Went for a day out today and walked around a few independent book shops and found my new fav in blackwells that specialised in manga/sci fi etc. Live in the UK so waterstones is normally my favourite.

When in USA kept hunting target exclusives but never made it into a chain bookshop to know which is best. So got me thinking and wondering what people's favourite shops were and why :)

Hey folks! I was listening to music when I had an idea/question come to mind.

What is your favourite music genre? Favourite book genre? And do they have any correlation?

For example, my favourite my favourite music genre is punk. My favourite book genre is sci-fi (especially dystopian sci-fi).

Punk is very much a genre of awareness and resistance. Overcoming oppression through struggle and grit.

Not all sci-fi is like that, but the stuff I tend to gravitate towards usually has the protagonist working against the status quo in some way. It can be looser (like in Scythe, the world's status quo is still roughly the same, but the internal one is challenged) or more direct (The Hunger Games, for example).

So I'm curious if this is coincidence, or if there's a trend with this, so I figured I'd ask y'all!

I've never read an autobiography/memoir, so I'm looking for recommendations. What's the autobiography you couldn't put down, that you think more people should read, and why?

Who was your first book boyfriend and where did you find him? Did you find him in the depths of KU or did you find him on the covers of a penguins publishing co book?or If you're like me, you found him on wattapad. My first book bf was Blake Eaton from the book "i sold myself to the devil for the vinyls, pitiful i know". He was everything and more I could ask for, still one of my top book bfs of all time🥺🫶 So, who was yours?

fun little question for y’all: if you could choose one of your favorite books/book series to be adapted to the screen, which would it be and why?

follow up questions to that: would you want it to be a tv series or movie/movie series? animated or live action? and for extra fun, who would you cast for some of the main characters as actors for a live action, or voice actors for animated?

"If we do not dig, we do not eat" is one of the harder chapters to read. It goes into depth about some of the harshest mining sites, including one with tunnels that routinely collapse and mutilate and kill children. Reading about children who are actively dying (slowly and quickly), being poisoned, and putting their lives on the line for less than two dollars a day is harrowing. The fact that every government that's part of the UN, and then some, know that this is happening and just doesn't care is vile.

it's such a good story omg! and most of the times retellings don't really do it for me (idk why) but this was so so good!! the characters were amazing but Gibson's writing was just as perfect

We are much more comfortable calling out atrocity once it's already done and over---and there's really no point to calling it out because it's already occurred. It's not "kind" to avoid confrontation by choosing not to speak about Palestine. Sure, maybe you stopped your friend from feeling moral guilt about not caring enough, but you also chose to devalue the tens of thousands of lives that have already been lost to the genocide. Honesty is our greatest tool when it comes to resisting imperial violence.

I DNF'd a book last night, and it got me thinking about what makes me decide to finally put the book down and give up ... so I was curious what you all think !

I've noticed that once I get to the point where I'm ranting about how much I don't want to keep reading it specifically to another person, it's probably time to put it down. most of the time I don't talk to other people about books unless we've both read it, so it's a good indicator for me when I, unprompted, start telling someone about how awful of a time I'm having

I also have noticed my DNF habits have changed since I used to DNF books rarely if ever, and going into the new year that seems to have changed ! I'm a lot more willing to give up on a book and move on if I'm not vibing with it enough

whats your preference? i was just having a convo with a coworker about hardcovers vs paperback and our opinions differed quite a bit! personally, i’m a paperback girl.

Some of my favorite books to read are ones in which characters have to overcome/survive some crazy situation or setting. Think like Project Hail Mary, where the characters had to use their brains and creativity to get out of some tricky situations. Or even something completely different like Lord of the Flies or the show Yellowjackets, where the characters get stranded somewhere and have to survive against the setting and/or other characters. Does anyone have any books that fit this? Fantasy, horror, sci-fi, non-fiction, etc—any genre is cool!

edit: I made a list of some of the survival books I’ve read and some that were suggested if anyone’s interested in finding some more books like this too!

“Of all the epitaphs that may one day be written in the gravestone of western liberalism, the most damning is this: faced off against annihilistic, endlessly cruel manifestation of conservatism and somehow managed to make it close.”

yikes. yeah, this is why i think literally no one i know decides to identify with anything liberal these days. and its a huge reason why the Harris campaign failed. at the end of the day, the “but they’re worse than us” argument just isn’t working anymore.

They would not be monogamous and heteronormative - that's boring if you're gonna live indefinitely. Got any recs on non monogamous romantasies???

Im sorry but what do you mean your calling her "PET" UMMM EXCUSE ME?!?🤨 IS SHE YOUR DOG OR CAT?!?🤯 Like GRL if someone ever called me that I would SLAP THEM AND DUMP THEIR ASS!

anyway moving on "Pipsqueak"... Yes this is an ACTUAL BOOK NICKNAME FOR ADULTS and not some kindergarden nickname.😔 Like WTF I WOULD RUN SO FAR AWAY I WOULD IN FREAKING MARS!! WHERE ARE YOU PULLING THIS FROM?!? IS SHE A CHILD?!? (hopefully not)😶😶

This one was so bad I saw the nickname and just didnt read it... Ready DRUMMROOLLL....... "Meatball"🫤... uhhh sir are you okay?🤨🤨 the resturant is down the street to the left you are staring at a frickin HUMAN BEING NOT A PIECE OF FOOD. AND THEN SHE LIKES THE NICKNAME AND IS LIKE...

"OMG it's so cute!!" No. Just no. Do you need a therapist? Im broke but Il find a way to pay for you...😭😭😭

Last and very much least worthy of being a nickname... "Kitten."🫥😃

STOP JUST STOP GO AWAY AND STAY 3 PLANETS AWAY THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AFTER SEEING THAT I REALLY DONT HATE THE NICKNAMES MY FRIENDS GIVE ME. I will very much stay with "VanesTEA." thank you😔

Hello, everyone! I'm currently taking a class that requires me to do a series of reviews on creative nonfiction (specifically memoirs, essay collections, anthologies, etc), and because I'm primarily a fiction reader, I need recommendations. Underrepresented voices (women and queer voices in particular) would be preferable due to the constraints of the project. If you're a nonfiction reader - or if you just have some good nonfic recs - let me know what you'd recommend! Thank you so much!