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You can post your own bookish hot take down below. Please remember to be kind and respectful while doing so 👏🏻
My bookish hot take: Is it just me or is almost every fantasy novel har deadly trials/competitions… ballroom scene in the middle of it…?
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Lilrayofchaos commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
I am really wanting to do one of my longer reads from my TBR but really can’t decide. The options are: Quicksilver by Callie Hart Or Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab.
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I'm new to the genre, so which whodunit books would you recommend to a mystery newbie?
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Usually when I look at people's profiles and decide whether or not to follow them, I'm looking at our book overlap and the books they chose as "My Taste." Though, depending on the comment they made to lead me to their profile in the first place, those things don't make as much of a difference.
That said, when you chose the books for "My Taste," did you choose your all time favorites, or your current favorites, or books that stayed with you, or something else? My choices were a mix of those things, I suppose, but moreso books I thought clearly defined my preferences.
For example, I love found family, multi-POV stories, and I'll consume a heist in whatever medium it's presented. Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo has all of those things, so it's on my taste board. Tamora Pierce is an author whose work helped define the reader I am today. Lady Knight isn't my favorite of her books, but it has a strong female character (big love for Kel!), the fulfilling of a prophecy, and a loveable dog, all things that I think define my taste as a reader.
So, how did you choose?
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What’s one magic system that baffled you? Most fantasy books I’ve read where magic is involved, the system is always so simple. Not in a bad way, but they have magic just because they have 🤷🏽♀️ we don’t know where it comes from, what fuels it, what makes it different from one person to another and I think that’s…sad? It will not ruin a book for but I find it so much more interesting and entertaining when the magic system is well written and explained, without being a headache. I recently read babel so that’d be my go to example of a good magic system, I also loved the one in the licanius trilogy.
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I've been thinking about this because I don’t usually do much research before reading. So I’m curious, how do you approach a new story? I hope it's not too many questions😅
Do you usually do research about a book before reading it? For example, do you look into the author's intentions, deeper meanings and so on? → What's your goal or intention when you do that kind of research?
How do you avoid spoilers? I personally hate spoilers and I'm always afraid of accidentally coming across one while researching. That's probably the main reason I don't really do it.
Do you maybe do your research after finishing the book instead?
How do you know if it's recommended to learn more about a book before reading it?
A bit of context: I saw a club post from AFlockOfFuries ("What's your book discourse pet peeve?") and noticed some interesting discussion points (which were completely valid) that made me wonder how much you should know about a story before going into it. I'm not criticizing at all - I'm genuinely curious and would love to hear your perspectives and maybe learn a thing or two☺️
If there's already been a discussion about this (not about researching an author), please point me to it - I might've just missed it or searched with the wrong keywords.
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What’s one magic system that baffled you? Most fantasy books I’ve read where magic is involved, the system is always so simple. Not in a bad way, but they have magic just because they have 🤷🏽♀️ we don’t know where it comes from, what fuels it, what makes it different from one person to another and I think that’s…sad? It will not ruin a book for but I find it so much more interesting and entertaining when the magic system is well written and explained, without being a headache. I recently read babel so that’d be my go to example of a good magic system, I also loved the one in the licanius trilogy.
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I really enjoyed it, the plot was simply brilliant. The love story is for the history books 😌 it was so good and so heartbreaking at the same time