I don't usually read romance, but when there's an a couple in a book (a fantasy one for example) and things are getting intimate i get so frustrated when they hit me with the "...the next morning". Like give me the butterflies in the stomach please 😞💔💔💔. I don't get why building all that romantic tension just to shut it down as quickly as possible.

➡️ Yes, i do know that theres a lot of people who prefer more contained scenes. ➡️ Yes i do know that some authors just don't like writing them (which is valid).

So I wonder: Why not create scenes that feel alluring and vulnerable, beautiful details, declarations, glances...that can actually make you feel "hehehe" without the sex part?. Those are always more interesting and rich than a short chapter that ends abruptly.

I had not decided my next book yet, but I guess I'll read Dracula. I had started but never finished. I hope to get into more vampire literature this year!

I consider myself someone who has zero problems abandoning a book, as soon as I read something that bothers me enough I'm out. But there is one specific thing that completely takes me out of the book.

It is when a character does something no one would ever do if in their place. I once began to read a book where the main character was going to her first day at her job in a male dominated office and work field and as soon as she got there the first thing she began to do was drop a bunch of sexual jokes to people she had never seen before. Like, who does that? No woman in that same situation would risk her reputation in the first day of work like that.

One thing would have been if she had made those same jokes in informal circle with her friends or whatever, but that was not the case. For me that was equivalent of those movies where the character fallow strangers into the forest no matter how weird said stranger is.

What about you, what makes you completely drop out of a story?

I co-run a horror bookclub with my friend and I was just wondering to all the others who run them? How, if you do allow new members, do you grow your numbers?

We love accepting new people who like to analyze media and books, but it seems like interest in joining has dwindled lately as well as a few members needing to leave for very valid reasons. It is online based so we are not limited to just our area, although literally anyone would be welcome.

Are there any tips on how to get more people interested in becoming members?

Hi all! With the release of the new ACNH update, and my other hobbies, I find it hard to balance everything! I usually go through periods of just knitting, or just playing video games, or just reading until I switch to another hobby after a bit. I'm wondering how other people balance things?