My first name is Dallas so Jenna talking about her dating and engagement to her husband is so strange for me 😅

I feel like I’ve spent the majority of this book annoyed at Elaine and everyone coddling her. Does her character improve or am I going to remain frustrated?

I'm glad that the book keeps reminding me that some of these characters are 500+ years old because they really don't act like it...

Okay... maybe I'm being picky but... why does Cassian sound like an instagram gym bro in half of these training scenes? All of the planks, core exercises, and talk about lactic acid just feels... anachronistic? I know the fae are supposed to be more advanced than the humans, but the humans are basically in medieval times and Cass is over here talking like a fitness influencer...

I'm not not enjoying this but it's a 700 page book and the first 200 have barely had anything happen in them...

The Winter Readalong picks are here! To see the selections (and the badge!) on web, head to the Discuss tab and click “View Winter Picks” by the Fall 2025 Readalong header. On the app, go to the Seasonal Readalong screen from the More menu (sorry app users, you’ll have to go to web to see the badge preview; I’ll add the badge in the next app update!) The Winter readalong starts December 1st and runs through the end of February. Recommend checking wait times at your library and planning ahead! (note: we are only doing 4 books instead of 5 starting this winter to make room for Special Events)

For our new users: Each season, Top Contributors vote on a selection of books to read as a community. You earn a special badge for reading one of the books and commenting or posting in the forum during the readalong.

Additional exciting updates! (NOTE: these are currently on web only, they will be available on the app with the next app release!)

MUTING BOOKS! yes yes yes you can now mute a book. When you mute a book, it removes all posts from that book’s forum from you Main feed, My Books feed, All Books feed, and Following feed. If someone you follow comments on a post, or posts in the forum, of a muted book you will not see it. You will however still see “reading status updates” from followers who engage with muted book. You can mute a book from the “...” menu on a post, or from the Book Status modal. To unmute a book, go to the Settings page (gear icon on your profile) and click “Manage Muted Books”

You can now mark a book as “owned” and filter your library shelves by "owned" books! While it works perfectly well to have a custom “owned” shelf, a separate toggle was highly requested (mini tip: you can add books to custom shelves right from the book status modal - you do not need to search for & add them from the shelf page).

Feed updates: we removed TBR books from your My Books feed and Main Feed entirely. We know how sensitive spoilers can be, and folks have different definitions of what constitutes a spoiler, so this is the safest option. We will have a way to customize this in the future if you prefer to see them. We also removed any activity related to the Pagebound Club from your main and following feeds. The club still exists as it always has for those that enjoy engaging, but for those that would rather opt-out, you won’t be forced to see PB club content in your feed. You will still have activity items on your profile from any Pagebound Club activity; it just will not be pushed to your followers.

For our app users: if you’d like to mute books now before the update is released, just log in on web, mute the books, and both your web and app feeds will be updated. You can do the same for “owned” books, however the filter won’t appear until the next update.

Thanks everyone and happy reading! Jennifer & Lucy

I am rereading my old college copy of Frankenstein and it has a pretty extensive discussion of the different versions available of the book- primarily the original 1818 publication and the 1831 publication. Both were done by Shelley, but they argue that the 1831 shows changes in Shelley's beliefs where she makes changes to remove some of Frankenstein's autonomy to make him seem more of a victim to the way things were destined to be instead of a man making bad choices.

So what are you guys reading? 1818 or 1831?

Obviously 1831 is Shelley's latest version which is a great reason to read what the author intended as the "final" version of the book, but I have seen compelling arguments in favor of 1818.

I tried listening to the audio of the 1818 text on Spotify and it sounds awful, I think it's AI?! Just a heads up to anyone looking to listen! I did find that someone uploaded their own narration so I'll try that instead

1. I got here because of the movie
2. These creepy crawlies are much worse here
3. I wish I had gotten here first

“We will all, should we live long enough, be disabled”

In a chapter about prosthetics (and especially people who have elected amputation & prosthetics over life with an unhealthy limb), it is a humbling reminder that while it’s easy to talk about “healthy” or “unhealthy” people as if there are separate, constant groups- they aren’t. We constantly oscillate from healthy to unhealthy, abled to disabled. And that’s okay. Our bodies are constantly changing as we age and go through life. Certainly healthy to keep in mind.