To tell you the truth I am still catching up on last week's comments (😭) but time marches on... It's time to share what books you got in the last week!

• Did you check out a big stack from the library?
• Did you visit a new LFL and find something exciting?
• Did someone give you a book for your birthday?
• Did you go splurge at the bookstore?
• Did you stuff your Kindle?
• Did all your Libby holds come in at once?
• Did you find a book in the dumpster?
• ???

IT ALL COUNTS so tell me...whatcha get??? 👀

god you can really tell that this was written in 1951, the way Herzog talks about the people he meets in Tibet is unendingly frustrating

hello everybody. i’ve had a lot of majorly-stressful events happen lately (i’ll take all the hugs you’ve got🫂), and because of that, i’m having an extremely difficult time reading anything, even when i have the time and genuinely want to. i’ve just ended up scrolling on reddit or PB or pinterest or whatever instead of doing what will actually help relax me and what i want to do in that time (reading!). would love any tips you all have in regards to not defaulting to scrolling on your phone during stressful times (apps that block other apps for certain times, screenzen for example, really don’t seem to work for me unfortunately. they work for roughly two weeks and then i just start repeatedly turning them off without a care in the world for a streak being broken or any external motivators like that).

I came out a bit ago being genderfluid and a big thing for me and helping to accept myself better (because I'm not great at self love - peer love is easy and great though) is reading/watching films or books with characters going through similar struggles. Kaladin and his depression in Stormlight, Alice and her obsession with study in Katabasis, Terry being trans in the Dragon Prince show etc etc. But I haven't really come across anyone genderfluid or distinctly enby.

It might be my own fault where I almost exclusively read fantasy/horror/sci-fi but the world is hard enough so that gap of reality and fiction is better for me to enjoy with fantastical elements, and surely there's some characters in those genres out there identifying that way right? I'm aware of Loki just not a comic reader and didn't click with the show.

It's not a case where I need it central to the plot or anything but again it's like with Terry it's established through like two conversations max and it's so subtle but always there. Any recs?