My best friend wants to gets into reading, and she is looking for romance with no spice and also something short. Like beginner friendly to get her into reading she feels she just hasn’t read the right book.

happy world book day! what are you doing to celebrate?

Kind of random but ties into reading I swear.

I have a coworker who confuses me to no end. He spends massive amounts of time watching, walking about, listening to others talk about, and betting on pro football 🏈. I asked him if he was excited for the draft tonight, something I only know about because he spent an entire lunch talking about it and theorizing who will take which players. His response is "I don't care" and then something like "I'm only looking forward to laughing at dumb gm decisions".

He obviously cares about this, and enjoys it but won't admit it for whatever reason. There seems to be a fear of seeming to care about stuff, and it isn't limited to this guy.

That said I don't see this in the book community as much. If I run into a reader in the wild they usually are excited to share (the acception being a woman I work with who left it vague, who I think is reading romance).

Do you see it with readers or not? Why do you think readers are more/less willing to be seen as enjoying things they enjoy?

I just want to say thank you guys for supporting me when I share my thoughts on the various books that I have read on here. These small acts have made me feel loved and supported as well make me feel like I'm part of a small,loving community. I love you guys so much and I hope to engage with more of your posts the way you guys engage with mine 🥹😊❤️. And more rambles are coming soon!

This weekend I was having a little bit of a rough go at it. Back hurt, migraines have been off and on the last few weeks, couldn't find the damn Pokémon I was looking for in Pokéopia. I put aside the Dungeon Crawler Carl book I was reading. Went to my shelf of waiting to be read murder mysteries. Pulled a new one off and began to read. I immediately started to feel a little better.

This always makes my wife chuckle because my comfort reads are not comedy, not a classic I love, not Terry Pratchett, who I hold very dear. No, my comfort reads are murder. I thought about it a little this morning and decided that it must be the puzzle. I mean, I am a good guy. I am not secretly a serial killer. I think the puzzle just relaxes my brain. It allows me to focus on solving the mystery. To begin to organize the clues and puzzle pieces. I particularly like mysteries with good characters. Detectives that I wish I could know in real life.

By the end of Sunday night, my back still hurt, the migraine had gone away, and I still had not caught that damn Pokémon, but my brain felt reset and slipped off into sleep easily.

How about my Pagbound friends, do any of you have unusual comfort reads? Is there something about the genre or book that settles down your brain? If you don't have one that is unusual, I still would love to hear what does comfort you?

Happy earth day! What is everyone’s favorite conservation or nature related book?

Nature’s Best Hope completely changed the way I garden with a huge focus on native plants and I’m currently reading Grizzled about North American Wildlife and absolutely loving it

hi friends! a beloved pb pal of mine, @vampiresgf, is going through tough times and a couple other pb pals and i thought it would be great to ask for everyone's support for our dear friend! she is an incredible person and one of the first friends i made on here. if you are in the position to support or share with your community, it would mean so much to us! please see this link to read her story and any words of love would be much appreciated :)

link to read/support/share here!

WE LOVE U VAMPY!!!! 🫂💕🌻✨

with love and gratitude, @moski, @moss-mylk, @raindrop