I was listening to one of my favorite podcast a while ago and they were debating this topic about their favorite director regarding the making of their next films. I wanted to implement it in the sense of reading and find out what you guys would pick 😆

Would you rather your favorite author constantly write and put out books every year, but the story will always be mediocre? Or would you rather your favorite author write a book that will always be considered a masterpiece, but it’ll always take them close to 5-10 years before they put it out the world?

I actually don’t even know what’ll I choose at this point 😭. What will you guys pick?

I need depressing book recs!! Not like “oh no and then he died!” i mean the kind that make you mourn after the book is finished or that makes you appreciate every tiny good thing that happened. I want misery, sadness, and almost like failing to succeed or not being able to make a goal that so desperately wanted/needed to be met Books dont make me cry but maybe theres one out there that will and I have yet to find it.

• No romance or at least minimal
• Sad endings are great but happy endings work too
• it can be really big book or a novelette Thank youu any recs are much appreciated!!

I've been revisiting some of my old DNFs to see if I do better with them this time around, and it got me thinking. I've heard a lot of discussion about beloved books that are disappointing when you reread them - but I don't remember ever talking about when the opposite happens!

Do you ever give your DNFs another try? (FOMO has definitely made me attempt some books far more times than I should've.) Or was there a book you disliked when you read it for school, but really enjoyed when you read it for yourself later?

Or even just, books you enjoyed, and enjoyed MORE on a reread, when you were more aware of what the author was doing and could appreciate it more?

I had such intense whiplash with Empire of Exiles by Erin M. Evans - it was a bit of a slog, a three-star read for me the first time around. But the second time I read it I ADORED it, and I still have no idea what was wrong with me for that first read! (Anyone else out there pining for book three?)

Or College of Magics by Caroline Stevermer - that was one I DNFed, a few times actually! And then someone talking about it made me pick it up again earlier this year, and I INHALED it!

Which has me wondering if I should make it a rule to revisit my DNFs regularly, just in case something's shifted and a book I couldn't stand before has become a potential new fave. It's happened a few times now!

Desperate for more recs similar to this. The writing, the chemistry… I don’t want it to end! 🥹