I’m looking for recs of books with KDramas vibes 👀

A friend recently shared the CAWPILE* review system with me and I'm curious if anyone here is using that or something similar.

Also would love to know what your star ratings mean to you - mine are:

⭐️ Survived ⭐️⭐️ Tolerated ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Liked ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Loved ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reread worthy

Thankfully, I haven't had reason to use 1 or 2 often 😅

*(Expanding the acronym for anyone who needs it: Characters, Atmosphere, Writing, Plot, Intrigue, Logic, Enjoyment - you rate these areas from 1-10 then divide by 7 to land at a score - 10 feels like too big a scale for me so I use it with 1-5)

There are so many books I want to promote and recommend to fellow Boundlings, but they simply weren't translated into English!! This frustrates me so much! If you read in multiple languages, has this happened to you? Drop those recs in the comments!

For me, it was when I was reading Chain-Gang All Stars yesterday that I realised that the premise and criticism within is similar to Les Furtifs by Alain Damasio (dystopian novel where cities are owned by brands and the daily life of citizens is completely taken over by capitalism). I love Damasio's work but I understand why it could be difficult to translate, and I also wonder if there really is a market for his type of writing outside of French speaking countries.

Well, that was my rant... Sorry about that!!

i just realized that i’m reading TWO books at the moment that have a narrator telling the story to the actual narrator of the book. the two being Wuthering Heights and Heart Of Darkness. to be completely honest, i don’t think ive ever read any other books that contain that structure. so to be rereading them both at the same time (i picked both randomly this month) is kind of wild.

have you read other books that have the narration structure?

What's all of yalls' biggest opinions on books covers? Like what's the one thing that usually you see on a cover or you don't see on a cover that makes or breaks a book buy for ya?

Like I personally, I don't like seeing the male lover interest on the cover, like I'll read it but I'm not buying it. I don't particularly enjoy having that in my bookshelf. (No hate if you like it, I just most enjoy having books I can display.)

How far ahead do you plan your next reads?

I didn’t use to do this and choose my next book only when I’m done with my current one. But bc of readalongs here and buddy reads and BOTMs in some Discord servers, I have March planned in advance even before it was February.

Before now it didn’t quite click that I already had my next five reads planned and… I’m not sure I like it.

What about you? And bonus question: How many books in advance do you think is reasonable to plan ahead?