Hello everyone... How r u all? I am kind of taking short breaks to come here. 😅 Anyways let's talk... It can be anything (books, life, philosophy, psychology,... 😅) even silly things like cats, dogs, toys, simple thoughts❤️

Do you have any reading specific goals this week? 📖 📚

Examples: Finishing 3 chapters Cleaning up my Libby holds Going to my local bookstore Spending [insert time) reading

heya! just a gal tryna expand her reading taste which includes authors as well! what are some of your auto buy authors and why?

kindly suggest your favourite reads from them as i'd love to check them out!

or if there are absolute no's or passes, why too?

please keep this discussion respectful!!! can't wait to hear everyone's thoughts 😁

At what point does inspiration become plagiarism?

This will probably get downvotes but I'm curious where you guys draw the line.

With talks of Powerless vs Red Queen being a hot topic on Booktok lately, with people having varying opinions. Some saying it's not, others saying there's plenty of different books with the same themes despite glaringly obvious similarities with some lines completely copied.

I've seen some say when a review on Red Queen says "Go read Powerless" that's enough acknowledgement that it's been plagiarized.

And it's reminded me of when readers went after Chloe C Peneranda's series An Heir Comes to Rise where many readers claim that she copied the plot of Throne of Glass. With many similarities between the two series, down to how the characters look, their powers, the bones of the plot etc. and multiple reviewers claiming the series is "Walmart Throne of Glass" 🤔

Or the Crave series by Tracy Wolff who was in a recent lawsuit for allegedly plagiarizing another authors work.

I'm sure there's way more series that are said to be copies of another. Obviously, no story is unique. The source material didn't invent magical creatures or anything.

Hey guys! So I have recently been struggling with my tinnitus and it has affected my reading. I typically read with something playing in the background but it’s been hard to focus on the words on the page when my brain is busy trying to listen to my tinnitus sound. Does anyone have any tips on how you guys read with tinnitus? Or ways to focus on what you’re reading rather than the sound? Also if you guys know any good book recs about managing tinnitus that would be great to! 🥰

I listened to a podcast about why having special interest is so important to generate your own personality and to be human and i want to talk about microfixations specially art related ones (music, books, movies, art pieces, video games even..)

I think out there there's the perfect piece (or pieces) of art for everyone and not all people have the fortune to find it. by perfect piece i talk about any piece of media that resonates with you in a deeper level than any other art piece has resonated with you. For me that would be Twin Peaks, i haven't even finished it (im on the third season) but i never felt the interest i'm feeling with this show with anything else, i could talk about it for hours. It has also happened to me with the Hunger games, i think is a contemporary classic, i even made my final highschool project about the representation of dystopia in fiction and the real world with the hunger games as my main piece of reference.

what are your microfixations?

I realised recently that I have this pattern. And I truly don't know if I'm alone in this... But basically I realised that I tend to avoid my TBR. My TBR is constantly kept up to date and a book is removed if it does not spark any interest anymore (unless I own it physically), and then I use "radar" or "interested" to log the books that simply sound interesting - usually because I'm selective as to what I put on my TBR and I don't want it to be too big. SO, all in all my TBR should be all the books I'm most excited about, but I realise that I avoid it?? This past month I ended up reading tons of books that had been on my TBR for years because of a reading challenge, and low and behold - I loved all of them? It's almost like I know my taste? XD I think I avoid it because I have expectations on the books on it, so I'm scared to read them and instead I read books not on my TBR and end up having a 3-3.5 star streak... Make it make sense XD

What is your relationship to your TBR?