Just a library card check, remember that just getting a library card lets your state and county know that your library is necessary and helps them get funding. Also a reminder that there all kinds of creative spaces and language learning apps you can access with your card💞. It’s free so why not!

I had to go back into mine and update a few days where I read but forgot to log, and that brought my streak up to 59! I love how the colour of the flame changes as you log more days!

How do you feel about it?

I know there has been a lot of dialogue on this topic online end of last year on booktok, but I thought we could revisit it here through a PB lens?

Bonus question: I've seen some author presence for some of our cool giveaway programs! Do you think knowing the author is on PB will impact the way you interact in the forum?

I just finished T. Kingfisher’s A House With Good Bones. I don’t want to give anything away but it is a great haunted house story that required a high wire act of threading a very small needle to keep me turning pages. There were multiple points in the story where I could have seen a less talented writer getting a DNF. It required me to constantly suspend my disbelief on how certain characters were reacting to the story. One part of my brain was screaming WHO THE HELL DOESN’T JUST GET OUT with the other part of my brain screaming TURN THE PAGE.

This is a skill that not all authors have. I have given up on books really quick when something happens in the story where I just don’t believe the authenticity of the situation. Once my brain lets a little of that ear worm in it is all over for me and the story. What I am interested in today is what throws you out of a story because you just don’t believe it? Is there a book that was constantly pushing the limits but you kept turning the page? Is there an author out there you think does suspension of disbelief very well?

not to spread hate, just to check if anyone is as bothered as me i enjoy lists a lot and ‘today's featured emoji’ section in particular. i noticed that several lists are there almost every day. it looks like the lists have one emoji changed daily to match the featured emoji regardless of whether or not it suits the theme of the list. as of now 4 out of 9 featured lists are like that (i’ve memorized them unfortunately) those could be awesome lists with the purpose behind them, but the situation still rubs me the wrong way. your thoughts?

edit: actions regarding the user in question have been taken!

Am I the only one who's kind of sick of misunderstood villains? Like, don't get me wrong I LOVE a good villain with a tragic backstory and redemption arcs and all that... BUT I think there aren't enough villains who are like truly evil without a tragic backstory. They're doing just because. Personally, I don't think every villain needs to be hot and have a tragic backstory. Give me unlikable, selfish, greedy villains. Someone I can rant and rant about how I hate them (I hope I'm the only one who loves hating villains). Pair that with them actually being well written and it's 🤌🏻🤌🏻

That's why I love Blood Over Bright Haven so much. Sciona is technically not the main villain and is the FMC but she is VERY insufferable and flawed, and I love how well written she is.

Have you ever read about a villain like this? Did you love to hate on them? Loved the character but hated their actions? I am desperate for recs 🙏🏻

The vibe of this book matches perfectly with the late 90s/early 00s supernatural romcoms. I think I fell in love with Daphne within three lines of dialogue.