So I saw this reel about a bookfluencer choosing three books that should have been an email and I absolutely loved it. I'm a certified hater so I wanted to ask you guys;

What are three books that could have been an email? And what would the email say?

I'll go first.

Like the bookfluencer, I am also going to choose Midnight Library by Matt Haig. The book was so repititive that the email could have been four lines and you would not have missed anything. Basically being like "no matter what choices you make, life will fuck you over so try to be happy with the choices you make". Another book I'd choose would be Twilight (as someone who loves the movies ironically) and the email could have been "Mormon author has a dream about a hot sexy sparkling vampire and decides to turn it into a book for some reason". AND Paper towns by John Green. John Green, I love you but you served me manic pixie dream girl in a platter.

Let me know your choices!

A different post in this forum reminded me... Does anyone else have a book that they've attempted to read multipe times and still continuously fail to get through? For me and obvious one is War and Peace just because it's such a brick. A newer one would actually be The Will of Many, I've tried a few times to get into it and then at about 100 pages in my brain just shuts off.

Or more happily: any books that you read once a year happily? Like a ritual read?

What's your most diabolical reading flex?

Mine has to be reading spicy audiobooks without headphones.

Now hear me out, it's only in the comfort of my own home. In public, headphones all the way (obviously 🤣)

My controversial take is that whenever I see a book that has been marketed as "cozy" it is literally the worst book I have ever read with nothing cozy about it😔

Good afternoon Bookaholics!!

How is everyone doing?

My question today is... 🥁

What is your opinion on 'Blind Dates with a Book'? 🤔

Alright folks what are your favourite book covers? And if you want to spill the tea: book covers that you hate ????

I find that I appreciated a neat colorful cover without too much detail like 'Give it a Grow' (that's a gardening book), or 'Half-Arse human' by Leena Norms. I can't wait to put my paws on John Green's next book (almost) just for its cover.

Covers that I hate ? The Tainted Cup: THE UK COVER OMG. The US version of the book is so much prettier and it is killing me because this is one of my favourite novels.

What do you think??

What do you value in a book the most based on Nancy Pearl’s Four Doors of Reading? Link here if you want to learn more, including TED Talk at the end: https://teralynnchilds.com/nancy-pearls-four-doors-reading/ (I tried to embed link but I forgot how)

Excerpt from above link:

🚪 The Four Doors 🚪 📖 Story — Plot. Action. The sequence of events that the character(s) go through to reach the end. These are page turners, the books you can’t put down, and that keep you needing to find out what happens next.

🙂 Character — People. Protagonists. Villains. Heroes. The cast of characters who embark on the story. Books in which the characters feel real and you miss them when the book is over.

🌆 Setting — Worldbuilding. This is what makes you feel like you’re in another place or time (or even this exact place and time). Makes the world feel familiar, and makes you want to live in or visit that place.

✍️ Language — Words. Grammar. Style. These books make you want to savor every word, to the point where you’re not sure you even know or care what the book is about.

Every book contains all four of these elements to varying degrees. You can’t write a story without character, plot, setting, and words. But often (usually) one or more doorways are bigger than others. The blockbuster books, the ones that become huge bestsellers across audiences and age groups, have four really big doors.

🚪 Find Your Door 🚪 Discovering your door to reading! Which doorway is yours? Or what order would you rank the four doors from most to least important? Think about your favorite book. Usually the first thing you describe is a clue.

My Doors Ranked: 🌆 📖 🙂 ✍️ I would rank world building as most important for me. Closely followed by plot. I need a great setting and often magic system to keep me hooked. I also need plot throughout. Character driven books don’t work for me as well as plot driven books or a mix. I enjoy character arcs but I value setting and plot more. I also don’t need good writing to enjoy a story so that one is very much last for me.

I look forward to hearing about yours 🥰

Currently I've been reading Pride and Prejudice, right? So today I decided to watch a movie on YouTube to kill some time as a break and I decided to watch Northanger Abbey.

AND LET ME TELL YOU. It was so adorable 🥺 like first 15 minutes and Mr Tinley had me blushing like crazy lol plus catherine is just also so relatable and honest. Those two were just very wholesome along with Eleanor. It was also very funny so there's that!

Anyways for all you Jane Austen lovers, what's your favorite book or adaptation of hers? I really enjoy Persuasion but I think Northanger Abbey is also up there now and I can't wait to read it

Hello fellow book enthusiasts! I come with fair tidings and a question. Is there a opening line/scene/chapter that hooked you instantly? If yes, what is it? Is it your favourite and which book is it from?

For me, you cannot go wrong with the opening lines of Percy Jackson and the opening chapter of the Hacienda. Everyone is familiar with Percy Jackson and his "Look, I didn't want to be a half blood" but when you're reading this internal soliloquy from a Priest about God knowing nothing about loneliness while he's on his knees watching someone he loves go away, it hits harder. It literally took my breath away.

So what's your favourite opening?

I recently DNF’d a book at 85% because I just wasn’t enjoying it and didn’t feel like powering through the ending. I left a written review but I felt kinda weird leaving a star rating since I didn’t finish it. I do feel like I got through enough of it to give it an informed rating, but I’m curious if others have a personal policy about rating books you DNF. Personally I think that if you’ve read more than half of the book you probably have enough info to rate it, but sometimes you don’t have to get that far in to tell that a book isn’t very good. I just wasn’t sure what the etiquette is surrounding DNFs so I opted not to rate it, but I want to know what others think!