I love the idea of all the new categorization and am trying to plan out how I want to use them and organize moving forward!

I "own" a lot of books 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️ pretty much any book I want and would have to wait for from my library immediately gets downloaded if there's a wait-list.

Are we using the "owned" category for physical books? Books we have in any format? Do you think of ebooks and physical differently in regards to owning them?

TIA for your thoughts lovelies ✨✨✨

I love the idea of all the new categorization and am trying to plan out how I want to use them and organize moving forward!

I "own" a lot of books 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️ pretty much any book I want and would have to wait for from my library immediately gets downloaded if there's a wait-list.

Are we using the "owned" category for physical books? Books we have in any format? Do you think of ebooks and physical differently in regards to owning them?

TIA for your thoughts lovelies ✨✨✨

Since we already have a section for most TBR'd, I wonder if there's a new section in the works to see what people are interested in? 🫢 Functionally having a category like that wouldn't be much different from looking at ppls TBRs but I'm still nosy LOL

As the titles says, I’ve DNF my first book in… years, I’m a recovering “hate reader” that finished every book regardless. I blame it on being an English Major😬 There were just too many aspects of the book that I couldn’t get into & the MC wasn’t very… likable or relatable. Just a conflict in preferences, I think. Part of me feel so free, now that I know I don’t have to pick up the book again, but another part of me feels guilty. Why does DNF feel so bad even though forcing myself to read felt just as bad? Any remedies for making the ick go away? Thanks xoxo

I went to add some ttrpg books I read this year to my read list since I'm a DM and have read quite a few front to back (I feel some are so long they HAVE to count lol.) But I saw each of them had zero reviews or posts! Any readers here into tabletop games and would you count the rulebooks into your finished reads list?

It’s a pretty common refrain, that I’ve encountered especially/specifically in works by Black public intellectuals, that after Obama was elected, there was a widespread belief that we’d entered into a “post-racial” world. I was in high school in 2008 (went door-to-door and phone banked for Obama as a little 14 year old 🫣) and don’t remember this feeling at all. On the national level, the suspicions about his middle name (coming also from the Clinton campaign) and demands to see his birth certificate (Trump’s entry into national politics, right?) were immediately loud and present, though possibly more so for me because I lived in an area that might be called politically diverse, i.e. there were some loud conservative voices and big Limbaugh fans around. And then, on a personal level, I was still witnessing and experiencing racism from teachers, SROs, and classmates every day. If you were politically conscious at the time (I know not everyone here is old enough that they were), do you remember having the feeling of (or even hope for) a post-racial world? If so, (if you feel comfortable sharing), what kind of social environment were you in?

Going from Louie in the AMC show to racist slave owner Louie in the book is craaazzzyyyy

I'll admit that I was a bit bored until the last couple of sections - most modern true crime books get to the crime as fast as possible and backtrack for other details later, and I suppose I'm used to that format.

However, I'll give Capote his due - this is one of the first true crime books I've ever read that gives this much time and detail to the personhood of the victims. We get to know the Clutter family intimately - their daily lives, their personalities, what life might have been like for them around the time of the murders. They are distinctly people within the narrative, which I appreciate.

I don't know a lot about the historical content of the book other than the broad strokes - I wonder how Capote gathered all of this information (and perhaps how much was conjecture and/or creative license?)

Hi, yes, if everyone could put down their copy of 1984 and read this instead, that’d be great.