Lately I’ve been seeing more and more forum posts talking about characters or the narration repeating details throughout the book and how it feels like the author doesn’t trust readers to remember them.

Unless it’s egregious (stated multiple times on a page or every few pages) it’s not something I’ve ever noticed or cared about much since I know readers miss or forget important details. Or maybe even brushed a statement off as something unimportant only for it to be a big deal later.

So out of curiosity, when does this repetition go from being something important to the character that they’re constantly thinking about to “this author thinks I’m incapable of remembering anything” and how likely are you to notice it?

I'm starting up my own free library soon (essentially a public book exchange box - you can take a book you'd like to read with no obligation to give it back or put in a book you don't want anymore) and it got me thinking. If you have experience with little free libraries - what is the best book you've found & why?

Could be a book you'd been dying to read, something you'd never heard of that became a five star read, a really popular book you were surprised to see, or something else!

i know we all have a habit of using whatevers around us for holding the place in our books lol, the other day i had to use a pair of scissors and then a hairdryer 😭😭😭 today its nice and simple, a star wars postcard i bought the other day,

this one here!

but yus i would love to hear what everyone else currently using as a bookmark whether its an actual bookmark or a fun little bonus object we just had lying around lmao, this is show and tell time 🙂‍↕️✨️