i can't believe gimli and legolas are just. Like That.

I feel like on TikTok and Instagram this has become a sensitive topic but do you think reading is inherently political? Or do you think politics should stay out of book discussions and overall reading?

Hey, I’m adding more books to an extreme horror/splatterpunk centric list here and I was wondering if y’all have any recommendations for what should be added next. Edit to add: here is the list so far in case anyone was wondering what books were already on there. https://pagebound.co/lists/400be993-78e2-40a1-b999-f4427f4e5ce6

I'm going on holiday soon and I'm looking for a good book for the beach. I'm looking for a fantasy/ sci-fi/ horror, with a romance subplot, violence would be great, nothing popular on tiktok. Preferably queer but doesn't have to be!! I don't mind a bit of spice or trigger warnings but please let me know! Thank you to anyone who gives me a recommendation:)

I have been reading the Nightrunners series by Lynn Flewelling and it's been scratching such a specific itch for sword & sorcery/adventure fantasy with queer mmcs, and I'd love more recs for stories of a similar vein. Any fellow Nightrunners have some faves to recommend? Huge bonus points if there's any with trans characters, but not required, and the romance does not have to be a central plot point as long as it still involves the mcs! I love a good subplot! Editing this to say I'm more interested in adult recs than YA! I haven't been in a huge YA mood recently! Also please do not recommend me anything by TJ Klune or anything even tangentially related to HP.

I have been reading the Nightrunners series by Lynn Flewelling and it's been scratching such a specific itch for sword & sorcery/adventure fantasy with queer mmcs, and I'd love more recs for stories of a similar vein. Any fellow Nightrunners have some faves to recommend? Huge bonus points if there's any with trans characters, but not required, and the romance does not have to be a central plot point as long as it still involves the mcs! I love a good subplot! Editing this to say I'm more interested in adult recs than YA! I haven't been in a huge YA mood recently! Also please do not recommend me anything by TJ Klune or anything even tangentially related to HP.

The past... like... 50 pages have felt like being pushed down a flight of stairs with so much force you go crashing through the wall, leaving a cartoon like hole shaped like your body

I'm in a reading slump and I'm looking for something to break the slump. Summer, fun and flirty and diverse. Indie or trade 🥰😚

I have a hard time reading Fiction books that are just fiction. The books have to have some sort of fantasy/supernatural element (even if it's just slight) or a mystery/thriller. For me, books have to feel like an escape. Something out of my norm. I love magical realism because I love that it plays on "hidden magic/forces/etc." within our world. But books that are just fiction don't hook me for some reason. Even the romance books I've read have some weird twist to them (Fan Service and Do Your Worst for example). And SO many fiction books are like the top rated and on every book club and bestseller lists. But it just doesn't separate me enough from real life lol Anyone relate? I feel bad I don't give regular fiction books a chance as often, but the once I have read just don't do it for me. I used to read a lot of regular fiction books as a teen. But in my adult life, I crave escapism. I feel like I'm missing out on any REALLY good fiction books but ahhh it feels like a chore. If you have any fiction books that are so good you're like "I will die on this hill" on how amazing it is, please let me know haha maybe i can change my mind.

controversial but i do looooove to bend the spine of a book as i'm going along. not only can i actually hold it and see the pages then, but the book also looks as though it's been loved and read. it interests me when people are entirely against any sort of damage to their book spines; i'm more of the mindset that if i've paid for something, i may as well use, love and destroy it to hell and back!!

Hi! ☀️ I'd like to start annotating books, but I don't know where or how to begin. Tips are welcome! I'm a sloppy reader, so dog-eares and broken spines are always a thing with me. That's why my annotations don't need to be perfect. But what do you write and when? And have you ever gone back to a book and read you annotations again? 📖

Do you have a personal criteria in DNFing a book? I try to get through 25% of a book or 3-5 chapters, whichever comes first, before I decide, "okay this one's not it for me". But I let myself sit in the feeling for about a week or two before I officially call it quits and maybe return the library book early. I also dont usually consider myself reading the book on a book tracker until I feel like I'm considerably hooked in it so sometimes I consider them unread rather than DNF.