Does anyone have recommendations or your favorite playlist or video to have on in the background when you read? I tend to need background noise or music to read so I usually try to Lo-Fi music videos or I also like the asmr cafe videos. I'm just curious if anyone has a go-to playlist on Spotify or Youtube to use. It doesn't have to be without lyrics. I tend to like more upbeat tunes over classical music.

What book absolutely broke you? It lives rent free in your head and was so emotionally damaging but you loved it and would recommend to others? Mine is tied between Under Your Scars and Torment Part 1 & 2

This is me trying to remember the person I followed when they change their username 😭 I'll be like "I don't remember following you 😭😂" seriously tho, if we've talked here before and you changed your username and suddenly I act like I don't know you, remind me please 😭😂 PS I'm not annoyed that y'all are changing your usernames btw! 😭😂 It's actually kinda fun figuring out who you were. 😂

Does anyone have a book length preference? I tend to pick up books that are 300 pages and above because I know that it’s more likely to have more world-building and character development. But 300 is my husbands limit because he can’t follow along for that long Does anyone else have these kinds of preferences??

I thought it would be kind of fun to see where in the world people are, and then folks can make friends with people from the same countries/ares (if they way, not pressure obviously). I'll go first. I'm Canadian, and more specifically I am in British Columbia (Vancouver Island if you want to get fancy. Try to find your country and join that thread! Everyone else?

Hiii everyone! I'm debating making a book instagram. I would love to connect with others there as well, however, I don't think I'd be "dedicated" to posting, etc. I'm not looking to become a reading influencer at all and I think I'd be too busy to really dedicate any sort of time to posting. Mainly, I'm wondering what people think of book instagrams, how they manage theirs, and if people think they're even worth it. Thanks community! <3

What are some tropes or storytelling decisions/concepts that have you immediately interested? And on the opposite, what are the things that you hear about a book that immediately make you go "no, not reading that" ? Generally, "there's dragons" will get me to read anything. Magic schools; elemetal magic; marriage of convenience in romance; a MC infiltrating the antagonist side and risking to "lose themselves" while doing it (actually, generally a FMC being unhinged); heroes struggling with what to make of themselves AFTER they've saved the world/defeated the bad guys; unreliable narrator ! all top tier to me. Love Triangles will kill any interest I have in reading a book. Too much smut; love interests alternating between threatening and flirting; miscommunication; I also struggle with generational stories because I don't like "abandonning" characters to follow another one

How did you get into reading? Was it something you've always done? Or did you pick up a book randomly and never looked back? What has changed since then? I started getting into reading around July 2023. I used to hate it because it reminded me of school and assignments. Then I discovered the world of romance books and I've been reading constantly since. It's also made me a quicker and better reader. Although since starting university, I've been correlating everything from my lessons into the books, so it makes my brain work overtime when I read a dark romance book 💀