i try read a little of everything (except self help ick) but i always lean towards horror, thriller, and sci fi!

if i read too many of any genre in a row i start seeing patterns and predicting things (esp in thrillers) which makes it soooo much less fun, so i always try to limit myself to 2-3 of the same genre in a row MAX to keep things exciting ◡̈

I'd just really love to see some happy things, so if you're up to it, can you share with me something that was great about this week, or something that made you smile today? I'd love to hear!

hi friends!!! I just downloaded (coming from Goodreads, and Fable) I am excited to see how good this works out!

What is everyone currently reading?

I am currently reading The Possession of Alba Díaz by Isabel Cañas 👻

How do you annotate? I’m keeping the question broad intentionally.

As someone currently powers through books raw, I’d love to get into annotating and would love to hear your methods.

ok him being able to read is lowkey out there. need to suspend the belief here. reading require you to know how the letters looks like and he never saw the existence of letters before he found the books lol

am i the only one who is not really vowed by this book?

Maybe i'm tired of AI everywhere in the world or maybe i've just read enough scifi that includes this trope to get really tired of it but when there's a universal translator used to get out of having characters learn new languages or sign and interpret each other its starting to really REALLY annoy me. Why do we never see the shitty real thing of a machine not being able to grasp the nuances of language and making funny or silly errors vs a person who makes the effort to learn the grammar/ culture/ etc. Not to be a cliche but that's what i loved so much about Babel (R.F Kuang) and the way it described translation as always imperfect and missing something. Anyway, anyone got some great scifi recs that engage with this trope in an interesting way or where it's avoided and characters have to do it the hard way and just LEARN?

When I first joined Pagebound, I discovered a bunch of fun quests, but these days I just keep finding new quests by chance. Do you guys look for new quests from time to time? Or you try to finish the ones you've joined first?

I recently added Piranesi to my taste list, and I noticed some similarities between it and some of the other books, so I spent some time trying to think of what linked all of them together.

I've landed on Unusual and interesting narrators/narrative style Too Like The Lightning features conversations between narrator and imagined reader; Ghost Cities has two separate worlds being woven together and meta referencing each other; Rebecca's unnamed narrator; and both Nona the Ninth and Piranesi have amnesiac narrators. I guess I have a thing for books that are presented in an unusual way!

Now I pose to you: what common thread ties all the books in your taste list?