Lately, it feels like every book is coming out with a special sprayed edges edition, to the point where it stops feeling special.

How do you feel about books with sprayed edges?

I feel like it’s a bit of a cash grab when they make that version more expensive because you typically don’t see the edges when you store a book on the shelves anyway… unless you guys don’t store them with the spine facing forward? I don’t know 🤷‍♀️

everyone has misses, so what’s a book you hated from an author you love?

mine is zero days by ruth ware. she’s one of my favorite authors and that book is, to this day, one of the worst books i’ve ever read to the point i pretend it doesn’t exist when i think about her backlist.

I would like to review alot more this year (always been a lurker and still am on every socials) but before this app blows up, hope it does because it deserves the hype; I am gonna write down about all my books regardless of the audience because I want a brain-stepchild of my own (get it? since its not actually my original thought but an opinion of it?) and reading non fiction alot more too aye, although I do say this every year but I am gonna work on it fr this time.

I’ve gotten into reading in French because of my uni classes and I would looove to read something fun and more easy going (think romance, fantasy, sci fi), but I don’t know if I would need to know more colloquial French?? idk, what are your recs for getting into contemporary popular French literature?

I’m new to Pagebound and I see people with like 30k points. I feel like I’m earning points slowly. So if you have a higher level how long did it take you to get there? How active are you on the app? And how much are you reading?

"Much of our resistance to rest, sleep, and slowing down is an ego problem. You believe you can and must do it all because of our obsession with individualism and our disconnection to spirituality. Nothing we accomplish in life is totally free of the influence of spirit and community. We do nothing alone." _

BARS.

Because so much of our collective exhaustion and inability to rest is connected to the messed up systems that force us to overwork ourselves, often under the threat of losing things like our jobs, I think this connection between ego and rest isn't talked about enough. When we hold this individualistic, ego-driven point of view, we are made to believe we have to "make it" all on our own, or whatever we are doing doesn't count. We are made to believe nothing is worth doing unless we can be the face of it. And we are made to believe that if we rest, we will only fall behind in some imaginary race with others. I'm glad Tricia Hersey mentioned this, as thinking like this does nothing for us but ensures we are standing in our own way of building strong community and achieving collective liberation.