petition for faye and natasia to have their own book

Alright friends, you know the drill… what complaints (big or small) do we have this week that we need to get off our chest?!💭

What is that one book that every time you see it on your feed or in the wild that you say “I’ve been meaning to read that. I’m going to read that”

Mine is: Circe by Madeline Miller

I want to read it. I talk about reading it. I loved her other book I read (Achilles). I think I even had it in my home but did I read it yet? No. 😩

I’m going to read that book… someday.

I love good standalone novels, a book so good that it just imprints on your brain. Most of the time, I am perfectly content with those one-book wonders, but every so often, I think to myself, "I really wish this book had a sequel."

Name a book or books that you wish there had been another one. The characters were so good you would have loved to take one more tiptoe through the tulips with them.

My number one choice is The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett. I adore that book and its characters. It is a complete standalone masterpiece. I would not have minded one more. It hurts my soul a little that I found out Terry Pratchett had begun outlining a sequel before he died.

I look forward to reading your choices.

I was checking how I'm doing for my yearly challenges and I got curious: what reading challenges are you all working on right now?

My main challenges this year are: 1.Reading as many books as possible from my "purchased" TBR (this includes both physical books and ebooks). I'm currently at 1/6 for my purchased ebooks and 3/18 for my physical TBR. With 9 months left in the year, at my minimum of 1 book per month pace I'll get to 13/24, and if I do 2 per month that'll get me to 22/24 which would be great! 2.Reading at least 50% of books in my mother tongue (I'm counting both books in Spanish and Catalan for this). I'm curently at 60% of books I've read being in English, so this one is not going as well 😅 3. Getting to Gold in the Queer Horror quest This is a more recent addition after joining PB a couple of months ago, but I am already one book away from silver so I think it's definitely doable!

"Soft" challenges include getting most of my books from the library and reading more books than audiobooks. I consider these "soft" challenges because I've been hitting them for a few years in a row so I don't need to put much effort into accomplishing them.

What about everyone else, what challenges are you currently working on? I may steal some of your ideas for next year! 🤭

"Lord of Thursday" is such a great title

personally, I'd choose Tuesday or Friday but each to their own

hey gang 👋🏻 not sure if this has been done before but i'm going ahead anyway because i've been feeling really down as of late about all that's been going on in my work / the world / online space. everything feels very disheartening and bleak (jeez sorry for the negative turn)

BUT! just wanted everyone here to share 3 things that you're grateful for this year / month / week. anything counts 😊 so that we can all count our blessings and realise that there are still things to be appreciative of 🌸 i'll go first!

the three things i'm grateful for are:

1. had a two days off work because of the festive szn last week so i managed to get some much needed rest + tons of reading done
2. managed to smash a tough workout
3. finding out about PB(!!!)

I'm not liking Lia alot y'all 😭🙏