helloooo beautiful peeps Ramadan Mubarak for all the muslim girlies here btw. I actually wanted to ask and talk I guess about something I'm noticing with fantasy. I have a couple of ARCS that I asked for because they were tagged as fantasy and the premise sounded interesting. I'm reading them and while I can see glimpses of fantasy ALL of them feel more like historical fiction, which I don't hate but I am not the biggest fan. I also just feel like most fantasy doesn't feel fantastical anymore, like you could remove the "fantasy elements" and the story would work just the same. Do you feel this way? Do you have book recs with fantasy that FEELS like fantasy?

✨️ I want to make new friends here and connect with people who love the same books I do. ✨️

If our tastes overlap by more than 20%, give me a follow, and I’ll follow back! If you like my book taste, feel free to follow me too. And if we don’t match, comment anyway so you can find your mutuals and make some new friends.

By the way, I’ll be checking out all your profiles (even if we don't match) because I love trying new genres, and being friends with you here will definitely push me to read more outside my comfort zone.

My favourite genre: cozy fantasy, grimdark fantasy, dystopia, middle grade, graphic novels, crime, thriller and sometimes romantasy if the romance is not as important as the worldbuilding.

I think I prefer physical books, but they’re pretty expensive, so I’m thinking of getting an e-reader. What do you use?

So far this year the books I’m reading just haven’t been hitting at ALL for me, DNFs, starting and then needing to pause etc because I am not enjoying or connecting. I am also reading much slower than normal for me and I realise that I may indeed be the problem 🥴😂

So, I’ve decided to take a step back for a month, minimum, from fantasy, focussing on some classics and non fiction, with a sprinkle of Lit Fic, and just try to reset my brain a little when it comes to the fantasy world. I do have a monthly buddy read with my friend which is usually a fantasy and which I will keep in, but other than that, I’m backing off for a little bit.

I have so many great series I want to get to (Brando, John Gwynne, Ryan Cahill, James Logan, Evan Winter, Tad Williams etc) that I want to go into them fully engaged and not burnt out, which is what I think is currently happening!

Have you ever found you just need to take a step back from a whole genre and refresh your brain chemistry? For the mood readers among us … tell me I’m not alone 😂

Hi guys, I know I might sound dumb lol I wanted to ask how people use gifs in the comments of posts, like how do you guys do that? When I try to do it, it says the app/website doesn't support GIFs. I love GIFs to share in comments and in chat, as they express emotions more than words do for me. But I'm not able to do it 😭 Would love any help if anyone knows, how's that possible?