Hello all, I am thinking about planning out what I'm going to read this summer more carefully than I usually do! I just finished my PhD in botany (woot woot!), I am unemployed (womp womp!), and as you can probably imagine I am exhausted lol. Luckily, the unemployment is giving me more time to read, but the end of the PhD means I still have some paper writing and publishing to do. All of this to say, I'm looking for recommendations that are easy to read (especially if they're science-related) and fun and quick!

Question 1: The topics I'm looking for are 'summerween' (so spooky, but summery vibes!), folklore or folklore-inspired, and science! I want to read at least one book a month from each category. For science, I'm particularly into botany (obviously but nothing cellular as this is too close to my work and I need a BREAK), space, and palaeontology! I'd like a mix of these types of science books so I'm not always just reading in my field if possible! I'm open to anything in the other categories!

I already have three books for June: The Lost Elms by Mandy Haggith (botany), Greenteeth by Molly O'Neil (folklore), and A Penance for Crows by Shannon Morgan (summerween).

Question 2: If you have done the curriculum trend before, how did you do it? Did it work out for you? What advice do you have or what did you like / not like? Please give me any insight you have!!!

I came across this Tumblr post and feel like it might also intrigue/entertain/disturb the people of Pagebound so here you go (all credits to Tumblr user bleekay and their dream imagination):

had a fucked up dream i had a book that turned out could never be read again the same as the first time because each reread the characters became incrementally more aware that the events of the book had happened before and they were “reliving” it and i reread enough times that they became self aware, figured out they were in a book, acknowledged me as the reader, and some lost their minds or had existential crises, became violent to other characters or themselves, some begged me to never stop reading or they ceased to exist and others begged me to end it all stop reading and keeping them trapped in the endless loop of torment, and the literal only way to get the book back to its first run was to hand it off to someone else to read for the first time and for some reason i physically couldn’t tell anyone about it so i’d have to just hope whoever i gave it to would only read it once and i could never open the book again to check if they were okay and back to normal because i was terrified of fucking them all up again :(

hello everyone, i had a question about something and i don’t know if it was already talked about before i joined or whatever

so the question is, is there any dark romance ques (main or side)? or is it planed? or it won’t be any because of x reasons? (some which i can completely understand like, it’s shouldn’t be romanticized or spread etc.)

so yeah that my question, what the stand on that?

xoxo

What do you look at on other people's profiles? I like looking at everybody's My Taste books, but I feel like that's usually not enough to know if we'll have the same taste in other things. I do like stalking other users' library shelves, but not everyone uses them. I feel like I haven't been able to use the percentages in common enough to identify what percentage range is actually similar in taste. What's the highest percentage in common you've come across?

Sharing in case people haven’t seen this news: The CEO of Barnes & Noble said he would support stores selling AI-written books.

“Yes, I have actually no problem selling any book, as long as it doesn’t masquerade or pretend to be something that it isn’t, and that it has an essential quality to it, and that the customer, the reader, wants it.

So as long as an AI-written book says it’s an AI-written book and doesn’t pretend to be something else and isn’t ripping off somebody else, as long as that’s clearly stated and the customer wants to buy it, then we will stock them.

We have 300,000 titles across all of our stores. Do we think that some of those may be AI? The chances are that they are, but we’re not really conscious of them.

At the moment, it seems unlikely to us that these AI-generated books are going to get much commercial traction. So I think it’s something that one should treat with common sense and acceptance, but not allow anything to masquerade (as).”

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Hello! In an effort to increase engagement and community within the quest forum I will be attempting to post in the middle of every month an interactive post. This is the first post in that regard! I thought we could start with a getting-to-know-you sort of post. Feel free to skip any of the questions or customize it in anyway. My answers will be posted in a comment below.

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Happy reading, y'all!

What an insanely cool quest, thank you @aliyahmk for creating this!!!!!! I'm in love!!

That badge is so cool!