Victoria Aveyard's Red Queen has been so important to me when I was younger, and I know it's flawed but I loved what she did, the topics she tried to tackle and how she did it. So since she announced that she was working on her first adult book inspired by Pirates of the Caribbean, I've been jumping at the walls with impatience. Today she announced officially that Tempest is coming out September 8th, there's an official synopsis, AND IT'S A DUOLOGY.

Somebody please gush with me over it I'm begging.

I want to start a challenge where I read at least one persons favorite book a month for this whole year! So I’m looking for book recommendations based off your guys favorites. I’m open to really anything but if you want to look at my profile there are more specific genres I’m into. Thanks guys!

I just added every single book I own (physical or audio) to PB and grouped them as finished, paused (which I'm taking as I got more than a few chapters in and didn't dnf but haven't gone back to yet), or tbr, and then did the math. only 54% of my library went into the "finished" category.

before I did this I estimated 65% read. my partner reckons when you own over 300 books, anything over 50% read is impressive, but idk ... I feel like that's a lot of neglected books!

how are your shelves measuring up, folks? or do you not even worry about this?

I’m new to Pagebound and I see people with like 30k points. I feel like I’m earning points slowly. So if you have a higher level how long did it take you to get there? How active are you on the app? And how much are you reading?

Hi everyone! I am so, so excited to finally share with you a little (unofficial) PB-related something I’ve been slowly working on for the past couple of weeks. And by slowly, I mean it took me… oh, I don’t know, maybe 20 hours total to do? Maybe more?

When I was scrolling through quests a little bit ago, I began to notice a pattern of certain books showing up multiple times. Which got me thinking: what percent of books show up in more than one quest? Which books are in the most quests? The one I was most intrigued about was What quest combinations show up the most?

The answers? 13.7%, Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, Interview with the Vampire, Dune, and What Moves the Dead. The third is actually a tie at 13, between Epic Sci-Fi and Fantasy Series & Iconic Series, and Fantasy and Sci-Fi with a Side of Romance & Iconic Series. This didn’t really surprise me, since I was noticing a lot of overlap between these categories when I was clicking through making this.

What’s this, you may ask? Well, I’m a bit of a data nerd. I’m also a bit of a Google Sheets nerd (it can do more than it looks, okay!) This is the Unofficial Pagebound Quest Tracker, made up of over 2,000 books, 77 different quests (and counting!), and endless possibilities to maximize your quest output :) You can search the quest you’re working on to see what else is available, search for a specific book to see which quests it’s in/if any of the categories interest you, and—if you’re like me and you like a free-for-all—the number of quests is sorted from greatest to least to easily see which books have the most quests!

Just to reiterate, this is completely unofficial and just a silly little side project made by a silly little bored woman who really, really loves it here on Pagebound. Hence, there are probably some imperfections here or there, so if you spot something off, please please please let me know and I will fix it ASAP! I will be updating this sheet every Monday with any new additions, unless they turn out to update less than I'm expecting, in which case it’ll probably end up being once a month.

Whether you’re like me and you’re a total stats nerd, or just curious about which books Contributors seem to love adding to their quests (no shade! I'm loving the overlap as a badge girlie) I hope this ends up being an incredible and useful tool for you!

A little P.S: If the font isn’t readable, if the spacing looks weird, if you have any feedback of that sort, then please do say so and I will try to find something that works for everyone!

On that note, if you have any suggestions about something new to add, also say something and I will see if it is something that can be done! I was thinking about making a personal quest tracker for badge levels and such, which should be a bit easier now that I’ve gotten all of the titles and quests down, but it might be a bit before I feel up to undertaking another project like that again 😭

tl;dr: I made a massive unofficial quest tracker so you can maximize badges with minimal suffering hehe

Much love to all my beautiful, wonderful, Pagebound family, Courtney 💓

Special event readalong starts in one week (Jan 15)! What’s your pick to read?

I’ve chosen Black Cake - litfic exploring familial relationships across generations? Sign me up! Also, I think there’s a tv show I can watch after too, like a reward 🤭

I think I started a discussion.

Sometimes when I'm checking out a library book the plastic covering on it is ripped. This makes the book painful to read for me because it scrapes along the eczema on my hands and makes it itchy.

Because I know how to take the plastic off, I sometimes do that and sellotape the ripped parts to make it easier on my skin and put it back on the book. I do not sellotape the book itself.

Is this wrong to do? 🤣

The librarians have had no issues when I do that (I do tell them and ask them to change the plastic.) Some people have said I'm doing a service to keep the book protected. Others have said this is wrong.

There are many books out there where a protagonist starts out as insufferable, but throughout their journey they evolve and end up becoming a character you love — even if it sometimes takes a whole book to get there (or in a series maybe even more). And personally I LOVE a good character growth arc! But then sometimes I see people online saying they DNF‘d the book or the series because they found said character to be annoying. Which I totally understand, noone should force themselves through a book that makes them miserable, but it makes me so sad that they never got to witness what I consider the good part of the book.

So my question to you was, what are your opinions on this?

Are you okay with powering through multiple meh chapters (or in a series maybe a whole book) where you just want to punch said character, but with the promise of a very interesting character arc / character evolution incoming? Did you have such an experience where you hated a character but they ended up becoming someone you really appreciate? And also do you prefer a positive character growth where they become a better person, or a corruption arc where they turn into a villain? 😈 I‘m so curious to hear all your thoughts and opinions on this topic! 🥰