super excited to see how the apple tv series turns out.. they better do it justice.

Not sure if this is the place for it but I'm so excited about the books I received for my birthday this year and really wanted to share my love for books with other people who love books, so here I am! And here you are! Any books you guys have read that I should bump to the top of my TBR?? • Human Acts - Han Kang (historical literary fiction, based on the Gwangju Uprising in South Korea) • Open Water - Caleb Azumah Nelson (literary fiction/romance, discussions of race and masculinity as I understand it) • A Wild Sheep Chase - Haruki Murakami (magical realism, this was pitched to me as a weird dream which I looove) • My Sister, the Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite (mystery/thriller with a dark comedic twist??) Three translated short story collections: • Night Train to the Stars - Kenji Miyazawa (japanese fairy-tale inspired) • Murder in the Age of Enlightenment - Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (japanese classics) • The Dangers of Smoking in Bed - Mariana Enríquez (argentinian, horror) And a box set of the first three books in The Stormlight Archive series by Brandon Sanderson :) I'm planning on finishing Misborn era I & II before diving into Stormlight though Birthdays make me mushy so don't mind me but I'm so grateful for Pagebound for giving me a space to yap about books. I genuinely feel like this is the sort of space that's been missing in my life and I love interacting with all of you!!! Thank you :)) and I hope to yap about books for many many more years

I would really like it if reviews in particular could be saved as drafts. Can I write points in my Notes app and then post it only when I'm ready? Definitely. I guess I just like the idea of having everything book-related in one place! What do y'all think?

Ok! Conditioning, trauma-responses, cognitive-reframing, and more. I'm an undergraduate psychology major and I don't know how necessarily realistic this is. What I do know is that Eleanor grows on you. At first I was more objectively curious as to why she became the way she has (0-30%). Just curious to how much of it was inherited, conditioned, trauma responses, etc. I am by no means an expert! This is a book basically on the importance of kindness and community. I see this more as a "what if?" book, rather than "this could be someone." What if someone had no community, didn't know how to communicate with others, had so many strong preconceptions that it made those things even harder? Just Eleanor lives a lot in her own head if that makes any sense. I think I did like this book not just for reminding me of concepts before the semester started up again, but for a day in the life book that rekindled my love of general fiction.