Mine surely happened one hour ago, when the author of Book of Hrabal randomly wrote his female lead to start to masturbate randomly in the middle of the scene. Maybe there was some very deep authoral message there, but it caught me so offguard, that I put the book down and went downstairs to do some kitchenwork.

Another one was Saint Peter's Umbrella by Kálmán Mikszáth, who wrote a 2 page scene of her female love interest undressing and a cat watching her. Then he skipped over the male leads bedtime routine as "a man changing was nearly not as beautiful as a woman". I give that one a pass tho, it was written like 200 years ago.

For female authors, the only thing I can think of is when the male characters have 12 inch long members. That must hurt!!

Of all the amazing artists you could name the cat after, we went with the misogynist? That being said I don’t blame the cat for their namesake and still want the world for our rumpled overlord.

—This one is definitely written for a younger audience, but I also feel like even then it’s a bit lacking in nuance. Hopefully it’ll at least be easy to get through

I have a major reader’s dilemma: Do you mark a book as "read" if you’ve totally forgotten the plot? 📖🤔

​Take Me Before You by Jojo Moyes, I know for a fact I read it. I still have my copy, I remember crying my eyes out, and I even took the book to the movie theater! But if you asked me for details now? Nothing.Nada. Zip. I only remember the movie! Does it still count as "read" if the memory has completely evaporated, or should it stay off the list until a reread?

​Also... why did it take me this long to realize that mangas are books too?! I’m currently on Volume 12 of A Sign of Affection, which means I could have been marking all those previous volumes as "read" this whole time! 🤣🌸 My reading goal for the year is about to get a massive boost...

​How do you guys handle this? Do you track books you've forgotten, and do you log every single manga volume? Let’s discuss! 🤧

I’ve always thought I was way too squeamish for horror but have now read a couple of books (Mexican Goth and The Book Eaters) which are classified as horror, but I love. Are these not actually horror (are they a subtype of horror?) I’m the type of person who can’t even hear a description of a horror movie without being scared (maybe it’s different for books though?) I don’t know! I’m questioning everything!

As a side note, I’m really interested in reading The Library at Hellebore and wonder if anyone thinks I could handle it given the two mentioned above!