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Ren the Ghost ([personal profile] quillpunk) wrote in [community profile] booknook2025-04-29 09:22 pm

Booknook Friending Meme, Take 2

Hello, hello! [community profile] booknook is (again) tossing its hat in the ring for [community profile] 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 [community profile] booknook :D)

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[personal profile] shipperslist 2025-05-04 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Name: ship
Pronouns: she/her
Age Group: 40+
Dealbreaker(s): I don't know if I have any. Continuous bashing of people who don't like the stuff you do? (disclaimer: I'm not listing stuff that should be obvious aka racism, homophobia, transphobia etc).

I Recently Finished Reading: Welcome to Night Vale audiobook.
A Book I Want to Reread: There are a lot of books I'd like to reread at some point so I'm gonna read this question as "a book I want to read again for the first time" when the answer would be: The whole Black Jewels trilogy. And MDZS.
Some Published Titles From My To Be Read List: Parts two and three of the Wraeththu trilogy and a ton of danmei (Chinese BL), including but not limited to Dinghai Fusheng Records, Fourteenth Year of Chenghua, Mist, and several webnovels from priest.
A Book Not-Yet-Published I'm Excited About: Aubrey Gordon's Maintenance Phase: The Hidden History of the Weight Loss and Wellness Industries—and the Lies They Sold Us
Related Book News I've Got My Eye On: The new danmei books 7S is publishing. I'm mostly side-eyeing them, though as I have a LOT on my reading list right now. I also should read more baihe.

My Favorite Book Genre(s): danmei, horror, sci-fi, fantasy, dark fantasy. I tend to read mostly lgbtqia+ books nowadays and try to read more from POC authors. (When someone asks me why, say, "I've spent about 30 years reading straight, White and Western fantasy. I think it's time I read something else for a change.")
A Genre I'm Interested in Trying Out: I've never been much into comics/graphic novels. I should probably try some.

Link to My Latest Book Review
Link to My Reading Log

I'm also on GR and StoryGraph, the links are on my intro post. I read and especially listen a lot nowadays and like to do reading challenges. This year, I'm doing... *counts* 6 challenges, lol.

I post daily, usually only once but sometimes more. My book thoughts are always under a cut and I tend to put all my longer posts under cuts, too.
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[personal profile] yourivy 2025-05-05 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
I am also always trying to read more from PoC authors! Which ones have been your favourites lately?
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[personal profile] shipperslist 2025-05-05 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, that's a really good question! I've been so immersed in danmei lately so most of the authors on my author of color tag are Chinese, lol. I do have a goal to read more African authors and South American authors and indigenous authors.

I loved every MXTX book, and so far I've enjoyed most of priest's books. I'm also about to have more Salman Rushdie and Rivers Solomon to read.
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[personal profile] yourivy 2025-05-07 04:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you!
Rivers Solomon is on my list of authors to check out - and I haven't read any danmei so far but I might give the genre a try.
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[personal profile] shipperslist 2025-05-07 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
If you decide to try danmei out, I recommend you check out the c-novel community here on DW for suggestions and recs.
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[personal profile] yourivy 2025-05-12 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Just joined the comm, thank you!