How many books do you read at the same time? I usually juggle a few: right now, I’m on four! If one feels too slow, I grab a horror book for a quick adrenaline boost, then go back and give the slow one another chapter. Anyone else do this? :x

What does a book have to do to earn that from you?

What is on everyone’s Holds list at their library or on their library app like Libby and Hoopla? My library allows 10 holds on Libby, but often has really long waits. I was scrolling through available titles and there are so many good books releasing and just not enough hold slots for me 🥹 Right now I have these 10 books on hold. The Amalfi Curse Heartless Hunter The Measure Our Infinite Fates Wild And Wrangled Great Big Beautiful Life Hester We’ll Prescribe You A Cat The Once Future Witches Emily Wildes Compendium of Lost Tales

Everyone has at least one favorite book from their childhood that they cherish forever, or that one book as a young reader that got you into reading into adulthood? What was yours? (I'll be adding them to my tbr, for real.) My favorite book as a young reader was A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray and her Gemma Doyle Series. PS: I am loving reading everyone’s favorite books as a kid!!! Thank you all for sharing :)

Hi all! My goal for 2025 is to read more consistently, and I'm off to a good start so far! I recently found an insta reel where a guy (@stevenjreese) has devised a system to divide readers into different colours I'm mostly an orange and purple reader, and his analysis of the types of books I would like felt so accurate! It doesn't focus on genres, more ~ vibes ~ https://www.readyourcolor.com/ It was a really fun quiz, and he gives book recommendations at the end! I'm wondering if anyone else has taken the quiz - what colour(s) are you? And do you have any book recommendations that match the colours? Keen to spread my wings into other colours, but will also take recommendations in my colour zones ^_^

hiii <3 i'd love to read a good romance with minimal spice but really good banter between the main characters, and possibly under 350 pages!

Sure, it's nice to find people with similar taste in books, and PageBound, due to the Favourits List on users' profiles, is amazing for that. But I fear I am a hater at heart, it's just so much fun. Also, I've found that most people (me included) find it easier to pinpoint what they dislike about a book. And sometime, things people hate about a book is exactly what I like. So I would love to hear your (preferably controversial) books you hate and why. I'll start (feel free to disagree and change my mind but please don't lynch me, though!) (Friendly reminder that you can hate a book but shouldn't shame people who enjoy them or the authors - except if it's people like J.K. Rowling, of course. Feel free to shame her) - One Dark Window because (to keep this spoiler free) the story more or less ends where it started. And it read like a first draft to me. But mostly because I wanted to bang my head against the wall because of how often I had to read how Ravyn's callused fingers caught on clothes/skin/hair. and, probably more controversially - A Little Life because (1) I'm sick of reading about tragic queer characters (2) I find it extremly over the top just how much trauma the MC went trough (3) I'm sick of books being praised as a literary masterpiece when they really are just traumatic (4) I habe a huge issue with the author's statement that she basically just tried to make her MC suffer as much as possible

Honestly, I'd love to see this book turned into a movie adaption but I wanna know your guys thoughts?