I desperately need to give Harrow a hug.

I don't think I've ever read anything this impending doom-y. It's constant.

Still love it though.

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?

whats your preference? i was just having a convo with a coworker about hardcovers vs paperback and our opinions differed quite a bit! personally, i’m a paperback girl.

Physical book readers - I was chatting with some bookish friends and we were talking about managing shelf space.

Are you the type of reader to keep all your books, or do you unhaul? If you unhaul, do you do it as you read or do you do it maybe once a season?

How else do you manage your space?

I absolutely LOVE doing this - it lets me see all kinds of things people have read, are reading and plan on reading. I get off work in an hour and I finished the book I was reading on shift tonight.

So. What I want to know is everyone's Last - Now - Next! I started another one right after, but I am a mood reader and have no idea what I am going to read next.. so I need ideas from you all with your answers!

Last - Fixiation of the Mind by Kira Stanely Now - Black Ties & White Lies by Kat Singleton Next - IDK lol. Maybe the 2nd in the series for my NOW book.

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

Hello, everyone! I'm currently taking a class that requires me to do a series of reviews on creative nonfiction (specifically memoirs, essay collections, anthologies, etc), and because I'm primarily a fiction reader, I need recommendations. Underrepresented voices (women and queer voices in particular) would be preferable due to the constraints of the project. If you're a nonfiction reader - or if you just have some good nonfic recs - let me know what you'd recommend! Thank you so much!

So I was taking a look at where I am at with my reading goals for the year, and was curious how everyone is doing with theirs.

Have you hit yours yet? And if not, how many do you have to go? Do you think you will be able to hit them? Are you doing any additional challenges outside the total books you read? Any changes you may make for next year's goals? Tell me all the details 💗

I technically have two reading goals, one on Page Bound and one on Bookmory, another app where I track things and keep notes on my books. Just because I do track Wattpad or other online reads, and so I do that there. As well as some random Free Ebooks and KU reads, that I may not want to post online lol 😂

So for Page Bound, I am at 140/200 And for my other goal, I am at 236/250.

I'm hoping to hit my Page Bound Goal, and think I will (🤞🍀), though probably not until mid-late December. And I think next year I am going to lower the goals a bit, because there are a lot of longer reads on my TBR for 2026, plus I am hoping to go back to school for a semester.

This year, I also decided to do 6 reading prompt challenges from Book Riot's 'Read Harder' reading log (the physical book), and so far, I have done 4, and am in the middle of finishing 5 and 6. So I might try to do a few more before the year is done. 💗

i think i'm approaching a point where i'm starting to heedlessly add books to my tbr. not a big deal but i originally intended to be more thoughtful about the books i was adding (i.e., am i realistically going to read this?) but then i came across a bunch of books (mostly historical fantasy, retellings, and nature non-fiction) that skyrocketed my tbr to nearly 100 books in the span of a few days lol. so in an effort to actually make progress on my tbr, i'm setting my limit to 100 books.

does anyone else place limits on their tbr? or are you the type to just add whatever remotely catches your interest?

so lately, following the bookish trends and so forth, there's been a great buzz about "dark fantasy" and i find myself wondering what, exactly, is meant by it. is it an aesthetic, all about corvid motifs and decadent tropes? is it meant to signify a mood or a tone? or is it about the content of the fantasy novels?

i am finding myself confused about what makes any given fantasy novel "dark fantasy," as by my reckoning (and let's pls keep spoilers to a minimum overall here) the darkest fantasy book i've ever read is the poppy war by r. f. kuang and it's not even a competition, yet i've never once seen it shelved or listed as "dark fantasy." then again, when i think about what makes a book "dark" for me, it comes down to something a lot like bleakness conveyed through both the events of the narrative and the attitude the book takes towards these events. so perhaps there is a mismatch between how i would define darkness and how the e.g. barnes and noble shelvers do.

so then!! what makes a book "dark fantasy" to you? do you consider it a mood, a tone, an aesthetic, a matter of content, a cynical marketing ploy, a secret other thing, all of the above? what do you think?