Today my friends and I were talking about creating general life budgets and I mentioned that I absolutely need a book budget. They thought I was crazy but there are times where I go insane at book stores or online! I rely more on my public library now (my wallet thanks me) but I think that I’ll still use a book budget when the time comes lol. What do you guys think, would you or do you have a budget for books? And would you or do you follow it?

I got a Fig and Brown Sugar candle inspired by Song of Achilles during quarantine when I first got back into reading and it's such a comfort scent for me now. I wasn't even really into candles before then but now whenever I have time to stay home and read, the Achilles and Patroclus candle is going on! So much so that I've bought it at least five times LOL What are some go to scents for your reading time?

I get my recommendations from bookstagram! And mostly from people i follow on Goodreads. And especially from here on pagebound (I'm actually seeing lot of amazing underrated books and added it to my tbr). So I'm curious to know where & how do you find books to read and add to you tbr?

A few days back I made an unrelated post and someone commented about how school had made reading a difficult experience for them. It got me thinking about how assigned reading and, well, the assignments that followed sucked the joy out of reading and how being forced to read can possibly be as detrimental as banning reading. I think schools do help in encouraging critical thinking and evaluation during reading but the stress of having to complete and submit the related work on time might lead to their idea backfiring, with students turning towards AI to form summaries and lessen their burden. I personally always loved reading and our school didn't make us memorize passages or read a certain amount at home but inferences at school, where we read as a group, were always necessary. Insights into the plot, whether we liked the ending, and character motives were highlighted in the end of year exams. What are your thoughts and what was your experience reading in school?

Edit:Hello everyone!Firstly thank you for participating to this silly game!♡I thought no one would play it haha but you prove me wrong!Now,for the final result!!The book that won is "The midnight rose" by Lucinda Riley☆(aka 🌹🌙) with 14 vote(2 votes are from my friends 🧡).The second book was Ravenscliffe by Jane Sanderson!Again thank you for participating,see you one the next game🤭 I just finished a book but l can't find the next book l want to read!!So let's play a game!!I will give you the first sentence of two books and you will have to choose which you like more!! ->High on the northern side of the mining town of Netherwood was a wildblown swathe of common land- not vast,certainly not wilderness,but wind and varied enough for a person who walked there to feel unfettered and alone.(🐦‍⬛🏠 comment this if you like this one) ->I am a hundred years old today.Not only have l managed to survive a century,but l've also seen in a new millennium.(🌙🌹 comment this if you like this one) ♡Thank you for your help ⭐️

I'm looking to read more books written by Chicanx or Latinx authors. I would prefer if they were books not solely about the Chicanx/Latinx experience (hear me out). I am an educator and would love to bring in more titles that are diverse. I want my Hispanic students to be able to read a story from a Hispanic author that is not necessarily about the Chicanx/Latinx "experience" or generational trauma. I think it can be isolating as a student if your teacher only has books about what your "supposed experience" is supposed to look like, especially if it is a story of pain. What about the coming of age stories, the romance stories, the high fantasy, action packed stories? One example would be The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera. The Earth is about to die, and our main character happens to escape and is tasked with sharing the last stories on Earth. Any cool stories come to mind?

For months I have been trying to figure out if I should get a kindle or not. It seems convenient, especially when I am travelling to work or uni. Saves me from dragging a paperback with me which is fine because I have a book sleeve but....you know. Is a kindle worth my money?

While it doesn't necessarily mean that their adaptations are "better" than the source material, I'm curious about adaptations that stray from their source and end up more popular than it. The example that always comes to my mind is Blade Runner/Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. It's hardly a novel or surprising prospect that Dick's novel ends up adorned with big lettering for Blade Runner, but it's still funny nonetheless— primarily for the fact that Blade Runner is the far more popular/synonymous title for the source-adaptation pairing, rather than Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. You could also argue that Netflix's The Eternaut adaptation achieves a similar effect, but the series only just came out this year, so it's a little more difficult to really argue compared to something well into the past. Regardless, I was just curious if anyone had any other fun examples of similar situations where a movie or tv series ended up stealing the spotlight from the source material.

Pienso que soy rara porque no me puedo leer una saga si no está terminada, con terminada llegó al punto de que si no tengo todos los libros no la empiezo. Normalmente para sagas que no se si van a ser lo mio me busco la saga en digital y si me engancha la compro en físico pero sino hasta que no se acabe de publicar no la empiezo. Tengo excepciones por sagas en las que ya leo el primer libro, como con Fourth Wing/Alas de sangre que voy a ritmo de publicacion. Pero por ejemplo al saber que va a ver acotar 6 he dejado de leer Niebla y Furia por miedo a no poder parar y sufrir lo que estáis sufriendo vosotrxs (que aquí no encuentro quien me ayude, por si no pasa nada y me lea todo acotar + TOG + CCity y así tenga contexto o me espere...)

I know this question is weird but please bear with me. I started reading A Mirror Mended by Alix E. Harrow a few month ago and only realized after reading a few pages that it's the second book in a series. I enjoyed what I read and the chemistry between the main charactes is great, but I decided to stop reading and start with the first book in the series. That decision put me in a reading slump for two month, I was stuck with this book and couldn't finish it because it's so boring. It also didn't help that one of the main characters from the second book isn't even in the first book. So my question. What do you do? Skip the first book or slog through it? Have you been in a similar situation?

Because I 100% think it is. I'm of the opinion that any good plot twist will have details along the way that are just subtle enough to miss if you're not looking for them but make you think, "oh my god that makes so much sense" when you realize. When someone tells me there is plot twist nine times out of ten I guess it correctly because I am LOOKING for those hints/details when I otherwise wouldn't be. However, this seems to be a hot take because I see so many reviews and recommendations that mention the plot twist in books?? I guess a review is one thing but mentioning there's a plot twist when recommending a book is actually wild to me. What's everyone's opinion on this? I'm so curious!