I make a sound oddly reminiscent of a dying raccoon.

🦝 🦝 🦝 How does a dying raccoon sound?

Why is his sister exactly like my aunt.... wishing both of them a terrible day

I promise I’m not just saying this so notbillnye won’t delete her account, this tomato book is genuinely hysterical : “The Aztecs used Tomatos to season all sorts of stuff, including human meat.. they often ate the vanquished… one Spanish Conquistador smelled the aroma of cooked tomatoes and speculated that he was the missing ingredient. Which might be the first recipe we have for a Spanish tomato stew.” 😭😭

Is there any kind of standard people follow for when they know they've read a book, can talk about the plot and characters, &etc, but have absolutely no idea when they might have read it? (this might be more of an Older People/very heavy reader sort of thing) I've been guessing as best I can so far, but there's still an enormous amount of books that I know I've read but that I could maybe guess at decade at best xD

Just came across a 0 star review, and it's just not sitting well with me, so I wanted to hear other's thoughts about it. Not gonna give any specifics, because I'm not trying to call anyone out personally, but they left a review saying they didn't read the book, and gave 0/5 stars. That's wild, right? There aren't that many total reviews on the book, so I just wonder how much of an impact a review like that has on the overall rating of the book. I myself wouldn't review a book if I hadn't finished it, but I think some people have a different opinion, so I would love to hear what y'all think!

Edit: adding that apparently a 0 star review does not impact the overall rating, which now that I've learned that I feel much less bothered by the whole thing ☺️

You can tell this was written by a white British guy. For the most part it's fine, but there's some very telling moments, mainly in why he sides with whom he does.

It really gives me that white knight/white saviour complex vibes that most Victorian-era adventurers give off, especially with how quickly he turns hostile to the Morlocks.

An overall solid read, but just... Remind yourself that it was written in 1895.

Since I just hit my Yearly Goal of 40 books read, I decided to count some numbers.

My total page count, excluding pages read from things I DNF'd, is 10,090 pages total!!

4/40 were short stories.

The first book I read this year was Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda. I rated it 2.5 stars.

The 40th book I read this year was Guards! Guards! I rated it 5 stars.

The average length of each read comes out to: 252.25 pages!

The shortest read was Moncton at 17 pages.

The longest read was The Name of the Wind at 662 pages.

Neat.

I’d like to get a head start on the winter readalong and I’m between first reading either A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking or Three Holidays and a Wedding. Would love to hear others thoughts on which one to start with

(I’ll probably read Wuthering Heights and The Serviceberry at some point later on. On a side note, this is the first readalong since I joined in the summer where all the books have piqued my interest, which is exciting lol)