How do you feel? Are you stoked? Upset? Anxious? Or even a secret fourth thing?

Mine would be Paradise Rot so... A fictional seaside town? Seemingly in modern-ish day? As long as I'm not forced to be exposed to 'acrid-yellow' bathroom activities I'd give it a 6/10.

I know the land they're speaking about really well - albeit from a modern day perspective, when these marshes have been drained and used as farmland, and this book is really capturing the bleak, but living, atmosphere, where for all that you are, you know that the land around you is so so much more than you.

I was a bit unsure about getting into this, with regard to the high page count of this one, and the cowboy topic not being one that particularly has me awestruck, but damn I really underestimated M. Danielewski. This has me hooked already, also seeing as the first 60 pages only make me feel like i dipped half a toe into the intro! Stoked on what’s to come!

DNF…I really wanted to finish this and I truly was enjoying it but the never ending sexual assult and abuse that kept popping up has made this too triggering of a book to finish. Alfred and William are also the most reprehensible characters I’ve read in a long time. There wasn’t enough of enjoyable content to outweigh the onslaught of shit

I feel like this is dumb, but I know a lot of other people feel the same way. I have a long tbr and sometimes I panic a little at the length. Like it's a to-do list. But it's NOT a to-do list. How do you keep yourself from treating your tbr like a to-do list? Any tips?

Out of curiosity, how do you do it?! Are you a naturally fast reader? Do you read several hours a day? Listen to audiobooks? As someone who LOVES to read but is a naturally slow reader, I’m always fascinated when I see users with so many books read per year.