What books would you like to see on the big screen? I know a lot of readers prefer the book to live in their head forever because the actors chosen for the movie are NOTHING like what you’ve envisioned the characters to look like and it messes up your picture, but I know that many of us cast actors AS we’re reading. Tell me what book(s) you’ve cast, and even if you’ve scouted locations for certain settings in your head. Doesn’t have to be well known celebrities either.

I’ll go first. I cast Helena Woods, some random IG astrologer chick, as Clio from Play Nice by Rachel Harrison. Achilles, in The Song of Achilles, by Madeline Miller is a younger, tanned, more sinewy Hayden Christiansen.

How are we pronouncing these names?

Phosyne: Foh-sign, Foh-seen Ornuo: Or-new-oh, Orn-you-oh Pneio: Pih-neo, neo, neigh-o, pih-neigh-o Jacynde: Jah-sign’d, Jah-seen’d, something else?

81 pages of world building seems a bit exaggerated when the book is 352 pages. Specially when the description of the book alleges to something than occurs almost a quarter in the book.

Oh I’m already obsessed with everything happening in this. What are these creatures of her’s and why would I die for them?? 😭

I’m in the mood for a good cry.🙂‍↕️ I need a book that will emotionally destroy me. Any recommendations?

What are your most interesting wheelhouse items in terms of books? Something that will make people go "Wow, that's specific", or something you've never seen or heard other people mention? If you don't know what I mean by wheelhouse, it's something that will always make you interested in a book.

One of my more specific wheelhouse items is fantasy mysteries on trains or ships (not boats, those are too small). Something not very specific, that, however, I never hear others talk about, is metafiction. I love a character who knows they are in a story, a narrator speaking to the reader, or more subtle meta levels such as a genre book commenting on the genre.