So some of y'all probably get my reading updates and don't mind me y'all. I'm in a reading slump so I'm starting a book, not really vibing with it, and I'm putting it back into my TBR. I'll be doing this until I find a book I like. So you're gonna be getting a lot of notifications saying

Bluehairedboy started reading...

Bluehairedboy added to TBR

I'm just going through it. To search for hours through open library and other libraries to find the ebook only to not vibe with it. Don't mind me y'all I'm just gonna cry I-

is anyone else still using their storygraph account? i feel funny going back and forth between the two but i love the charts and data that storygraph presents you (guess i'm a nerd)

if you're not still using it, what are you using instead?

Quick announcement of some smaller updates -

We have new avatars for levels 3 and 4. Level 3 has two new dragons to choose from, and level 4 has three food-inspired avatars 🥐🌶️🍚

We also have two new feeds on your homepage. You'll see your Main Feed (the normal feed you're used to), a Following feed (just activity from people you follow) and My Books (the feed that is currently on Discuss, this is just posts from books in your library). Many people have been asking for a following feed :)

In your Main feed and My Books feed, you will no longer see posts from TBR books that are marked as spoilers.

We're aware of an intermittent bug on the app when posting in the book forum (from the book page specifically). The feed updates + a bug fix for this is out on iOS, please update your app to see these changes. On Android, we're still awaiting app approval - in the meantime there is a workaround : use the currently reading card on your home feed, which has a "Post to Forum" button, to post rather than going to the book page.

HELLO It’s time for Who’s Who Wednesday where every Wednesday we introduce ourselves and make new friends. This is part 3.

If you participated in any of the times before, you don’t have to introduce yourself again but you can share some different facts about you, an opinion you have, or how your week is going.

If you’re new, introduce yourself!

I’ll go first.

My name is JadeLovesBooks.

I am very very very very type B personality yet for the most part everything seems to work out. I’ve never read Harry Potter or seen the movies and have zero interest in doing so I am 8 years sober I don’t care about Taylor swift (I’m sorry)

Can anyone who’s reading/read this book tell me if it takes place on Halloween or in the run up to? I’m looking for a spooky book to read on Halloween but want it to match the vibes 👻

I’m currently reading Alchemised, if you didn’t know, it’s a book that was a fanfic revolving around the Harry Potter characters and The Handsmaids Tale , and I have seen discourse online about how it’s inmoral to read this book because in the end it gives JK Rowling attention and more fame.

My questions are:

1. Is it wrong to support authors that publish fanfiction, if the fanfic was originated from an author of problematic works? (Like JK)

2. Is it alright to publish fanfiction or do you believe the author of the original material, the world it was based in, should get copyrights and some recognition because fundamentally the story was based on their characters and work?

3. Do you have some controversial opinion on the matter?

Genuine question: why are we calling sapphic and achilleas romances yoai and yuri??? (I think that’s how you spell it). I have no idea if there’s a difference between the terms. Right now it just feels like another term to avoid the words sapphic and achillean, especially achillean, like ff and mm. I might be totally off base here though, so if anyone knows why these terms are suddenly being used, please tell me

Well, yes, hello, my name is Andrea and I have a problem... I can't stop joining Quests and adding books to my TBR🥲 So many Quests, so many good books, so many options... Voice of Gollum intensifies

I just finished The Laws of The Skies by Grégoire Courtois and this might have been the most miserable reading experience I've had this year. Barely 150 pages but the book is so abysmally bad that it took me 15 days to "finish" it, and that is when I almost had to skim through the final chapter because I couldn't stand the writing.

Do all of you ever experience the same thing too? The book doesn't necessarily has to be bad, I was reading Less by Andrew Sean Greer last year which almost made my habit of reading go away for a good 2 months, but some books possess this power to make you hate reading.