To explain, I absolutely love this community and all the different ways we can share and come together. This is a fabulous place to be a reader.

But with every notification I receive, there is a feral little goblin inside of my brain that goes 👹 YES! POINTS 👹

Do I love your little upvote of validation on a comment I’ve made? Of course I do! To debate and argue with you all? More than I’ve loved any job I’ve ever had. The camaraderie of coming together and sharing our thoughts on mutual books is keeping me reading.

👹 BUT ALSO, POINTS 👹

Soo I had a bit of a jumpscare this morning when I noticed I apparently still follow Neil Gaiman and he just posted on instagram. I haven’t really looked into his case aside from the general consensus that he is a shitty person. I was wondering if someone with more knowledge has any thoughts? I would prefer to believe the victims but like I said I have zero knowledge of this whole thing.

How short would you consider too short to log as a "book" you read?

My logic is that if it's available on this app (or any other) as a book, then it's a book but I also low key feel a little bit like I'm cheating when I count a tiny ass novella towards my overall reading goal for the year.

Some people are out here reading 100 books a year, that are 300-500 pages. And I've read 20 books so far in January but quite a few are novellas... one of them was 8 pages lololol.

Where do you draw the line?

Today I learned that Robin Hobb is a woman. I just always assumed that she’s a man because of the androgynous first name. (I haven’t read any of her books yet if that’s somehow relevant.)

But anyways, this made me think are there any other assumptions people have had about any authors that turned out to be completely wrong?

Hello!! I’ve been looking for sci-fi book for a while now. And I was wondering if you have some recommendation for me because I cannot find a book that compels me to read it.

I’m a POC woman (adult) and I love romance so I think if I want to dive into the genre for the first time as a book—because I love sci-fi movies—I think I need a little bit of romance in it. And if you give me a rec written by BIPOC author, it will be amazing.

Thank you in advance!

i am starting to lose interest...