I've been diagnosed with ADHD for a few years and was recently diagnosed with something else that makes it so I can't take the stimulant meds anymore. I was finding it so hard to concentrate on books or honestly any reading once I was off the medication.

I started doing tandem reading more and more often until it was basically the only way I actually read unless it's a short story or fanfic.

Does anyone have any other ways they accommodate themselves?

if you could pick any quest theme, what would it be? bonus points if you have a list you want to promote in anticipation of the next community quest vote! i would really love the following: • an anti ai/big tech quest! i feel like it makes sense for pagebound to have one, given its anti ai values. i've seen a couple lists about this nominated for the community vote and i'm always sad when they don't win! • a "books about books" nonfiction quest! the history of the book, books on libraries, books on writing and language and storytelling, etc etc. also very appropriate for the pagebound community! • a drama quest. like actual dramas, plays, theatrical scripts, the like. it's the only main literary form (prose, poetry, drama) we don't have a quest for yet!

As a dad of two under two, something no one ever told me or I never thought would happen would be rediscovering the absolute joy of picture books that I hadn't had since I was a little kid. Our local library and librarians are wonderful - they were some of the first people to welcome us to our new town, and are now very close personal friends of ours - and seeing our two-year-old go exploring through the shelves to find books with one of them always puts an immense smile on my face. But not only that, I also have found myself looking for picture books I grew up with to read to him. I've slowly been collecting picture books I had when I was little: Weslandia, The Bunyans, Thunder Rose, Brambly Hedge to name a few. Our little guy loves the Knight Owl books especially, and anything with chickens.

My wife teases me because the picture books I tend to get at the library or buy at our local bookstore are very text heavy and our little guy isn't old enough to have the stamina to sit through the longer ones, but it's the anticipation of knowing that in a year or two when he's older, I am going to get to sit down and read him books that my parents read to me when I was his age. I remember the first time I read him Miss Rumphius, I started bawling as I got to the end of the book, cause I had a flashback to my mom reading it to me when I was maybe five or six.

I am curious, what picture books do you all remember reading a lot when you were little (if you can), and if you got kiddos, what books have you read with them?