I'm asking this purely out of curiosity. I tend to look up reviews after I've finished a book already because I want to know what other people think of it. I RARELY look up reviews beforehand; I don't want them to influence my impression of a book, since I know tastes are subjective. The only exception to this is monthly roundups people do of their reading, where they share little reviews of what they read throughout the month, but I think that's different since I'm not going out of my way to look up reviews of a specific book.

I'm interested in hearing why you read reviews!

2 + Chapters in. The first chapter really captured my attention., and I was ready to dive right in.

I was tentatively to start this book because I was forseeing that the character would go through a lot of trama. Middle of chapter 3 and I can feel my anxiety ramping up, and had to put the book down for a bit. Does this happen to anyone else?

Like. Okay. I have a small habit of buying too many books. So to cut back on that, I have started to change from just buying the books I want to read, and focus my energy into saving up to buy special editions and hardcovers of the series that I know I absolutely adore as like an actual collection.

I'm thinking of making more use with libraries, the internet archive, etc for reading itself.

I will admit there is no actual question, I just want other people's thoughts about this and maybe some recs on other places to get the books I'm interested in.

would anyone like to be mutuals on pagebound or substack? my user is the same for both accounts and i'd love people to talk about books with!