So far the story has tons of intrigue, but the writing itself is juvenile and cringe. I can’t wait to see where Hail Mary takes me

I was loving this book until the ending. I can’t help but feel a bit… abandoned? I still have so many questions. Who am I to question Margaret Atwood but also I want know moreee 🥲 Will be thinking about this book for a while.

Ciao Bookaholics!

How is everyone doing?

My question for you all comes from the very history nerdy soul inside of me 😅

What historical event do you think would be a great premise for a book? 🤔

How do you guys enjoy rereading?

This is may sound outrageous, but I never look forward to rereading my (fiction) books, which makes me feel guilty, it's such a waste of money to only read your books once in a lifetime. When I want to be reminded what happened from the previous book, I just jump ahead through the specific pages or not doing altogether. Brute forcing the 2nd book with no memory and hoping to remember anything as I go. Other times was for literary analysis given by my professor, so I need to read the text several times.

I've tried it, but the feeling of already knowing what happens in a book makes me feel like Phil from Groundhog Day in his 100th—or only god know how many—loop.

So, what kind of activities or techniques you guys did?

Sorry for my grammar (⁠ᗒ⁠ᗩ⁠ᗕ⁠) And I'm sorry if it sound idiotic

This book uses so many m dashes. Pretty sure it isn't AI though

Wondering if others have had this experience—

In the past few days, I've gotten a couple of quick new follows from users. Yay, love more friends! But it'll be 3 to 4 in a row, notifications of "XXX is now following you." When I go to look at their pages, all the "my taste" books are identical, and the "reading" books are also identical. Do people have more than one profile? If so, is there a reason behind it? This has been happening every few days or so.

I can't for the life of me figure it out, or if it's a really strange coincidence, but wanted to see if anyone else had noticed this!

How do you guys cope with adding a 4.5+ star rating book to your dnf shelf, a book that you ONLY heard good things about?

I had to dnf six of crows last month because I was not enjoying it at all and it is still bothering me a lot. It makes me sad whenever I see the pink DNF highlight over it. I just feel like I’m missing out on so much, but at the same time I know that I cannot force myself to like a story that I did not like.

I don’t know if I should give it another go? but then that would be forcing myself to read it just because I can’t accept the fact that I’m like.. a part of the 0.5% that didn’t like the story 😩

How do you guys deal with this?? 🥲

I know there are always a ton of posts about e-readers, and I may be totally overthinking this but... I have almost exclusively purchased refurbished/second hand tech for a few years now. My phone is ancient, my laptop and headphones are all refurbished tech etc. So I really want an e-reader and am considering the Kobo. But does anyone know how frequently the refurbished options become available?? I've been waiting for a while but nothing is coming up, and I feel hesitant about ebay sellers because all I've seen so far are sellers who clearly regularly sell brand new in box tech, which doesn't feel second hand to me... it feels like buying new from an extra middleman.

So I got some money from watching my dad's dog recently and I don't know if I should be trying so hard to avoid just buying the Kobo, or like, how much longer should I wait for their refurbished options to show up?? (I wanted one for my birthday so we've had notifications on for over a month now) Maybe I am just being impatient but my other problem too is if I am being too picky about ebay sellers or not LOL am I being overly ridiculous on that or idk. I just don't know if saving $20 is worth it if it's supposedly brand new in box or if I should just buy it new. Or if I am being too morally rigid on being hesitant to buy new. Someone help!!!

Simple, fun, and creative activity I'd love to hear from others. 👀🖋

Basically my questions goes did you ever read a book where you wished there was a course offering it so you have an excuse to STUDY and ANALYSE the shit out of it?

What would be the overall aim and theme of that university course? Any required readings?

Like not just annotation or marking some passages. The vibe is "I need to grab a notebook to write down some facts and opinion, open Google and download some articles that talk about what I'm just reading". 🤓😅

Mine is "An In-Depth Breakdown of Xi You Ji: Journey to the West"

I'm reading the Anthony Yu translations and my notebook is over 3/4 full of all my notes on the 1st Vol of JTTW (mostly writing down what's on the footnotes). I've also scouted some articles and journals online that talk about specific Chinese mythological elements as my rabbit hole. 🤭

I'm not sure what my aim would be in that course, but it's def an introduction and expansion on Chinese mythology, culture & history (from the early dynasties all the way to the Han dynasty), philosophies such as Daoism + Buddhism + Confucianism, and comparing its modern adaptations (anime, live action, Hollywood, etc.). This course might def need to be split into Part 1 & 2, I don't think all these topics can be covered in one semester lmaooo.

Have fun, be creative and nerdy!!