Omg guys I think I found a way to put you first in line for your library holds. You just find everyone else on the waitlist and 🔪🩸💀 them. I've tried it before and it really works. Hope this helps. 😇🩷

I'm normally someone who searches for my next book by just looking up queer fantasy and choosing whatever sounds good. Otherwise I just go off someone's recommendation from their list of books they have enjoyed. In the last couple of days there have been a couple of posts on here that are making me think before choosing any books I need to research the authors better. One pointed out an author I had recommended to me was a Zionist and another was discussing AI covers. Personally I struggle to research authors before reading anything they have written as I get bored and overwhelmed. My questions to fellow readers are how much do you look into an author before you choose to read a book? And is there anything you do to make the task of researching your authors fun?

I’m just about to put my phone down to go to sleep, and it’s been on my mind recently because the other night I had a dream where I was the chosen one in some kind of weird Lord of the rings fantasy mash up where my horse helped me by digging a tunnel to Mordor with her hooves and I distinctly remember being in the back seat of a car driving along somewhere in middle Earth

Hi! I was wondering if people still read book blogs. When I started being on the internet, they were everywhere, but with the advent of Tiktok they seemed to have faded out of existence. The few I know of now have been around for years. Are people still opening new ones, and are those new ones getting visits at all?

I'm so annoyed right now, I need to rant (with a question at the end). I know we already had the discussion about books being written by/ with AI here, thanks to SamsSapphicReads (go read what the smart people have said there). And I'm sure we can all agree AI = bad, but I need to bring it up again.

So I am looking through new releases and I find a pretty interesting book. I add it here, put it in my plan, and then I look at the cover again and think, is this AI? I'm already screaming internally. Then I search for hints and find a few. I'm pretty sure that it's AI now. I'm disappointed because I don't want to read the book if that's the case. So I look through the author's profile and Instagram and don't find a shout-out to an artist anywhere, but I find other character art that looks like AI... At least the author is real and it's just the cover, but still. I can even understand indie authors that don't want to spend so much money to publish, but seriously? You wouldn't be ok with the people stealing your work for AI, why would you use it?

Now I've wasted like 15 minutes just to make sure I don't support authors that use AI. I am angry!! Why does it have to be like this 😭😭

My question: What do I do now? I've already added the book here. Do I go into the forum and point out that the cover is probably AI even though I'm pretty sure the book isn't? I've also recently written in a forum that I suspect a different book to be AI when I found a lot of things that didn't add up, but I don't have proof, and I'm still thinking about deleting it, because I can't be sure and I don't want to be wrong about something that could potentially be harmful to the author...??

So sometimes I would be reading a book right and all of a sudden there is the mention of an accidental pregnancy. this is my bookworm ick Comment below what are the ones that you might have

If you could spend a day with any book character doing whatever you wanted (in our world or in theirs) who would you choose to spend the day with and what would you do? (No unmarked spoilers please!)

I would spend the day with Piranesi from the book of the same name by Susanna Clarke and ask him to give me a tour of the House. It's such a fascinating world and Piranesi is such a sweet character who I feel would be really fun to talk to.

My second pick would be Mosscap from A Psalm for the Wildbuilt. We'd spend the day hiking and talking about science and books and then finish up with some tea and stargazing. I don't think Mosscap and I would get very far on a hike since we both have ADHD but we would have an amazing time making the attempt.

I don't know if I have ever instantly loathed a teacher this much. I was lucky to only have a few a-hole teachers in school... and they were almost exclusively math teachers... is this a thing?

So before i read the travelling cat chronicles by hiro arikawa, which is a general fiction book, i totally kept myself to fantasy books only, i never ventured out of that genre prior to this book and it actually ended up becoming my all time favourite book. Something like 2 years have passed now since i first read it and i've now got it in multiple languages and recommend it to everyone i can 😙

Does anyone else have a book like this that changed your reading for you? Or a book way out your comfort zone that you loved?

So... I have never re-read a book. Not even once! 😩 Almost scandalous, I know.

But the Mistborn trilogy has been side eyeing me, saying, “C'mon, get a second shot at me.” That trilogy was my first serious experience into the epic fantasy realm. I read it and went, “Whoa, books can DO THAT?” 🤯 I've been thinking about finally taking the leap and experience all the hype about re-reading. Perhaps this can become the beginning of a great new routine. Or maybe some other new and shiny book distracts me. Who knows? 🤷‍♀️

Seriously, I am always a fan of people with a “comfort book.” You know, the book that's literally falling apart due to all the love. Are you coming back for the world-building, the complicated plot lines, or is it just the characters you’d invite to your imaginary dinner party? No judgment! At times, you just need to chill with your fictional crew because let's be honest, real life can't always deliver the drama (or the dragons).

So, my question is: what pulls you back into a book you’ve already read? The world itself, weird and wonderful, or the people who are like they'd text you memes at 2 am? And truthfully, what's your most dog-eared, beaten up, re-read till the pages fall apart book? Also, is there anyone who, like me, has never re-read a single book?

I’m all ears and ready for some bookish nostalgia. 🫶 Maybe we'll find some other users who love a book the same as us and have re-read it time and time again.

GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU WHO CONVINCED ME TO START LISTENING TO AUDIOBOOKS.

now i’m going on more walks and reading more.

I got up to Chapter 4 in Days at the Morisaki Bookshop!! I will admit I did miss parts of it, but i got the majority so woo!!