Hi everyone 🧚

Lately I have been listening to playlists on Spotify based on the books I read and I feel inspired to do the same! I wanted to ask if you are one of these amazing people who create such playlists or even do playlists for your own ears only! How do you or would you select your songs? Do you even listen to the playlist while you read? I would love to read your thoughts about this.

I believe that listening to music that relate to the general mood or the characters enhances the reading experience for me! 🧚

Is anyone else struggling with maintaining a clear mental picture of what's happening? This could be a combination of the fact that I'm listening to this book and the narrative style but I find that even though I know the places that are being talked about, I lose track sometimes.

Janeee just let him go. Get your own place. Become a witch.

I have a silly, somewhat rigid system for how I approach reading. Sometimes it's counter productive because it has the potential to put me in reading slumps. Here are some of my self-imposed rules:

• I have to read at least 1 dense classic or non-fiction each month

• I can only read something purely for fun when I have read something more challenging beforehand.

• if I own a physical copy of a book, I have to finish reading it no matter how shitty it turns out to be.

The first two rules help me (🤡) read more diversely, and read better books in general. the problem with great books though, is that they take so much more brain power on average. Enforcing this has put me in reading slumps in the past, so I'm trying to be more flexible with these two.

The third one serves to control my book shopping impulses:)) this one has also pushed me to stop reading at times.

I'm curious do any of y'all do this, or are you more easy going with your reading habits?

Can I just say, I absolutely adore when authors narrate their own books. It feels so intimate and intentional, I am really excited to listen to Robin Wall Kimmerer share her writings how she intended 🥰