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Anywho, Are there any authors you have unnecessary beef with? And why?

I'm not talking JKR, Sarah J Maas, or Colleen Hoover. We get why there is beef. No. I want the most random author you have beef with

For me: Jennifer L Armentrout I find the From Blood & Ash series a cash grab, like I have never known a book series where you have to read the prequel to understand future books. And who the heck needs a garlic scented book.... gross

is there anyone who actually likes the movie better then the book? The only one i liked better was the summer i turned pretty. Otherwise i feel they always screw it up so muchhhh. Either poor casting or they take out key details or really hilarious parts. I still need to watch where the crawdads sing, the boy in the stripped pajamas, daisy jones and the six, and probably a lot more but i dont know if its worth my time.

This weekend I was having a little bit of a rough go at it. Back hurt, migraines have been off and on the last few weeks, couldn't find the damn Pokémon I was looking for in Pokéopia. I put aside the Dungeon Crawler Carl book I was reading. Went to my shelf of waiting to be read murder mysteries. Pulled a new one off and began to read. I immediately started to feel a little better.

This always makes my wife chuckle because my comfort reads are not comedy, not a classic I love, not Terry Pratchett, who I hold very dear. No, my comfort reads are murder. I thought about it a little this morning and decided that it must be the puzzle. I mean, I am a good guy. I am not secretly a serial killer. I think the puzzle just relaxes my brain. It allows me to focus on solving the mystery. To begin to organize the clues and puzzle pieces. I particularly like mysteries with good characters. Detectives that I wish I could know in real life.

By the end of Sunday night, my back still hurt, the migraine had gone away, and I still had not caught that damn Pokémon, but my brain felt reset and slipped off into sleep easily.

How about my Pagbound friends, do any of you have unusual comfort reads? Is there something about the genre or book that settles down your brain? If you don't have one that is unusual, I still would love to hear what does comfort you?

(Maybe pt 1. I might have another confession for another day. 🫠)

I have a confession: I have never, not once, in my life (and I was born in the 1900s, and not the 90s either) DNF’d a book. I just can’t do it. I have to finish every book I start.

Some books turn into full blown hate reads because I refuse to quit, because then the book somehow “wins.” 🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️ Other times, I convince myself there’s still a chance the book could redeem itself at the end, and I refuse to risk the FOMO. And then there are the ones that are so bad they loop back around to being entertaining, like accidental comedy, again, I have to see it through.

There are a lot of reasons, but at the end of the day, I simply cannot DNF a book. Like, something in me will not allow it. Do I need to unpack this with my therapist? Maybe. Might just bring it up next session. Lmao.

Alright, your turn, what’s your bookish confession? I want to hear them all.