Hello friends, it's time to share what books you got in the last week!

• Did you check out a big stack from the library?
• Did you visit a new LFL and find something exciting?
• Did someone give you a book for your birthday?
• Did you go splurge at the bookstore?
• Did you stuff your Kindle?
• Did all your Libby holds come in at once?
• Did you find a book in the dumpster?
• ???

IT ALL COUNTS so tell me...whatcha get??? 👀

I love it when the ugly, unattractive character in the book is described with the same features that I have.

🥲

(seriously.. why do they always define unattractive women with having broad shoulders in books?)

i’m typically a romance fiend, love a good fantasy, but i also love hurting my own feelings for fun? lately i feel like so much of what i read just feels very formulaic because the HEA is kind of expected and sometimes almost doesn’t feel earned. which i get it, it’s a staple of the genre, but also i’m tired and looking for something more interesting. and i’m not super interested in gore for the sake of gore, like things that exist just for shock value don’t really excite me unless i’m already really bought into what’s going on.

what i’m really looking for is something to hurt my feelings or break my brain irreparably, where the yearning is so painful i have to throw the book across the room like it burned me 🤩 i’m talking anguish that hits so hard i have to stop and curse the name of whoever told me to read it in the first place. i’m happy with an eventual happy resolution as long as no one emerges unscathed 🌟

basically please take this as an open invitation to ruin my life 🫶

things that HAVE managed to break my brain recently include all three locked tomb books, especially harrow, final fantasy xv, and the later chapters of witch hat atelier if that helps!

Think Fourth Wing or Quicksilver! I don’t see a list but want to compile one bc these books make me feel extra great about having them🐉 🐉! Thank you!!

Edit: also pls no spoilers I’ll be vague with the list description too- just a mc gets one/has an important one !

Ugh I just want to read but I must sleep :/

How often do you stay up past your bedtime to read? At this point in my life I’m pretty good at sticking to my bedtime but as a child I was so terrible about it often reading until 3 in the morning

I hate it when it's too hot to read, cause wdym im trying to read and pages in my hands starting to get soaked in my sweat

I've been thinking about this for quite some time and I'm really trying to bond more with others, but I've been having a bit of a hard time with it tbh. I'm a very reserved person in general and it takes me a while to really open up to others (and I'm anxious to post this but here I go lol).

so with this I'm trying to shout into the void for others to introduce themselves! I really want to make more friends on here and would love to get to know more of you and maybe some of you can find folks with the same interests too ❤️

what I especially would like to know about you 🫵:

📚what are your favourite books and why? 😺cats or dogs? (or neither?👀)

As for me, I'm jessie from germany and I'd say I read a broad range of genres, my favourite being fantasy! I'm currently getting into robin hobbs realm of the elderlings and am impatiently waiting for dead beat by leigh bardugo to come out. Also I'm trying to get more into horror, so I'd be happy if any of you had a suggestions for me! I have japanese gothic and the eyes are the best part available rn 👀

My favourite books of all time are probably the inheritance cycle aka eragon and the mediator by meg cabot, which are both most likely very based on nostalgia but I think about them regularly lol. I also really, really love anything miss bardugo writes, but I do love six of crows and ninth house the most 🐍🐇 AND!! honorable mention to the familiar which I liked a lot too!

Apart from books I'm an avid gaming, movie and tv series enjoyer! I love anything horror like resident evil, but here I enjoy many different genres. I most recently saw the new spider-man and obsession which were both absolutely breathtaking in different ways iykyk. Next week I'm going to go watch the new insidious movie!