Booknook Friending Meme, Take 2

[quillpunk]

Hello, hello! booknook is (again) tossing its hat in the ring for 3weeks4dreamwidth in the form of a friending meme :D

This is the same meme as last year, as I do not have the brain-space to make a new one, but who knows! You're answers might have changed! You might not have seen the newest entries! You might have completely forgotten to check it out at all, even though you're the admin and you really should have. So let's do this again! <3

Copy and paste the text from the little box below into a new comment on this post. Feel free to remove the questions that aren't relevant for you! (If you want to fill this out in a post somewhere else, you're welcome do so, simply credit booknook :D)

<b>Name:</b> <b>Pronouns:</b> <b>Age Group:</b> <b>Dealbreaker(s):</b> <b>I Recently Finished Reading:</b> <b>A Book I Want to Reread:</b> <b>Some Published Titles From My To Be Read List:</b> <b>A Book Not-Yet-Published I'm Excited About:</b> <b>Related Book News I've Got My Eye On:</b> (adaptations etc.) <b>My All-Time Favorite Book(s):</b> <b>My Favorite Book Genre(s):</b> <b>A Book I Recommend in My Favorite Genre(s):</b> <b>A Book I Don't Recommend in My Favorite Genre(s):</b> <b>A Genre I'm Interested in Trying Out:</b> <b>Link to My Latest Book Review:</b> <b>Link to My Reading Log:</b> <b>Books/Genres I'm Interested in Discussing/Chatting About:</b>

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[florianschild]

Name: I like Flori
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Age Group: Late 30's
Dealbreaker(s): I don't think I really have any hard and fast dealbreakers. I suppose if you post a LOT I might get overwhelmed by that. A lot being multiple times every day.
I Recently Finished Reading: I'm on a rereading kick so I've recently reread Captive Prince by C.S. Pacat and Westmark by Lloyd Alexander (the inspiration for my username, btw)
A Book I Want to Reread: Well funny you should ask… :D My goal for 2025 is to let myself reread to my heart's content so I plan on rereading The Queen's Thief series at some point, finishing my reread of the Westmark Trilogy (currently on Book 2), and possibly also reread The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley
Some Published Titles From My To Be Read List:

• Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty by Robert K. Massie


• Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb


• Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer


• The Guild of the Cowry Catchers by Abigail Hilton


• To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara


• Price of a Thousand Blessings by Ginn Hale

A Book Not-Yet-Published I'm Excited About: Right now just a few that have been "coming soon" for so long they might as well be done with forever:

• The Winds of Winter by George R.R. Martin


• The Warboy by Karin Lowachee

Related Book News I've Got My Eye On:: I still need to watch The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. I'm way behind on my Hunger Games fandom!
My All-Time Favorite Book(s): The Rifter by Ginn Hale
My Favorite Book Genre(s): LGBTQ+ Fantasy/Sci-Fi
A Book I Recommend in My Favorite Genre(s): Other than The Rifter? It's ok, I've got tons more! Let's go with God Eaters by Jesse Hajicek
A Book I Don't Recommend in My Favorite Genre(s): First, Become Ashes by K.M. Szpara
A Genre I'm Interested in Trying Out: Danmei for sure at some point
Link to My Latest Book Review: I haven't been writing reviews much lately, but I did write a kind of review/promo for The Rifter during the Snowflake Challenge. Check it out!
Link to My Reading Log: My kind of up to date Storygraph
Books/Genres I'm Interested in Discussing/Chatting About:Fantasy, sci-fi, adult fiction, especially anything angsty! I'm writing a series of posts about my love of angst in fiction for the Fannish 50 this year.

[petrea_mitchell]

Name: Petrea Mitchell
Pronouns: She/her
Age Group: Gen X
Dealbreaker(s): Characters who don't have any interest in being in the story; "Book 1 in a Series" where the series length is unknown Edit: Whoops, I thought it meant book dealbreakers! DW dealbreakers: I dunno, maybe drowning my timeline in too many posts.

I Recently Finished Reading: How Tyrants Fall, Tales From the "White Hart"
A Book I Want to Reread: A book I reread every few years is The Hunter's Haunt.

Some Published Titles From My To Be Read List: Among the books currently on on my TBR shelf: Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic, Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction, The Hallowed Hunt, Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds
A Book Not-Yet-Published I'm Excited About: The CIA Book Club
Related Book News I've Got My Eye On: I've always got an eye on the Hugo and Nebula finalists.

My All-Time Favorite Book(s): It's hard to pick A Favorite, but my favorite book by my favorite author is The Cyberiad.
My Favorite Book Genre(s): Science fiction, fantasy, alternate history, non-biography nonfiction, gamebooks (Choose Your Own Adventure-style works)
A Book I Recommend in My Favorite Genre(s): Changing Planes is one of Ursula K. Le Guin's best books and criminally underappreciated. Eversion is probably the best sf book I've read in the last couple years. The Rhino with Glue-On Shoes is a great example of what I like in nonfiction. Twas: The Krampus Night Before Christmas is a brilliant example of a modern gamebook.
A Book I Don't Recommend in My Favorite Genre(s): American Gods is easily the worst Hugo novel winner I've ever read, and I was saying that before the assault allegations against Gaiman surfaced.
A Genre I'm Interested in Trying Out: Anything if you can convince me the specific book is interesting enough

Link to My Latest Book Review: This one for The Dawn of Everything.
Link to My Reading Log: See the RIP posts here, or my books tag for reviews and random other book-related thoughts.

Books/Genres I'm Interested in Discussing/Chatting About: Any mentioned above.

[asphaltcowgrrl]

Name: Amy
Pronouns: she/her
Age Group: Gen X
Dealbreaker(s): Racism, homophobia, general hatred for no good reason

I Recently Finished Reading: When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi
A Book I Want to Reread: I’m not one to reread, so none at the moment.
Some Published Titles From My To Be Read List: James by Percival Everett, Apocalypse Cow by Michael Logan
A Book Not-Yet-Published I'm Excited About: Brigands and Breadknives by Travis Baldree, both Michael Connelly books due to release this year.
Related Book News I've Got My Eye On: (adaptations etc.) The Apple TV adaptation of the Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells looks like it’ll be fun.

My All-Time Favorite Book(s): Dracula by Bram Stoker, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
My Favorite Book Genre(s): Mystery, thriller, cozy mystery, fantasy, sci-fi, cozy fantasy, and (more specifically), hockey or cowboy romances.
A Book I Recommend in My Favorite Genre(s): For sci-fi, anything by John Scalzi. Man is hilarious. Starter Villain is one of my favorites. Mysteries I like Kathy Reichs’ Temperance Brennan series, for hockey romances I love Rachel Reid. I know this is vague, but I went with authors I know consistently produce quality work.
A Book I Don't Recommend in My Favorite Genre(s): Yeesh, I have no idea.
A Genre I'm Interested in Trying Out: I don’t read as much sci-fi as I think I might enjoy, so it’s something I’d like to delve into more, along with speculative fiction.

Link to My Latest Book Review: My reviews are all on my Wordpress blog, but the last thing I reviewed (that wasn’t a cookbook) is here
Link to My Reading Log: I don’t really have one online, but you can friend me on Storygraph, if you’d like, I’m asphaltcowgrrl there as well.

Books/Genres I'm Interested in Discussing/Chatting About: I’ll chat about anything, even if it’s a genre I’m not generally into. Because I’m always up for a good story.

[matsushima]

Name: Meep
Pronouns: ey/em/eirs
Age Group: mid- to late- 30s
Dealbreaker(s): I'm a disabled genderqueer lesbian, so make your own assumptions about my dealbreakers.

I Recently Finished Reading: Sunrise on the Reaping, Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
A Book I Want to Reread: I love to reread and often say I read new books to find something worth reading 100 more times. I'm currently (already) rereading Sunrise on the Reaping. Some favorite rereads: La Belle Sauvage, In the Dream House, Redwall, How to Keep House While Drowning. I especially love rereading audiobooks.
Some Published Titles From My To Be Read List: The Refusal of Work: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work, Jewcy: Jewish Queer Lesbian Feminisms for the Twenty-First Century
A Book Not-Yet-Published I'm Excited About: (I haven't been keeping up with this, oops.)
Related Book News I've Got My Eye On: Netflix never actually announced that they dropped the Redwall adaptation, right? So I've still got my hopes up…

My All-Time Favorite Book(s): Redwall (series, especially Redwall, Mossflower and Martin the Warrior); His Dark Materials & The Book of Dust; The Lord of the Rings & The Silmarillion; Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing; The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia; How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures; The Dark Tower
My Favorite Book Genre(s): picture books (fiction); picture book biographies; microhistory/deep dives; contemporary romance; thriller; horror
A Book I Recommend in My Favorite Genre(s):
• picture books (fiction): A Map into the World
• picture book biographies: Swimming with Sharks: The Daring Discoveries of Eugenie Clark
• microhistory/deep dive: The Secret History of Bigfoot: In Search of a North American Monster
• contemporary romance: Knit One, Girl Two
• thriller: Genuine Fraud
• horror: Misery (*with caveats)
A Genre I'm Interested in Trying Out: I'll try almost anything once.

Link to My Latest Book Review: Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
Link to My Reading Log: pineisland #reading: annotations / 2025 book list

Books/Genres I'm Interested in Discussing/Chatting About: I'm open to anything, really, but definitely say "hi" if you love picture books!

bored before dinner so why not?

[althea_valara]

Name: I prefer to go by Althea
Pronouns: she/her
Age Group: OLD. (okay, I'm 50)
Dealbreaker(s): the usual: racism, homophobia, transphobia

I Recently Finished Reading: "How To Keep House While Drowning" by KC Davis. I inhaled it in one sitting
A Book I Want to Reread: The entire Artemis Fowl series, but especially The Atlantis Complex
Some Published Titles From My To Be Read List: "Dragonflight" by Anne McCaffrey - the all_worlds_of_mccaffrey group has inspired me to read one of her novels for the first time
A Book Not-Yet-Published I'm Excited About: Um, don't know? Perhaps whatever John Scalzi is working on next... I like his books
Related Book News I've Got My Eye On: MURDERBOT. I need to reread the first novel and the rest of the series. I'm seriously thinking of subscribing to the streaming service so I can watch the series.

My All-Time Favorite Book(s): I don't have one? Though Madeleine L'Engle's books were very formative for me when I was kid
My Favorite Book Genre(s): Science Fiction, Fantasy, Romance, manga (though it's been a while since I've read any manga)
A Book I Recommend in My Favorite Genre(s): for Romance, I highly recommend "The Countess Conspiracy" by Courtney Milan. It is rare that I call a book perfect but I really do think that one is.
A Book I Don't Recommend in My Favorite Genre(s): Um, nothing comes to mind
A Genre I'm Interested in Trying Out: Well, I'm reading a non-fiction book for a book club I'm going to be joining, which is a bit unusual for me, so hey!

Books/Genres I'm Interested in Discussing/Chatting About: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Romance, but really probably anything. My goal is to just READ MORE. I used to be a really voracious reader as a kid and into early adulthood, but that has really dropped off. Anything to encourage me to read more would be good, because I do miss it, and I feel rather sheltered because I'm not exposing myself to many new things.

[dancesontrains]

Name: Dances
Pronouns: he/him
Age Group: mid thirties
Dealbreaker(s): Being pro purity culture on anti-kink.

I Recently Finished Reading: An ebook of 'Arabella' by anonymous, Victorian-era erotica. Not quite my thing due to some of the kinks in it, though I find vintage erotica interesting.
A Book I Want to Reread: Considering re-reading Gangsta. vols 1-5 - I just started 6 and don't remember much of what happened after a few years away from the series.
Some Published Titles From My To Be Read List: 'The Husbands' by Holly Gramazio
A Book Not-Yet-Published I'm Excited About: Akwaeke Emezi's 'Somadina'.
Related Book News I've Got My Eye On: (adaptations etc.) Mildly curious about the Murderbot show though the lead actor's race and gender are huge negatives for me.

My All-Time Favorite Book(s): I am not choosing!!
My Favorite Book Genre(s): Sequential art (comics, graphic novels, manga, etc)
A Book I Recommend in My Favorite Genre(s): 'Superman Smashes the Klan' by Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru. Takes an old radio story that was well known for helping decrease Klan membership numbers, keeps the time it's set in and truly digs into what it means for Superman|Clark to be a child of two cultures. Also the art is adorable and Klanners are beaten up.
A Book I Don't Recommend in My Favorite Genre(s): Anything written or drawn by fascists or nazis.
A Genre I'm Interested in Trying Out: Maybe more literary fiction?

Link to My Latest Book Review: https://dancesontrains.dreamwidth.org/249057.html
Link to My Reading Log: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/5861797-a-j

Books/Genres I'm Interested in Discussing/Chatting About: Sequential art, SF/F, maybe romance.

[inkilea]

I've spent the past week thinking that I should really participate in the comms I joined this year (the return to social media is going so, so great), so I'm taking this as a sign to join in. Hi hi hello hi there.

Name: Inky/Lea
Pronouns: She/Her
Age Group: 40's
Dealbreaker(s): Under 18s. Bigotry. Having my feed flooded (I am highly unlikely to flood yours, even if I do manage this slow crawl back to social media). Conspiracy theorists of the Sandy Hook Denier ilk (the harmless/true ones are an area of interest, tbh). Antivaxxers.

I Recently Finished Reading: The Last Devil to Die, Richard Osman
A Book I Want to Reread: I reread Night Watch, by Terry Pratchett, every May 25th. Tanya Huff's Blood Books are a less tightly scheduled want.
Some Published Titles From My To Be Read List: Rubbernecker, Belinda Bauer; Strange Angel, The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons, by George Pendle; The Enheduanna, translated by Sophus Helle; Wonderbook, Jeff Vandermeer; Bury Your Gays, Chuck Tingle.
Related Book News I've Got My Eye On: (adaptations etc.) The Thursday Murder Club adaptation.

My All-Time Favorite Book(s): Howl's Moving Castle, by Diana Wynne Jones, is my childhood comfort reread. As far as adult books, Good Omens continues to live at the top beside Dark Lord of Derkholm, despite there being a special place in hell for a certain walking wankstain (I've never really clicked with Gaiman's fiction anyway, and S2 of the show solidified my feeling of 'Oh, it's the Pratchett of it that I like,' long before the bastard was outed).
My Favorite Book Genre(s): I'm all over the place, honestly. Right now I'm veering between mystery and non-fiction (mostly historical. Adding an ice-age vampire to my urban fantasy project seemed like a fun idea, but then everyone, including me, got attached before I realised just how much history I'd have to research. Woe).

Link to My Latest Book Review: https://www.litsy.com/web/post/2848606
Link to My Reading Log: https://www.litsy.com/web/user/inkilea

Books/Genres I'm Interested in Discussing/Chatting About: Genuinely, I won't know until you start talking about it, or I start reading it. The ADHD brain weasels run free, no matter how much I try to corral them.

[anehan]

Name: anehan
Age Group: Steadily creeping towards middle age.

I Recently Finished Reading: Melissa Scott's Astreiant series. It's not the last one I finished, but it's one of the latest ones and notable in the sense that I inhaled all six parts of it in a row.
A Book I Want to Reread: To echo another poster upthread, the Captive Prince trilogy. I only read it for the first time last year. You know how sometimes you come across a book that's like tailor-made to scratch your id? That was Captive Prince for me.

Some Published Titles From My To Be Read List:
Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault. To my shame, I've only ever read Renault's contemporary fiction.
Genjin tarina by Murasaki Shikibu. This is the first complete Finnish translation of Genji monogatari. The translation is by the legendary Kai Nieminen, expanding on an earlier one by Martti Turunen, and it was finally published a few days ago.
The Husky and His White Cat Shizun by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou, vol. 6 onwards. I've been letting these ones accumulate.
A Book Not-Yet-Published I'm Excited About: Queen Demon by Martha Wells. Can't wait for more of Kai!
Related Book News I've Got My Eye On: (adaptations etc.) Is there life beyond books? The evidence is inconclusive.

My All-Time Favorite Book(s): Persuasion by Jane Austen.
My Favorite Book Genre(s): Right now it's danmei.
A Book I Recommend in My Favorite Genre(s): Stars of Chaos by priest. It's one of my favourites, and there's a completed, official translation into English available.
A Book I Don't Recommend in My Favorite Genre(s): Dawning by Ice. I managed to finish the first volume, but it made my eyes bleed.
A Genre I'm Interested in Trying Out: Literary fiction, which has never been my kind of genre before. Also, classic scifi, which I've barely read any of.

Link to My Latest Book Review: In which I hate on J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace.
Link to My Reading Log: Have a link to my books tag on DW instead.

Books/Genres I'm Interested in Discussing/Chatting About: Most likely ones to engage my interest: danmei, M/M fiction in general, fantasy, historical fiction, manga. But really, I just like talking about books.

[anehan]

A fellow Capri fan! Hello!

[silversea]

Name: silversea / Cru
Pronouns: she/her/e/er
Age Group: 20s
Dealbreaker(s): Reusing my dealbreakers from last year, I don't want to interact with anyone who holds rightwing beliefs. I also don't don't want to interact with anyone who likes to apply morals to fiction. Other than that, please don't interact with me if you're 20 years old or younger.

I Recently Finished Reading: The Tomb of Dragons by Katherine Addison and Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
A Book I Want to Reread: I'm actually planning to reread The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett soon, before I start A Drop of Corruption!
Some Published Titles From My To Be Read List: Inanna by Emily H. Wilson, Hearing Happiness by Jaipreet Virdi, The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett, and The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson.
A Book Not-Yet-Published I'm Excited About: I don't really follow new releases, and I think most of the series I'm following have recently ended (sadly looks at Addison's Cemeteries of Amalo), just had new releases, or haven't announced their next book. I'm not that excited about Katabasis by R.F. Kuang, but it's certainly on my TBR, so I guess that's the closest? Oh, but if we're including webnovels, then I'm looking forward to Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint's official English release.
Related Book News I've Got My Eye On: I got to watch the first two episodes of Murderbot at its NYC premiere, and needless to say, I'm definitely excited for more! Other than that, I'm looking forward to Guillermo Del Toro's adaptation of Frankenstein. And looking at book adaptations news, I see Project Hail Mary's movie adaptation is supposed to be coming soon, so maybe that as well, depending on how I feel about its trailer?

My All-Time Favorite Book(s): So. Many. The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir, The Queen's Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner, The Broken Earth trilogy by N.K. Jemisin, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, etc.
My Favorite Book Genre(s): Fantasy and science-fiction.
A Book I Recommend in My Favorite Genre(s): I read The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez earlier this year, and it's definitely one of my favorite books this year. Such a fantastic story with gorgeous writing!
A Book I Don't Recommend in My Favorite Genre(s): I recently read The Ministry of Time, and didn't really enjoy it.
A Genre I'm Interested in Trying Out: Mmhm, at this point I think I've tried out all the genres... I mostly read fiction last year, so maybe I'll try to read more non-fiction this year.

Link to My Reading Log: Here's my Storygraph, which I regularly use! Feel free to add me over there :)

Books/Genres I'm Interested in Discussing/Chatting About: Fantasy, science-fiction, adult fiction, manga/light novels, webnovels.

[zenigotchas]

You got good taste in genres (I like mysteries too)

[silversea]

Howl's Moving Castle is such a comfy classic, I get why it's your comfort reread.

[silversea]

Sunrise on the Reaping was an excellent book, looking forward to its adaptation!

How did you like La Belle Sauvage? I was thinking of reading it, since I liked His Dark Materials, but I heard mixed things regarding it so I was hesitant.

[yourivy]

This is a great idea! I can always use new bookish friends :)

Name: Tina.
Pronouns: She/her or they/them.
Age Group: I turn 37 in nine days.
Dealbreaker(s): Just don't be an asshole and we will get along just fine ;) Also, if you're a "positive vibes only" person, my journal will probably not be for you. I am not saying I only post sad stuff, but I do have some mental health issues and want to be able to freely write about them without fearing that it's "too much" for somebody. I hope that makes sense?!?

I Recently Finished Reading: "Mexican Gothic" by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
A Book I Want to Reread: I hardly ever re-read books, tbh. There are so many great ones out there left to discover!
Some Published Titles From My To Be Read List: "Wild Dark Shore" by Charlotte McConaghy, "Black Woods Blue Sky" by Eowyn Ivey...
A Book Not-Yet-Published I'm Excited About: I have to admit that I'm not currently up-to-date on what's coming out. Need to check out some Goodreads lists, I guess!
Related Book News I've Got My Eye On: (adaptations etc.) I don't really keep up with those, tbh.

My All-Time Favorite Book(s): I cannot possible choose one! A few are: "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov, "The Wrong Boy" by Willy Russell & "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides.
My Favorite Book Genre(s): Literary Fiction, Thriller, Nonfiction (biographies/memoirs, social/political topics, psychology etc.), Dystopian, Horror...these are the ones I tend to gravitate to the most. I will read almost anything as long as the book as such sounds interesting. Just not too much into most sci-fi, high fantasy, or extremely gory/gross things. I also seem to slowly "age out" of Young Adult novels, as most that I have recently read I didn't enjoy that much.
A Book I Recommend in My Favorite Genre(s): My favourites, of course. As for a recent read, I really loved "Demon Copperhead" by Barbara Kingsolver.
A Book I Don't Recommend in My Favorite Genre(s): Wow, good question! I might have to come back to you on that one.
A Genre I'm Interested in Trying Out:It's not exactly "new" to me, but I would like to read more graphic novels.

Link to My Latest Book Review: Most of mine tend to come out rather short, but here's a link to the one for "Mexican Gothic": https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5522990140 - and for a longer one, "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous" by Ocean Vuong: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7106293261 (there are spoilers in there, just as a warning). Please don't flame me if you disagree with anything, okay? D:
Link to My Reading Log: My Goodreads profile is here: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/66008211-tina and I also do "What are you reading Wednesdays" on my journal, but those are Friends Only.

Books/Genres I'm Interested in Discussing/Chatting About: All of them!

[yourivy]

I am on the fence of wanting to watch "Songbirds and Snakes" because the book fell kind of flat to me. Maybe I will watch the movie once it comes out on streaming somewhere.

[yourivy]

I read "James" last month and loved it! Definitely recommend it :)
Also still need to read the two books Travis Baldree has already published, I hear so many good things about them.

I also love mysteries and thrillers - which one was your latest favourite from either of those?
And I would like to be friends if you're game? My own comment is here: https://booknook.dreamwidth.org/37093.html?thread=645093#cmt645093

[yourivy]

Oh, "Sunrise on the Reaping" must be great if you are already re-reading it! I'm excited to get to it, especially since Haymitch is one of my favourite characters in the series.
The books on your to-read list both sound intriguing.

Would you mind getting more into your caveats on "Misery"? I highly enjoyed both the movie and book so I am just interested. If you don't feel like elaborating, no worries.

Re: bored before dinner so why not?

[yourivy]

I used to be a really voracious reader as a kid and into early adulthood, but that has really dropped off.
Me too.

[yourivy]

"The Husbands" is a great book! I read it earlier this year and enjoyed it a lot.

Re: bored before dinner so why not?

[anehan]

I used to be a really voracious reader as a kid and into early adulthood, but that has really dropped off.

I hear you. I suppose it's natural that with the demands of adulthood comes a corresponding drop in the energy we have to devote to reading. But even so, I miss being the kind of reader who just inhaled books. And not just books that fit my known preferences but any kinds of books. I used to read so much more widely as a teenager than I do now.

[asphaltcowgrrl]

Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are two of my favorite books, so James is a must read for me! Glad t hear you liked it.

If you do audiobooks, Travis Baldree does a fantastic job narrating.

For mysteries, I've been reading a series by Sally Rigby - Cavendish & Walker - that puts a police detective together with a college professor (I think she's a psychology lecturer). They're really good mysteries and the partnership between the two women is amazing.

For thrillers, Coming to Find You by Jane Corry was pretty intense!

[asphaltcowgrrl]

Happy early birthday!

It makes total sense! People who have never battled with their own mental health don't know or understand what it's like. And, while I'm sure they're trying to help, it sometimes backfires, too. Besides, it's your space and you shouldn't ever feel like you need to hold back.

We have a lot of genres in common! I'm also one of those people who will read something outside their comfort zones just because it sounds interesting.

That's a bummer about Mexican Gothic! I have it on my e-reader and will get to it eventually.

[meepettemu]

Name: meep
Pronouns: meep
Age Group: 40s
Dealbreaker(s): anyone not pro-trans/other very right leaning views

I Recently Finished Reading: Enid blyton’s famous 5 (don’t judge me - I’m in hospital
A Book I Want to Reread: I’m not sure actually. There are so many still to read
Some Published Titles From My To Be Read List: ‘radical wholeness’ ‘testojunkie’ ‘authoring autism’
A Book Not-Yet-Published I'm Excited About: my own! It should come back to me from the publisher this month!
Related Book News I've Got My Eye On: (adaptations etc.) nope, nothing

My All-Time Favorite Book(s): discworld, chalet school
My Favorite Book Genre(s): not sure
A Book I Recommend in My Favorite Genre(s): a long way to a small angry planet
A Book I Don't Recommend in My Favorite Genre(s): *shrug*
A Genre I'm Interested in Trying Out: I don’t know?

Link to My Latest Book Review:
Link to My Reading Log:https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/6142970-meep Books/Genres I'm Interested in Discussing/Chatting About: most to be fair!

[asphaltcowgrrl]

I really am eager to read Sunrise on the Reaping! Haymitch really intrigues me.

Re: bored before dinner so why not?

[asphaltcowgrrl]

We can be old together. (I'm 50, too.)

YES! I love John Scalzi! He's so ridiculous but also seems like a really fantastic person, too.

I'm really interested in the Murderbot series, too. Between the source material and Alexander Skarsgard, how can we go wrong? (Don't answer that, I don't want the universe to get any ideas.)