I’ve seen so many people asking for book recommendations based on their favourite TV shows or films, and it made me realise that, for me, those tastes don’t overlap at all.

Take Gilmore Girls, for example. I adore it, and I constantly see people looking for books with the same cosy, comforting vibe (but honestly, that would bore me to tears in book form). What I love about Gilmore Girls, and about most of the shows I watch, is that they don’t demand my full attention. I can have them playing in the background while I snack, play with the cat, scroll on my phone, or drift in and out of the story without losing much.

Books are the complete opposite for me. I need them to be consuming. I want to feel like my face is being physically pulled into the pages by some invisible force. If a book feels too low-stakes or “easy watching,” I lose interest immediately.

The same applies to Studio Ghibli films. I’m a massive Ghibli nerd, but for me the magic comes from the animation, atmosphere, and music more than the narratives themselves. Those stories work because of how they feel audiovisually.

Ironically, my taste in books makes for terrible TV viewing. I love bleak, grim, hopeless-as-hell narratives when I read, but I struggle to watch stories like that on screen. Reading feels more controllable somehow; I can slow down, skim, pause, imagine things differently, soften or intensify scenes in my head. It feels like I get to co-direct the experience. With TV, I don’t have that distance, and I often end up disengaging or literally just looking away.

So my TBR and my TBW (to-be-watched) are wildly different worlds, and what works for me in one medium almost never works in the other.

Does anyone else feel this way? Or are your book and TV tastes more transferable?

just like my tv post, I searched and couldn’t find a post like this so hopefully haven’t missed it!!

i’m spending my bank holiday weekend doing my favourite things

🥾 new hobbies (hikes/walks) 🧵 fave hobbies (cross stitching) 🎥 rewatching guilty pleasure moves (xmas edition)

and it got me thinking, we talk about guilty pleasure books but not always guilty pleasure films. i’m talking films that you know are crap but you love anyway.

mine are both christmas films and both star vanessa hudgens (sorry vanessa)

🗡️ the knight before christmas 👸 the princess switch

i know they’re both so bad but i just love them, such easy watching where i dont have to use a single part of my brain and perfect for the background cosiness when I’m crafting!!

how is everyone spending their weekend? & what are your guilty pleasure movies?🥰

Hi! I was just now seeing other people accounts to follow and realised that most of the time I follow them because they have one of my favorite books in the My Taste part of their profile! Another thing is if I have over 10% of overlap. And now I am curious to know how do you decide who you follow! Do you just follow someone you interact with? Do you consider following people with less than a specific number of overlap??

P.S.: I'm loving your replies and yes I also do a lot of things you do!! 👀

off the top of my head, i strongly disliked monstrilio by gerardo sámano cordova and strange pictures by uketsu. i absolutely loved the premise of the former, but the writing style and overall execution didn’t work for me. i found the latter to be extremely spelled out and lacking in any type of writing style altogether—it just laid out events and held my hand the entire way.

ultimately, it seems like writing styles make or break books for me or can even deter me from reading a book at all. i know some people feel that way about characters or other aspects of books, so i’m curious :-)

just like my tv post, I searched and couldn’t find a post like this so hopefully haven’t missed it!!

i’m spending my bank holiday weekend doing my favourite things

🥾 new hobbies (hikes/walks) 🧵 fave hobbies (cross stitching) 🎥 rewatching guilty pleasure moves (xmas edition)

and it got me thinking, we talk about guilty pleasure books but not always guilty pleasure films. i’m talking films that you know are crap but you love anyway.

mine are both christmas films and both star vanessa hudgens (sorry vanessa)

🗡️ the knight before christmas 👸 the princess switch

i know they’re both so bad but i just love them, such easy watching where i dont have to use a single part of my brain and perfect for the background cosiness when I’m crafting!!

how is everyone spending their weekend? & what are your guilty pleasure movies?🥰

Good afternoon Bookaholics!

Im excited to hear everyone's answers to this question....

What is the pettiest reason you ever disliked a book? 💀

Heyy, unfortunately im in a reading slump and need something to pull me out of there. I've been craving feminist dystopian books, that really make you question everything, with kinf of the same vibe like "Tender is the flesh". Plus points if it includes intersectionality.

I would be so grateful for some recs!!!

I was talking to my partner about what we used to read when we were younger and what books or series are super nostalgic to us and I was just wondering, what are some books like that for you? ☺️ Are there any books or series that are really nostalgic for you or maybe really shaped you in your younger years?

For me I think it’s probably The Hunger Games (like probably 90% of my generation😅), I just reread them as an adult for the first time and it was soooo great. Really nostalgic, but also such a different experience to read them with a fully developed frontal lobe (I’m looking at you Gale 🤨) And also (!) the infamous Warriors series (or Warrior Cats as they are called in German), I was the biggest fan (borderline obsessed tbh), I’m pretty sure I’ll never read them again, but they are very dear to my heart ❤️

But anyways, what are some of your nostalgic reads? I’m curious! 😇