“Because I refuse to relinquish even a moment to anything I don’t cherish.” 🥰

My orange baby says “Hello twin” 😂 anyone else have an orange maniac????

Feeling bummed lately because I finished a book last week and my head has hurt too much to read ever since. The combination of migraines and ME/CFS has made reading with my eyes increasingly hard, and I love and appreciate audiobooks, but I just don’t process the same aurally, and I struggle to listen to books I want to really dig into (usually amounts to more literary fiction but not exclusively). Aka right now I’m just listening to nonstop romance audiobooks and reading other books very slowly. Wondering what other people with migraines/ other illness/disability that limits their reading have tried, and just figured this might be a nice space to talk about it. And lmk if you have any tips for listening to audiobooks; I am def willing to work on the way I approach them!

"Wendy," remonstrated Michael, "I'm too big for a cradle." "I must have somebody in a cradle," she said almost tartly, "and you are the littlest. A cradle is such a nice homely thing to have about a house."

I have many thoughts on the idea of a performance of the nuclear family… what is the ideal? What do they think is the norm? Why do the lost boys (and especially Peter) so earnestly want to be a nuclear family?

Also, there was a quote a couple pages before this where Wendy naively said she has to be the perfect housewife and that means always being on the husband/father’s side even if she privately disagrees with his opinions. I like the idea of reading this book as a satire on propriety and (white?) family dynamics instead of as a commentary on life and death (though the latter is also very relevant)

i know we all have a habit of using whatevers around us for holding the place in our books lol, the other day i had to use a pair of scissors and then a hairdryer 😭😭😭 today its nice and simple, a star wars postcard i bought the other day,

this one here!

but yus i would love to hear what everyone else currently using as a bookmark whether its an actual bookmark or a fun little bonus object we just had lying around lmao, this is show and tell time 🙂‍↕️✨️

I'm going through the popular romantasy sagas (think ACOTAR, The Empyrean, etc) and I keep finding comments in forums about how poorly written these are. Now I'm no writer and I haven't read THAT much to realise what's wrong with the writing. I'm curious to read something that falls within the well written standards so I can compare and find out by myself. What is a book that you love and is well written? Also, what defines a good writing? Are we talking lack of plot holes? Perfect grammar? Goes above and beyond with the story building?

Please help me understand.

Editing to add my take on it: I find something is poorly written if I struggle to follow the story for a couple of paragraphs, which only happened once or twice while reading those books I mentioned. I may or may not like the plot, but I don't think that defines the writing, does it? Repetition of phrases also bothers me if it happens too often and doesn't add up to the plot.

Edit 2: I guess what I'm trying to understand is if there are a certain set of 'rules' that define good writing or it all comes to personal taste (sorry, my background is in science and I know very little about art😅)