Ahhhh the unwritten sequel strikes again 🤦🏻‍♀️😭 i just finished The Veiled Court by CN Crawford and wouldn’t you know it, i forgot to check if the rest of the series was out. fun fact: the second book doesn’t release until NEXT YEAR IN JUNE. i am going to suffer for a year. i’m thoroughly enjoying this just to sit on a cliff for the next 10 or so months. this is like the same anticipation i had when i found out i was pregnant.

anyone relate? if so what was that series for you?

What do you value in a book the most based on Nancy Pearl’s Four Doors of Reading? Link here if you want to learn more, including TED Talk at the end: https://teralynnchilds.com/nancy-pearls-four-doors-reading/ (I tried to embed link but I forgot how)

Excerpt from above link:

🚪 The Four Doors 🚪 📖 Story — Plot. Action. The sequence of events that the character(s) go through to reach the end. These are page turners, the books you can’t put down, and that keep you needing to find out what happens next.

🙂 Character — People. Protagonists. Villains. Heroes. The cast of characters who embark on the story. Books in which the characters feel real and you miss them when the book is over.

🌆 Setting — Worldbuilding. This is what makes you feel like you’re in another place or time (or even this exact place and time). Makes the world feel familiar, and makes you want to live in or visit that place.

✍️ Language — Words. Grammar. Style. These books make you want to savor every word, to the point where you’re not sure you even know or care what the book is about.

Every book contains all four of these elements to varying degrees. You can’t write a story without character, plot, setting, and words. But often (usually) one or more doorways are bigger than others. The blockbuster books, the ones that become huge bestsellers across audiences and age groups, have four really big doors.

🚪 Find Your Door 🚪 Discovering your door to reading! Which doorway is yours? Or what order would you rank the four doors from most to least important? Think about your favorite book. Usually the first thing you describe is a clue.

My Doors Ranked: 🌆 📖 🙂 ✍️ I would rank world building as most important for me. Closely followed by plot. I need a great setting and often magic system to keep me hooked. I also need plot throughout. Character driven books don’t work for me as well as plot driven books or a mix. I enjoy character arcs but I value setting and plot more. I also don’t need good writing to enjoy a story so that one is very much last for me.

I look forward to hearing about yours 🥰

hello everybody. i’ve had a lot of majorly-stressful events happen lately (i’ll take all the hugs you’ve got🫂), and because of that, i’m having an extremely difficult time reading anything, even when i have the time and genuinely want to. i’ve just ended up scrolling on reddit or PB or pinterest or whatever instead of doing what will actually help relax me and what i want to do in that time (reading!). would love any tips you all have in regards to not defaulting to scrolling on your phone during stressful times (apps that block other apps for certain times, screenzen for example, really don’t seem to work for me unfortunately. they work for roughly two weeks and then i just start repeatedly turning them off without a care in the world for a streak being broken or any external motivators like that).

What's your most diabolical reading flex?

Mine has to be reading spicy audiobooks without headphones.

Now hear me out, it's only in the comfort of my own home. In public, headphones all the way (obviously 🤣)