In just 4 days, August will be over. It feels like it passed a little too quickly. With it, summer will technically be over too (actually, by date, in my country fall starts SEP 22nd usually, but it's easier to think of the end of august as the end of summer).

As a fall girlie and stressed student, this is both a joy and a demise. So, what are the best things and worst things about fall in your opinion? For me, the best things are Halloween and the leaves changing colour; worst things are having to adjust to a strict routine, sacrificing my free time and getting caught unprepared by the rain.

Reading wise, how did your summer go? It's the time when I try to read the most since I have more time and I know that's the same for lots of people. Did you have any goals for it? Did you manage to meet them? Any particular stand outs of this season?

In June I managed to get myself back up from a reading slump, in July I got back into my three books a month habit, and that led me to being a little ambitious with myself this August. I wanted to read 2 manga, 1 non fiction and 4 novels. Considering the most I'd read in a month was just 4 books and this would've made the count go up to 7, I'm still really happy I ended up reading 5.

I'm trying to squeeze into these last few days one more read, it's a very short book, so I might actually make it, but forcing myself to read while on a busy vacation put me into a slump these past few days, so I don't know if I'll be able to.

Now I'm curious to hear about how your summer was and to know if you're also trying to squeeze in some more reads like me. For anybody who was waiting for fall, we're almost there! And for all the summer lovers, hope you had so much fun<3

Okay, I've heard of people collecting libraries left and right for access to various books on Libby, is this free or are people paying for it? I thought you had to live in the county to get free access to the library. I ask this because I live in a small town/some parts rural area and the Libby here doesn't have a lot of access to indie publications/indie authors. Also, I'm about to move to a different state, will my old Libby card disappear as soon as I apply and enter my new county's card in the app?

If you can't tell, I'm pretty new to Libby (I just started it about a year ago after I realized how much I was spending on books 😅). I'm still learning and navigating things, but I figured I'd ask since I've seen IG users constantly talking about all their Libby accounts.

Hello my bookish friends! I usually make quite silly and light hearted posts in Pagebound club, but I would like to talk about something else today!

Summerbreak is over, and like many others, I have returned to school. I have seen quite a lot of posts about how school, and returning to school, has interrupted reading habits and patterns, and many feel as if they don’t have time nor energy for reading anymore. of course those feelings are valid, I completely get where people come from, it’s stressful, it takes energy and your summerbreak routine is suddenly interrupted, and it can be especially hard for neurodivergent individuals.

What I would like to talk about though, is quite the opposite of that reaction, which is feeling relived that school and your old routines are back, because personally, summerbreak was quite stressful, all my routines and schedules were suddenly so messed up that I was completely unable to do quite literally anything 😅 I suddenly had more time that I knew what to do with, so I became a big time procrastinator, and honestly just felt so crappy the whole time. I kept thinking “I’ll do this later” or “I’ll do it another day” because there was so much time I didn’t feel the need to do it that day. It also comes from back when I wasn’t in school for almost two years, (I won’t go into why as it’s personal reasons) and never felt the need to do anything, because time just never ran out.

So overall, does anyone else feel like this? Like all your routines were suddenly messed up and destroyed? How you used to read on the bus every day after school, or how you would do this or that for 2 hours when you came home. All suddenly just poof and you gotta live with being at home doing nothing for 6 or smt weeks. Im neurodivergent myself, so my routines being messed up hits hard lol, the max break time I can do is two weeks XD of course if you’re out of school and have returned to work, feel free to comment as well! 🩵📚 🪷

Hey y’all. So this may not be the right place to ask questions like this and I apologize in advance if this post annoys anyone, but i’ve been really struggling with my gender identity lately and I wanted to ask if yall had any advice? I know this isn’t a book related question but i know pb has a large queer community and this is an online space i feel safe in so please bear with me.

I’m AFAB but have started to express myself much more masculine and it makes me feel much more like my self. I don’t really know what this means for me and i’ve been thinking about things like this for years now but i’m not really sure where to start. Honestly with the situation i’m in transitioning feels so scary that I often just push down the feelings so I don’t have to think about. I’ve also thought about possibly being enby but i’m just not sure.

For any trans people:

How did you realize you were trans?

How do you get through first telling people, especially in an environment where you’re well known already?

What if i’m wrong?

Help?

Thank you for any and all comments. Also if you have book recs where characters are figuring out their gender identity that would be awesome too.

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