i'm curious because i was explaining my dislike of 'you made a fool of death with your beauty' to a friend, and realized it's a book i can talk about extensively. i've seen arguments about how it works as a romance, how it shouldn't be considered one, why the exploration of grief is good, why the exploration of grief is bad... and i honestly love discussing all of those points about it and more, haha. it's gotten to the point that i question my dislike of it, but i think ultimately i disliked the characters and a lot of the execution/messaging, but i consider it to be a great discussion piece.

I just had the insanely jarring realization that honeymoons are a thing and I completely forgot about them when I set my username. I’ve always used “ golden moon” something as gaming usernames and just thought honey moon was a cute variation 🫠

This made me start wondering if I was similarly misreading anyone else’s usernames and what some of them meant. So while I think of a new username, I wanted to ask everyone what’s the story behind your username? 👀

Edit: The rebrand has been done 😌

For me, I used to be a hardcover, physical copy only person. Paperback if I had no other choice. Then I started reading fanfic and that you can only read via internet unless you printed it out. So, I got used to reading on the computer. (I was reading fanfic before we had internet on cellphones.)

Then when smartphones came out, I realized that I loved the convenience of reading on my phone, rather than toting a physical book around. (Especially since I'm very protective of my physical copies and don't want to damage them.) So my main method of reading nowadays is via the Kindle app or my e-readers. I still have my physical copies as well, because I am also a book collector.

I have yet to adventure into audio books because I don't believe that I would retain any of the story just by listening as I'm easily distracted. I might could do with immersive reading though. However, I have heard that not all narrators are created equal, so I'm leery about that.

So I'm curious on how you prefer to read. Physical, digital, audio? All three? Another way that I haven't mentioned?

I know some readers can be a little pretentious about physical vs digital vs audio and whether some don't count as reading, but I'm of the firm belief that it doesn't matter how, just so long as you do read. If you can't read, you can't learn. If you can't learn, then you can't grow.