are you a cat person, or a dog person?

quite a random question, but i'm curious, and i'm wondering if it impacts your book taste?

people like to say dog people are outgoing, extroverted, go getters— and cat people? more reserved, maybe witchy, more slow paced.

i'm both! i've grown up with cats, dogs, ferrets and many other small pets, but i'm still pretty introverted and keep a small circle. i like to go out sometimes, but i'm pretty laid back to be honest. i like creepier, weirder books, preferably fast paced though!

what about you guys? do you think it says anything about your personality?

I've realised that I find it hard to rate books low if I've enjoyed them in the moment. Like I know the book is not going to stick with me but since I had fun reading it I'll give it 4/4.5 stars. Which definitely isn't a problem per se but it does make me want to have a more concrete rating system in place.

So I'm curious, how do you guys rate your books?

I can't help but see the similarities between this first chapter and "The Wind-up Bird Chronicle" - Murakami uses the metaphor of the stairwell to hint at the shifted version of reality the character is about to enter. I'm doing 1 chapter a day so i'm curious to see if i'm right about this or if i'm looking too much into it.

I’m sure I’ve got books listed in there from the few times I’ve tried but I’m a chronic mood reader and I just kind of let the vibes lead me to new places.

When people suggest I read things I’ll say, I’ll add it to the list! There is no list, I’m just hoping the internet brings it back into my space when I’ll be in the mood to read it 😅

Has your college major affected what you liked to read/how you read? If so how. My major is Politics and history, and even before going to college I loved to read history books, either fiction or nonfiction. And going to college reading more academic texts, using JSTOR my love for those types of books/themes and topics has just grown even more.

Neil Gaiman is a terrible, awful person but if Coraline is here, Stardust should be too

Hey all,

I don't know if it is just because I am moving into middle age that I am wanting to ask, but - why is the most comfortable way for you to personally read?

Tell me about your comfy reading habits. Is listening to an audiobook while on a hike the best for you? A certain configuration on the couch? A beloved recliner? Flopped in bed under covers but with your limbs at specific angles? Only while sitting like book lovin' ladies in 1900's paintings, with your back straight and arms somehow holding the book at eye level for a straight neck/spine even though the only arm workouts you are permitted is embroidery (this is not a dig on fiber arts, I love cross stitch myself)?

TELL ME. I am fascinated by this topic.

The obviously follow up is: for how long is this comfy reading comfy?

Okay, I have a question for anyone who reads both YA and adult books. How do you categorise a book into YA or Adult??? Interestingly enough, I don't have this problem with caegorising Middlegrade v YA, but I keep having this issue with older characters in books. If the characters are teens and in high school, I always say it's YA no matter what the subject matter is about because I honestly have never encountered a book dark or triggering enough that I wouldn't have been happy to figuratively pass it along to younger me. But, here's my issue: why is the line between YA (possibly being called older YA, but I'm really not sure) and new adult so god damn blurry? Like, for example, are there people out there categorising the Off-Campus series by Elle Kennedy as YA? Because the main characters are 20, and as far as I'm aware, that means that they're no longer children. Unless in the US, you see anyone under 21 as a child?? I've been having this issue for years now, so of course, now that I'm bringing it up, I can't think of any other examples, but I swear, whenever I read a book that I would personally categorise as New Adult (age 18ish - 25), it's in the YA section. A big one that I know I used to see A LOT (and it's always with female writers and a lot of the time in Fantasy) was the ACOTAR series by SJM. It's 100% for adults but was marketed to teenagers for YEARS. I'm honestly just baffled by the whole thing and wondering if I've gotten my wires crossed at some point and have been going about this all the wrong way. I'd be really curious to know anyone's thoughts!

some context for how I categorise age ranges: The Raven Boys - YA (teenagers) The Sun and the Starmaker - New Adult (18 yr old mc, chosen one kind of deal) ACOTAR series - Adult (Feyre is 19 in book 1, and there is a lot of smut throughout the series) The House in the Cerulean Sea - Adult (adult mcs even though I know some people like to automatically say that anything cozy is ya) Wayward Children series - YA (I could absolutely be persuaded to change this to NA in the future if the characters get older, but most of these are about teens atm so... YA) Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries - Adult (Emily is 30) Assistant to the Villain - New Adult (Evie is 23)

Is this a kids' book? It seems like it, and it has pictures...

Besides heart stopper of course those are amazing! But I just started reading solitaire and I also read nick and Charlie and realized how much I love her writing style. Also if people could recommend other authors like her