I'm always curious when I see a List that's been downvoted. I understand the purpose of downvoting, especially in the Club if someone says something disagreeable or offensive. But for Lists, I'm often surprised to see a List with downvotes. Can y'all tell me why you might downvote a List? I'm genuinely curious!

Is it just me or have more recently been way more controversies with authors in the booktube, booktok, bookreddit community? The time between the examples is not that close I suppose but the attention of each case definitely gets bigger and louder as time goes on

The most recent one I can think about is the use of the word "dirt" in an Elsie Silver book to describe tan skin. It was exposed by a creator and now my feed is full of commentary about it, a lot of opinions if that was a phrase out of context or a racist comment

Then there was the case of Coby Wilkens, an author who pretended to be native American and got exposed after publishing a native American character centered romance book, if I stopped haunting you. An author with the writing name KimChi who also faked their nationality, Cait Corrain who sabotaged and used bots to downvote and bash other first time authors while she faked good reviews for her own debut (pretty sure some were her real life friends so that went pretty bad however you see it) And the worst one this year that was the "daddy's little toy" book which pedophilic themes and the private comments of the author about even her own children ended up getting her arrested

Can this all be attributed to cancel culture? Are we simply noticing because we are paying more attention?

I’ve been reading a decent amount of non-fiction lately, specifically non-fiction that touches on political issues. And don’t get me wrong, these books are incredible and absolutely worth reading, but they’re a bit depressing at the same time.

There’s a lot of people on here who read a lot more of these books than I do and I really admire that but like,,, howww? Do I just need to read more hopeful ones? Ones that offer an action plan for those of us who don’t have any real political or financial power? How do you be an informed citizen without being bitter and angry and the world? Or do you just have to embrace that?😞

I reckon most of us have giant physical or digital TBRs. So, how do you pick your next read?

Personally I have over 1200 (!) books on my TBR. I need inspiration to pick what to read these days 🥺

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This is me being annoying but I've noticed a few typos in my edition while reading, which really takes me out of the flow. Like on page 60, in reference to the logbook " years of being put away and taken our again twice a week".

• instead of "out" again I know it's not a big deal and I've got typos all the time here but it does impact my reading.

(I've got a hardback copy)