A different post in this forum reminded me... Does anyone else have a book that they've attempted to read multipe times and still continuously fail to get through? For me and obvious one is War and Peace just because it's such a brick. A newer one would actually be The Will of Many, I've tried a few times to get into it and then at about 100 pages in my brain just shuts off.

Or more happily: any books that you read once a year happily? Like a ritual read?

I have a lot of books. A ton of ebooks but also between 1000 and 1500 physical books, and I keep adding to those because I like to support local, independent bookstores. I got to them, I buy books, journals, pens, whatever.

Well...I also like to have a glass of wine now and again, and I like to support small, family-owned wineries and wine bars. So I've joined a few wine clubs, through which I have regular pickups of wine. I've known for a while that I'm accumulating the wine much faster than I'm drinking it. I'm just not a very heavy drinker as a rule. So, when I get new wine I just stash and figure I'll get to it eventually.

I'm cleaning up today and decided to finally count the wine bottles and...I have 62 bottles of wine. I'll never drink all that. I'm compiling a list of people to give things to.

I promise I'm not a hoarder!

Besides books, what do you all, er...accumulate?

I really wanted to like Butter. The premise was fascinating, and I appreciated the conversations around food, femininity, and societal expectations. Unfortunately, the story just never clicked with me.

Instead of becoming more invested, I found myself wondering where the narrative was heading. While I could see what the book was trying to explore, the pacing felt too slow, and I never formed the emotional connection needed to stay engaged.

To tell you the truth I am still catching up on last week's comments (😭) but time marches on... It's time to share what books you got in the last week!

• Did you check out a big stack from the library?
• Did you visit a new LFL and find something exciting?
• Did someone give you a book for your birthday?
• Did you go splurge at the bookstore?
• Did you stuff your Kindle?
• Did all your Libby holds come in at once?
• Did you find a book in the dumpster?
• ???

IT ALL COUNTS so tell me...whatcha get??? 👀

I recently DNF’d a book at 85% because I just wasn’t enjoying it and didn’t feel like powering through the ending. I left a written review but I felt kinda weird leaving a star rating since I didn’t finish it. I do feel like I got through enough of it to give it an informed rating, but I’m curious if others have a personal policy about rating books you DNF. Personally I think that if you’ve read more than half of the book you probably have enough info to rate it, but sometimes you don’t have to get that far in to tell that a book isn’t very good. I just wasn’t sure what the etiquette is surrounding DNFs so I opted not to rate it, but I want to know what others think!

What's your most diabolical reading flex?

Mine has to be reading spicy audiobooks without headphones.

Now hear me out, it's only in the comfort of my own home. In public, headphones all the way (obviously 🤣)