When I first started reading (around age 12), I mostly read whatever my mom could get for me. Later on, when I learned how to navigate the internet and use a computer, I started discovering books through blogs and reading forums. I slowly curated which blogs to follow, usually readers whose tastes matched mine, and I trusted that if they liked a book, I probably would too. Then I moved to Libby… and honestly? I’m not entirely sure how I kept finding things to read 😅 I don’t know if I just picked whatever showed up there or how I always had something lined up. That period feels like a weird blank in my memory. Content creators, Bookstagrammers, or BookTubers were never really my way of choosing books. I think I only follow one, and that’s because my mom recommended her to me after noticing the creator also loved Laura Gallego García (and I was like, okay, fair point). It was very much a “a book recommending a person” kind of thing. Still, I didn’t really read what she recommended… until last year, when I finally read the trilogy she wrote. I loved it and thought, okay, maybe I should actually listen to you. Yesterday I ended up binge-watching her YouTube videos and adding several of the books she mentioned that caught my attention to my tbr. But she’s really the only one.

Now with Pagebound, I’m loving the “emoji of the day” feature, it somehow keeps growing my Interested and my TBR status/shelves nonstop.

Another way, I think, was simply going to bookstores (there were only two in my city, with one only having the type of books i actually liked). So, I think that’s also how I started discovering books once I began using Libby 🤔

What about you? How has the way you discover new books changed over the years?

You know I have read a lot of books set in England and just realized this weird village names and places can be someones actual house or origin. Sooo this makes me ask What are some book that are set in your birthplace?Or maybee a place you know and were shocked to see that was mentioned in a book?

Hi everyone! Hope you all are having a fantastic weekend so far :)

My question for you all today is simple: what popular or classical book have you not read that it feels like everyone else has?

This prompt is inspired by my answer: I’m currently reading Pride and Prejudice for the first time ever (and I’ve never seen the screen adaptations either).