i was just editing my monthly plan, adding books i didn't anticipate reading but did finish, and was curious if y'all use the plan for books you want to start or plan to finish? i know i might start some books in april, but i'll probably finish them in may. it's a small thing, but i was just curious how other people are using the plan feature for their plans? pagebound is pretty guided in terms of forums and such, but we can all use different features different ways 🤸

I recently read The Piss by Matthew J. Gleason (nsfw, engage at your own risk, yes it is as it sounds!).

It was a weird, quirky, very out-there bizarro horror. And while I was enthralled by its weirdness, I just couldn't get over the fact that I felt it didn't really have a point, or a message or a moral. I completely understand creating art for the sake of it, and maybe this was just that. A weird and wacky tale for the sake of it. To disturb and unnerve and entertain but not really to say anything. (There is also the possibility I missed a very profound message in the story).

I think because I was one of those insufferable kids in English class, I always expect to read a book and think "this is what they were really trying to say". I read mainly romance and horror. In very different ways, both of these genres are on a deeper level, about why people do what they do, their trauma responses, their desires and there is a message about humans, the world, justice, kindness, morality etc etc.

Does anyone else feel more called to books that have a clear "moral of the story"? Does every book innately have a message? Do they have to?

I recently DNF'd a book after getting through quite a bit of it and it reminded me of a convo I once had with my sisters.

We were pretty much on the same page about DNF-ing books we simply just weren't enjoying, as we all knew lots people who felt shackled to a book the minute they opened it. I was talking about how I only recently freed myself of that mindset and said something like "yeah, I got over 70% through a pretty boring book before I remembered I have free will and ditched it" One of my sisters then says if I got that far I might as well have seen it through???

lol anyways I was wondering how everyone else feels about this? Do you think there's a "cut-off" point where DNF-ing is ✌🏾allowed✌🏾 and if so what % do you think it is?

Ciao Bookaholics!

Here is your question of the day (its a bit philosophical so be prepared...):

Do you think people read to escape reality or to understand it more? 🤔

So I’ve been thinking about reading the hunger games series. But two of my friends has told me different orders? One told me just read it in the order they’ve been published, and the other told me this order cause she said it’d make more sense: Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Sunrise on the Reaping, The hunger games, Catching Fire, Mockingjay. Which order do I use? And which order do I watch the movies in?

So this might be a bit controversial to ask, but I still wanted to know what others thought

So I currently am working on a novel and a comic project seperately. I'll publish them online at first and I hope to release physical versions of them too in the future

However a fearTM popped up about this. And that is if it's ok for me to continue using pagebound after all that

I know that most reader spaces don't like authors mingling with them, and I know that's mostly because of how certain authors respond badly to negative reviews (which I promise to handle them in a mature way)

But I do worry if it's like a general consensus for authors to not participate in reading spaces whatsoever, even if they were part of them in the past

I know some readers are also writers (like the book guy on yt) but I am not sure how expected that is in this site

Do be honest with your thoughts about this