hi yall!! who is an author you’ve recently discovered and loved? for my it’s emily austin- i’m reading “is this a cry for help?” and i’ve also read “everyone in this room will someday be dead”. as i’m reading this current one im really in awe of how much i love her writing, and i’d love to hear who is tickling your fancy recently!! thank you in advance for sharing 🥰🫶🏻

and not like, how many books you want to read this year or actual quests you're currently working through (tho those are really fun too, so lmk those too if you want) but like what are some personal reading goals/quests/ideas you have at the moment? now I'm finishing up with the semester I'm thinking about reading seriously again (but maybe a bit too soon cos im not quite done yet hahahaha)

For me, some of them are:

• I really want to read all the Lord of the Rings books (I was read the Hobbit when I was a kid but mostly forgot everything hahaha)
• and also all of Agatha Christie's work (I've read a couple and I have the Mysterious Affair at Styles out from the library rn)
• I actually do want to read through one of the quests hahaha but I haven't decided which one yet cos a sidequest seems easier but i know there might be books I don't want to read so completionist badges might be off the table for a bunch of them (smut is a hard no from me so let me know if you have recs 😁)(im thinking one of the fantasy ones???)
• also, the readalong books, as well as Dark Wild Shore which is our unofficial southern hemisphere winter readalong book
• also with the Southern Hemisphere books, more local stuff (New Zealand and more generally SH stuff)
• I've been wanting to read the "classics", but like, both literal greek/roman stuff and whatever the "classics" are. maybe a list or quest for that 😆
• I've been wanting to get into comics for a while, and I just read Batman: Year One which I enjoyed, so more of those!! (I've been following this list)
• After John Flanagan died earlier this year, I've been wanting to reread all of his Ranger's Apprentice universe books
• also, Redwall
• Mistborn. and then, the entire universe
• maybe a little non fiction? I was recced some classical history books by @eleanors in this forum post
• trying to keep up with the 500 books i randomly impulse requested from the library
• i dont buy a lot of books, but ive a few on my shelf i need to read 😭 so also those
• and i want to reread the hunger games books before the new movie
• and not reading specifically, but I said i was going to review more books this year, and so far,,, ive reviewed zero. so more book reviews!!

So I have definitely got way too much going on, but what about you guys??

I’ve spent a year working on my book. It’s about living with BPD and how to cope with it. I share my journey on my Tumblr blog for BPD.

And I’ll share excerpts on my blog for the followers that want to read my book, and always get an ‘You sound like AI’ comment. Or ‘you should disclose you’re using AI to write this book’.

And I know the way I write does sound like AI but so much of my book content is pulled from my own blog before AI was even a thing. And it’s just so disheartening. And it’s making me so anxious to publish.

My husband is even editing it and I keep having to ask him to not use dashes because it won’t help the accusations but they come naturally to him.

I’ve spent over a year on this and I feel like it’ll just take one accusation when I publish for so many to just assume it’s fact and I want to cry and not publish.

Also to be clear, I’m not trying to advertise my book or self promote, I swear. I’m just sad and wanted to vent in a space that I feel might get it a bit more.