You learn a bit about Winston's childhood here. What a little brat.

Okay let me start this by saying I KNOW not everyone audio book is narrated by both male and female. BUT... is it just me or does it give you the ick hearing a guy using a high pitch voice to read the females part and vice versa? Like I love audios.. but sometimes it just *shutters* ugh when I listen to them reading opposite roles!

My biggest book pet peeve is when core themes of books get misunderstood, especially in adaptations Frankenstein is obviously a glaring example, I will never forgive them for what they did to my boy Another though which I don't see often mentioned is how overly romantic pride and prejudice is. I always see the TV adaptations of it get praised for how closely they follow the book, but I think they're missing the point? It's always about how they're flirting, and what they're doing and blah blah blah, while the book felt so much more character focused to me. I saw it as two ppl overcoming parts of themselves they disliked, through their realization of feelings for one another, and eventually falling into love bc they both chose to be better people. I also think it greatly diminishes Elizabeth, like all we ever talk about is Darcy but her journey was so beautiful, and she got me through so many frustrating parts of the book I can't help but sense a bit of misogyny too. Jane Austen is a /romance/ author, bc that's what women always write, if it's not 'womens fiction', and Mary Shelley's work full of grief and profoundness reduced to a crude, horror depiction. Can't women ever be praised for how impactful their stories are?

Hey! I was just wondering if anyone has any good queer romance books? I’m also alright with like straight ones but I prefer queer ones! I don’t like mystery or horror books so please none of those!

I'm curious if anyone has any opinions or takes that are apparently sacrilege to everyone else? I find it annoying when I cant find an adult fantasy or sci-fi that doesn't have a lot or any romance/spice that also isn't the obvious popular choice that everyone is already talking about (if you have any recommendations PLEASE help me)

Subjectively, obviously. But I find myself struggling with giving books ratings because sometimes I really enjoy books that aren't that groundbreaking, and other times books that have a really good style have such a bad plot I just hate them. Today I realized tho my personal measure for whether a book's good in my opinion is whether I feel like rereading it. Finished a book yesterday with conflicted feelings and realized I dont wanna reread it as opposed to the last few books which I gobbled up and reserved permanent spaces in my shelf for :D

Do you annotate your books? If so how do you decide which book to annotate and why? My goal for this year was to get into and so far all I've managed to do is add colored tabs and occasionally highlighting lines. I really want to get into it more and hoping to have a system in place when I do a re-read of Fourth Wing before the next book comes out.. in like 500 years!