I feel like I haven't had a "loyalty" to a single author for a very long time....mostly because there are so many greats out there existing and upcoming!

I will read anything by Laura Purcell because The Silent Companions had me freaked for weeks (didn't help I worked in an old prison museum at the time of reading).

I've read ONE T.Kingfisher but every single blurb of their other books has me immediately adding to cart. I feel like they're fast going to become a top fave!

I know StoryGraph exists, but I'd like to track more parameters (such as author by gender). I've used one last year, but wasn't too happy with it, so I'm wondering if anyone has recommendations for book tracking spreadsheet templates?

Just post any and all recommendations! I figured worst case this post would become a way to find spreadsheets for the whole community, so fire away!

i am really liking the Mr. Darcy hand flexing moments Luke’s got down 😌

I know I'm only 40 pages in but I am finding tjis quite boring. A book set in space should NOT be this much of a drag but it is. I'm only powering through this now cuz I payed for it 😔

I hope it gets better, but idk 🙏

“Later, when everything went sideways and the world broke in half, Robin would think back to this day, to this hour at this table, and wonder why they had been so quick, so carelessly eager to trust one another. Why had they refused to see the myriad ways they could hurt each other? Why had they not paused to interrogate their differences in birth, in raising, that meant they were not and could never be on the same side? But the answer was obvious – that they were all four of them drowning in the unfamiliar, and they saw in each other a raft, and clinging to one another was the only way to stay afloat.”

I find that a setting can really make a book sing. I just started listening to John Green's Looking for Alaska, and remembered how much I like a boarding school setting. I also enjoyed Tracy Wolff's Crave series. What boarding school books are your favorites?

Hi! Does anyone have any recommendations for books with interesting/unique magic systems? Necromancy in the locked tomb is one of my favorites, and the fears in the magnus archives (though that’s an audio drama), and my taste in media tends to be dark academia/fantasy/spooky-ish if that helps, but I’m very down to broaden my horizons!! Ty to anyone who gives a rec :]

I've hit the point where I have a 0% stress tolerance and am struggling with anything I pick up as a result. My comfort reads are Discworld and Murderbot, anyone have similar recs I could check out? I need something I can pick up at 3a while nursing.

Is it just me, or do you avoid books set in your city?

I was born and raised by Seattle. I don't know why it is, but books set in Washington or Seattle I avoid.

Is there any reason why??? Not really. (Side tangent TV shows or movies set in the state kind of bug me though because it REALLY shows they've never been there EVER Cough Cough Death Note live action (accept Supernatural and X files))

I read Remarkably Bright Creatures recently and it was set in Washington and I enjoyed how the author wrote the city as it's own character. But that was the only book I have read set in my city.

How about you? Or do you enjoy books more if they are setbin your city? Just curiosity plaguing me again.