Murderbot fans! Theres a geeky bar located in downtown toronto that has a drink on their menu inspired and dedicated to our favourite sec unit. It only makes sense that the drink is called Sanctuary Moon 🤷‍♀️. The bar is called Storm Crow Manor and i highly recommend checking it out if youre in the area! They have the coolest drinks and an awesome ambience!

Hey all, I was hoping to get a little bit of support with something. I have a bad case of FOMO when it comes to the time-sensitive badges. So far these books, which I probably never would’ve picked up before, have been interesting to me, but I’m also not spending time reading books I actually really want to read. But I don’t want to miss out on the neat badges.

I have confidence I can catch up on my time-crunch titles but would love some kind words of support or advice to keep me motivated while I work through these (especially the S&S one, in which I’m on book 4 out of 7). TIA!

pls dont get me wrong i am so grateful to be doing my MA in literature and i am always so excited for it, but it is sometimes mentally demanding to the point where i get burnt out from reading and decide to doomscroll instead to wind down from something that i used to do to wind down. which is so ironic bc i literally enrolled in this program bc i love to read.

all these books ive been reading that i hear about all the time are so great and i see their merit as to why theyre in the canon but i guess what takes the fun and engagement out of the books is the fact that its graded and u have to interact with the work based on a rubric and a prescribed set of theories??? if i had the liberty i would genuinely go crazy—i know i did when i was assigned earnest hemingway's old man and the sea with specific instructions from the prof of "no instruction." but say for example when i was required to read olga tokarczuk's books of jacob i was given two other books as my theories to interpret the novel and bc of that i just gave up on the book after part 2 😔

and with productivity-signalling by requiring journal publication for graduation and my professors making us academic mules by churning out at least 1 academic paper per month so we have a lot of work to choose from to submit to different academic journals (at least in my country), it gets to a point where u wonder if "passion" and "love for reading" is a valid reason to enroll in a masters in literature, or is stamina a more sustainable source of motivation 😕

I have a question for you all. I hate amazon, but I can't deny it is convenient and it has a lot of exclusive ebooks and audiobooks.

Right now, audible is "offering" a 99c/month subscription for 3 months. And I don't want to give Bezzos more money but also I want those exclusive audios I can't get anywhere else (unless I pirate them but I think it's worse and I refuse to do it). My thinking is that, surely, those offers rely on people forgetting to cancel at the end of the 3 months and that's how the company will make their money. Because, surely at 99c a month they have to lose money for that period of time, right?

So I guess my question is, ethically would it be ok for me to take the deal? I know you can't tell me what to do, and there's a lot of nuances and all that jazz, I'm just curious to know your take on it because I'm conflicted. My ethic says "stay away 'cause fuck the 'zon" but my fangirl says "but exclusive authors" and if I can help them lose money while still getting some money to the authors and get my exclusive...well...

Help a girl out. Please.

Edit I wanted to thank you for the tough love. I needed the reminder that the easy thing isn't alwyas the right thing and the right thing isn't always easy. Thanks everyone for the little push in the right direction. I needed that. Temptation was real for a moment there and that's how they get ya!

Hi PBC🫶

I have had a really crappy day at work so wanted to find some joy in this space as I don’t have social media anymore and PB makes me feel nice and safe🥹

Tell me one thing you’re grateful for today and what you’re currently reading!

Is it for a quest? Is it a book you found on PB? Are you re-reading a favourite? Let’s yap about our current reads📚

Grateful: My sister, she calmed me down and cheered me up!

Current read: Bro and the Beast by L. C. Davis🐺

Will I receive a badge automatically if I finish books from readalong? Or do I need to join?

Hey y’all! 👋 I was wondering if there’s a way to see the reading wrap from last year. It was really cute and I wanted to compare it to this year. Thank you! 💖

How do you guys enjoy rereading?

This is may sound outrageous, but I never look forward to rereading my (fiction) books, which makes me feel guilty, it's such a waste of money to only read your books once in a lifetime. When I want to be reminded what happened from the previous book, I just jump ahead through the specific pages or not doing altogether. Brute forcing the 2nd book with no memory and hoping to remember anything as I go. Other times was for literary analysis given by my professor, so I need to read the text several times.

I've tried it, but the feeling of already knowing what happens in a book makes me feel like Phil from Groundhog Day in his 100th—or only god know how many—loop.

So, what kind of activities or techniques you guys did?

Sorry for my grammar (⁠ᗒ⁠ᗩ⁠ᗕ⁠) And I'm sorry if it sound idiotic

absolutely OBSESSED. my apologies to ali hazelwood. I was not aware you had THIS in you😮‍💨