Hello everyone, i hope you are allright. So my friends created a readathon for september and october to celebrate halloween and i need recs for some october prompts and i thought why not ask the people on Pagebound? So please help me out. Btw you can choose the same book for different prompts (actually if that happens it will help me because there are quite a lot prompts 🤣). Prompts: 1- Read a thriller or a mystery (I want the best of the best you have ever read) 2- Read a book with pumpkins on the cover 3- Read an horror classic (i thought about reading Dracula but idk if it fits,let me know but you can also suggest another one) 4- Read an halloween themed book 5- Read a book that was adapted to a movie or series (it should be on theme of halloween and scary stuff)

Thank you so much in advance for the recs 🫶🎃

I've never read an autobiography/memoir, so I'm looking for recommendations. What's the autobiography you couldn't put down, that you think more people should read, and why?

How do you do it? My library often has the books I want as audiobooks with no wait, so I am trying to become someone who listens to them. Emphasis on the trying. Every time I try to listen I get so distracted by other stuff and miss whole chapters and important details. I think being able to listen to my books would suit my daily life and schedule a lot better, but I just can't seem to make it work!

Does anyone else feel that way?

What do you do when you're listening to audiobooks? How do you stay focused?

Edit: thank you, everyone, for the thoughtful comments. I will definitely give it another try with some books I've already read!

I really can't listen to music while I read, I find it distracting (especially if it has lyrics). But I will passively make character playlists of songs I think a specific character would listen to. I like to imagine it as their ipod library LOL

Does anyone else like to make music playlists for books or series they have read? And do you listen to them while you read? Is it more for ambiance or does the music really embody the book for you?

Alright, I think we’ve all seen the discourse around Kuang and the hate she gets, and then the amount of support she also receives. The fact that someone accused her of using AI when she has publicly spoken out against AI in creative spaces.

Any thoughts? I’m a Kuang fan but I understand why people wouldn’t like her writing style. I am very welcome to critiques to her writing, but sometimes the intense hate she gets I feel like is somewhat unwarranted.