Tbh… I’m not a fan of the percentage update while reading. I don’t get the hype 🤷🏼‍♀️ I think it’s more work than necessary. I totally get the reading list updates, or reading goal updates. What does everyone else think?? What am I missing??

I’m curious why it was important enough to be added

i'm always excited whenever i get my hands on new books and equally just as excited to share them. i didn't see a general thread dedicated to just book hauls so if you're seeing this and recently picked up some books (whether from a bookstore, secondhand, the library, online, a garage sale, literally anywhere) feel free to share what you hauled!

today i stopped by a secondhand bookstore and got the following: Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr, Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer, and The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden.

hey all :)

does anyone have any book recs for a book where the characters genuinely hate love? like they were so wronged that the book is just filled with spite and vengeance without a love story happening at the end lmao

I usually read romcoms, but I want to read the exact opposite of a romcom rn 😂

I asked this in the Love Haters book discussion section, but I want to get the whole community's input 🙃

Every year I try to read one intimidating (or lengthy or dense or “difficult”) book to not only try to better improve my reading skills, but because there are also just a lot of books I’ve been wanting to read and have been a lil too scared to jump in.

I’ve been thinking about next year and what book I might choose, and I’ve been wanting to get into reading more Greek lit, especially the epics, for a long time. I own both The Iliad and The Odyssey, but not sure which one is best to start with. What would you guys recommend? Anything I should know before diving in? Any tips?

Also, I’m not the most…advanced or “intellectual” reader (hence the whole trying to read more challenging books thing) and a part of me is a bit intimidated and worried I’ll have a hard time understanding what’s going on. So any tips or thoughts on that would be much appreciated too! . . . Some background if it’s helpful: I read Edith Hamilton’s Mythology and a couple of excerpts from The Odyssey 10ish years ago for high school. I have a pretty good general understanding of the events that occur in The Odyssey (thanks to a “dumbed” down middle grade book version I read not too long ago and EPIC: The Musical [I know quite a few liberties were taken with the latter]). I know next to nothing about the Iliad.

Ohh I hadn't connected the dots from the title to the way trauma is stored in the body. Even lasting as far as 3 (!!) generations?? Would this mean you could do everything right as a parent and still pass on the trauma you endured to your children? That's a sad thought...

Why am I just now reading this book? It's so good! The us vs them mindset is still relevant all these years later. This might end up being a book I re-read annually.

I was poking around the app and I seen a thing that said Book Plan. (Cant remember the exact wording now). The thing with the calendar icon. How are we supposed to use it? Is it for adding books we want to read later? If so, can we add just one or several? (Sorry, im still learning lol)