Not a single woman yet??? 61% in and not one (1) woman???? Half the population and not one that said a single word yet????? Even the fucking smurfs have one female characters and this book doesn't even have that??????????

Ciao Bookaholics!

How is everyone doing?

My question for you all comes from the very history nerdy soul inside of me 😅

What historical event do you think would be a great premise for a book? 🤔

My feed has been filled with badge announcements today. Congratulations on your badge(s)! May I just say how much I admire everyone for getting a head start? Really, absolutely, positively could not be me.

I’m curious how everyone picked their choices for their advance reads (if this was intentional and not already a read book) and what motivated you to get started so quickly. Especially for the Pride books, I’d prefer to read in June.

Anyway. Hope you guys enjoy the rest of the events and the books you read. Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈💖🏳️‍⚧️

Hi! I'm not native english speaker and even though I read books in english more often than in czech, I still struggle a lot with reading classics in english. I tried reading a few but on the first few pages I realised I didn't understand anything and had to DNF or switch to czech translation. So far I tried The Yellow Wallpaper, To Kill a Mockingbird Bird and Carmilla but the only one I finished was Of Mice and Men. I especially struggle with archaic words and complicated sentences.

Do you have some recommendation on what books I should try to read? It doesn't have to be from this quest, I'm looking for anything originally written in english.

I feel like this story might have something to say but the writing feels very whimsical so as shocking are the events of the story I feel like it's not having the impact that it should (like, the events are fucked and ordinarily would have a psychological impact on me but it's just not there for me) I think the audiobook narrator isn't helping, it might be a very different experience reading it rather than listening. What are other people's experiences?

This question was brought to you by the Leigh Bardugo quest.

How do you decide to give an author a second chance? I feel like I'm being unreasonably obstinate for not giving Leigh Bardugo another chance, especially when there's a quest for which I can earn a pretty badge. Plus, she writes for a totally different target audience now, so the issues I had problems with are likely not going to be as present, right?

Have you had this kind of experience before? What prompted you to try again or not to? Help a Boundling out please!

Edit: I didn’t like Shadow and Bone but very much enjoyed Six of Crows. However, I did not like the way the female characters were protrayed. I felt like they revolved around the men in their lives too much.

It’s my pipe dream to one day run a private lending library. 🏡 🌠 Has anyone ever visited or lived near to one?