hi everyone!! wanted to put this out there for people who might be interested. @pykora and i have planned to do a buddy read for Wild Seed in April this year! i know that there was interest from other users, so i wanted to put a post out for others to be aware and also as a reminder :)

i plan on reading through the series and this Quest following the curriculum by Dr Brianna Whiteside (more info here). there are other posts about it in this Quest forum, but essentially, Dr Brianna Whiteside theorizes that Octavia Butler wrote her books as an interconnected series rather than three separate series. the order would be the Patternist series -> Parable series -> Xenogenesis series

i don't have any planned dates for any of this, but want to prioritize it this year if anyone is interested!

for April, i thought it would be fun to have a buddy read for Wild Seed. i'm very not good with planning specific schedules or dates, so the buddy read will be open ended! start when you want, anytime in April, and finish as comes naturally to you. if there is interest to continue the series, we can plan that too :)

if you're unfamiliar with buddy reading on Pagebound, essentially it just means that we will be reading the book around the same time and informally keeping an eye out for each other's updates and posts. there is no official "buddy read" function on Pagebound, but it's a fun way to connect with people and enhance the reading experience

the buddy read is open to anyone interested! if you join in, leave a comment so we can check in on each other throughout the month!! excited to read with everyone 🩷🩷

i might get my feelings hurt with this one because there are a lot of well known/popular writers that i really love and enjoy. i read a freida mcfadden book recently and was genuinely disappointed. i grew up on agatha christie and i generally really enjoy mysteries/thrillers, and its been so long since i've enjoyed a good mystery. unfortunately for me, the writing felt very simplistic(? idk if that's the best word for it) and did not impress me at all. yes, this is a risk we all run when taking opinions/thoughts from strangers online, but i'm wondering if there are any super hyped up authors that you didn't/couldn't like at all. (this is exlcuding any authors you don't like because they are problematic in some way or the other)