Sooooo I've been having this really great discussion here with @JohnNickleback about what it is we look forward to most and love most in books.

For me, the absolute best part is the beginning. When I know very little or nothing, and everything is a new discovery, a first step, a new adventure! Nothing beats this feeling of something new and exciting just beginning and I crave it like I crave air. I'm also a lot like this in real life, so I think it just translates to books as well for me. Same goes for series, I love the start and get a bit bored in the middle and then the end can be exciting too. But nothing beats a great start!

On the other hand, @JohnNickleback instead loves to get into the details, the know how and how it's all working and being used. The thinking and theorizing of what can be done how and who can use it in what way. I find this exciting too, but not nearly as much as the beginning.

There is of course the end, the middle part, the grind, the slower parts where we get to breathe before the next thing etc. So many different parts of a book!

What is your favorite and why?🤔

Does it differ for you if it's a series? Is for example the middle book in a trilogy always your fave? Or maybe you prefer the actionable third?

So excited to see where people land and what is the most commonly loved part!!

(Side note, why is there a progress choice on posts in the club forum?🤔 Bug?)

You guys I've been seeing readers say 1st person POV turns them off reading books and I was neverrr aware that there was a good percentage of people who really dislike 1st person. I'm so curious what are yg thoughts? 1st person yay or nay? Time and place? Preferred povs?

Self control? Never heard of it. Seriously tho, I have such a bad problem with buying books. Sure there's worse things to be spending money on, but still damn. I'm still reading alot of books, but I'm making zero progress on my physical tbr because I'm just barely reading more than I'm buying. I need tips on what rules to set for myself and ones that actually work for my brain. I've tried limiting myself to only be able to buy one book if I read x amount of books that I already have, and it works but also doesn't. There's just so many books I want to read, and I feel like I need every single one of them. 😫 Also I'm conflicted about the argument that reading books and buying books are two separate hobbies. I deffinetly treat it like they are, but I feel like it should go hand in hand. I feel like the optimal situation would be to not buy any books until there's no physical tbr left, that way you can just go to the store and pick out your next read, and be able to start reading right away without the looming knowledge that there's however many books collecting dust on the shelf. I'm also mainly talking about buying new books, not dupes of a book that is already owned. To me the only reason to have more then one copy of a book would be to have second one that you can lend out to people, or if the one you already have has sentimental value and you want to preserve it. (Special editions are just cash grabs, and no one can convince me otherwise) Anyway, this was just a giant rambling thought 😗

Self control? Never heard of it. Seriously tho, I have such a bad problem with buying books. Sure there's worse things to be spending money on, but still damn. I'm still reading alot of books, but I'm making zero progress on my physical tbr because I'm just barely reading more than I'm buying. I need tips on what rules to set for myself and ones that actually work for my brain. I've tried limiting myself to only be able to buy one book if I read x amount of books that I already have, and it works but also doesn't. There's just so many books I want to read, and I feel like I need every single one of them. 😫 Also I'm conflicted about the argument that reading books and buying books are two separate hobbies. I deffinetly treat it like they are, but I feel like it should go hand in hand. I feel like the optimal situation would be to not buy any books until there's no physical tbr left, that way you can just go to the store and pick out your next read, and be able to start reading right away without the looming knowledge that there's however many books collecting dust on the shelf. I'm also mainly talking about buying new books, not dupes of a book that is already owned. To me the only reason to have more then one copy of a book would be to have second one that you can lend out to people, or if the one you already have has sentimental value and you want to preserve it. (Special editions are just cash grabs, and no one can convince me otherwise) Anyway, this was just a giant rambling thought 😗