I think this is probably a me issue and I just need to try to focus more, but sometimes I find myself having trouble telling who is speaking until I'm like 2 or 3 dialogue lines into a conversation the characters are having. This has happened a few times already and I'm not that far into it, so again, it could very well be a me problem, but I still feel like it could have benefited from a few more dialogue tags

I was JUST thinking "damn this is a pretty chill book, nothing bad seems to be happening to the characters" and boom😭

I've read 13 books so far this year and I notice that I keep giving them either 4 or 3 stars and while that may not be an issue, I feel strange about it.. For me, the whole 5 star system is just difficult to grasp, when I feel like its so much more logical to rate stuff 1-10 and I guess it's great that pageboud at least has half stars, so you could kind of convert it into a 10 star system. Yet I'm still having difficulty rating the books. I know there's a lot of criteria you can look at to determine your rating, but after I finish a book I just go ahead and rate it MOSTLY based off of how much I liked it and how well written I found it, as well as how that rating compares to other books I rated that number. But I can't help feeling guilty for this system, since it doesn't necessarily reflect the books themselves. Maybe rating is overrated (lol) in general, we always want to put things in boxes, but sometimes you really just don't have to/can't. For example, I read "Lolita" last year, and I acknowledge the genius and prose of the writing, but I despise the content of the book, found it extremely difficult to read, not just because of the obvious disturbing plot, but it felt tiring in general. And so I just left it unrated. I honestly don't even know what the point of this post is, maybe just to share my thoughts on this, or maybe someone has a GENIUS rating system and wants to share?

Writing this has made me realise I honestly shouldn't gaf about the rating at all, what's important is what you take away from the book...

It's funny to think that when I first started tracking my reading (2023) I was totally obsessed about specifying when and how much I read, I was trying to track it all in such detail that it felt more like a hastle.. Now I just update my progress on pagebound whenever I remember, not worrying if I even read those pages the current day or earlier that week. Anyway, these are just some thoughts, anyone else have similar experiences?

Does anybody else not have the ability to read out loud?

That sounds weird. But I find that when I read books out loud, after a while my nose gets blocked up and I can't breathe while reading until I stop.

It's like a faerie bippity booped and yoinked my voice

Is this a weird asthma symptom? No idea!