Does it shock anybody else's parents that you're reading spicy novels even though you're an adult?

I'm 29 and today my mum discovered that Heated Rivalry (my current book obsession) is spicy. She full named me with a really dramatic gasp. Saying "I thought you were picking up clean romances, I did not realize you like spicy books."

And I'm like "And? I'm 29"

She's even bought me other spicy novels as gifts for birthdays and Christmas. Mostly Romantasy novels. Now I'm wondering if she thought those were clean romances too and did not realize they were spicy (some are very spicy).

I know for certain she'd be mortified to see my Dark Romance obsession. Some of things in there are... yeah....

I just don't get the big deal... 🤔

HAPPY FERAL FRIDAY! YAYYYY

Another Friday is upon us and we are in the month of April!! AHHHHH! Spring is here means nasty flower sp*rm is floating around most of the world right now...Gross no thank you. Seasonal allergies can go right up in the arse!

Here is some praises for everyone! You are a good noodle today!! Allow yourself a cheat day. Buy that book! Eat that piece of candy!

Sadly for me I have not read much feralness. I am drowning in ARCs (with dubious consent) and I CANT STOP THE COMPULSION. I am hoping to go back into Hunting Adeline by H.D Carlton next week and more Katee Robert!!! But more ARCs are due AHHHHHHHHHHH SOMEONE SEDATE ME

What was your freaky, feral, funny friday reads?

Make the comments look like we're locked into a book festival (like RARE, Apollycon etc) with some of our favorite authors.

What chaos are we creating?

Are we going to be besties with the authors? You know there's drinks and snacks. Or are we going Misery by Stephen King route by forcing them to write the next book?

Alright everyone… you know the drill! What’s a complaint you have this week? (No matter how big, small, crazy, simple, silly, dramatic, etc). GET IT ALL OUT THERE🙂‍↕️

Don’t get me wrong, I like this narrator… don’t come for me!

How can Teddy Hamilton be everyone?! I feel like every other book I listen to is HIM!

I like him but I don’t always want his voice. Plus I know what he looks like and I can unsee now.

With the new (and lovely!) addition of the format feature to Pagebound, I've started wondering how you guys choose the covers for the books you read? Arguably, now that you can simply input format and pages/minutes, choosing an edition can be more about aesthetics than stats (as in, you can just pick your favorite cover in the best quality available). However, I still use it as the cover that I am most familiar with at a glance because that way I'd immediately know what book it is even without reading the title (even if the cover is fugly af, LOL). Which usually means the cover I read the book with. So which do you choose - best looking cover in your eyes? Most memorable one? The one you have in your actual edition? The one you'd LIKE to own? Etc.

We all have that one moment where we tripped and fell in front of people, or our tongues tied during a heated debate, and we live looking back at that memory with secondhand embarrassment for the rest of our lives. Share that moment structured as a short story, formatted after any genre (horror, fantasy, contemporary, etc).

For anonymity of the story-writers and the people that may be in their stories, all I ask is that any real names in the stories get changed to cover names. Other than that, your creative freedom can run crazy!

I personally don't like readers who judge others on what they read? Like what do others reading has with you, once i saw guy who reads non fiction saying how romance books don't count as reading and how you aint reader, like buddy, if you read you are reader, or a person who judges how much person read in a month or a year, i recently started counting books i read last year i didn't, i don't even know how much i read until i realized people actually count and make goals how much they wanna read, i never understand those readers, so share what you think :)