Guys, it is I, A Reader That Was Promised! George is 100% waiting for ME to catch up with the books before he can release The Winds of Winter. I’ll try not to take too long, y’all hold on🫡💙

What counts as second-screening: Having a video or a movie in the background as you read; reading something else on a different screen as you read (including spoiling what you're reading by looking something up about the plot); looking away from what you're reading periodically to scroll on social media, including PB; playing a game while reading.

I feel like this question is a little unfair for audiobook readers because you guys intentionally do all this stuff while listening to the audiobook... But if you are dividing your attention to the point where you have to rewind I think you're second-screening.

So have you been dividing your attention?

No judgment by the way. I'm literally doing it right now. I caught myself putting on some YT videos while getting through the story I'm reading. I'm still taking it in, I'm just kind of like... not immersed.

I just see people with high numbers and I wonder if you're reading all day while doing other stuff. Is that the secret?

Hello everyone! I'm changing around the formatting of the quest forum and separating out a recommendations thread from the welcome post just to make it a bit easier for me to keep track of recommendations! Feel free to drop any recommendations for novels you think could belong in the Quest as a comment below!

In addition, in an effort to keep the Quest "fresher", additions will be mostly focused on newer releases, as in mostly novels that have only just come out in 2025-2026 and beyond. I may add some older novels if I come across them and determine they belong in the Quest enough to be added, but these will be few and far between.

If anyone is ever curious, I have a shelf to keep track of all the novels I'm currently considering to add to the quest labeled as Potential Adds to BH, which is public for anyone to look at! I will say as a disclaimer that novels on there are not guaranteed to be added, they’re just ones that are on my radar! I’m not going to explain all of my rationale for adding or not adding a novel, but I do want to be clear that I do my best to research before adding anything, and that may mean reading through recommendations I want to have a better understanding of (aka it may be awhile before a recommendation makes its way onto the Quest, if it does at all).

Thanks, and happy questing! 🍄🌹