sunnycorners
i want to read more disability rep and non-fiction. i love fantasy and horror. and you should listen to The World By Seeming
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All the Lovers in the Night
Mieko Kawakami
0sunnycorners commented on sunnycorners's review of The Isle in the Silver Sea
It had me in the first half... i was enjoying it even when the absurd amount of the word "said" kept breaking immersion for me. but then part 2 happened. part 2 honestly completely lost me. i see some people saying this book does a good job of showing not telling but i severely disagree, especially in part 2 there is a LOT of telling. like there was a lot of "she felt (insert themes we could/should understand without being told directly)" and there was pages and pages where it was almost exclusively dialogue. i felt like nothing made sense anymore, the characters were running around without any sort of plan or goal, just going every which way. honestly it barely felt like it belonged in the same book. i feel like part 2 should have been taken out and worked on much longer to be a sequel. it was also really repetitive and told the reader what the characters were feeling instead of making you feel what they did. which made their emotions and therefore relationship less believable. and this is a completely personal opinion that doesn't affect the rating but i feel like part 2 as a separate sequel would have been kind of neat if it switched to Hari and Galath's POV instead. but anyway. i suffered through part 2 and it really lowered the score for me. it could have been at least a 3 or even a 3.5 maybe but wow. part 2 was rough. kinda ruined it for me. its definitely a situation where the potential is there but the execution is frustratingly lacking :(
2sunnycorners wrote a review...
It had me in the first half... i was enjoying it even when the absurd amount of the word "said" kept breaking immersion for me. but then part 2 happened. part 2 honestly completely lost me. i see some people saying this book does a good job of showing not telling but i severely disagree, especially in part 2 there is a LOT of telling. like there was a lot of "she felt (insert themes we could/should understand without being told directly)" and there was pages and pages where it was almost exclusively dialogue. i felt like nothing made sense anymore, the characters were running around without any sort of plan or goal, just going every which way. honestly it barely felt like it belonged in the same book. i feel like part 2 should have been taken out and worked on much longer to be a sequel. it was also really repetitive and told the reader what the characters were feeling instead of making you feel what they did. which made their emotions and therefore relationship less believable. and this is a completely personal opinion that doesn't affect the rating but i feel like part 2 as a separate sequel would have been kind of neat if it switched to Hari and Galath's POV instead. but anyway. i suffered through part 2 and it really lowered the score for me. it could have been at least a 3 or even a 3.5 maybe but wow. part 2 was rough. kinda ruined it for me. its definitely a situation where the potential is there but the execution is frustratingly lacking :(
2sunnycorners commented on OhMyDio's review of The Isle in the Silver Sea
How was the book that long and things still felt rushed andor only semi-developed?
I like the shape of this a lot, but it just didn't come together for me. I had to swich to audio half way through just to make it go faster. I like the general idea, and the magic, and the commentary on colonialism and control and racism, etc.. I never really bought our love birds being in love, the fae are DOPE but entirey wasted here, and this genuinely needed to be either two books or 200 less pages. Unlike others I did not enjoy the writing style, so I didnt even have that to lean on to get me through. To me it felt like Suri was spending more time on the turn of a phrase than actually laying good ground work or watching the pacing, and it fell flat for me, making it extra frustrating. Vina annoyed me pretty consistently, too, making whack ass choices ranging from ill time advances to omitting info to how she uses her leather gloves (iykyk.) A saggy middle and a rushed ending is a rough combo.
I totally get it if you loved this, though. It just wasn't for me. Also, cats in fantasy books will always have a place in my heart.
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The Isle in the Silver Sea
Tasha Suri
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The Isle in the Silver Sea
Tasha Suri
1sunnycorners commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
How do y’all approach a playlist in a book (or when a song is listed at the beginning of each chapter of a book)? Do you listen to the playlist before/after reading the book (or chapter)? While you’re reading?
I don’t think I’ve ever listened to a book’s playlist, and I was surprised by how many posts I’ve been seeing in the forum for The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop about the playlist at the beginning - I noticed it, took a quick glance, and jumped right into the book 😅 curious to hear other people’s thoughts!
21sunnycorners commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Anyone else (particularly other autistics) that continually reread the same books over and over?
I read a lot of new books too, but I am always re-listening to Name of the Wind and Wise Man’s Fear. I listen to them every night as I am falling asleep, and at this point, I can quote along with the narrator. (Nick Podehl is amazing btw). I think they are nostalgic and comforting to me and help me not ruminate as I’m trying to sleep.
If you do this too, what book(s) do you continually reread?
38sunnycorners commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
I swear, I'm actually a (somewhat sane) logical person who loves reading and loves data. I also happen to be a pretty fast reader who prioritizes her reading time above almost everything else (including actual responsibilities). Yet, despite all logic, I am currently at war with a single, arbitrary metric: the "Average Time to Finish" stat on Storygraph.
Because I'm a concurrent mood reader, I always have a rotation of books going at once. To my brain, this is just variety. To my SG tracker, this looks like "taking 17 days to finish a 150 page novella" because I dared to read other things at the same time. Even though I'm reading a solid number of pages each day, seeing that "days to finish" number climb bugs me more than it should, and thus it has become my mortal enemy.
To defeat my enemy, I have resorted to psychological warfare (against myself): On SG, I don't mark a book as currently reading until I've gotten past the intro and know that I'm in the mood for this book. If the app doesn't know I've started reading it, the clock hasn't started ticking!! By doing this, I'm technically destroying my own "pages per day" data. Do I do anything with any of this data? No. Does it bother my (otherwise) logical brain that my stats are now inaccurate? Yes. But is it worth it to see a "3 days to finish" average stat? Apparently, also yes.
What I suspect my therapist will say: 1) This is your perfectionism - the stat is measuring duration, not volume or intensity. 2) You've made 'fast reader' part of your identity, and by gatekeeping your start dates, you are trying to reclaim agency over a system that isn't built for the way you actually live.
I know I should just ignore the stat. But I can't! I know the tracker is just measuring how long a book sat in my rotation, not my effort or a critique of my 'reader' identity. But I've decided that "average time to finish" is the only grade that matters, and I'm over here trying to get an A+ in a completely made-up class.
Please tell me I'm not the only one who feels personally attacked by this metric!
Also, just to be clear - this is in no way meant to be a dig on slower readers! All reading at any pace should be celebrated!! This is purely a first-world "data geek" problem about a metric I should just ignore.
TL;DR: I'm a high-volume reader who juggles too many books at once. Storygraph's "average time to finish" tracker hurts my feelings, so I've started faking my start dates to protect my (clearly fragile) ego. Does anyone else "game the system" just to keep their stats from hurting their feelings?
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i'm gonna be honest i'm struggling not only bc of my life stuff being stressful right now but this part of the book has been so slow and boring and i am just not having fun anymore so it's not really the welcome escape i can come back to after a long horrid day. i hope it gets better because like. it feels soo dragged out like how is there so many pages and hardly anything is happening AND i am not getting to know the characters any better. as a lover of "nothing is happening" books this is not what i mean !!!!
2sunnycorners commented on afnaan's review of A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2)
i liked this one more than the first one. I liked how we dived deeper into Zinnia’s feelings and her need to keep running away from her story. Eva was so well written and i loved how her story was told. I do wish this one was also longer and we had more time with the characters. This mini series is my introduction to Alix E Harrow and i’m so excited to read more of her books!
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i'm gonna be honest i'm struggling not only bc of my life stuff being stressful right now but this part of the book has been so slow and boring and i am just not having fun anymore so it's not really the welcome escape i can come back to after a long horrid day. i hope it gets better because like. it feels soo dragged out like how is there so many pages and hardly anything is happening AND i am not getting to know the characters any better. as a lover of "nothing is happening" books this is not what i mean !!!!
2sunnycorners commented on sunnycorners's update
sunnycorners commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
I've been in a reading slump for a week now. Reason? Anime. 😭
I watched Yona of the Dawn last year and then The Apothecary Diaries this week.. finished it within 5 days. Now I can't stop, I'm watching demon slayer & Frieren now. I couldn't even read a single page this week 😰 and I'm freaking out.
But on the good side i think I just found out how amazing anime is 🤩 it all started with some animated series like Blood of Zeus and Castlevania. • So please recommend your favourite anime with a side of romance. (and also a book rec for reading slump)
PS: yona of the dawn season 2 is announced!!! I can't!!! 😭❤️🩹
47sunnycorners commented on sunnycorners's update
