Personally, the perfect audiobook speed for me is 1.5x but when I’m really in the zone I like to go to 2x. My husband’s is a strict 1x and I have a coworker who only listens to her audiobooks on 2x speed! I was just curious to see what other people’s perfect audiobook speeds are!

just like my tv post, I searched and couldn’t find a post like this so hopefully haven’t missed it!!

i’m spending my bank holiday weekend doing my favourite things

🥾 new hobbies (hikes/walks) 🧵 fave hobbies (cross stitching) 🎥 rewatching guilty pleasure moves (xmas edition)

and it got me thinking, we talk about guilty pleasure books but not always guilty pleasure films. i’m talking films that you know are crap but you love anyway.

mine are both christmas films and both star vanessa hudgens (sorry vanessa)

🗡️ the knight before christmas 👸 the princess switch

i know they’re both so bad but i just love them, such easy watching where i dont have to use a single part of my brain and perfect for the background cosiness when I’m crafting!!

how is everyone spending their weekend? & what are your guilty pleasure movies?🥰

I listened to a podcast about why having special interest is so important to generate your own personality and to be human and i want to talk about microfixations specially art related ones (music, books, movies, art pieces, video games even..)

I think out there there's the perfect piece (or pieces) of art for everyone and not all people have the fortune to find it. by perfect piece i talk about any piece of media that resonates with you in a deeper level than any other art piece has resonated with you. For me that would be Twin Peaks, i haven't even finished it (im on the third season) but i never felt the interest i'm feeling with this show with anything else, i could talk about it for hours. It has also happened to me with the Hunger games, i think is a contemporary classic, i even made my final highschool project about the representation of dystopia in fiction and the real world with the hunger games as my main piece of reference.

what are your microfixations?

Hello! so sorry I didn’t post a question yesterday, college decided to take up any spare time I had 😅 The question is..

• What is something that makes you want to DNF a book or makes you immediately DNF it? •

I’ll go first, something that makes me want to DNF a book is if it has false promises. And by that I mean when the book is promoted as a ‘perfect enemies to lovers romantasy with fiery tension!’ but then in reality they only slightly hated each other for 52 pages and then fell in love by chapter 8, and the worst thing he did was call her a bitch 🙄 For me personally a good enemies to lovers has to be dragged out over to the second book in the series. The reason why this makes me want to DNF a book is because it ruins my whole mood when I’m anticipating a trope/plot just to get the complete opposite shoved in my face 😩

Good afternoon Bookaholics!

Im excited to hear everyone's answers to this question....

What is the pettiest reason you ever disliked a book? 💀

It's great when you meet people who love your favorite books. You know what's even better? Finding people who hate the same books as you do!

I often go find one-star reviews of books I despise and give the reviewer a follow. It's funny to me that mutual hatred is more often a better predictor of shared taste than mutual endorsement :))

Here are some popular books I cannot stand or found underwhelming (apologies if this offends anyone here):

First and foremost, the star of the show: A Little Life ✨: this is easily one of my MOST HATED books of all time. I could make a five-hour video explaining why that is, but others have already done that. I hate it so much I'm using it as a coaster just to be disrespectful.

Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson: I know, I know, this is a favorite among many. This one I don't "hate" tbh, I just didn't care for the writing, the corny dialogue, the characters, and some plot points I found ridiculous. The world-building and the magic system was cool though. (I had this feeling it would be a much better experience as a video game!)

The Jade City: yes, another very popular fantasy, but I disliked it so much I DNF'd it after 100 pages. I really hated the objectification and over-sexualization of female characters, and I didn't care for the male characters or the plot either.

The Goldfinch by Donna Tart: I'm a sucker for big, slow-paced books with good writing so I had high hopes for this one but good grief this one KILLED ME. It was SUCH A DRAG. loved the prose but this did not have nearly enough substance to justify this much yapping. I might read her other book though.

The name of the wind by Patrick Rothfuss: I read this many years ago in farsi and I don't remember much except the main character was very clearly the writers' self insert and utterly insufferable. Some say this has good prose, but I read a translated version so this had no redeeming qualities for me.

What are your most hated books? Name them in the comments and see if you can find friends:))

This has been my favorite movie for years and i finally got around to buying it. It’s supposed to get here in about a week (along with a load of over books lmao) I know the book as a lot more darker themes or at least touches on them more. I can barely handle an angsty oneshot. Wish me luck lol

Inspired by a few videos I’ve seen on BookTok.

I’ll go first with my pick: Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant.

This was soooo hyped everywhere I looked. Reddit, Tiktok, Instagram… The plot looked promising and I was told to expect building tension and full-blown horror! Instead I got bad prose, rushed plot, too many characters with boring backstories, and no horror. I’m still bitter tbh and although other reviews say Grant’s other works are better, I’m unsure whether to even try. I just wanted scary mermaids. 🥲