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Does anyone have any recs for books narrated by animals?? It's one of my favorite things to read about and I was curious if yall felt the same way and had any recs? I feel like all of Erin Hunter's series and Tui T. Sutherland are really fun examples but also books like The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate and Watership Down by Richard Adam's! It always make for an interesting story and I love being able to read from such unique perspectives! <33
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I regret to inform everyone that Against the Waves, the book Eden recommends that is a mermaid retelling of Romeo and Juliet doesn't appear to be a really book. I am so sad I can't read it.
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Have y'all seen the recent news about "What Dan Read"? A man name Dan Pelzer recently died and his family had his 3599 (!!!) book long reading list digitized. They created a website https://what-dan-read.com/ so you could see his handwritten log and his local library (where he got most of his books) has made a spreadsheet so you could follow along too. https://www.columbuslibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/What-Dan-Read-Booklist.pdf I am bad about non-fiction books so I will be using Dan's list for future inspiration.
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After finishing a book that was very obviously a debut, it got me thinking about how others rate them. If you know you're reading a debut, does that change your rating? If so, are you more harsh or gentle with the stars you give? I think for me, my rating is usually pretty consistent, but I do have a little thought in my brain that maybe I should be more lenient?? I'm conflicted because if a book is good enough to be published, shouldn't it be able to hold its own against work from established authors? But then at the same time, this is such a hard market to break into... I'm curious to hear what others think!
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The Trouble With Sunshine
Yamile Saied MƩndez
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After having a really good conversation with a coworker/friend it got me to thinking. Why do you read? Do you read to escape (that's me), for pure enjoyment (also me) or to better educate yourself/learn something new?
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Out of curiosity I just wonder if other people do this, I usually do the standard reading goal of reading a certain amount of books but I also do specific reading goals like reading this many physical books, reading this number of books that I had since I was 13, reading every fae book I have, rereading a favorite series. So do you have just one reading goal or multiple?
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I used to rate books with ".25" and ".75" stars (especially on StoryGraph) but now in my opinion 3.25 can just be 3 stars and 3.75 can just 4 stars. And in pagebound i think its nice to not confuse myself with this bc here it's only .5! What do you think?
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Ollie In Between
Jess Callans
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Asking for a Friend Overall Rating: ā ā ā (3/5) or 6.00/10 overall Characters - 6 Atmosphere - 6.5 Writing - 6 Plot - 6 Intrigue - 6.5 Logic - 5 Enjoyment - 6 Overall Thoughts: I was underwhelmed by this book. As much as I wanted to like the characters and their dynamic, they just felt like characters to me. I can't put my finger on why but they had an unrealistic quality to me that just constantly reminded me that they were clearly characters and not real. The plot was alright, but not particularly stood out to me about it. I was generally intrigued enough to want to know how everything would play out but I felt like most of the conflicts seemed to disappear way too easily. Overall, I was just hoping for a bit more than this story provided. :/
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Asking for a Friend
Ronnie Riley
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I'll go first. They make me feel so guilty low-key. Like I feel like I always need to chug through it no matter what. Because I always have that "It might get good. You never know" feeling in the back of my mind so I'm so scared to DNF. I feel like I would rather chug through and hate it rather than DNF and be at peace. I just need to know fully. And eventually I get to like 50% and I feel like I put too much time into it to DNF. So I just keep going.