Is it the colour? The similarity to your real self? A representation of your favourite genre?

I’ll go first: I got drunk and decided to use the rice bowl avatar, because ”food for thought” was the greatest (and most amusing) thing I could come up with.

i started my master's program recently and have had a really hard time planning to read for fun while reading so much academically! does anyone have any suggestions? my current idea is to read for fun on my commute (i take the train) to keep that space just for trying to meet my fiction goals 💜 other thoughts?

When I was a kid, my absolute favorite books were the Moorchild, Island of the Blue Dolphins, and A Little Princess. I haven't read them as an adult, except last year I listened to the audio book version of the Moorchild, which of course gave me a whole new perspective on it but which I still loved.

This made me want to reread my other two favorites, and then I got to thinking, how fun would it be to have a kind of forum or read along or challenge where we revisit books from our childhoods 🥹

So I wanted to ask what books everyone enjoyed as a kid and if anyone would be interested in rereading their favorites 🤗

Okay, I have a question for anyone who reads both YA and adult books. How do you categorise a book into YA or Adult??? Interestingly enough, I don't have this problem with caegorising Middlegrade v YA, but I keep having this issue with older characters in books. If the characters are teens and in high school, I always say it's YA no matter what the subject matter is about because I honestly have never encountered a book dark or triggering enough that I wouldn't have been happy to figuratively pass it along to younger me. But, here's my issue: why is the line between YA (possibly being called older YA, but I'm really not sure) and new adult so god damn blurry? Like, for example, are there people out there categorising the Off-Campus series by Elle Kennedy as YA? Because the main characters are 20, and as far as I'm aware, that means that they're no longer children. Unless in the US, you see anyone under 21 as a child?? I've been having this issue for years now, so of course, now that I'm bringing it up, I can't think of any other examples, but I swear, whenever I read a book that I would personally categorise as New Adult (age 18ish - 25), it's in the YA section. A big one that I know I used to see A LOT (and it's always with female writers and a lot of the time in Fantasy) was the ACOTAR series by SJM. It's 100% for adults but was marketed to teenagers for YEARS. I'm honestly just baffled by the whole thing and wondering if I've gotten my wires crossed at some point and have been going about this all the wrong way. I'd be really curious to know anyone's thoughts!

some context for how I categorise age ranges: The Raven Boys - YA (teenagers) The Sun and the Starmaker - New Adult (18 yr old mc, chosen one kind of deal) ACOTAR series - Adult (Feyre is 19 in book 1, and there is a lot of smut throughout the series) The House in the Cerulean Sea - Adult (adult mcs even though I know some people like to automatically say that anything cozy is ya) Wayward Children series - YA (I could absolutely be persuaded to change this to NA in the future if the characters get older, but most of these are about teens atm so... YA) Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries - Adult (Emily is 30) Assistant to the Villain - New Adult (Evie is 23)