hey everybody! long story short, i grew up in an extremely conservative Christian family. was homeschooled and everything. basically all i know about anything outside of that bubble is through the internet, tv, and books. i’ll be starting college this next fall, i’m very very scared of leaving the world i know and entering a different one (even though i very much want to), and it’d be amazing if anyone could recommend some nonfiction books that could help me understand certain topics better. what i’m looking for is science nonfiction (particularly about evolution and climate change, though i love science so any science book recommendations are awesome!), books about history, and political nonfiction. these are all topics i’m extremely interested in learning more about. thank you! (also if anyone knows of lists that touch on these topics, i’d love links to those too!)

I recently finished a book where I noticed that there are some nemes alway associated with the bully or the elitist. What names do you see frequently associated with those characters that for you doesn't makes sense. I ask because in the book that I just finished there's this character associated with Demeter (it's Greek mythology theme) and I realised that in all the book that I read Demeter and her descended are always the mean characters and I don't understand why. What did the goddess Demeter do to be always associated with mean and petty people?

I wanted this year to be my reading comeback. I am failing miserably. Please give me your most hinged and unhinged tips to read more 😭

I read a lot of books not popular on Pagebound and I struggle with posting to forums when I know probably no one will see it, especially if it's even within a 100 meters radius of a spoiler. I wanted to ask how everyone deals with this. Or with bothering to write reviews when you know no one will read them. 🙏🏻 Feels like wasted effort to me.

Thanks ya all for the engagement. 🥹 I didn't expect such a response.

I’ve been following ajin’s mangaka on twitter since the early volumes releases and recently he is promoting one of his manga that he currently draws which is extremely disturbed me the manga is straight forward Pedophilia that genuinely shock me to my core I was really disgusted I know before that he makes adults manga even before making ajin but I didn’t know he make adults manga with this theme I’m extremely disappointed ajin is one of my all time favourites this is unacceptable and more ajin fans need to know and stop supporting him

It's the time of the week where you can humble brag away about anything you learned this week through your reading. Whether it's a non-fiction piece of trivia, a tidbit you learned about yourselves or others, or a deep dive - we wanna hear it all!!

I have been in a bit of a reading slump, (looks at her currently reading shelf in shame) so no good trivia from me but I have re-learned I can't really do billionaire romances. I get too angry at the displays of wealth to enjoy the romance. But I'm learning that I think it extends to all escapist romance for me.

This is a little odd because I would call myself an escapist reader for pretty much my entire life, but I'm noticing with romance I need it to be grounded for the best chance of me loving it. Romances where one more of the leads are too extraordinary (outside of being fantasy/paranormal entities) or too perfect (including being unfathomably attractive) brings down my enjoyment. Idk if anyone else is like that. I 110% see the market for escapist romance, don't get me wrong, it just doesn't seem to work for me!

I entered this giveaway with zero expectations. This book had caught my eye the most among the other books in the giveaway page, but I never expected to win one! This is my very first one as well. I have really high expectations and cannot WAIT to start reading this! Thank you to J&L and the author 💗💗