When people ask me, "What is your favourite book?", I will never fail to answer "Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard!"

That has been my answer for the past 10 years. Since then, I haven't really dedicated my time into reading as much, as I developed different hobbies. Yet, I still read Red Queen at least TEN times over the past years!! (Yes, I love rewatching the same movies and TV shows series as well!).

Recently, I am getting back into reading because it is genuinely such a great pastime. I never liked Romance, but I am a big fan of Fantasy (which almost includes romance everytime!), or at least I used to be. Today I realised, as I grow older, I'm definitely more interested in Crime, Thriller, and Historial Fiction. I prefer real world settings, situations one may encounter in real life, rather than superpowers or mythical creatures. I am still yet to read more books within this range of genre, so I am yet to find my "new favourite".

Nevertheless, I am happy to come back to reading and making it my full-time hobby - and my favourite book will still be Red Queen (as of now at least!) ❤️

What's your favourite book? Has it changed over the past years or has it been the same? I would love to hear everyone's stories :)

i wanna know who uses the plan feature on PB (why or why not?) and if you do, do you see yourself actually finishing your books that are on the plan or no?!

currently trying to tackle my physical tbr… that holds over 78 books before my birthday in late august(so i can go on a book shopping spree)! - my friends & boyfriend recommended that i use the plan feature to help with the daunting task. so i mentally organized my books by summer reads vs non summer reads & have owned for a long time vs not. i JUST started using the plan feature this past month, as i just got back into reading after leaving a job that took a lot of my personal time.

here’s how july looked like(very proud of myself as i actually started getting back in the swing of reading around the middle of the month:

(all of these books are on my physical shelf) read, but not on my plan: twisted love (audiobook) caraval (tandem) the lonely hearts book club (audiobook) the deal (finished from april)

read & on my plan: two old men and a baby (physical) harry potter and the chamber of secrets (audiobook) twisted games (audiobook)

currently reading from plan: what the river knows (physical) the eyes are the best part (audiobook)

haven’t read but on plan: wings of starlight no matter what

what do yalls stats look like; when it comes to the PB plan?!🤭 i’m sooo curious!

What does rating characters mean to you? The extent of their complexity? How realistic? Their arc? Likeability?

What moves you to rate one or five stars? and where do you usually fall?

As the title suggests, how do you rate your books? I'm aware that not everyone leaves reviews but a lot still rate them anyway. I find that I'm quite lenient with mine and go 4 as a base just as long as it entertained me and had enough of a hook that made me enjoy the read. According to my stats, I average about a 4.2 rating overall and I'm wondering if the high average has something to do with me being a mood reader and just picking out the right books that fit my mood. I do try to be fair with the reviews I leave as much as possible.

On that note, do you read reviews? Ironically, I tend not to except when something about the book pisses me off 😂

So, for those of us neurosparkly enough to have a spreadsheet for quests (just a guess most of those who have them are some flavor or neurodivergent.) How do you organize them? I started one and it a sheet, in one one doc, for each quest, but I'm in a LOT of quests. I won't make a sheet for any quests I'm not at least sort of actively working on, and I've color-coded the sheets-dark green for ones I haven't gotten a badge on, a deep yellow for bronze, medium grey for silver, etc. But I'm afraid it's going to be a bit much. Should I have a different doc for each genre? Seperate ones for side vs main quests?

I'm putting in the books I'm interested in reading for each quest, so I can estimate what badge Ievel I'll get to. As well as a checkmark once it's finished plus date finished & rating. I also have a checkbox to check if I own the book in any form.

How do you organzie them so it's not just scrolling and scrolling to find the quest you want?