Every few years I reread this and each time I discover something new that I like.

Obviously manga is reading but should I count it towards my goal? I include manga and novellas on my GoodReads and then I do strictly full novels on my Fable. So which do I do here? (I low-key hate GoodReads)

It's the time of the week to show of your big beautiful brains! Whether it's a quick piece of trivia, a tidbit you learned about yourself, or a deep dive on a niche topic - we wanna hear it!

My rabbit hole this week started with a metaphor I couldn't understand, which led me to a 1917 Russian literary theory, Art as Technique by Skhlovsky linked here on the importance of defamiliarization in literature which then led me to modern cognitive neuroscience research to check against the claims (in crazy news, they mostly backed his theory up) and landed in a 2,000 word essay I titled What If It's Genius and I'm Just Stupid? A Eulogy for the Reviews I Never Wrote. (If you have ever wondered why I started posting this weekly series I feel like this explains a lot of it I love hearing about people's rabbit holes and where it ends up haha)

My tidbit: I learned that I love tandem reading so much, I'm starting to have a hard time just eyeball reading books or just reading audiobooks.

How about you? What did you learn this week?

Hi boundlings,

I recently saw a user whom I share 0% overlap, which got me thinking: who do I have the highest percent overlap with??? Looking at who I’m following, my highest is with boobunny86 with a whopping 73% overlap! (Are we book twins?)

Anyways, can anyone beat that??

Genuinely interested if when you add a book that’s in a series if you add the whole series or just the one book and see where it goes from there. I’ve just been seeing people with GIANT tbrs which isn’t necessarily a bad thing but want to know if there and just that many books or are there long series like maybe Throne of Glass.

I read a lot of books not popular on Pagebound and I struggle with posting to forums when I know probably no one will see it, especially if it's even within a 100 meters radius of a spoiler. I wanted to ask how everyone deals with this. Or with bothering to write reviews when you know no one will read them. 🙏🏻 Feels like wasted effort to me.

Thanks ya all for the engagement. 🥹 I didn't expect such a response.