This felt like a Ghibli movie: sweet, cozy, talking about deep, dark-ish and important things, plots twists, a love story that wasn’t rushed to get to spicy scenes, real character development, no toxic MMC disguised as “morally grey” or “misunderstood”. Not full of tropes we have seen thousands of times. Would recommend. If anyone has suggestions that feel like this, please share.

Everything about this world is far too cute 😭

After finishing a book that was very obviously a debut, it got me thinking about how others rate them. If you know you're reading a debut, does that change your rating? If so, are you more harsh or gentle with the stars you give? I think for me, my rating is usually pretty consistent, but I do have a little thought in my brain that maybe I should be more lenient?? I'm conflicted because if a book is good enough to be published, shouldn't it be able to hold its own against work from established authors? But then at the same time, this is such a hard market to break into... I'm curious to hear what others think!

loooove Thimble loves coffee ✅ doesn’t like talking ✅ loves cinammon rolls ✅ what more could you want?

i have no idea if this would ever be possible, but thought i’d mention something i’ve always wanted out of a book app (literally i think about this every time i use storygraph) i’d looove if when adding a book to my tbr, i could add just a little note where i can document where i found out about the book and why in that moment im so intrigued to read it i just find my tbr can get so long i often look through it and see many books in which i have no recollection of where it was recommended to me, or why i was excited by it. especially as i tend to get my recommendations from many many sources. does this sound like something anybody else would enjoy too? perhaps could be a future suggestion the the page bound creators