I like Henry but her books are so hit or miss for me. I was so excited for this and so many people have been raving it but I'm about to DNF bc I just can't get myself to care about the characters more than like a *twinge* of intrigue...

Y'all I'm currently reading two adult fantasy books and am struggling. I need some good fast-moderately paced YA fantasy recs😭

I used to rate books with ".25" and ".75" stars (especially on StoryGraph) but now in my opinion 3.25 can just be 3 stars and 3.75 can just 4 stars. And in pagebound i think its nice to not confuse myself with this bc here it's only .5! What do you think?

Anytime Wolf howls or sniffs the air, all I can think about is that vine where the guy says, "On all levels except physical, I am a wolf" *barks* 💀 (except Wolf is a wolf on a physical level...to an extent). I think I'm just not a werewolf or werewolf-adjacent girlie 😔

Currently watching The Summer I Turned Pretty for the first time and, having never read the books, I’m curious how my experience watching the show would be different if I had. Do you feel like how you picture the characters changes if you read the book after watching the adaptation? I usually avoid watching adaptations of a book if I read the book first because I have a clear image of the characters/setting and I don’t want to mess that up. So I’ve never seen the PJO series for example. But I happened to watch the hunger games and Harry Potter movies before I read the books and clearly pictured the actors in my head as the characters/saw the same settings in my head as the movie.

Not sure if there are any crafty friends here, but if so I’d love to hear of any cute book crafts you’ve done! I’d really like to make a book character Guess Who game 😂 I think my fave “craft” was making my own mini books to fit in this tiny little library my sister got me (the ones you shake to knock the books off the shelves). The books were SO small (less than an inch!), but it was so fun to make the cover spreads in Canva, cut and fold them, and then make the foam cores to go inside. I love using tweezers to put them back on the shelves (in series order, of course), and it’s nice to have “copies” of books or series I don’t own, like manga or webtoons I’ve read

Hi everyone ✨ I'm new here and stoked to be able to connect with people with similar tastes (or different). Thought i'd put in a post asking for your ultimate romance reads and ultimate fantasy reads? I've had a terrible time of late reading unknown romance books and DNF'ing quite violently when I hit insta-love. Yearning is underrated and my Fantasy/Gothic reads come almost completely from BookTubers (my library holds a lot of older, classic fantasy when i'm more interested in the contemporary side myself), so i'm hoping you all can open my eyes to more options I may not have heard of. Tysm in advance 🤍

At the beginning I set my reading challenge at 24 books, thinking "on average, two books per month sounds like an achievable goal". But then not only I had to juggle between work and university, I had to endure a reading slump that stopped me from opening a book from like, april to july. I'm slowly starting to read again and i'm super happy about it but I decided to change my goal from 24 to 12 and it's the first time i've done this. I know life is life and sometimes you have to slow down a bit but I guess this hit me because during the pandemic my reading numbers sky-rocketed because (sadly) I had a lot of time available back then, and ever since my yearly book numbers have dropped. I don't know, any thoughts? Have you ever changed your number in the middle of the year or do you maintain it even if you know you won't make it?

I personally keep a reading journal because I like being crafty and having a physical space to reflect on my reads and keep track of readathons. I will admit I can absolutely get behind month-to-month, though, if I get busy. What do you all think of reading journals? Do you like them? If you do use them, what kind of spreads do you make?