Does anybody have a cherished childhood memory that has to do with reading?

I vividly remember my Dad leaving me to cloister myself in the Border's Children's section for like an hour (bless him, I have no idea what he was even looking at but he let his daughter dilly dally in the books) before he'd let me pick a book to take home. I used to beg him to take me to Borders all the time.

Then I'd hold my chosen book over my head and use the headlights from the car behind us to read the book on the way home! Dad used to fuss I'd ruin my eyes doing this--and I do wear glasses now so oops, he may have been right!

Without doxing yourself plzzz

Some of you are reading so much with full time jobs😭 I gotta know what y’all do and how many hours you’re doing it. I know a few people are lucky enough to get to read on the job! That’s the dream.

To all my series people who believe that "you gotta wait til the second book then it gets good." What series do you fully stand behind when you say this?

I'm on the "If it's not good by the end of the second book, then it's not a good series at all" train. For those people, what's your limit?

Are you more strict? More generous?

What are your thoughts?

reading slumps are actually so rude. like my brain knows i love reading. i WANT to read. i sit there with a book in my hands, fully prepared, and suddenly my attention span evaporates. i read the same sentence five times and absorb nothing. is it boring? no. is it badly written? also no. it’s literally just me. i start questioning everything. do i even like books anymore. am i a fake reader. i’m like lwk crashing out on what to do. meanwhile i’ll spend forty minutes choosing a book, open it, read two pages, then close it like “yeah not right now.” and the worst part is i know the second the slump ends i’ll inhale ltr like three books in a row and act like this never happened😭. reading slumps aren’t real they’re just my brain being dramatic. anyway if anyone has tips that aren’t “just read” pls lmk.🙏

I’ve only just started reading this book and do you guys think it’s as good as the first three?

I used to have a hard time with descriptions because I'm like,, the protagonist wouldn't necessarily notice those details but I need to paint a picture for the reader. Or the protagonist wouldn't verbalize that. Realized you can describe things without it being noticed by the protag. Even in first person POV, you can be writing from a hypothetical future/subconscious perspective

I like books with chronic illness and/or aroace-spectrum rep. Lately, I've also been reading YA murder mysteries (really, I like kind but traumatized, smart teen characters. the murder part makes me anxious), and post-WW2 novels by women (there's plenty in my local secondhand bookshop, despite being in Asia).

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Hi! Does anyone know if there’s a way to leave a review on a reread of a book you’ve already reviewed? I found how you add a second read to a book, but it looked like since I had already left a review the first time I logged a read, I couldn’t make a new, separate review. I like seeing how my opinions change over time so hoping there’s a way that I’m just missing!

how do you guys navigate a buddy read?

my best friend and i are always attempting a buddy read, but it's really difficult for us with our busy schedules. i'm sure lots of you do long distance buddy reads, and i wanted some input for when it's hard to read together in person!

do you plan the amount you'll read before you discuss (ex. pages or chapters)? have certain questions you ask each other, or maybe just yap about your thoughts and feelings once you get there? i want all the deets!

Guys I need help. A while ago, around December or so, I decided to cut my screen time in half, I was spending way too much time on my phone, it was taking time off my hobbies, and I wasn't even having fun, spending that much time on the internet was more stressful than anything. I was successful with it, in less than 2 weeks I went from 10 hour screen time (no judgment please) to around 4 hours or less.

But then things went south, I had problems with health in my family, problem with work, travelled and got my lost in the chaos of things and now my screen time is atrocious again and my attention span us shorter than never. Any tips to fix it again?