Have you guys ever imagined something from a book incorrectly and then realized it too late? Like, maybe you somehow missed a descriptor while you were reading and you only realized it when it came up again later on?

My BIGGEST screw up was imagining an MMC with dark hair only to realize he was blonde… on my third or fourth reread of the series!! I have no idea how I missed the description of his hair color MULTIPLE times but, I did, and by the time I realized the truth, it was too late to change the image in my head. This happens to me on occasion with hair color, eye color, etc., but it also happens sometimes with setting. For example I’ll read “She set the remote down on the table to her left”, and I’ll be like LEFT?!? Since when is the table on the left?!? But then I go back and reread and… yeah, it’s always been on the left.

This, however, is different than when it’s the author’s fault😡. Like, sometimes authors will wait until 60% of the way into the book and randomly throw in a line like “I gathered my blonde tendrils into a loose bun” and it’s like ummmmm excuse me?? You’ve already given me NOTHING but time to imagine the characters how I want, and NOW you want to tell me something crucial about their appearance?? It’s actually one of my pet peeves while reading when authors don’t establish things early on. Obviously I don’t need every book to start with some cheesy scene where the character is looking in the mirror, unsubtly describing themself for me- but I should at least know the basics by 15% in or something.

Anyways… any thoughts lmao?

Audiobook users (or anyone really), help me out, how do you pronounce "The Seacht" ? Is it [see-sht]? [seh-kt]? It's such a useless detail but I find myself unable to focus cause every time I read it I don't know how to sound it out 😂

idk if its just because im reading this immediately after finishing alchemised but i feel like we're moving really fuckin fast 😭😭

Listening to this again (like the third time i think) cause i can’t remember most of the stuff in the later seasons lol Might as well listen to all of them

Do any of you know any books that have Slavic rep in them that don't just consist of Russian people?

Slavic people come from all kinds of places, Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, Ukraine etc.

Yet for me at least it feels as though international media thinks that Slavic means automatically Russian when it really doesn't

So I would appreciate Slavic book recs (authors or characters in books) that aren't Russians if anyone has any ^^

Update: I made a list with several recs from the comments! It's called Non Russian Slavic Books ^^

A Question especially for the fantasy and sci-fi readers among us but everyone is welcome to answer it: How many of the parents of the main characters in your books this year were not dead at the beginning or end of the book?

For me it was like one or two set of parents living by the end of the book and a few more like 3-5 at the beginning and then getting murdered in the book out of 18 books this year so far ... And it's mostly absolutely stated that the parents of both mcs are dead ... I know it's nothing new in the genre just wanted to know your bodycount ;)