I am a lover of books with humorous, witty, or creative writing styles (especially with skillful and interesting figurative language), and a lover of a lot of the “weird girl” litfic books out there, but so many of the popular ones are really white! I want more black main characters and authors (especially black women but men would be fine too) but with that same kind of fun-to-read writing style.

I like all genres but don’t read much fantasy, and I don’t mind fiction or non-fiction!! I prefer general/adult over young adult but if it’s written smartly I don’t mind either. LGBTQ+ books are always a plus as well.

Does anyone have a recommendation like this? <3

Ok you guys, what's your top audiobook playback speed record? And what book were you reading? Also im curious what's everyone's norm? And for that matter, what was the slowest you had to put a book for?

Much like a public library culls its collection, I'm embarking upon a huge personal culling of my library. I've been in the industry for more than a decade at this point (which feels wild) and have been a reader my entire life. I had a blog on Blogspot in ye olde 2009 reviewing books, long before bookfluencers—my teenage self would be THRILLED to see how reading has exploded. But because of this, my personal library has grown exponentially and has been growing for about twenty years, and I've really not ever done a huge purge other than about 50-60 books once a year or so. I have about 2,600 on my physical TBR in my house. (Again, I have been collecting for my entire life, and am 34. This is in no way meant to make people feel like they don't have enough or have too many! Everyone's library is personal!)

Over the years, I've seen others do a purge and I had never felt the need to, because I loved being surrounded by all the books I wanted to read. But I have finally hit that point—I'm no longer in joy; I'm overwhelmed. By all the books I've carried from apartment to apartment to house to house and still haven't read. I have books on my physical TBR from 2015—I am an entirely different person now, and it's finally sinking in that it's okay that my reading tastes have changed and that I can let some to-be-reads go.

It's always scary for me because what if it's the book that got away? What if I gave away one that could have been a favorite?

What are your criteria for getting rid of books you haven't read yet? How do you decide what still fits you? (Personally, I no longer read YA, so that's an easy category for me to pull off my shelf, as well as women main characters written by men authors. These are the only two that have been relatively easy to pull off the shelf.) Would love to know how others go about this monumental task!

All these comments are saying it’s so funny already but it must not be my kind of humor 😅 I’m not listening to the audiobook, which maybe would help convey the comedy