I’ve been thinking a lot about my own mortality and how no day is guaranteed a lot lately and it has made my heart more thankful for the mundane things. I wanted to open it up to the group to ask: what are you grateful for today, this week, this month, this year, in general?

I’ll go first:

• Today I’m grateful for the cozy bed I woke up in, hearing the soft patter of rain on the window, despite a night of exhaustion with my littles.
• This week I’m grateful for the warmer weather that has allowed me to be outside and move my body.
• This month I’m grateful for mine and my family’s health and being able to overcome sickness.
• This year I’m grateful for the constants in my life, like a home to do life in and a personal faith in God to lean on and my family to love and nourish.
• In general I’m grateful that there’s still hope to be found in a world that can feel so dark and a place to escape to through books and Pagebound.

I would love to hear yours as well! Take a moment of thankfulness in this space and remember you are so loved. 🫶🏻 🫂 ♥️

I feel like every reader I talk to has a different definition of “cozy”! 😂 I think about the discussion of The Spellshop and how some people got stressed out because the stakes went up… or how since it included political and societal collapse it’s NOT cozy at all. I’ve even heard it to describe books like The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi and others I would NOT define as cozy at all.

I wonder if some people mean “whimsical,” or others mean “low-stakes,” and still others mean “fun.”

At this point I’m not sure how I would define “cozy” 😂 Help me out here! What is “cozy?”

Has anyone else named their avatar (or am I getting too attached to my little digital dragon)? If so, what did you pick? Is it from a book?

I've started calling my dragon Remi, purely based off of vibes🙂‍↕️😄

(Do they have "official" names? I don't know.)

For me, it’s definitely The Shining. It hits a part of me as an adult that I can’t describe.

I’ve been thinking a lot about the overlap between people who devour books and people who sink hours into video games.

If you’re a reader and a gamer, I’m curious: • What are you playing right now? • Do you gravitate toward story-heavy games, cozy games, chaotic multiplayer, RPGs? • Do you feel like gaming scratches the same itch as reading - or a totally different one?

And if you don’t game, I’d love to know why. No judgment - just genuinely interested in how these hobbies intersect (or don’t).

I’m fascinated by the reader/gamer venn diagram. Where do you land?

This book aint serving as much as I thought it would

For context, I tend to read a lot of very dry nonfiction. Books on philosophy, leftist theory, politics, etc. I understand spoiler-tagging something like a memoir or biography, where someone wouldn't know the details of an event or someone's life story. But for the things I read, I tend to just blast my forum posts on the timeline and no spoiler tag.

My justification is that the books I choose tend to have little to no reviews/forum posts. So my aim is to add some entries and interactions untagged to try and fuel more interest. If a post contains a spoiler tag for something I'm interested in reading, I never click through. But I'm unsure if that's a faux pas on my part, or something more common with people who read similar works?

I guess my discussion focal point would be: do you tend to be more heavy-handed with spoiler tagging ANYTHING about a book that fits in similar parameters? Even if there isn't a "narrative" included to speak of or if it's pertaining about current day subjects and ideas?