I had a very successful January. I read 5 books, the most I’ve read in a month for some time, and enjoyed every one of them!

How was everyone else’s January?

So stick with me here it might get rambley. So today I was thinking wow I’ve read like over 100 books in my lifetime that’s cool but it seems so low. (Only last year did I get back into reading on a regular basis and read 50 books) and then it had me thinking about how many books I’ll have read by the time I die if I die by old age. So let’s say I die by 85. I’m almost 30. If I read 50 books a year until my tragic death then I’ll only have read 2,750 books in my lifetime and that is simply not enough. 😭

Doesn’t that number seem so low?

I do hope at least one of those 2,750 books is ACOTAR 6. Fingers crossed it’s done before I’m 85. 🤞🏼

when there is a song with lyrics written in the book, do you :

a Read with a singing voice in your head with the voice you have imagined the character have

or

b do you just read the lyrics normally with you own voice in your head

🙈🙈🙈 i know it's random

For me, the answer is b 😂😂

Do you trust their perspective right off the bat? Are you automatically on their side? Do you identify with them?

I’m reading a book right now with a narrator that sloooowly reveals herself to be unreliable. I don’t mention the book so I don’t spoil anything. Reading it feels like the floor is tilting in imperceptible and then balance-shifting ways. I’m so quickly all-in on the narrator that it’s disorienting to find out they’re intentionally misleading!

This experience got me wondering if some people start out more skeptical or objective. And what can our orientation towards narrators tell us about our perspective in the world?