Maybe I live under a rock and missed something, but where's the update with the lists that won and got turned into quests? Is it finished and I missed the update or is it still going and we have to wait for the results?

Since recently I bought a book that had no trigger warning page and I got to know that there were some triggers of mine in it (gotta thank my friend, or I would've had a bad surprise), I'd like to know what could be the triggers in this one before starting.

Don't uphold anything because they could be spoilers please, just tell me. You don't need to explain to me the whole situation, just do a little list of the things that could be triggers. Idk, for example SA, and others. I'd much rather know than find something which will make me anxious for the next few weeks.

Tuesday is book publishing day in the United States, and today was a crazy one. A lot of books I want to read came out today. Luckily, quite a few of them, I had received an ARC, so it did not break my budget, but in the midst of all these great new books, I received an email saying my preorder for The Hive by Ronald Malfi was available.

This made me chuckle. I didn't even remember ordering it. I had to go read the book description because Malfi isn't someone I usually make an automatic buy for new books (I like him, but he just hadn't reached that level). I read the description and decided I understood why past me had ordered the book, and I am now really excited to read it.

I think this is a sure sign of book addiction, though. I am buying books I don't even remember buying. My problems run deep.

On the other hand, it made me wonder. What upcoming preorder or future checkout has you super excited right now, or at least excited enough you actually remember it is coming out?

Do you have authors who are day-one buys or checkouts (if you can get them on day 1)?

If you had to choose one book per season, to reread every single year in that season for the rest of your life, what would it be? (You can read new stuff as well and do any rereads you want too, but these books are the ones you will have to read at least once a year forever).

I'll go first:

Autumn - Easy pick, my favourite book, Don't let the forest in by C G Drews

Winter - When we were monsters by Jennifer Niven

Spring - Letters to a young poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

Summer - A dark and drowning tide by Allison Daft

I mostly based myself off of the book I think I'd end up hating the least after reading it for so many years, forcefully. Autumn was easy because I had been thinking of making an annual reread of dltfi and actually things (I just love it so much).

Is it just me or does someone else have books they read while they were in the state of slight confusion/fever dream, caused by a mild headache or something with the same effect, that they think was even better because of the state the headache put them in?

When I have light to mild headaches, for prolonged periods of time, I live in this state of slight confusion that I don't know how to really describe. I can still do almost everything. I live my normal life. But I'm a thousand times more tired, so everything feels eerie. A little similar to a dream. I'd like to note I'm not that sick. I can still distinguish reality and live my day to day life with few complications. It feels like staying awake way over your usual bed time.

Either way, I read a lot when I'm like that, because there isn't much more I feel like doing. And to be honest I'd read in any given situation. Sometimes, I read some books that are so weird or so relatable to the state I'm in at that moment, that I think are perfect headache books. I usually can't remember many details from them after I'm finished, but I remember the feeling (and general plot) and I know that my enjoyment of them was enhanced by reading them right then. Don't know if I'm making sense.

So, does anything similar happen to you too? What are your perfect 'headache' books?

Here are some of my fav headache books:

Graveyard shift - M L Rio

When we were monsters - Jennifer Niven (THE headache book)

And some that I read while I was alright, but think it would be peak to read while having this type of headache:

The secret history - Donna Tartt

Gallant - V E Schwab

The decagon house murders - Yukito Ayatsuji

Just realised a constant of almost, if not all, of these is sleep deprived characters. Or characters with insomnia. At least one and at least at one point of the book. So yeah, maybe that's why I think they are so perfect, because I feel kind of like the characters.

So as to give insight, I want to preface that this thought came to me after finishing The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop

I started thinking about books I’ve read and how they’ve served me and connected me to others, and I spiraled down the rabbit hole of my brain and trying to recall books to answer some questions brought up by the said book above.

I started trying to piece together lists of books. Some I remembered vividly by quotes, other by details of a specific moment and how I related to that moment, and some by just the way it made me feel in the end.

So, naturally it got me thinking about the Boundlings, and how all of you recall a book. Is there one specific way you recall and tell someone about a book that stuck with you? Is there one way, that now when you think about it, resonates to how you recall them?

I want to know how all of your brains do this recall!

I love Pagebound's emoji system to describe books! And with so many readers and book lovers here, I'm guessing there are quite a few writers around and I would love to see what emojis you would choose for your current or latest project, be it published or personal, completed or unfinished; novels, fanfiction, poetry etc! Also, if your work is available to read/buy somewhere, feel free to share! I would love to read some! 📚🥰

I’m so curious, and I have too many questions about everyone’s relationship to reading in English vs. reading in ur native language.

Do you pay it any mind? Is this something you actively try to balance? Can you decide to pick up a book translated from English to your native language?

Also for the people who, in addition to English and their native language, have a heritage language* they can read in. How comfortably can you read in your heritage language? Does that require A LOT of focus and effort like it does for me? In that case, how often do you make time for that focus and effort?

* = i was unfamiliar w this concept for a long time, so pasting this here from wikipedia for convenience: "A heritage language is a minority language (either immigrant or indigenous) learned by its speakers at home as children, and difficult to be fully developed because of insufficient input from the social environment."