I kinda love them?? I imagined if this is a manga, these would be drawn with light strokes, and tones that make them seem glowy and sparkly, with the descriptions written in small light-weighted serif fonts. And then it cuts directly to the scene with a fade-to-black and several small rectangles as a divider.

pls dont get me wrong i am so grateful to be doing my MA in literature and i am always so excited for it, but it is sometimes mentally demanding to the point where i get burnt out from reading and decide to doomscroll instead to wind down from something that i used to do to wind down. which is so ironic bc i literally enrolled in this program bc i love to read.

all these books ive been reading that i hear about all the time are so great and i see their merit as to why theyre in the canon but i guess what takes the fun and engagement out of the books is the fact that its graded and u have to interact with the work based on a rubric and a prescribed set of theories??? if i had the liberty i would genuinely go crazy—i know i did when i was assigned earnest hemingway's old man and the sea with specific instructions from the prof of "no instruction." but say for example when i was required to read olga tokarczuk's books of jacob i was given two other books as my theories to interpret the novel and bc of that i just gave up on the book after part 2 😔

and with productivity-signalling by requiring journal publication for graduation and my professors making us academic mules by churning out at least 1 academic paper per month so we have a lot of work to choose from to submit to different academic journals (at least in my country), it gets to a point where u wonder if "passion" and "love for reading" is a valid reason to enroll in a masters in literature, or is stamina a more sustainable source of motivation 😕

I love that Pagebound allows you to rate overall vs plot, characters, etc. I always struggle with what is worth 1 star vs 5. I hardly ever re-read books or DNF them.

How do you rate books? Do you have a book you can’t get over? What will you always recommend, no matter what someone may be interested in

Sometimes I really get the urge to make an anonymous bookstagram just to post cute romance book content and have fun with it. Maybe it’s my teenage years of running an 1D facebook fanpage, who knows ?

But I was wondering if this is just a universal experience? Like… does everyone secretly think about making a cute little account for the things they love or is it just me?