I was surprised not to see him here. I’d add The Call of the Wild

Hi! I’m a full time working behavior analyst who works with autistic kids. I tend to work a lot during the week but am trying to fit in reading in the evenings at least an hour or two.

For those of you also working a lot with busy schedules, how do you fit in reading for pleasure during the week?

What was your TBR before and after Pagebound?

Mine was a humble 20, now it's 40+ and my interested in has over 90 books 😀

I honestly thought I'd go through my whole TBR by joining this but it seems to have the opposite effect 😂

Hi all!

I've been wanting to make a list about books with art class motifs, but so far I only have three and I was curious if anyone else has read books like this!

Basically what I want is books where the main plot is paralled by a subplot within the art class; the main character works out their difficulties/emotions during class, or the art that they make contrast their struggles. For example, a character's art work becomes more monstrous after going through trauma, or the character discusses topics that seem to be about art but really are about the experience that they are trying to understand.

The ones I have so far:

• Again Again by E. Lockhart
• Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
• Clay by David Almond

In Again Again and Speak the characters are working on art projects throughout the book and are only able to complete them after they deal with their trauma/struggles. In Clay the main character discusses topics with the art teacher to understand the things that are happening in his life.

I'd appreciate any recommendations or any thoughts about this topic! The ones I have are YA but any examples are welcome.

If I can I'd be interested to write a paper about this topic (if there will be a suitable assignment before I graduate) so any related books/articles/theories would also be appreciated!

I'm always curious when I see a List that's been downvoted. I understand the purpose of downvoting, especially in the Club if someone says something disagreeable or offensive. But for Lists, I'm often surprised to see a List with downvotes. Can y'all tell me why you might downvote a List? I'm genuinely curious!

I was thinking about this today, cause it /really/ pisses me off. I find it insane how certain books/authors will literally use literally the most ridiculous workaround to portray raw, no condom, no nothing, sex in the main plotline

My worst example for this is love hypothesis, and before trashing the sex scene, I have to say i actually liked this book. So Adam and olive are making out and getting in the mood, AND THEY GET TO THAT PART WHERE HE'S LIKE, WAIT, I DON'T HAVE A CONDOM and instead of literally doing anything else olive turns around and tells him, SHE IS ON BIRTH CONTROL????? mind you, Olive is self proclaimed demisexual, and for a while outside of a relationship, an academic working for quote unquote inhumane hours, SHE DOES NOT HAVE AN ACTIVE SEX LIFE. Olive also doesn't have any forms of pcos or any other complications, her randomly being on birth control, WHEN IT IS NEVER MENTIONED BEFORE IN THE BOOK, is insane to me, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT'S ONLY THERE SO ADAM DOESN'T HAVE TO WEAR A CONDOM Edit: Bc my point for this came off wrong, I'm editing to say ik birth control has many uses, my main issue was that it felt as just an excuse for said unprotected sex to happen, which is the trope in intimacy scenes that I'm complaining about. The fact that there's no other basis for it and she just blurted it out was what irked me, not the fact that she might, hypothetically, take it. I have to mention here that's not the only just thrown there characteristic that I didn't enjoy in the book, as an aroace person I disliked how her demisexualness was explored and also just blurted it out, in the first few chapters, but that's a whole different matter. I just dont think it was nuanced or ernest

And it got me thinking, just how many romance books/eroticas pull strings like these to portray this fantasy Edit: I'm not shitting on ppl enjoying this trope, I mention later on I've had my run with it as well, just from the broad selection of spicy books I have encountered, I think its over glorified and way too common. To compare, just as I expect a book with bdsm elements to do it in a safe, consensual, not necessarily educational but good way, from a similar pov I find it frustrating that unprotected sex is often shown as more 'sexy' and has no reprecautions whatsoever, not maybe even a little mention. My main issue is sexual health, not conception

I think this is annoying especially in /way/ too much about having to wear one and the measures of protection from pregnancy fall only on the woman (my girls birth control isn't always effective). And that aside why are we glorifying std spreading? I can understand a scene where after a while they don't have one at hand and they use it as a "I need this so bad do whatever" but this is totally different

I'm not gonna say that books have to be a hundred percent textbook accurate cause some of these are just for fun too, but it's getting to a /point/ yk. Idk what's your opinion on this, do we like the rawdogging?

I just filled out my reading plan for all of 2026 (I don't think December is available yet, which is fair) and it occurred to me that I'm probably not using the Plan as intended lol. Since I'm doing the Anti-Brainrot challenge and I want to read for some the (American) cultural observances each month, I piled in books that would be appropriate to read through out the year around when it'd be most appropriate to read them with enough options that my mood reading self has options, but I don't expect to read everything I put, especially not in the month I put them.

So how do you feel about the monthly plans? How are you using them?

How do you feel about being on the internet? Are you fatigued? Do you just hate it in a way that you never did?

Anyway, the toxicity of the general internet has really pushed me back into books and I love it so much. I’m wondering if there any other folks experiencing this literary resurgence.

I was wondering if most people read on a kindle or not, as I find it hard to with the bright light? But it’s also cheaper. What do you guys think? 💭