What’s a word you’ve pronounced wrong because you initially only encountered it in books?

Post inspired by my recent discovery that I’ve been pronouncing "facsimile" incorrectly for years 😔

As we all know by now, pagebound royalty gets to nominate lists for potential quests. I am having such a hard time because there’s so many amazing lists that users have put a lot of effort into. What are your favorites? I would love to hear some of yalls opinions and recs. I’m sure there’s amazing lists that don’t have much traffic as well.

This has probably been a post before, but I couldn’t find it, so I’m asking!

I was texting with my book club and it got me thinking about how differently we all rate books.

I’ve realized I’m not super selective with my stars 😅 I definitely give them out like candy. I’m very much an “if I vibe, it’s a 5” kind of reader. Even if there are moments that make me cringe or roll my eyes, if the overall vibe is there, it’s probably getting a 4 or 5 from me.

Meanwhile, my friends would rate that same book a 2 or 3 because of those cringe and eye-roll moments.

So now I need to know… what’s your vibe for ratings? 😌📖

My scale for reference:

1 star – I want my time back. 2 stars – I finished it… but I complained the whole time. 3 stars – It was fine. I’ll forget it in a few days. 4 stars – I really enjoyed it, had some issues, but I’m recommending it. 5 stars – I vibed even despite the issues and i’d reread and recommend it.

hi friends! for those of you who studied literature in school, university, or elsewhere, what was your favourite topic/module/unit and why? has it influenced your reading habits long-term?

in high school, i loved a unit called Works in Translation, which focused on literature translated from different languages, to encourage intercultural understanding. it introduced me to the art of translation and how sociocultural context and language itself can influence the meaning of a book. to this day i’m super particular about choosing between multiple translations of a text.

we also did quite a rogue unit entirely on Irish poetry (Yeats, Kavanagh, Heaney) that i adored (lots of bog imagery)