over the past few months I've been a little obsessed with collecting awful book covers because i find them infinitely amusing. the main culprits tend to be older classics (the public domain is a wild lawless place, apparently), but i've definitely encountered some questionable design choices in the contemporary world as well. so, if you've got any terrible candidates to share, i'd love to add them to my collection! 😌

to start, here are 3 of my personal favourites out of everything I've come across so far:

(the wordsworth classics master and margarita also deserves a shoutout!)

Anyone else just skimming the war stuff at this point? I get it, y’all are fighting 😭 RIP you and you and you and also RIP me

You know what I mean, that first sentence you read where you already know… this is going to be my kind of book.

Two of the ones I’ve liked recently:

All happy families are alike: each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way - Anna Karenina

Mariam was five years old the first time she heard the word harami - a thousand splendid suns

What do you do when you hit your reading goal before even half the year is over? Do you see this as an issue? Do you try to plan for a goal that is attainable but challenging enough that it’ll take most of the year to reach? Or do you just pick a goal that seems right and not worry about when you’ll hit it? Do you adjust your goal mid-year if you hit it early?

I tend to go through intense phases where I read a lot (as in, my last phase was about 7 months and I read 275 books) but when I’m not in a phase like that, I’ll read maybe 1-2 books a month. It’s difficult to predict at the beginning of the year whether I’ll read 30 books or 300 books. I want my goal to be challenging but not unattainable if I’m not in a reading phase.

So I’m curious about other people’s approach.

rereading this most wondrous series to prepare for acotar 6 & 7!!! just wanted to say i didn’t realize how much i missed this feeling. and how much i miss my feyre.

What determines whether you'll follow someone? Lately I've been occasionally scrolling through new users and depending on the compatability rating and their finished books following them, I know some follow just because they are followed, or maybe running into a user frequently, but how do you decide who you want to follow, where have you found boundling friends?