For me personally, I love myself a good cozy fiction or a feel good fiction. Or maybe a childhood love of mine that I keep going back to again and again.

However, for my best friend, she loves a good gritty murder mystery and it's amusing to me how different some people's comfort reads can be.

So which one makes up your comfort book? Or is it something completely different?

Does anyone have recs that have good sister representation?? There are a few ive read that really touched my soul and would love to read more, I couldn't find a list but if someone knows of one name it below, thanks!

Examples: The Sullivan Sisters Next Time will be Our Turn

I genuinely thought I was in the minority when I would crashout or just feel guilty over sitting on my ass and doing nothing because no work has been given to me, because on paper being paid to do nothing sounds like a perfect job — so why can’t I just be happy and enjoy it. But the amount of people whose testimony is almost identical to mine is mind blowing and almost reassuring? Spiritual violence is indeed a very suitable name for what one feels is done to them in these circumstances 🥲

I also found the described Karl Groos’s concept of “pleasure at being the cause” so beautiful and also profoundly sad, because it feels like not many of us get that pleasure in our jobs, which we are told is what gives us “value” and “purpose”.

Helloo all!

I've been told by my doctor to have a weeks rest where i'm not allowed to work or do efforts, so i'm gonna be reading!

I've always been very attracted by the idea of annotating and highlighting, and i've tried jotting down a thing or two but find it hard to follow thru as I forget to by reading.

I was wondering for those of you who do annotations or book journaling, how do you go about it?

It's great when you meet people who love your favorite books. You know what's even better? Finding people who hate the same books as you do!

I often go find one-star reviews of books I despise and give the reviewer a follow. It's funny to me that mutual hatred is more often a better predictor of shared taste than mutual endorsement :))

Here are some popular books I cannot stand or found underwhelming (apologies if this offends anyone here):

First and foremost, the star of the show: A Little Life ✨: this is easily one of my MOST HATED books of all time. I could make a five-hour video explaining why that is, but others have already done that. I hate it so much I'm using it as a coaster just to be disrespectful.

Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson: I know, I know, this is a favorite among many. This one I don't "hate" tbh, I just didn't care for the writing, the corny dialogue, the characters, and some plot points I found ridiculous. The world-building and the magic system was cool though. (I had this feeling it would be a much better experience as a video game!)

The Jade City: yes, another very popular fantasy, but I disliked it so much I DNF'd it after 100 pages. I really hated the objectification and over-sexualization of female characters, and I didn't care for the male characters or the plot either.

The Goldfinch by Donna Tart: I'm a sucker for big, slow-paced books with good writing so I had high hopes for this one but good grief this one KILLED ME. It was SUCH A DRAG. loved the prose but this did not have nearly enough substance to justify this much yapping. I might read her other book though.

The name of the wind by Patrick Rothfuss: I read this many years ago in farsi and I don't remember much except the main character was very clearly the writers' self insert and utterly insufferable. Some say this has good prose, but I read a translated version so this had no redeeming qualities for me.

What are your most hated books? Name them in the comments and see if you can find friends:))

if you could live within a book/series ‘world’, which one would you choose? and why?

i would choose either the Magnolia Parks series (christian hemmes ily) or helena hunting’s Toronto Terror/Tilton U series.

Two of my recent reads I really enjoyed feature an elderly protagonist, and it made me realise that while I loved this character, I haven’t read almost any books with elderly protagonists!

Do you have any recommendations? What did you enjoy about them?

Mine are:

• The Switch by Beth O’Leary, a romance novel where a grandmother and her granddaughter swap lives for two months. The grandmother ends up living in a London flat with two younger roommates, and all her chapters made me laugh.
• BL Metamorphosis, a manga about an elderly woman who discovers BL manga and becomes unlikely friends with a high school girl who works at the bookstore. They have an adorable friendship!