Random take but I love to read in the bath! I find I don't get distracted by my phone and my reading speed goes way up. Obviously bed is nice too but my other fav is the beach!

As someone who loves stats I'm always fascinated by numbers 👁️‍🗨️ What's your average rating for books? What kind of "book-rater" do you consider yourself to be, and does it match that average? And if you don't know your average, what do you feel like is the most common rating you tend to give books? I consider myself to not be a very harsh rater and my average sits at 3.91/5 stars, which is somewhat inconsistent with my impression of mostly giving out 3.5 stars 😂 I guess I've been handing more 4+ stars lately (or I just came across a bunch of books I really loved, which is also great 💖) What do your numbers look like? 👀

English was certainly a subject few people framed as their favorite during high school— and still quite some time afterwards— but it's also where a lot of readers got introduced to the wider world of novels. Whether it's as part of a curriculum (or of a limited selection for a book report), there were plenty of books to be read in those handful of years, and I'm curious as to which people maintain the most connection with. For myself as a proper class-wide novel, it would have to be Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. I've read it many times since those days, and will likely continue to do so. An incredible degree of foresight and creativity for something encroaching on a hundred years old, and something that still impresses me was able to make it into and be used effectively in a high school curriculum (though in various areas it *is* also a banned book). As for a more selective book, I had chosen to do a report on Ringworld by Larry Niven a year after Brave New World. Incredibly cool science fiction novel that I absolute devoured, alongside its subsequent sequels and prequels. I'd found it a surprisingly digestible series despite its age, but it still held such an incredible degree of wonder and separation from contemporary science fiction that I would read at the time. In hindsight, it really shows how amazing my English teachers were during those years, but also proves the importance of a guiding hand through literature in your youth— hence why I'm curious as to what other peoples' experience have been.

This is probably my first time trying to read a book in this particular subgenre of fantasy/romantasy, since I don't typically gravitate towards novels that are known to be explicit. But I'll try to keep an open mind.🙂‍↕️ So far, I'm getting through introductory exposition.