thats it. thats the post. thanks guys! you are all so cool.

It's been about 10 minutes since I finished the last book in a trilogy (3 stars), and I already want to read the next one.

I urgently need a passage to another universe 🚀🚀🚀🚀

But I'm staring at my bookshelf and my Kindle and I have no idea what to read

I usually create a TBR with 12 books I want to read this year and adapt them. I've finished all 12, and none of the others are really calling my name.

Any tips?

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Thanks all, Jennifer

I would love to attend a Gatsby party. It sounds delightful. Especially if I can sneak away to a library to relax, haha.

Also, started an "old sport" count because I've heard he says that a lot. Currently at 5 in chapter three alone.

“Thank you for coming to see me. Don’t hesitate to leave.”

I need to remember this one. I like this one.

Carrot is a delightful himbo. The Patrician is deeply intriguing. Lots of neat things going on in Ankh-Morpork.

The ending still gets to me

Spooky Season is coming and I'm once again trying to fit in as many horror books as possible and would love recommendations! Straight up gore isn't always my cup of tea, but I devour all things unsettling, creepy, horrifying, and eerie.

A few faves for example:

T. Kingfisher (literally everything) The Reformatory - Tananarive Due My Darling Dreadful Thing - Johanna van Veen Into the Drowning Deep - Mira Grant The Buffalo Hunter Hunter - Stephen Graham Jones

So, I started reading Discworld last night (Guards! Guards! specifically), and I'm reading it on my phone (I don't have a dedicated ereader). I got to thinking, and I've noticed that, of the 43 books I've interacted with this year so far (35 Finished, 4 DNF, 2 Paused, 2 Reading) that only 8 of them (7 Finished, 1 Reading) are digital. This made me ask myself why. As it turns out, I find I get way more easily distracted while reading eBooks, and they inevitably take me longer to read. Way too easy to flip over to Discord or Facebook from the eReader on my phone.

Also, I tend to prefer the physical feeling of a book.

Just some random musing of mine. I have nothing against eBooks by any means. I just like touching my books. :3

idk if this is messed up, but systematically cracking the spine of a huge paperback is one of the best things about owning your own copy of a book. just started my copy of the devils and settled in for a little bending session… am i a freak of nature? to me if she’s a good book she will be spry and easy to read - flopping open readily, maybe dog eared, creased from being slept on a little, definitely tear stained and maybe even some rings from mugs of tea on her cover - i think i got a nose bleed reading Gideon the ninth once so my copy defs has some of that on it… I’ll never be someone with pristine books (library books or friends copies are a different story of course they are treated as sacred etc etc)