Paige, Her Love for Book Clubs and Jacksonville

Hey Bibliophiles! Today we are talking to Paige AKA turnthepaige_books, and if you haven't already, go ahead and follow her on Instagram, Tiktok, and Youtube!We break down: • Paige traces her reader origin story back to Twilight.• Book clubs? Yes. One? Never enough. Paige dives into how she somehow became deeply involved in multiple book clubs. • A book she fully did not expect to love ended up living rent-free in her brain: Project Hail Mary. • Audiobooks = productivity + joy. Paige is unapologetic about getting her reading minutes in via audio, because life is busy and stories deserve to be consumed however possible.• Northeast Florida bookstore love letter. She shouts out her go-to local bookstores and exactly why they keep pulling her back (support local, good vibes, zero regrets).• Paige highlights how romance books are increasingly portraying mental health thoughtfully.• Everyone loves to talk crap about Jax, but Paige shares how she really feels, and why the city deserves a little less side-eye.• A breakdown of BookTube vs. BookTok vs. Bookstagram and how each platform brings its own pros and cons. • We get honest about content creator fatigue and why stepping back isn’t quitting, it’s survival.• Paige confesses something she does that might make you cringe and she’s fully at peace with it.• The eternal debate: do audiobooks count as reading? Paige answers with logic, passion, and zero tolerance for gatekeeping because reading is reading, full stop.