If you as a reader (today) exist at the venn diagram of three quests, what are they?

After a ton of deliberation and back-and-forth, I would say:

• lit fit starter pack (although I'm such an insufferable snob I wouldn't even classify some of those books as literary)
• LGBTQ+ SFF
• dark academia.

This is partly inspired by my former life as an intense Swiftie, where everyone would have their "holy trinity" of albums (for those curious mine will always be rep, speak now, and folklore).

Every time I post on here I'm procrastinating my PhD, btw.

i read this series when i was a kid and i can’t remember how many arcs i actually made it through but i’ve been thinking about doing a reread for the nostalgia of it all so here i am

Now that we’re a little way into the month, how is everyone going with their goals?

I have a truly unhinged goal of reading a book a day for the entire month and I’m actually on track with that so far.

Ok so fun question that has actually been on my mind for some time. Can you eat while reading or no? I definitely can’t, it constantly makes me pause my book to take a bite or something, and if it’s food eaten with hands, then my food stained hands on the pages?! 😵‍💫 just no. It’s terrible, I always eat before I read, unless it’s snacks. I can do those, but not chips unless it’s with chopsticks.

I have no clue what's going in right now and I'm really thinking about dnfing this book. I just don't have the capacity to read this.

This book definitely gives and is “it is what it is”. That’s the only way to describe this book nothing else would make it make sense.

definitely struggling a little bit with how it kind of drags, but that is probably a me problem because i understand about 5% of the sciencey talk. it's taking me forever to finish because i just rarely feel like picking it up 😭😭 idk how much of it is based in real science and how much is just made up sci-fi stuff but either way there tends to be like entire paragraphs that just don't mean anything to me, and maybe thats on me for picking up a book that's so science-heavy just bc i liked the movie lol

Inspired by @Lixxie222's earlier post: What was the last book you bought, and why did you buy it?*

*(for example - a pretty cover, the plot sounded cool, it was recommended, you loved it and wanted your own copy, you were treating yourself, etc etc.)

The last book I bought was The Names by Florence Knapp because it was a 5 star book that I couldn't stop thinking about and I wanted my own copy. I was at a bookstore where I had store credit so I figured why not (and I was able to get a used copy too so it was a bit cheaper!)

Do you keep yours the same or do you change it based on your mood/current genre kick/ just cause you feel like it?

I like so many of the avatars, though we need more audiobook ones IMHO; so I tend to mix it up.

“I gasped. ‘Wait a minute! Am I a guinea pig? I'm a guinea pig!’ I stared at her. She stared at me. I stared at her. ‘Okay, it's exactly like that,’ she said.”

While I do agree with a lot of people that the humor is oftentimes juvenile and boyish, I quite like how theatrical the writing is. The way Weir describes the physical sequences like this gives you a clear mental picture of the characters' mannerisms and actions. It almost feels like a stage play at times. Just based on his writing style, I could see why someone would want to adapt this into a movie. It's very... adaptable 😂

If you can remember whats your first ever book you read or just something you remember impacted you into reading or just you in general?

Let me go first. I think the first book I picked up was The Vampire Academy. I mean, obviously we read books in school, but this was the first book I actually chose to read on my own, and I legit think it changed my life. More in the way of like, “wow… books are actually GOOD and damn I want to consume more" I'd legit go to the library like weekly lmao ”

But also in a way is that I used to have a really bad learning disability as a child I ( still have it but is like low maintenance now ) and would act out a lot growing up, and I genuinely think picking up books and reading helped shape me into who I am today. I like to say it was almost like a switch went off in my brain. Like suddenly I wanted to try in school and the disability that held me back felt like it didnt impact me as much.

So yeah, Vampire Academy legit paved the way for my love of reading 🥹 Sorry, I rambled a lot lmao.

I just wanna know people orgin stories on discovering books lmao.

So I don't have a very large TBR, and not a lot of physical books in general. I own exactly 100 books, which makes calculating a percentage easy. I currently have 19 books on my TBR, 4 of which I've started. I always see book content creators have these huge TBR's of 200-400 books and it kind of makes me wonder "Is that normal?" Because I don't know anyone in my personal life who has so many unread books. And of course these people have a channel dedicated to books and often make money off of reading. So it might be a bit of an unrealistic comparison.

So I want to know: If you aren't a content creator and reading isn't a source of money in some other way for you either, how large is your TBR? Why is it not smaller or bigger? Do you think having such a large TBR (>200 books) is wasteful?