I've already read the master of djinn for the spring challenge and thought it was alright. I am reading goddess of the river rn and I think it's decent but not good, can't bring myself to care. I am 25% in rn and consider DNFing but then I won't get the pretty badge... 🤣 I don't know what to do now. I want the badge but I am not particularly eager to read books that are just alright.

What would you guys do? Also feel free to brag about your pretty badges.

Ruin a book title by changing (adding, removing, or tweaking) one letter.

Examples: The Two Towels Hanger Games Every Time I Go On Vacation, Someone Diets

You know the drill…. What’s a complaint (big, small, dramatic, insignificant, major, minor, silly, etc) that you need to SHOUT TO THE VOID?! As always be kind, be supportive, and look out for one another🤍✨

I've seen a few posts about pet peeves regarding phrases, or trends, etc etc, and thought they were really fun. Seeing how different, or similar people think and feel. So, I'm taking inspiration again. What are you most ridiculous, irrational, maybe unfair, bookish pet peeves? As ridiculous as you can get!

To start the thread, I'll say an unfair, ridiculous pet peeve of mine is when someone won't read a book only because it has a high page count. Is that affecting me at all? No, no it isn't. Ultimately, I don't care what people read, I'm not sitting up at night in agony because someone won't read that 800-page novel; seeing it being said though, for some reason, irks me. Crazy-ness I know. I'm ashamed.

Remember: We're all friends here, and this is in lighthearted good fun! So, if someone comments a pet peeve that you might do, don't take it to heart, read how you enjoy reading. If someone does a pet peeve you may have, don't make them feel bad, they're reading how they enjoy reading and so are you. Either way reading should be celebrated!

Stay creepy lovies, Crow

I was wondering how everyone felt about references to things in our current world, such as brands and pop culture, in fictional worlds.

For me, unless its absolutely necessary for the plot/context, it will take me right out of the story, especially if it’s speculative fiction. For example, if it’s a contemporary fiction novel and you mention that a character has a Chanel handbag to display their wealth, I won’t typically have a problem with that. But a bit ago I was reading a sci-fi book that referenced TikTok (book was set like 50 years in the future) and it COMPLETELY took me out of the story. I also read a contemporary fantasy book semi-recently that mentioned someone using their iPhone. Just say cell phone! Specifying an iPhone is unnecessary! (Again, my opinion of course.)

I also saw that apparently the ebook version of Pretty Little Liars was edited a few years ago, it used to have a line that said “You guys want to come over and watch Fear Factor?” which now says “You guys want to come over and watch this cool Tik-Tok I found?” which just highlights another issue I have with references to real world companies/pop culture. It dates the book! The new line doesn’t even make sense! Who goes to someone’s house to watch a single TikTok?! Just use something generic!

How do y’all feel about that kind of thing?

I’ve been seeing these crazy debates online about how people don’t always consider audiobooks to be real reading.

It makes me a bit sad because I think it’s amazing that stories can become more accessible through audiobooks.

It’s great that Pagebound has a feature to log audiobooks! It makes me want to try one for the first time, I just don’t know where to start.

Would you consider more comic style books or Webtoon stories to be real reading too? I’m really curious!

Anyone else reading something that they can't or won't log for any reason?

I'm reading a beta project (deadline approaching) and it's not out yet for me to log my reading. Which is a bit sad buy hey, at least I'm still reading! And I'm nearly done ^^

So, what are you reading in secret? Take this as your chance to boast!

heya boundlings! two posts within an hour because i finally have time to catch up and doom scroll here for abit 🤪

anyway, what are some books that immediately caught your attention because of its first sentence?

did you end up enjoying or disliking it? why?

i'm curious how those of you who always read multiple books at once go about it without dropping at least one. i always attempt to read multiple because i just get too excited to read certain things and can't wait, but i inevitably end up pausing/dnfing some and then very little actual progress gets made. does anyone have any specific tactics/strategies they use to keep things balanced?

Are there any tropes you hate (or well, dislike) and prefer not to read, or absolutely won't read, books with them?

(No shade to anyone who does enjoy these tropes! They're just not for me 😅)

For me the trope I hate most is probably RH (reverse harem). Idk why but whenever I come across books with those I keep thinking about if the genders were swapped and then I can't stomach it.

I also hate love triangle tropes (unless they all end up together 😈). I think I started realizing this when I first got into Sarah Maas books; iirc (it's been a while) both TOG and ACOTAR's first books have love triangles. I think the only cases I enjoyed the way they were handled were in Cassandra Clare's books, in TDA and TID.