Hey y'all, Resident yapper here and just wanted to say I'm so excited to see so many new folks chatting books!! As someone who doesn't have many around me that read, pagebound has been such an awesome way to get my thoughts out and talk with others about some of my favorite books! I'm Devin, Father of 2 amazing little girls, husband, book reviewer, and software engineer. I live in CT and i'm 35 years old. I love SFF mostly but willing to dabble in anything. I run bromantasy.com which is a review site attempting to bridge the genre gap for Romantasy and SFF in general. My favorite books are Golden Son (Red Rising Saga), The Will of the Many, Kingdom of Ash (Throne of Glass), Spear Cuts Through Water, and Howling Dark (Sun Eater). Would love to know a little more about you all, please practice good internet safety when responding!! Again welcome to Pagebound, super glad you've joined this amazing community and look forward to chatting more about your favorite books! 😊

Do you prefer to read physical books, ebooks or listen to audio books? I tend to do a mixture but lean towards ebooks (and then go buy my book trophy!)

I'm so stressed at work, so I keep starting new books instead of finishing them! I'm on my 12th consecutive work day, so I'm dead tired when I get home. I know that anything I finish right now will feel laskluster because *I* simply don't have energy. And I don't want to ruin any of my books so I just start a new audiobook every day I clock in hahaha

Extremely upper management sounds like something from The Good Place

I was inspired to play a game with y'all after I heard a couple patrons at my library talking about misreading some of the titles of items on display. Figured it would be good for a laugh as well as a way to discover an item or two for our TBRs! Dragon Writers of Pern > a series exploring the trials and tribulations of draconic authors trying to get their work published. Obviously cozy fantasy (Original: Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey).

I'M SORRY SHE DID WHAT WITH THE TAMPON (it's not related to the actual story, so it's not a spoiler but what the actual f*ck)

Meaning, you can’t find it at any local bookstore or public library? I feel like this happens to me all the time. There are a lot of little gems on my list that once I find them, I feel so excited because I’ve had to search or wait for them for so long. Right now I can’t find: - Strange Fruit by Lillian Smith - The Iliac Crest by Cristina Rivera Garza - All These Sunken Souls: A Black Horror Anthology by Circe Moskowitz I’m curious about what other elusive books other people might be looking for 🕵️‍♀️📖

Are you a mood reader or do you strictly abide by your TBR for the month?? I have a monthly and yearly tbr and I seldom follow it 😆 I'm afraid I'm a notorious mood reader ✋😭

What is on everyone’s Holds list at their library or on their library app like Libby and Hoopla? My library allows 10 holds on Libby, but often has really long waits. I was scrolling through available titles and there are so many good books releasing and just not enough hold slots for me 🥹 Right now I have these 10 books on hold. The Amalfi Curse Heartless Hunter The Measure Our Infinite Fates Wild And Wrangled Great Big Beautiful Life Hester We’ll Prescribe You A Cat The Once Future Witches Emily Wildes Compendium of Lost Tales

I’ve started pre-selecting a monthly tbr for myself this year and with finding this wonderful community, I’m curious how other people pick the books they’d like to read during a month? Or if you don’t, how do you select what to read next? I try to pick a mix of books that have been on my tbr for a while and new books just to keep things different but series also cause a bit of an issue with that system 😂

I know things get worse and there isn't a happy ending in this book, but I don't want to know... It pains me to know what becomes of him and that Snow does win, at least in Haymitch's point of view...

If you're someone who DNFs books, what's one of the silliest or pettiest reasons you've stopped reading? I'll go first with some of mine: - The author kept repeating the same words/phrase, I couldn't stop noticing it and after 4 chapters I'd had enough - The MMC had the same name as an ex and I wasn't about to read a whole book where he gets a happy ending - They didn't use any punctuation marks at all Please tell me I'm not the only one who abandons books that should be interesting to me for ridiculous reasons?

Casey McQuiston has a talent for writing books where I at best genuinely do not care about her protagonists and their love interests, but I love her side characters. I don't know how she does it, it's so odd.