Hi everyone!! I'm beginning tomorrow a master's program and my stress level is quite high. Does anyone have a book to recommand with a student as the main character and where studies is an important topic? Thank you!!

What it says on the tin: What is the worst book you have ever read and finished? What about the worst book you ever read and DNFed?

(Remember this is all in fun, to meet people with similar tastes, and because I'm curious, not to shame anyone for liking or disliking books you liked or disliked!!)

i feel like we're all so hyper-critical of trends all the time - which, hey, so fair i get it!! the loss of individuality, the big Capitalism, the wtf are we doing of it all etc. but, i feel like sometimes it's fun to just use them to your advantage and have fun observing what is haunting current society whilst you can.

for example, i unabashedly love the "weird girl book" and "cool girl book" - again, have we lost the plot, maybe? but i am absolutely soaking up the fact that authors (mostly women) writing about women being weird, obsessive, angry, horny, and just trying to survive in the terribly-wonderful thing that is being a woman and what that identity asks of you, is profitable and i get to collect all these wonderful studies of this existence and can just buy them at a bookstore in my country?! i don't have to scour the ends of the indie landscape to read them and that is so fun to me!!

i don't know, maybe i have a particularly good outlook on it (with aforementioned grains of salt) because it is benefitting me and my reading tastes, but what do you think? do you think it's okay to indulge in the centuries long tradition of the trend or does it make you feel funny? ( i liken it to being a teal lover and just basking in the abundance of basics filling your closet right now as teal takes another turn in the clothing trend cycle y'know?)

Does anyone else have a list of List ideas? I tend to be very much in my own world when it comes to reading books, so my ideas of lists don’t really go anywhere. 😬

I just thought it’d be nice to share some ideas of lists that I’ve been sitting on but would love to read more about:

• Waste Disposal is the main character (fiction) - Books that focus on waste disposal and how we’re not watching the items we consume. (Inspired by Gachiakuta and the influence of Japanese cultures 🔗 Tsukumogami in its storyline.)
• Pick your mount. No, not that one - Books with unusual mounts, not including dragons or horses. (Inspired by The Legendary Moonlight Sculptor series where the MC rides a bull.)
• When I Stopped Singing - a list of books where the main character just doesn’t want to talk anymore, I guess voluntary mutism or took a vow of silence (Personal interest)
• Magic is Accessibility - a list of books where the world has magic and accessibility, people can be magic, disabled and not want to be “fixed.” (Inspired by the disability reps in the Witch Hat Atelier mangas by Kamome Shirahama)
• Ripping at the Roots - books about people fixing their community, I think kind of like being a terrible person in their youth, or having left without mending old relationships. Basically about rebuilding burnt bridges. (Inspired by my last reread of The Losers by Harley Laroux.)

I view Lists as a group project (but if people don’t want it to be, it doesn’t have to be), so I’m putting these out there incase people have recs.

So, do you have any ideas for lists? If you’ve already put out the list, what inspired it?