health declined more and more rapidly as i got older, i found myself not being interested/able to focus on reading anymore and that was a heartbreak and grief journey in itself. i feel like i've been on that grief journey ever since (i'm 28 now and probably stopped reading-reading when i was around 11/12) because as much as i maybe was able to pick up a book here or there or go on random "reading eras", it was never the same way as when i was little, that is until i found pb!

i started using pb in august and since then, i went from thinking i wasn't even going to hit my 20 book reading challenge for the year to now having read 25+ books in one month both last month and this month! it is really reminiscent of when i was little and would leave the library with baskets of books and that is something that warms my heart so deeply. i feel like my inner teen (and myself in general) is finally healing a part of themselves that they grieved for so long. it feels like coming home! to myself! and i have pagebound to thank for that!

the book organization options (yes i'm a virgo stellium, yes it's very obvious), the quests and readalongs - all of the fun features, attention to detail and the very obvious desire to foster community all keep me so entertained and wanting to contribute. i thought maybe i would just fixate on this for a while and move onto something else but book lover has always been in my heart and i think it's here to stay (i've already created 3 separate reading challenges for myself to work on in 2026! amongst just whatever books i want to get to! i'm a mix of a mood-reader and a planner!) 💗

anyway, hopefully others can relate and want to share their favorite thing about being on here or favorite memory on pb! memory/moment-wise for me would have to be a tie between having connected with so many cool people and having discovered such incredible reads this year!

i look forward to reading y'all's sweet moments! thank you for reading all of this if you did 💗

I did fully see the comp to Gideon and assumed this was sapphic (and realized I was wrong when I reread the description) LOL am still very excited to read it bc lady knights 🫶🫶🫶

If there’s one thing this book is gonna do, it’s change the POV when I was finally interested 🙃