Today I learned that Robin Hobb is a woman. I just always assumed that she’s a man because of the androgynous first name. (I haven’t read any of her books yet if that’s somehow relevant.)

But anyways, this made me think are there any other assumptions people have had about any authors that turned out to be completely wrong?

A cracked spine 💃 B no visible lines 🙅‍♀️

A slow book with a great payoff 📝 B not a wasted page 🤩

A Reading plan on PB’s 🖤 B whats a plan?

A usually follow a book genre B jumps between genre

The Quiet Observer (takes in every detail from the book) AAAA; AAAB; BABA The Chaotic Scholar AABA; AABB; ABAA The Page Goblin ABBB; ABBA; ABAB The Perfectionist Librarian BAAA; BBAA; BAAB; BBAB The Adventurer Mood Reader BABB; BBBB BBBA

I am ABBB 🙂‍↕️ page goblin Please let me know if anything is missing, I tried my best to make the matches but it is not that detailed :)

I'm on the hunt for books with a trope that might be too specific, but here we go - MMC/hero is the father of the FMC/heroine's female rival/frenemy.

There are lots of "best friend's dad" or "ex-boyfriend's dad" or "dad's rival/enemy" heroes. Is there anything out there where the FMC and MMC's daughter have a strained/complicated relationship before the FMC and MMC get together?

Maybe the FMC was bullied by the MMC's daughter in school (but everyone is an adult now). Maybe the FMC and MMC's daughter were academic or athletic rivals, or coworkers who don't like each other. Maybe the FMC is bisexual and used to date or crush on the MMC's daughter.

Basically I'm looking for an age gap where the MMC is older and the FMC and MMC's daughter have some kind of troubled history. Any lit fic like this would also be great, with or without a happy ending.

(Possible TMI: I'm not usually into age gaps where the man is older, but I was inspired by a dream I just had about my childhood frenemy's dad, who was way hotter in my subconscious than he ever was in reality.)

I've had an absolute poopy last month & have decided to stay at home this Christmas & just read, craft & do whatever the frack I want that doesn't involve family drama. I'm unbelievably happy about not having to leave the house apart from walking Monty & getting food lol! Anyway, I found a couple of Christmas titles in the op shop this January & saved them for now cos I find it really hard to get in the 'Christmas spirit'. What are you reading for Christmas? Does it help you get in the spirit of the season? 😊📚🎄

This is just something I've been thinking about - I often see characters described as "annoying" in reviews and I often wonder what traits might make folks feel this way about a character. It's subjective, after all!

For me, I have trouble with characters that lose intelligence/common sense to push the plot forward (horror is ESPECIALLY bad for this but I've seen it in all sorts of genres) or who have careers and functioning lives but somehow manage to come off as completely helpless and incompetent.

I prefer to read in the morning as the first thing after waking up, abut very curious to hear people’s answers!