What do you like more: going into a book with little expectations and finding a true gem, or having a good hunch about one and it fully delivering what you wanted?

Post inspired by The Isle in the Silver Sea 😁

I went to the App Store this morning to check if my app was up to date and realized I hadn’t rated or reviewed the app yet! 🫣 I changed that and thought I should remind you all too.

If you get a few extra minutes today consider using that time to submit a rating or review. This is a great way to show your support in a non-monetary way.

I seem to follow a plethora of book lovers over on the clock app, but the amount I subscribe to is much more sparse on YouTube. Any recommendations, y’all?

I saw a post a couple of days ago talking about sprayed edge special editions and how they're "usually display copies, really" and it made me wonder; am I the only one who just treats them like any other book? They get put on the shelf spine-out. I read them the same as any other hardback copy. I'm not any more precious about them than any other hardback I have and want to take decently good care of. If I buy a special/sprayed edge edition it's usually because I preferred the dustjacket design over the regular edition (or in one case, because it was the only hardback edition I could find), and it seems strange to me to buy an edition of a book more for "display" purposes than like... regular-ass book purposes. I don't have any particular dislike of sprayed edges (actually, I think they tend to feel nicer in my hands?) but I also am not seeking them out usually. They're just kind of there. The pages are the pages.

Talk to me about your fancy-looking editions. Do you display them differently to your regular books, or no? Do you take more care when handling them? Do you avoid handling them and keep a separate copy to read?

Hello PBees 🐝🐝🐝!

What do you think about books where there is no or little physical description of the characters?

I'm currently reading Hekate by Nikita Gill, and I haven't come across many descriptions but because I have read Lore Olympus, I tend to visualize the characters as drawn there. I was wondering if it would disturb me more if I had no visual image of them at all.

Have you come across books like that? Do you like it? Does it maybe help you identify yourself more? Do you hate it cause it doesn't help you anchor the story in your mind? Bonus point for book recommendations where you found the lack of characters' descriptions brought something more to book.

Ok guys,the title says everything. I need recommendations about books that are so heavy they make me cry. The last ones I read are the series of "Boys of Tommen" and "The Way I Used to Be". They really made me brawl my eyes out. It can be any genre (I prefer fantasy and ya though). Thank you all for the answers 😊

I'm sure I'm not the only one who seems to be more of a 'book collector' at times rather than a reader.

As my collection grows, I stare at my shelves and realise how little of my physical TBR I've read. But I'm such a mood reader, that things like TBR jars don't work on me because I'll ignore them completely and go for what I feel like anyway.

Does anyone have any tips to combat this and push through the books you own?