HELLO It’s time for Who’s Who Wednesday where every Wednesday we introduce ourselves and make new friends. This is part 3.

If you participated in any of the times before, you don’t have to introduce yourself again but you can share some different facts about you, an opinion you have, or how your week is going.

If you’re new, introduce yourself!

I’ll go first.

My name is JadeLovesBooks.

I am very very very very type B personality yet for the most part everything seems to work out. I’ve never read Harry Potter or seen the movies and have zero interest in doing so I am 8 years sober I don’t care about Taylor swift (I’m sorry)

I’m currently reading Alchemised, if you didn’t know, it’s a book that was a fanfic revolving around the Harry Potter characters and The Handsmaids Tale , and I have seen discourse online about how it’s inmoral to read this book because in the end it gives JK Rowling attention and more fame.

My questions are:

1. Is it wrong to support authors that publish fanfiction, if the fanfic was originated from an author of problematic works? (Like JK)

2. Is it alright to publish fanfiction or do you believe the author of the original material, the world it was based in, should get copyrights and some recognition because fundamentally the story was based on their characters and work?

3. Do you have some controversial opinion on the matter?

There's only about 2 months left until 2025 is over (WHAT?!). I'll give you a moment to cry.

Moment over.

I'm wondering what everyone's plan is? For those that do reading challenges are we focused on finishing those up? Is anyone focused on finishing some quests maybe? Are you randomly picking out of a jar? Or are we just vibing until the end of the year? (relatable really)

I have a couple quests that's I'm 1-2 books away from gold so I was considering working on those but I still have to work on reading at least one of the seasonal books. I guess I'm just struggling to decide what I want to do! The seasonal readalongs are timely so it makes sense to get some of those done but finishing quests also makes me happy 😂 I'm a bit of a completionist!

What about you guys? Tell me all your plans, the more chaotic the better!

“She scooped him up, careful to gather all the soil that clung to his exposed roots.”

Wait Caz isn’t potted???? He’s just walking around leaking soil everywhere??

First off, I’m sorry if this post doesn’t belong (and happy to delete if that’s the case)! But I randomly came across this book synopsis just now and all I can think about is how it touches on themes also present in this book??? in similar ways??? That enjoyers of this book would like??? And we cant DM or tag people on here so I don’t know where else this should go aaaa

Source link (So, I want to add a disclaimer here that this is NOT currently a published novel. It’s the work of an author who has found a literary agent, and it has not yet been picked up by a publisher. That said, if all goes well with the entire process, the book’s timeline for release is generally within the next 3 years. I also don't know this person, don't know of the book, etc so I promise it's not me just trying to promote something lololol)

When a grieving archaeologist joins a mission to study the sudden appearance of an Atlantic island, she discovers its sentient—an ancient organism scarred by its own trauma, ready to erase humanity.

Cosmic horror meets human grief.

Giti Sharma just wants to be left alone. Drafted onto a NATO expedition to a mysterious island that appeared in the Atlantic with reports of impossible ruins, the archaeologist arrives at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge Anomaly (MARA) unwilling, grieving her husband's suicide, and convinced she has nothing to offer.

Discovery turns to disaster as the island's strange ecosystem unravels the team one by one. Giti pushes on—realising that survival doesn't care if you're depressed. Even at rock bottom, she keeps moving, if only for a way to crawl back to her flat in Camberwell and resume drowning in grief. That is, until the island leaves her with a choice she cannot run from.

MARA, it transpires, is no island but a sentient superorganism, stolen from Earth eons ago, uplifted with parasitic spores, and abandoned in torment. The insects that crawled on her surface became her salvation: steered into a civilisation advanced enough to tear open a wormhole back to Earth, then exterminated as pests. Returning home to yet more pests, she turns her trauma, and her spores, toward humanity. To MARA, humans are just another infestation to erase. To Giti, an island devoured by grief is a mirror, and the jolt she needs to pull herself together and save humanity.

MARA is a novel about trauma both human and cosmic, depression colliding with duty, and a woman forced to face her grief against a god driven mad by theirs.

“It wasn’t that she didn’t like people, it was only that she liked books more”

Same, girl, same.

When you read a word that you've NEVER heard out loud and when you hear someone say it, it turns out that it doesn't sound how you thought it was gonna sound AT ALL.

Do NOT ask me how I thought "Choir" and "Mischievous" were pronounced