i have never liked so much an AI like in this moment

I’m not talking problematic, I’m talking PETTY. Like, “I know it’s stupid, but I’m dying on this hill anyway,” level of petty. I’ll go first…

Typically I’m all for an author getting their bag for their intellectual property. But in this case, I won’t read 'The Witcher' series, and it’s because the author pretty much dissed gaming as an art form, then got the Polish government involved to force CD Projekt Red (game devs of The Witcher series) to renegotiate his contract because he chose to sell his IP in the gaming sector for an immediate payout over taking a royalties check. He didn’t believe the game series would come to anything, didn’t believe that gaming was a serious art form, then cried when he noticed how much money the devs made (as well as the exposure it created for his book series) and threatened litigation for $16 million.

So I refuse to read his books or watch the show. In fact, I think it’s kinda hilarious that the Netflix writers don’t respect his material in the same way he didn’t respect gaming. I consider it karmic payback.

You can find out the full scope if you look up YongYea on YouTube. The videos span from 5-6 years ago. And yeah… that’s my Petty Betty book moment. What's yours?

It’s happened a few times now where I start a book and go «wait a minute..», only to realise I’ve read it before.

I also have zero recollection of ever reading anything Colleen Hoover but apparently I have.

🥲 Just me?

Quick announcement of some smaller updates -

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I read to my kids when they were younger, and as they got older (they're 9 and 12 now) they started reading on their own in their own spaces. Recently we've started reading together and I didn't realize how much I missed it. It's been a great calming evening routine - we get into our PJ's, curl up on the couch with our books, and read and chat about what we're reading. It seems obvious but it's helped with the kids struggling to get to sleep, and it just is a nice (and sadly, rare, in our busy lives) time for us to just be together.

That being said, I'm always looking for recommendations for middle-school-age appropriate chapter books to suggest to them - bonus points for sports-related stories! If anyone has suggestions, please send them my way!

Sometimes you really love a book, but for whatever reason you can't recommend it to anyone you know in real life.

Maybe you don't know many readers! Maybe it's a genre your friends don't like! Maybe it's too spicy or too violent! Maybe it's just too....weird!

Recommend that book here that you can't recommend anywhere else and maybe it'll find a new home with someone in the comments :)

⭐️ The book I can't recommend IRL but desperately wish I could: No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood. It's definitely in the "too weird" category. It's a commentary on how we relate to each other and ourselves in our online brainrot age, and it's written in the form of these disconnected stream-of-consciousness blurbs. In the first half of the book, the narrator describes going on a world tour after one of her posts goes viral. Her life exists online entirely. In the second half, something happens in her real life offline that changes everything for her. The whole book is strange, esoteric, and deeply moving. It's one of those books that I'll be thinking about for the rest of my life, and anytime I see a review from someone saying they don't like it or don't get it a little piece of my heart dies. It's not a book for everyone, but it WAS a book for me—and I'm desperate to find someone who got the book and loved it to way I did.

this novel is convincing me even more that 2nd person POV is such a powerful literary tool, it just works so perfectly with Constasta addressing him so boldly