I've noticed that a lot of people get a ton of reading done around the holiday season with all the time off and cozy atmosphere. But for me this season is my biggest reading slump season. It's the busiest time of year at my job and finding time to sit down and enjoy a book seems almost impossible. Between November and January my book counts always drop off a cliff no matter what I do. Does anyone else have a specific time of year where this happens?

Hello my fellow readers, I just finished rewatching The Old Guard, my beloved. Immortality in fiction draws me in like a moth to a flame but I find that I don't know many books that deal with this in a compelling way. TOG fleshes out the characters so well, I love that they are all so different, they react differently to being immortal, their backstories go crazy and the characters are from all around the world.

I read The Fifteen Lives of Harry August years ago and I loved it. I like that the character went all around the world and the story didn't just pretend the US was the center of the universe. The characters actually feel like they're not mortal too, they see things differently.

I DNFd Addie Larue because I just couldn't buy that she wasn't 20 years old, it's just not the kind of book I wanted. I want my characters to be waaaay more fucked up about being immortal. Think Louis and Lestat, those guys are a mess about everything, their perspective is sooo weird because they're a fixed point in the stream of creation, their accumulated experiences change their personality and their worldview.

Does anybody have anything like that? It can be immortality, a curse, vampirism whatever but I want my characters to be very interesting and/or very fucked up.

TNR as in to NEVER read. This post was inspired by a random tiktok once again but it made me wonder which books you guys never want to read? And why? Maybe even for petty reasons? For me it's definitely any book by Colleen Hoover. Never read a book, never will - thanks to random internet people.