Good morning Bookaholics!

I have really fell of the wagon with these, so I will try to remember them when I can, but life is busy busy busy right now 😭

My question for you all today is:

What are some of your controversial takes about books or the bookish community? 🤔

Hiiii everyone!!!!👋

I wanted to ask you if you have a place/object that you've read about in a book and that stuck with you so much that every time you see that place/object it immediately reminds you about that book?

It's a bit embarrassing but for me, for example, it's the ferris wheel🎡. When I was younger, I was so obsessed with Divergent 😅 and that particular scene with the ferris wheel that now when I see one, my mind goes immediately to Tris and Four ahahah

Can't wait to read all your comments👀👀

Edits: typos

hi friends!! ive been in a very halloween-y mood (which i always am, i fear) and i was wondering what everyone's favorite summerween books are? you know, something with a summer vibe but spooky! like if AHS 1984 was a book 🙂‍↕️

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world”

If Tolkien were alive today, he’d have a thing or two to say about the state we’re in…

I don't know if it's just me, but is anyone else able to just read more when they're on vacation? Lately, I've been home, and I do read a lot, but I do remember when I went to London and France last year, I was locked in and reading crazy amounts of pages. I was able to go through a book or two in a few days. I don't know if it's the vibe of the environment I was in that was pushing me to read a lot, but damn, I'm longing for that reading power that I had last year lmaoo.

Oh no! Pagebound has had a glitch and all your My Taste books have been replaced with the exact opposite. What (up to 5) books would be displayed to show who you aren’t as a reader? These aren’t necessarily your least favorites, but books that are the opposite of who you are as a reader. Books you would not be found reading because it’s not to your taste.

My Anti-Taste

• The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
• Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• The Shining by Stephen King
• Haunting Adeline by HD Carlton

A year or two ago I learned of the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize, which is exclusively open to young women (30 & under, in the US). Frankly I had never considered that building a personal book collection might be something other people would notice and care about, but when I read about the contestants' collections, I get it!! I love that they explicitly do not care about the collections' monetary value, it's all about "their originality and their success in illuminating their chosen subjects."

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This is not a prize I'm eligible for, but I found it interesting. I "collect" books in the sense that I've been building and curating my personal library for 25+ years, but what percentage of those books would rise to the level of a specific Collection? Because my interests and therefore my books are all over the place... Reading about this prize made me think about my own collection a little more and start noticing more themes emerging in what I've been curating! Here are some of the micro-collections I've identified so far within the larger number of books I own:

— instructional books on mending/clothing repair, and more general sewing books that include information on mending — different versions of The Three Billy Goats Gruff (I was the Littlest Goat in a kindergarten production and am still disproportionately fond of the story) — books on gender in the French language/le langage inclusif/queering French — vintage horror paperbacks (paperbacks from Hell) — fairy tales & folklore from around the world — different editions of Peter Pan — my own personal Moby-Dick curriculum for further reading — big ol' artist retrospective coffee table books (these are exorbitantly priced if you buy them new but I pick them up for pennies all the time at library sales. Imo after visiting museums/seeing artwork in person, this is the next best way to experience it. Exponentially better than the internet) — old DK Eyewitness/Stephen Biesty's Cross-Sections/Where's Waldo?/I Spy-type books (my inner child flips their shit over this kind of stuff, lol) — weird Maine: cryptozoology, ghost stories, folklore, etc — regional field guides to different types of wildlife and plants

There are also obviously certain authors/anthologists/series I collect (vintage Agatha Christie, old Alfred Hitchcock anthologies, Nancy Drew, etc)

I am curious, what do you collect, and why??

The body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park… I want to taste everything once…I don’t want to die

It’s so heartbreaking hearing how full of life he was, how much he wanted to experience the world and live a big crazy adventurous life. I don’t know much about the circumstances of his death (besides the obvious) but what a reminder that you truly can never know what’s going on in someone else’s inner world.