I just saw this in an Aardvark email and my jaw literally hit the floor. I’m not usually the pearl clutching type, but to put an image of a man beheading a woman on a book titled “Dear Monica Lewinsky” was… shocking.

After reading the blurb (clearly satirical, magical realism with patron saint Monica) I get what they’re doing with the imagery. But without that context??

Curious about other opinions. Is this distasteful shock marketing capitalizing off violence against “disliked” women, or is this clever witty satire?

I personally don't like readers who judge others on what they read? Like what do others reading has with you, once i saw guy who reads non fiction saying how romance books don't count as reading and how you aint reader, like buddy, if you read you are reader, or a person who judges how much person read in a month or a year, i recently started counting books i read last year i didn't, i don't even know how much i read until i realized people actually count and make goals how much they wanna read, i never understand those readers, so share what you think :)

I was thinking the other day, and while I understand the word is fitting, but the word "bookish" alone to me just hits my ears wrong. Same with the titles BookTube and Bookstagram...BookTok not so much because at least Tik ends with a K. I know it's dumb, but I need to speak my truth.

What is something, anything book-related (see what I didn't say there?) that is completely normal but for no reason gets you? No judgements today, there are no wrong answers.

Thanks to another book club talk that turned into rants after rants from all of us involved…I need my bounders (is that what we call ourselves?) opinions on tropes that illicit a visceral reaction from you!

For me, it’s cheating trope. I just… don’t have it in me when this leads to a second chance. Because, I’m sorry, but there is no amount of groveling that’s going to make me root for them to get back together. Once it’s done, it’s done. No rewrites. No retries. And don’t even get me started on the miscommunication trope piled on top of that! If a simple question or conversation could solve everything, I’m immediately annoyed. 😒

Whereas my book club friends eat that shit uppppp. No thank you.

So now I have to know, what’s the trope that has you immediately thinking, “nope, not reading that”? h

Some good news you may or may not have heard about involving Gen ai and what people are trying to do against it!

https://nypost.com/2026/03/28/tech/wikipedia-officially-bans-ai-generated-encyclopedia-entries/ Wikipedia has banned Gen AI entries! "The internet’s favorite encyclopedia has officially banned its 260,000 human editors from using artificial intelligence to write articles — a major crackdown as so-called “AI slop” floods the web. The new policy, approved by volunteers at the Wikimedia Foundation’s flagship site Wikipedia, bars the use of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT from generating encyclopedic content, citing concerns over accuracy, sourcing and reliability."

https://nativenewsonline.net/sovereignty/seminole-nation-of-oklahoma-passes-moratorium-on-data-centers/ "In a landmark unanimous vote, the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma has become one of the first Native American Tribes to enact a complete moratorium on data center development within its jurisdiction. On March 7, the Nation’s Tribal Council approved a resolution by a 24-0 vote to “implement a moratorium on the advancement of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology and hyperscale data center development within the Seminole Nation and within tribal lands and territories.” The resolution bars “any inquiries, discussions and/or developments concerning any entity seeking to develop a data center of any size within the Seminole Nation during the moratorium period.”

https://authorsguild.org/human-authored/ "Human Authored is a project of the Authors Guild that allows an author to certify that their book is created by a human. “Human Authored” means that the text of the book was written by a human and not generated by AI, with the exception of minimal uses such as AI applications that check spelling and grammar or for brainstorming or research."

https://societyofauthors.org/2026/03/11/human-authored-scheme-launched-as-generative-ai-threatens-authors-livelihoods/ "The Society of Authors (SoA) has launched a Human Authored scheme to help identify works written by humans in a market increasingly flooded by AI-generated books. The scheme is the first of its kind launched by a UK trade association to help protect an entire profession." "The Society of Authors’ new scheme allows authors to register their books and download a ‘Human Authored’ logo to display on the back cover of their books, helping to identify their work as created with uniquely human skill,hard work and creative endeavour."

Welcome to Would You Rather! I give you two books you pick which one you like better with little to no context! (Vaguely based on my book clubs bracket system of choosing books)

1. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain V.S Lobster by Guillaume Lecasble
2. American Gods by Neil Gaiman V.S Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel
3. To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee V.S Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
4. The House on the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune V.S Life for Sale by Yukio Mishima
5. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir V.S Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid
6. Blood Over Bright Haven By M.L Wang V.S Gideon The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
7. Parable of The Sower by Octavia E Butler V.S Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
8. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee V.S The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein
9. Yellowface by R.F Kuang V.S. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
10. You weren't Meant to be Human by Andrew Joseph White V.S The Foxhole Court by Nora Sakavic

Enjoy making your picks!

Hello! I’ve felt for quite some time now that a lot of my thoughts and knowledge on politics, history, and economics in general have been from social media. I just feel so…intimidated? So many things are happening politically and economically and whenever I try to understand it I feel like it’s limited to what’s happening now and what people on the internet say. I don’t really recognize the patterns (?) in history people talk about, specifically when it comes to economic decisions. I am in desperate need of recommendations and I thought PB would be a great place to ask!

I literally just finished this wonderful, heartbreaking novel, and I’m itching to learn more about the real life people that it’s about. O’Farrell includes a list of books in the acknowledgements that I will definitely check out, but I wanted to ask here as well if anyone had any good resources on Shakespeare/his family/the plague/etc.? Recommendations for books, articles, videos, really anything would be amazing! I’m looking forward to learning more once I finish sobbing.

I've gotten a lot of great recommendations on this app but now I want to hear everyone's anti-recommendations. What are books you've read that I definitely should not read? Why are they so terrible? Let me hear all about your most hated books.

What is your favorite historical period to read about? I’ll go first! I am very partial to stories set in the Georgian Era in England! I also love reading nonfiction books about various aspects of life at that time. Jane Austen is one of my favorite authors!

I just saw the Anastasia musical for the second time this past weekend and I’ve been listening to the sound track on repeat. I desperately want to read something with similar vibes to the musical (or the movie), even if it’s not a direct retelling of Anastasia’s story. I particularly love the complicated dynamics between Anastasia and Dimitri, and Anastasia and Gleb (I’ve been listening to “Still/The Neva Flows Reprise” a lot) and the lost heir storyline.

Any and all recommendations are welcome, but speculative fiction is a bonus!

tell me about your day, your current read, how you’re feeling, etc! sending you each love and warmth and cosy energy 💌🌻🫂 always