Anyone else really struggle with not adding an x onto the end of all comments and replies on here or is that just me?! Maybe its just a Brit thing? 😂 Not sure if anywhere else in the world does this!

I’m looking for suggestions of games I can play to keep my hands busy while listening to an audiobook.

I’ve tried and enjoyed Let’s Build a Zoo Viva Piñata Tiny Bookshop Stardew Valley

I’d love to find some mindless cafe service type game I could play.

My favourite book podcast, Books Unbound, does “Mashed Potato May,” a challenge to get through some of your “mashed potato” books.

A mashed potato book is anything that you’ve been putting off or saving for the right time. Much like mashed potatoes at a holiday dinner, you might save them for last and risk them getting too cold, or it’s the best part of your meal.

Their particular prompts this year are:

1. Read a classic
2. Read your shortest mashed potato
3. Watch a mashed potato movie
4. Read your friend’s fave

Do you have any mashed potatoes you’ve been saving? I’ve personally been saving The Picture of Dorian Gray and Othello for quite some time, and I have a non-fiction education-related book that I just can’t seem to finish.

i've been on an immersive reading kick recently, but i'm not sure i'm vibing with this audiobook narrator 😭😭 probably because this isn't traditionally a book you'd translate to audio i fear

Several times we hear about how word count is a big measure of how manuscripts are judeged and accepted. Uketsu seemed to have cracked the modern author's niche - he has an excellent social media presence, and he's leaned on that heavily. Look at the number of times the pictures were repeated with sometimes with no changes or with very little changes. It's a clever way to handle the goldfish attention span of the current audience. There's a big stretch of implausibility required from the reader with certain aspects of why the pictures where drawn in a certain way by the characters, but I get why it was done. Overall, I enjoyed the book and would read his other books too.