I cannot – for the life of me – imagine what the interior of the glass castle looks like. what are the logistics of everything being glass?

In celebration of ✨more stats✨, I’m curious if there’s anything in the new details that had any of you like

For me, it was the Superlatives for March. According to Most Anticipated, I had apparently had Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado in my library for 1400 days, aka almost 4 years, which yea, sounds about right. Worst is, the stats are still inaccurate (no fault to PB, just too new for my failures), cause The Night Circus, which I read same month, had def been waiting longer 💀

Hi besties.

Shoutout your monthly wrap up BFFs 🫶🏼

This is absolutely such a cute addition and something very unexpected! I think it’ll help create some really fun memories remember books you read and the people who supported that book journey the most, or you connected with the most in a certain timeframe!

Mine in comments. 👀☺️

i don't read romance of any kind. i'm not going to explain why, but i just don't! i'm slowly but surely losing my love for reading because anything that sounds remotely interesting to me has a romance plot (or is extremely sex focused). i read a lot of middle grade to get away from this but i'd like to be able to read across age genres. i love horror, magical realism and weird fiction in general but i'm open to anything.

i'd really appreciate any and all recommendations, thank you

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What is the most annoying book finale of all time? And how would you handle it yourself, to make it more satisfying?

Are there any pet peeves you have when receiving ARC's?

I'm talking like the ones who get physical ARCs and then proceed to sell them on whatever place for $$$

I think my biggest one is receiving a highly anticipated ARC and the publisher only uploading it in PDF format so you're forced to read on the NetGalley app and it has no brightness control so it's like reading while staring into the sun

ARC stands for Advanced Reader Copy and they're free copies of books sent to people to review before publication to build hype for official release. They're very helpful!

Ok so this is not a promotional thing I promise, but I found this video game that I’m currently obsessed with that I thought fellow bookworms might love too! It’s called Tiny Bookshop. You play as a small mobile bookshop owner and get to sell books every day to the local townspeople. You give specific book recommendations based on patrons’ requests and (my favorite part) you choose between an array of actual real life book titles. You also get to decorate your little shop based on the season and build community and relationships (nonromance) with the townspeople! 😊 Definitely big Stardew Valley vibes!

Anyway, I thought you guys might appreciate this game too! This game has not been helping my TBR but it has definitely been giving me dopamine. 😊

Hey there. Still newer to the Arc world. I’ve been on NetGalley for I think 4 months? I’ve done 5 arcs. I think I have requested 9 and my stats so far are as follows

5 approved (and completed) 2 declined 2 ghosted 👻🤣🫪

I’ve also done 1 via IG

So I have a few questions.

1. I have seen conflicting info about best practice for writing profiles to get approved. Recently I saw a post in IG on how to better write your profile revolving around stats instead of like long paragraphs because they said that publishers usually won’t read a long paragraph so I adjusted but my first request since then got denied so naturally I’m questioning that choice. Hehe. Do you have any full proof or proven advice for this to improve?

2. Many publishes don’t provide any feedback or have any preference info on their net galley profile to go off of, is this standard? Do you find it a little sad like I do?

3. where else are good places to do arcs? As a non bookstagrammer or booktokker do I stand a chance in getting approved for like potentially popular arcs? My profiles on NG and good reads are mostly pointed towards my devotion and engagement to Pagebound 😅 which I thought might be new and exciting for publishers but maybe I’m wrong?

Any and all additional feedback or conversation around this is welcome thank u. 🫶🏼🙌🏼☺️

I'm reading The Obelisk Gate (the follow-up to The Fifth Season) right now and I actually really dislike the covers for this series and think they need better ones. I just don't like the style and I think they need something more badass. Looking at Jemisin's other works, I think The City We Became has such a great cover (but maybe I'm just less of a photo-realistic over gal)

Are there any book covers you think should be changed?