Does anyone have bookish projects and goals they want to start in the new year? Like keeping up with a reading journal, starting a bookish Instagram, drawing characters, etc.?

I want to make a granny square crochet blanket with each square representing a book I read (so matching the colours in the covers), and I got a friend to make one for herself along with me.

Ok I have a bone to pick. I’ve been seeing a lot of discourse online about performative reading. My assumption from this is that some folks think that newer readers are “performing” reading rather than actually grasping the themes and concepts of what they are reading. I believe this is tiered towards literature that may be harder to read, generally speaking.

Here’s the thing. As long as there is an audience, we are (as humans) performing. Here I am performing my opinion for all of you. The expansion of literature as part of the online lexicon is a good thing, especially when we have a generation of children who aren’t being exposed to books nearly as much as older generations were.

//end rant. Also, you may disagree with me (turns out my opinion is not God).

I recently read The Traveling Cat Chronicles, and I think the book is very cute and unique for it uses the perspective of the cat.

Since uniqueness is subjective, is there any fiction books that you consider as unique personally? Why?

I have two books in my currently reading and i'm determined to finish them before the new year creeps up on us...

I’m planning a few rereads of series next year which I have read at some point, some even as recent as this year.

So I have to ask, do rereads count towards your yearly book goal? I’d love to hear your why’s or why not’s as I try to decide if I’ll count them.

i do this thing where when i get to a really important or intense or climactic part of a book i'll start avoiding reading it. like i'm nervous or scared of what's going to happen next, but it's literally not that big of a deal! it's a book 😭 and for me it's usually a work of fiction so it's not even a real thing that's happened. but here i am acting like if i just don't read it, it won't happen 🤪

What was everyone's favorite Book from this year? I would love recs, but also just really interested. So far, mine has been a tie between Swordheart by T. Kingfisher, The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow and When the Wolf Comes home by Nat Cassidy.

Y’all ever finish a PERSONAL five-star months ago, and while you’re adding in stuff for the yearly recap, you see a good bit of 1-2 star reviews? I’m always standing there like so🧍‍♂️it feels a little awkward because it sort of makes me feel like I should’ve read it as deep as the reviewer, I guess? One thing this app has taught me, though, is that taste is very, very, very, very, very, very, VERYYYYYY subjective.

Growing up, I would read spoilers, because I didn't like the suspense of not knowing. It also helped me spot character development, foreshadowing, and the basic pieces of how the story is shaped. But as an adult, I try not to read spoilers! I like to figure it out for myself. What about you all? How do you guys read? :)

Do you guys only do a physical book or e reader or both? i used to be against e readers until i got one and love it. i still love physical books but noticed i read slower when reading a physical one, its like my brain got rewired.

What books are we squeezing in for the last 7 days of the year?

Is anyone else doing @ThisStoryAintOver (IG/YT) year long reading challenge? Details

I was inspired by her suggestion to create a themed syllabus. I want to focus on books I already own so I’m leaning towards a year of political violence/war and water/environmentalism.

My TBR for her prompts: Moby Dick by by Herman Melville - A Classic Cécé by Emmelie Prophéte - Translated & Living Black Author Journal of an Ordinary Grief by Mahmoud Darwish - SWANA Author & Memoir/Autobiography

I’d like to see other people’s plans to combat brain rot this year 🤩

What was everyone's favorite Book from this year? I would love recs, but also just really interested. So far, mine has been a tie between Swordheart by T. Kingfisher, The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow and When the Wolf Comes home by Nat Cassidy.