Who else has to update a ton of stuff so it looks correct in the stats? I don’t even know how to update some of it, but from now on I’m going to have to do better at tracking things every day 😂

A bunch of my books say they’re physical when they were audio, so there’s one big thing. It feels so exposing knowing people will see that the majority of the books I read are audio. It is what it is, I love audiobooks to the moon and back 😪

Anybody else going to be doing a bunch of organization over the next few days to fix all the stats up?

Hi friends 😊

Recently, there have been a couple of club posts that discussed aphantasia and descriptive writing, and they helped me realise that a part of the reason why different books resonate with different readers may be the reader's ability to visualise what is being said, or lack of it, and just the fact that we may favour different senses, if that makes sense?

For example, descriptions of settings that are very technically detailed do absolutely nothing for me, but descriptions that create an atmosphere are chef's kiss. I also tend to roll my eyes whenever characters outfits are being described in detail, because who cares - and I am learning that quite a few people do, actually, care.

My question then is, do you have recommendations of books that have very sensory writing - I think that's the right phrase? Books that don't just describe what the settings or characters look like, visually, but provide a more vivid experience?

My recommendation for this would be Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by VE Schwab. I didn't love the book overall, but the writing was so good I'm still stuck on a few phrases, just can't get over them. The quotes are not exact because I listened to the book on audio but: "She spat the words like a cherry pit" made me feel like I personally was slapped with those words, and "she felt like a square of chocolate left in the sun" during a sex scene made me weak in the knees.

Hello ! I’m going to try to make this a reoccuring thing because I really enjoyed yesterdays question of the day. It was so fun to read other peoples opinions and really see how many people relate to me 💕 And so todays question I chose..

What is your LEAST favourite genre, and what made you realise that it is not for you? 🙅

I’ll go first, my least favourite genre is modern dark romance. For me they just feel either bland or overly weird. I realised that I didn’t like dark romance when I saw promo videos on tiktok, where people would promote their books by making a list of how many taboo tropes they can add into their book, and at that point it just felt like a competition of who can make the weirdest tropes. 😅

I'm looking for fiction books that have beautiful writing. It doesn't have to be deep, just well written (you can tell I've had my share of disappointments recently 🥲). Examples: Eragon, the vegetarian, flights, most of the classics. I would also like something that's not set in the USA (I've had a lot of that recently and I'm European so I'm looking for another perspective). Also looking for something that's compatible with feminist values, in terms of how women are depicted (looking at you, male authors who've never talked with a woman). I'm open to weird stuff, the genre doesn't matter that much. So hit me up with your favourites please! 💓