RIP (Read In Progress) Wednesday

[quillpunk]

Raise the flag! Sound the horn!

It's Wednesday!

What are you reading? 👀

Comments

[olivermoss]

I tried to do the trans-read-a-thon to support trans authors last year, but it was all self pub and some of the books that were put on a lot of TBR lists turned out to be terrible and got backlash. I guess that is the problem with sharing based on TBR lists rather than reccs? One I read didn't have a grasp on paragraph structure and subject attribution. Cute idea, cute cover, author had a strong social media profile, but when it got time to read.. not super great.

Amazon is always trying to recc me self pub that turns out to be unreadable, even before ChatGPT. Some of the reccs I've gotten in fandom were... misleading. So, I just kept not even trying for long stretches of time even though I really, really wanted to find books I liked. But, I am confident there are good things on my TBR list I just need to power through.

[wearing_tearing]

Ooooff, yeah. That can happen with random TBR lists out there. Even more so if they're by someone you haven't tested re taste in books yet.

You can do it! I feel like once we commit to getting through our TBR, we're able to make progress and find good things to read :D