Hi everyone! I’m Sasha (@sashareads). Putting this quest together has felt a bit like tending to a tiny book‑baby, and I’m so excited to finally share it with you. I hope you’ll adore it as much as I do.🥰

About the quest The Kaleidoscope of Time dives into worlds where time doesn’t behave the way we expect - loops, pockets, displacement, and intentional travel across eras. Because it stretches across so many genres, some books will feel instantly like your thing and others might not - and that’s completely okay. You’ll find a mix of YA and adult titles across historical fiction, speculative fiction, literary fiction, romance, dystopian, fantasy, mystery, thrillers, and plenty of genre‑blending, all threaded with a touch of sci‑fi.

If you’d like to read some of the books that helped make the subgenre what it is today, then you should go for The Time Ship: A Chrononautical Journey by Enrique Gaspar, The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain, Kindred by Octavia E. Butler and Outlander by Diana Gabaldon.

Personally I’ve especially enjoyed Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (Historical Fiction), Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (Fantasy), Love Lethal, Death Divine by Jelena Dunato (Fantasy Romance), The Austen Affair by Madeline Bell (Historical Romance), The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow (Fantasy Romance), and On the Calculation of Volume I by Solvej Balle (Literary Fiction)

Quest recommendations I’ll be taking suggestions through this post: Quest Recommendations. Please give it a read before sharing your recs.

We’re all passionate about our favorite time travel stories, and I’d truly love to hear yours. However, recommending a book doesn’t guarantee it’ll be added, even if it’s popular and/or fits the criteria.

Let’s get questing! 🕰️

Ok, who else on this app has changed your whole PB personality since the release of midnight mode? Please tell me it’s not just me 👀 I usually never use dark mode, I know I know, it’s better for your eyes and your battery life but I love my sleek white look despite the blue light damage. But the midnight mode is SO GORGEOUS I just had to switch 🤩

And with it has come a slight revamp of my PB profile aesthetic! I love the way the silver and platinum badges look against the dark screen, as well as the starter pack badges so it’s influenced which badges I want to display on my profile 🤓 I literally just earned gold on a badge and took it off my profile to replace it with a silver badge lmao. I want my badges to show my interests and achievements but I also just want Pretty Things ✨

I also updated the My Taste books with a weird obsession with choosing black/blue darker covers to match the aesthetic I wanted haha. Then I had to take one off and re-add so it would be the order I wanted (which I also do with badges all the time 💀 ) What’s wild is that I think the books I have there now are actually a better representation of my reading taste than what I had before, even though my choices this time were heavily influenced by the book cover colors. Maybe giving myself a limitation like that helped me narrow down what to choose. So maybe do judge a book by its cover? 🤣

Does anyone else obsess about aesthetics like this or am I just a crazy Libra? 💅🏻

do you take notes? do you read slower? do you bust out highlighters and tabs?

when i was young and we’d get pulled out of class to assess our reading, i was well aware of the timer in my teacher’s hand. i could read quickly and fluently, but when it came to the post-reading quiz, i realized i didn’t retain much of anything.

fast forward to current day me, predisposed to the quick dopamine-laden yet numbing nature of social media—i’ve read 30+ books this year, and i doubt my abilities to describe to you what each was about. i can’t really do it with my most recent reads either. (i have suffered from great memory loss, undiagnosed, but i suspect from depression, but i still think i can afford to slow down and soak in the words on a page).

i also think i’m too hard on myself with reading (and anything i do lol) so i involuntarily add pressure to the hobby, and then i get frustrated with myself.

please help 🥲

Hi everyone, I would love to know what your favourite “classic” is and why. Like what made you love the book and why should we read it or what did it move and stir inside you that you cannot forget about it. ✨ I love reading classics and I love finding out what people associate with them. Because the human condition is a pretty interesting thing.

I’d love to hear more perspectives on:

1. why you follow someone else on PB and
2. what types of interactions you typically have

I tend to follow people who have similar taste in books and/or a library that I can yoink from! I also pretty much 100% follow back anyone who follows me. I absolutely love following others that reciprocate likes/upvotes/comments.

For interactions, I ♥️ most of my friends’ updates and tend to comment on bigger milestones (leveling up, badges, etc.) unless they do not interact with me in that way. I don’t want to be a bother if someone else doesn’t find value in likes or upvotes, or doesn’t comment on others’ posts.

But then I sometimes get sad when I see users who follow me interacting a lot with others, but not me. If not friend, why friend-shaped?

So, what about you? Are you more of a yapper and not a liker? Does it hurt your feelings if someone follows you and doesn’t interact? And then what do you do - nothing, block them, or unfollow?

Anyway, I realized hearing perspectives and experiences from others could help give me insight into how we each utilize the “friend” portion of PB. As of right now, I’m only limited to my personal experience! Thanks for your thoughts. 💗✨

“Soon, I was sitting in a red pleather booth at McDonald’s with a Coke, letting the sugar work its way through my system. As I rode the invigorating high of AC and a rising glycemic index.” ~ “That fucking clown was staring at me with his shit-eating grin, bright red like he’d just eaten something alive.”

Ronald being one of the wolves of capitalism that eats you back… Again, pretty pretty good for me.