New here and loving it so far. I am 42 years old from South Wales in the UK. Feral reader and enjoy anything dark from horror to psychological thrillers to dark romance 🖤🖤🖤

I read this series in middle school and I’ve wanted to read it again for ages!! It definitely is holding up to the test of time!

For some years now, I have felt like I straight up am unable to learn new things. I don't know what it is? If it's the fact I am no longer in school or any form of education, if its my depression alone- or something else completely.

Anyway! I was hoping someone here could suggest to me some books on topics that I could pick up and hopefully learn something new. A weird request, maybe?

I want to "purposefully" learn again. (If that makes any sense) for lately it has felt like my brain has gone to sleep, and has no plans of waking up.

Some topics that interests me, do not feel restricted to these alone- something completely new might be best

• art (to draw, and history of)
• music (same as above)
• religion and mythology
• civilisations/history.
• sewing and historical clothing/techniques
• animals (horses specifically ig)

Please, I would love to hear your suggestions <3 and please don't be afraid of trying to expand my horizons

did a lil search and couldn’t see anything in the club for this so hopefully I haven’t missed it🥹

what are your comfort tv shows? i’m a big fan of a tv show but rarely watch new ones and most new ones that i start, i tend to not finish lol. i just rewatch the same ones again and again. comfort is joy for me✨

super interested if anyone else loves similar shows to me and if so, if our reading taste is aligned too!

my top shows are the vampire diaries, supernatural and brooklyn nine-nine. these are my go to rewatches and i feel like they all work well depending on what mood im in!! tvd is my firm favourite though and holds such a special place for me i think cause i watched it when i was a teenager?? (nearly 30 now though and watching it was a i post this lol)🧛

what are your comfort shows??

edit: spelling cause i can’t spell for shit

So I was just at BookCon this weekend (apparently along with quite a few of y’all) and amidst a lot of the (honestly legit) criticism that came out of how the event was run…

Let’s say that you had infinite resources to run a book based convention. How would you plan such a con? This can include types of exhibitors, guests, panels that you would want to include, etc. (or it can include stuff you feel like was not done well at BookCon this weekend lol!)

What is important to you in such an event?

Recently, I started to get back on booktok/booktube and get tons of interesting recommendations.

However, I’ve had really disappointing experiences in the past with books that were hyped as ‘life-changing’ online and didn’t meet my expectations at all in the end. Anyway, to avoid that I thought I would turn to PB reviews to see what people rated books I see online…

Only to realize that I have no idea how other people use the star ratings! So, I wanna know how you guys approach rating out of five stars ⭐️ and would a low rating deter you from reading a book or do you prefer finding out yourself?

I have to say that a guilty pleasure of mine is reading books with bad reviews just to see how bad it gets 🫢

here’s an opportunity to love on your favorite quest (thank you to all quest makers we adore u!!)

i will always love and need and cherish the lgbtq+ middle grade quest. it’s truly made me more me, which like let that sink in bc how beautiful that a collection of books is making my heart feel fuller and happier just by existing! these books have taught me about the queer experience and found family in so many ways. i’ll never forget reading dear mothman or the insiders or omfg the last hope in hopetown i freaking love that book so much. so many amazing books!!!

so this post is 100% selfish bc i need more than 444 people to be on this quest journey with me!

shoutout your favorite quest and why you love it! and your recs from the quest as well :)

signed, your fellow quest goblin rain 🫡🫡

I tend to favor audiobooks and I also have a job where I can often listen to them for a large portion of my day. As a result I read pretty fast. Sometimes I feel like I read a bit too fast, so when it comes to numbers I make a habit of setting my goal at something I probably will surpass without pushing to read faster in a somewhat futile effort to remind myself there’s no need to rush. But it also feels a little weird to meet the benchmark too early, so when that happens I sometimes change the goal to something a little higher. I met the number I set this weekend, and I was wondering are there thoughts about changing your goal after meeting it on Pagebound? Is it like cheating for the ‘met the goal’ message to show up on your feed more than once in a year? Is it considered gaming the system for points? Because that’s not what I want to do but I’d kind of prefer to move the goal post.

i had this eye-opening discussion with some friends some time ago and finishing a book today prompted me to think about it again.

i'm someone who is a very visual person in general and have a strong (perhaps even over-active) imagination. whenever i read a book, i tend to visualize the setting/action/characters/etc. which is why i tend to prefer books that have very imagery/atmosphere-forward prose.

however, apparently there are people out there who do NOT visualize what they read as they read it and instead just see words on the page and nothing else. there's no image in their head that the words create.

i would love to know which one of these everyone identifies with! if you are in the latter camp, please tell me more! i still have a hard time wrapping my head around what that kind of reading experience is like.

Also, if anyone has any scientific/neurological insights on this, i would love to hear them.

Aloha Bookaholics!

Here is your question of the day:

Whats a bookish habit that you have that would seem weird to non-readers? 😅

I fear I am thinking of heading to other pastures. Is there a way to export our data from Pagebound to take with us?