What is that one book that every time you see it on your feed or in the wild that you say “I’ve been meaning to read that. I’m going to read that”

Mine is: Circe by Madeline Miller

I want to read it. I talk about reading it. I loved her other book I read (Achilles). I think I even had it in my home but did I read it yet? No. 😩

I’m going to read that book… someday.

I was checking how I'm doing for my yearly challenges and I got curious: what reading challenges are you all working on right now?

My main challenges this year are: 1.Reading as many books as possible from my "purchased" TBR (this includes both physical books and ebooks). I'm currently at 1/6 for my purchased ebooks and 3/18 for my physical TBR. With 9 months left in the year, at my minimum of 1 book per month pace I'll get to 13/24, and if I do 2 per month that'll get me to 22/24 which would be great! 2.Reading at least 50% of books in my mother tongue (I'm counting both books in Spanish and Catalan for this). I'm curently at 60% of books I've read being in English, so this one is not going as well 😅 3. Getting to Gold in the Queer Horror quest This is a more recent addition after joining PB a couple of months ago, but I am already one book away from silver so I think it's definitely doable!

"Soft" challenges include getting most of my books from the library and reading more books than audiobooks. I consider these "soft" challenges because I've been hitting them for a few years in a row so I don't need to put much effort into accomplishing them.

What about everyone else, what challenges are you currently working on? I may steal some of your ideas for next year! 🤭

Has anyone ever read a book and thought damn.... that's me, or someone I know, fully in character form?

Just finished Remarkably Bright Creatures and kept thinking about Tova and how she is literally my great aunt in litfic form haha

I’m so envious of people who have giant rooms in their homes dedicated to books, and I love even more seeing the little trinkets and ornaments people have on the shelves that relate to whatever theme of books are on those shelves. Does anyone have any trinkets or ornaments that are book related that they absolutely love or are unique in anyway? My best friend knows The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is my favourite book so for Christmas she got me a Addie LaRue themed bookmark vase to put on my shelf and I adore it so much!