I have a few reading goals I have been slacking on! I'm working on r/Fantasy Book Bingo, only 5/25 so far so I need to pick up on that! I also have a list of recommendations from friends that I am way behind on, 4/36 lol (I've shoved a lot into bingo mentioned above so hopefully I can catch up!). I am also reading books from the Wainwright Prize longlists, and I hope to read at least 10 of them this year. Tell us your reading plans for the latter half of 2025 and we can cheer each other on!

I think I’m too tired to read this rn & also not science fiction minded enough to want to power through this to get to the plot which is a bummer. Maybe a soft DNF idk also not a huge fan of the writing style

or even 30+. last year i decided i'm going back to reading, and i read 23 books. i work a full time job, and if i try very hard, i can maybe do 2 books a month. this year i'm slower, and i'm aiming for 15. but i did started listening to audiobooks at work, and i'm halway through one now in a little over a day so what's your secret?

I'm sure I'm not the only one, but I have the hardest of time accepting to DNF a book. Most of the time I keep being stubborn, cause what if it gets better? Okay I'm at 70% and it's still not great but I've come this far, might as well finish it?? Please tell me I'm not alone in this😂 So! When do you usually realize your current read is going to be a DNF? Is it vibe based? Or is it more like if certain criteria aren't met by a certain point it gets the boot? What are your tips and tricks to DNF'ing? My TBR is too long for me too keep pushing through books I should've DNF'd, I need help🙏

What's the difference between Dual narration and Duet? And what do u call if there's a whole cast?

I thought it would be kind of fun to see where in the world people are, and then folks can make friends with people from the same countries/ares (if they way, not pressure obviously). I'll go first. I'm Canadian, and more specifically I am in British Columbia (Vancouver Island if you want to get fancy. Try to find your country and join that thread! Everyone else?

How did you get into reading? Was it something you've always done? Or did you pick up a book randomly and never looked back? What has changed since then? I started getting into reading around July 2023. I used to hate it because it reminded me of school and assignments. Then I discovered the world of romance books and I've been reading constantly since. It's also made me a quicker and better reader. Although since starting university, I've been correlating everything from my lessons into the books, so it makes my brain work overtime when I read a dark romance book 💀

What are some tropes or storytelling decisions/concepts that have you immediately interested? And on the opposite, what are the things that you hear about a book that immediately make you go "no, not reading that" ? Generally, "there's dragons" will get me to read anything. Magic schools; elemetal magic; marriage of convenience in romance; a MC infiltrating the antagonist side and risking to "lose themselves" while doing it (actually, generally a FMC being unhinged); heroes struggling with what to make of themselves AFTER they've saved the world/defeated the bad guys; unreliable narrator ! all top tier to me. Love Triangles will kill any interest I have in reading a book. Too much smut; love interests alternating between threatening and flirting; miscommunication; I also struggle with generational stories because I don't like "abandonning" characters to follow another one

If you start a book but switch formats at any point, do you skip to where you stopped and continue from there or do you start it over from the beginning? 🤔

Was thinking to myself how I have this ridiculous habit of intentionally speeding through book blurbs trying not to learn too much, leaving a book on my TBR for ages, starting to read it going off the memory of the blurb, and then being completely thrown by what the book is actually about because I realize I didn't actually know. Case in point: started the castle knoll files series today, DEAD CERTAIN the MC was an old male detective. It is about a 25 year old girl and her kooky aunt. This is abundantly clear in the blurb and I have no idea how I misremembered that badly. I spent the first 20 pages going "oh? Oh?? Oh!" So anyway, that got me thinking, do any of y'all have reading quirks like this that are ultimately harmless but kind of weird? A beige flag, if you will?