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Stacking the Shelves & The Sunday Post

Posted November 2, 2024 by Nicky in General / 26 Comments

Good morning folks! It’s been a busy week around here, which has meant very little time for reading — even when I was lazing around in the hotel room, since we had difficulty getting the WiFi password and finding out which of the three bins was meant for what. Lovely venue, badly executed amenities…

Anyway, the trip also means I haven’t been to the library this week, so all-in-all it’s a pretty low-key post. That said, I do have a few things to share!

Books acquired this week

Though I haven’t been to the library, I did get myself a book in order to top up an order for same-day delivery for something I needed for the trip, and I also got an e-ARC via Netgalley, so here they are!

Cover of The Virtues of Underwear by Nina Edwards Cover of The Incandescent by Emily Tesh

Two very different vibes there, I know! I’m quite curious about The Virtues of Underwear, though it was a bit of an impulse-buy… and I’ve loved Emily Tesh’s novellas, so I’m excited for this novel.

Posts from this week

I’m getting enough of a backlog of reviews that I posted some even on days I had another type of post going up, so it’s a bumper crop this week!

Other posts:

What I’m reading

First of all, let’s start with the usual: what books have I finished in the last week and plan to review here soon? Let’s see…

Cover of Saints by Amy Jeffs Cover of Rope's End, Rogue's End by E.C.R. Lorac Cover of Enchanted Creatures: Our Monsters and Their Meanings, by Natalie Lawrence

As you see, not as much reading as usual, but nonetheless, there we go! And for this weekend… I’m really not sure. I want to read some more manga, which I don’t usually review here, but I’m also knee-deep in Lucy Worsley’s biography of Agatha Christie, and The Book-Makers by Adam Smyth is due back at the library on Monday, so there’s plenty to be getting on with!

Linking up with Reading Reality’s Stacking the Shelves, Caffeinated Reviewer’s The Sunday Post, and the Sunday Salon over at Readerbuzz, as usual!

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WWW Wednesday

Posted October 30, 2024 by Nicky in General / 0 Comments

Just back from a wedding, and just enough time to write a quick reading update!

Cover of Enchanted Creatures: Our Monsters and Their Meanings, by Natalie LawrenceWhat have you recently finished reading?

Over the past few days, I haven’t finished much aside from a single volume of the Fairy Tail manga, and the last thing I finished other than that was one of my weekend reads… looks like it was Enchanted Creatures, by Natalie Lawrence, which tries to dig into why humans have come up with certain kinds of stories. I really need to chew over what I thought of this and look up a couple of things that gave me pause (is a phobia of snakes really the most common human fear, for instance?). It was an alright read, but nothing too surprising, in any case.

Cover of The Roads to Rome by Catherine FletcherWhat are you currently reading?

I started on The Roads to Rome, by Catherine Fletcher. Unfortunately, my mind kept wandering and I’m not sure I’ve retained anything so far, other than the fact that there is actually a place called Narnia (Narni, now, but Narnia in Latin), which is where C.S. Lewis got the name from. I’m not sure if it’s the book or just the fact that there was a lot going on around me, so I’ll give it a bit longer now I’m home… but it might be a write-off for me.

Cover of Murder at the British Museum by Jim EldridgeWhat will you read next?

I keep throwing out ideas and then not adhering to them, so this should always be taken with a pinch of salt — but I’m fairly certain I’m going to read Jim Eldridge’s Murder at the British Museum. The first book was just okay, not wonderful, but I like the idea of mysteries set in museums enough to keep going with the next book, at least for now.

Other than that… who knows? But the biography of Agatha Christie I borrowed is my most-renewed book that’s due back at the library next, so maybe that one, just in case they still have a limit on the number of times you can renew a book.

What about you?

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Top Ten Tuesday: Books That Freaked Me Out

Posted October 29, 2024 by Nicky in General / 14 Comments

Well folks, I’m writing from a hotel room at a friend’s wedding, and I haven’t talked enough about books yet (even though it was a very nerdy wedding). So, from my hotel room to all of you, here we go: this week’s theme is a Halloween freebie, and I’m here to tell you about books that have freaked me out…

Cover of Feed by Mira Grant Cover of What Moves The Dead, by T. Kingfisher Cover of Spillover by David Quamnem Cover of Heaven Official's Blessing by MXTX Cover of Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey

  1. Feed, by Mira Grant. When I first read it, it was before the point where I began to try to get curious about my fear of infectious disease, so it was a bit of an unexpected choice for me in many ways. When I initially read it, I didn’t love it — but I later read it again and again, liking it a bit more each time. I don’t think it still freaks me out in the same way, but the fear of infection which drives the story really got under my skin.
  2. What Moves The Dead, by T. Kingfisher. This was a much more recent read, of course (just last week!), and I’m a lot more comfortable taking about diseases in general now than I was back then. Still, the fear of contamination drips off this story, and it was probably only Kingfisher’s skill as a writer that kept me reading this one.
  3. Spillover, by David Quammen. I know, you probably weren’t expecting non-fiction on this list, but you might be recognising a theme about the things that scare me. I read this book when I was just beginning to see that my fears lessened if I got curious about the subject. It still freaked me out, but it also put me on the path I’m on now (final year of my MSc in Infectious Diseases!).
  4. Heaven Official’s Blessing, by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu. Horror isn’t the primary genre of this book, for sure, and it’s not even one that I’d necessarily mention in talking about the book. But there are some genuinely freaky, gross and gory things here, like the buried head in Banyue (I’ll avoid describing anything too graphic and leave it at that: if you know, you know). The main character, Xie Lian, suffers some really horrendous things throughout, as well, some of which is horrifying to contemplate (for example being staked into a coffin, unable to die, for a century or two).
  5. Leviathan’s Wake, by James S.A. Corey. This is more sci-fi than horror, especially the later books, but the first book in particular includes a lot of body horror.
  6. Sleeping Giants, by Sylvain Neuvel. This one isn’t horror at all, but the moment where a guy has an accident and they use the excuse to turn his knees around so he can better pilot a massive alien mech is quite shocking, and it’s stuck with me ever since.
  7. Catching Breath, by Kathryn Lougheed. Another non-fiction for you! I don’t think I was specifically interested in tuberculosis before I read this book, but ultimately I wrote my undergrad dissertation about tuberculosis, because Lougheed convinced me that we don’t pay it enough attention at all — and we should. Drug resistant tuberculosis is scarily hard to cure.
  8. Brain on Fire, by Susannah Cahalan. Cahalan experienced a bizarre illness that appeared to be a mental breakdown, and turned out to be an infection. The idea of such a misdiagnosis is terrifying, and some of her early symptoms matched with some of my genuine anxiety symptoms, which was a whole weird thing. There’s a good chance inflammation (not necessarily triggered by infection, but sometimes — and probably more than we think) is actually causing mental illness in some cases (who knows how many). The things we don’t know about our brains definitely freak me out!
  9. The End of Everything, by Katie Mack. Non-fiction about physics breaks my brain sometimes — contemplating the massive size of the universe makes me think a lot of stuff about my own significance, what I think happens when we die, etc, that is anxiety-fuelled in the worst way. Is this an obvious choice for a list of books that freaked me out? Nope, but you weren’t asking me to jumpscare you, just what jumpscared me. This was a good book in general — but a bad one for me.
  10. He Who Whispers, by John Dickson Carr. There’s a particular scene in this one where I remember thinking, “dang, that’s actually creepy.” It’s a classic mystery — but a particular character is just twisted, in a way that surprised me very much as a first-time reader!

Cover of Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel Cover of Catching Breath by Kathryn Lougheed Cover of Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan Cover of The End of Everything by Katie Mack Cover of He Who Whispers, by John Dickson Carr

It’s an idiosyncratic list, but it’s mine!

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Stacking the Shelves & The Sunday Post

Posted October 26, 2024 by Nicky in General / 26 Comments

It’s the weekend, and I’m so glad for it. Much-needed from my point of view! And it’ll be slightly extended, as I’ll be off to the wedding of a friend from university this week. It’s exciting to be seeing everyone again!

So let’s try and get me into a good mood with lots of books and me-time, huh?

Books acquired this week

I went to the library twice this week (since I might not get down there at all next week, and I had a hold to pick up), so it’s a bit of a bumper crop. And my library card is now maxed out, oops! First the fiction:

Cover of What Moves The Dead, by T. Kingfisher Cover of What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher Cover of Crypt of the Moon Spider by Nathan Ballingrud

Cover of Murder at the British Museum by Jim Eldridge Cover of Murder at the Ashmolean by Jim Eldridge Cover of The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty Cover of Swordcrossed by Freya Marske

I actually had eARCs of What Feasts at Night and Sword Crossed, but I didn’t get round to them — ebooks can be a bit “out of sight, out of mind” for me, unfortunately. But now I’ve read both already, and either way now the library knows people are interested in these authors!

I did also find some non-fiction, some of it from my wishlist:

Cover of Close Encounters of the Fungal Kind by Richard Fortey Cover of Saints by Amy Jeffs Cover of Eighteen by Alice Loxton Cover of Digging For Richard III by Mike Pitts

So that was a lovely haul.

I did also get a couple of books from my wife. I haven’t been “cashing in” my Valentine’s gift (a book of my choice each month) for a couple of months, so after I finished Wormwood Abbey, I asked for the next two books:

Cover of Drake Hall by Christina Baehr Cover of Castle of the Winds by Christina Baehr

And that’s it, for now. As if that wasn’t enough, ahaha.

Posts from this week

First, the reviews, as usual:

And the non-reviews:

What I’m reading

Well, let’s start first with the books I’ve finished since last week, or at least the ones I’m going to review here:

Cover of Murder at the Fitzwilliam by Jim Eldridge Cover of Wormwood Abbey by Christina Baehr Cover of Rose/House by Arkady Martine Cover of A Man and His God by Janet Morris

Cover of What Moves The Dead, by T. Kingfisher Cover of Crypt of the Moon Spider by Nathan Ballingrud Cover of The Bookshop, the Draper, The Candlestick Maker: A History of the High Street by Annie Gray Cover of Digging For Richard III by Mike Pitts Cover of What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher

As you see, it’s been a pretty good week, with some spooky reads as well (unusual for me). For the weekend, I plan to read some manga/manhua, but also hopefully start on Christina Baehr’s Drake Hall, and possibly finally get started on Sarah Beth Durst’s The Spellshop.

…Probably. As always, I’ll be going based on whatever my random whim tells me.

Finally, just a reminder for folks in the UK that Bookshop.org’s Golden Bookmark competition is drawing toward the closing date. The competition is a prize draw for £250 of book vouchers per year for life. You can sign up via my referral link to enter! Full disclosure: that gets me a few extra entries, and then you’ll be able to grab your own referral link to share.

Linking up with Reading Reality’s Stacking the Shelves, Caffeinated Reviewer’s The Sunday Post, and the Sunday Salon over at Readerbuzz, as usual!

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Top Ten Tuesday: Reading Habits Over Time

Posted October 22, 2024 by Nicky in General / 14 Comments

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday prompt is about how your reading habits have changed over time, which is interesting to ponder.

  1. I read a lot more non-fiction. It’s a shift I never expected, because I wasn’t that interested in non-fiction when I was younger, but year by year the percentage inches up. At the moment about a third of what I read is non-fiction.
  2. I don’t really enjoy YA anymore. There’s a lot of good stuff out there and I might still give it a shot here and there, but many themes just don’t speak to me as much. And that’s fine: at this stage in my life, it’s definitely not aimed at me!
  3. I don’t believe in “guilty pleasures”. I try not to value-judge any genre. Reading is meant to be fun, for me, not some kind of moral duty to read “improving” literature — or even stuff that is necessarily “good”.
  4. I used to read straight through books more than I do now. Same with series. Part of that is the shift in genres: non-fiction, for example, can really benefit from taking a step back to let yourself sort through the information.
  5. I used to reread books even more than I do now. These days I try not to read books too often, because then the gaps can start to show, or it just becomes too familiar-the same way you can autopilot through a familiar area when walking or driving.
  6. I think I’m more influenced by other reviewers’ opinions than I used to be. If I loved a book that someone I trust hated, or vice versa, I worry that I’m being weird! I try to notice that feeling, but I’m sure it still affects me at times. Sometimes that’s a good thing, because it prompts me to think something through… but sometimes I don’t feel very in touch with what I enjoyed.
  7. I probably read less than I did. In a way it’s not surprising — I’m not studying for a degree in English Lit anymore, and I’m both studying and have a full-time job. But it might be surprising to hear given how many books I do read!
  8. I used to be quite picky about where I stopped reading: it had to be the end of a chapter, or at least a scene break. I know, this one’s a bit more niche and precise! But I really used to find it impossible to put down a book unless I was at a “good” stopping-point. I’m a lot more flexible now.
  9. I don’t read in bed anymore. It’s bad sleep hygiene and also it’s not that comfy! I like to be sat upright, with my feet on something to bring my knees up closer to my chest.
  10. I probably read shorter books these days. It’s an attention span thing, and also — no matter now I try to avoid this happening — a sense of pressure about completing reading goals, having reviews to post, etc.

Alright, that’s it for me for now — how about you?

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Stacking the Shelves & The Sunday Post

Posted October 19, 2024 by Nicky in General / 24 Comments

Good morning folks! My achievement this week is that I’m finally back on top of my email inbox, and today I’m tackling my tab backlog. That hopefully means more timely comments going forward, now things are a bit more under control. (Hopefully.)

Books acquired this week

As usual now, I made a library trip on Monday, so here are my spoils!

Cover of Overleaf by Susan & Richard Ogilvy Cover of The Book Makers by Adam Smyth

Cover of Cold Snap by Lindy Ryan Cover of Murder at the Fitzwilliam by Jim Eldridge Cover of The Sad Ghost Club by Lize Meddings

I’ve been digging into those already — in fact, I’ve finished three, I’m partway through Murder at the Fitzwilliam, and it’s just The Book Makers left untouched.

I did also get a book via my British Library Crime Classics subscription, as usual, and two books for review via Netgalley.

Cover of Dramatic Murder by Elizabeth Anthony Cover of Rose/House by Arkady Martine Cover of The River has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar

I won’t be reading a Christmas mystery yet, but I had a fun time doing so last year during December, so I’ll look forward to that. As for the ARCs, I’ve been curious about Rose/House for a while, but it wasn’t available in the UK, so glad to pick that up! I wasn’t personally as in love with This Is How You Lose The Time War as others, but I’m curious about The River Has Roots all the same.

Reviews posted this week

As usual, let’s have the review roundup!

And just one non-review post:

What I’m reading

It’s been a good reading week, but quite a few books I won’t review here (like my rereads of Record of a Spaceborn Few and The Galaxy and the Ground Within). As ever, here’s a sneak peak of the books I finished and will be reviewing here — sooner or later, anyway.

Cover of The Hunter by Richard Stark Cover of The Mountain in the Sea by Ray NaylerCover of Overleaf by Susan & Richard Ogilvy

Cover of Cold Snap by Lindy Ryan Cover of The Sad Ghost Club by Lize Meddings Cover of The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie

As for what I’ll be reading this weekend… first I’m going to finish up with Murder at the Fitzwilliam, for sure. After that, I’m probably just going to follow a whim. I’d like to finish up Wormwood Abbey (Christina Baehr), so I can decide if I want to read the rest of the series, and I’m thinking of making a start on Alexis Hall’s Mortal Follies. I’ll probably pick up some non-fiction as well, though, since I like to have some variety. I’m going to keep it fairly chilled out, in any case, as I just got my flu vaccine this morning.

So that’s me for the week! How’s everyone else doing?

ETA: Oh, for those in the UK, here’s an opportunity! Bookshop.org are running a “Golden Bookmark” draw, through which you may win free books for life. Sadly not unlimited free books, but £250 a year for as long as Bookshop.org exists isn’t bad, right? Go on, sign up, you know you want to. (Full disclosure: if you use my referral link, I get some extra entries. You can then get your own referral link… or pass mine on to others, whichever you prefer!)

Linking up with Reading Reality’s Stacking the Shelves, Caffeinated Reviewer’s The Sunday Post, and the Sunday Salon over at Readerbuzz, as usual!

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WWW Wednesday

Posted October 16, 2024 by Nicky in General / 2 Comments

Wednesday came around again, so here goes…

What have you recently finished reading?

Cover of Overleaf by Susan & Richard OgilvyOverleaf, by Susan and Richard Ogilvy. It’s a fascinating record of Britain’s trees through a single leaf (or group of leaves in some cases) each, showing both sides of the leaf on either side of a page turn. Susan Ogilvy is the artist, and her brother-in-law Richard is a forester. The detail is fascinating, and each leaf also has a short description with more information, written by Richard Ogilvy.

I’m also still intermittently reading new volumes of Fairy Tail, which I seem to choose when I just want to turn my brain off. I’m not deeply involved with it all, but I enjoy it while I’m reading it.

Cover of The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky ChambersWhat are you currently reading?

I’m partway through a reread of The Galaxy and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers. I read it a while after it came out, and now this is my first reread. I don’t love this or the third book as much as the first and second, but I appreciated Record of a Spaceborn Few a bit more second and third time around, so I’m wondering if I’ll have the same experience with this one. So far, I’m not as emotionally involved with it as with the others, though.

In the Serial Reader app, I’m approaching the end of Agatha Christie’s The Man in the Brown Suit, which is very different in tone to her Poirot books. The romance is very abrupt (though it’s very clear it’s coming), but it’s fun to watch the mystery unfold.

Cover of The Bookshop, the Draper, The Candlestick Maker: A History of the High Street by Annie GrayWhat will you read next?

I’ve got a couple of library books I’m interested in getting round to. Since it’s more or less spooky season, Lindy Ryan’s Cold Snap is a strong contender — and since it’s a novella, it’s a nice quick read that should fit in between other stuff I need to get done this evening.

Other than that, I think I’ll soon pick up The Bookshop, the Draper, The Candlestick Maker, by Annie Gray, for my next non-fiction read. Fiction-wise, I think I’m going to finally dig into Alexis Hall’s Mortal Follies, since I have the second book in the series out of the library. It’s a good thing I’m a fast reader, or I’d never read the first one before the second one needs to go back.

What about you?

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Stacking the Shelves & The Sunday Post

Posted October 12, 2024 by Nicky in General / 34 Comments

Hurrah for the weekend! I’m hoping to spend it mostly chilling out, but I do need to catch up on comments once more. One day I’ll be less terminally behind!

For now, here’s the weekly roundup.

Books acquired this week

This week it’s just library books, nothing new in the mail or on my ereader. I’d hoped a couple of holds would come in, but they hadn’t by the time I got down to the library, but I found myself some interesting alternatives anyway!

Cover of Feeding the Monster by Anna Bogutskaya Cover of The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer Cover of The Curator by Owen King

Cover of The Umbrella Academy vol 1 Cover of Arch-Conspirator by Veronica Roth

I’ve already read three of those, so apparently it was a very inspiring library trip!

Posts from this week

Here’s the reviews I’ve posted this week:

And other posts:

What I’m reading

It’s been quite a busy week for reading, with quite a few books finished that I plan to review on the blog. Here’s a sneak peek!

Cover of Nothing But The Truth by The Secret Barrister Cover of Haunt Sweet Home by Sarah Pinsker Cover of But Not Too Bold by Hache Pueyo Cover of The Umbrella Academy vol 1

Cover of Arch-Conspirator by Veronica Roth Cover of .self Cover of Feeding the Monster by Anna Bogutskaya Cover of The Book at War by Andrew Pettegree

There are a couple of others I don’t plan to review, so it really has been a good week for it. I’m not sure what my weekend reading will be, to be honest. I want to whittle down the number of books I’m reading at once, so most likely one priority will be finishing my reread of Record of a Spaceborn Few (Becky Chambers). Other than that… I’ll let my whim guide me.

Linking up with Reading Reality’s Stacking the Shelves, Caffeinated Reviewer’s The Sunday Post, and the Sunday Salon over at Readerbuzz, as usual!

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WWW Wednesday

Posted October 9, 2024 by Nicky in General / 4 Comments

Wednesday again; that keeps happening, somehow, as does this joke.

Cover of Arch-Conspirator by Veronica RothWhat have you recently finished reading?

Last night I read Veronica Roth’s Arch-Conspirator more or less in one go. It’s a sci-fi retelling of Sophocles’ Antigone, and I’m still kind of digesting the ways it adapted that story. I think as an adaptation of Antigone, it doesn’t really use the same themes — more just the plot. Which is fine, but I’ve studied Antigone to death and had kind of expected a slightly different slant. I think I liked it, all the same.

Cover of The Book at War by Andrew PettegreeWhat are you currently reading?

I’m most of the way through The Book at War by Andrew Pettegree, now. I returned the library copy for convenience’s sake, so I need to grab the Kindle copy to finish up. It did get a bit more interesting once it stopped being focused on early military education.

I’m also still reading Ray Nayler’s The Mountain in the Sea, but I’ve barely touched that in a week because I was focusing on trying to finish other library books that needed to be returned. I should get back to it.

Cover of The Hunter by Richard StarkWhat are you going to read next?

In theory, there’s a bunch of library books which have been waiting a while, and it should be one of those. Most likely, I’m going to give Feeding the Monster: Why Horror Has a Hold on Us, by Anna Bogutskaya, a shot. I’m not much of a horror fan myself, even novels, but I find the fascination with it an interesting phenomenon.

I’m probably also going to give Richard Stark’s The Hunter a go; noir is not usually my thing, but a wide knowledge of trends in crime fiction (thanks to a course back in university) means I can find most anything in the genre interesting for how it slots into the bigger picture. Plus, I do think Raymond Chandler was a genius, so some noir has worked for me in the past.

How about you?

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Top Ten Tuesday: Brags & Confessions

Posted October 8, 2024 by Nicky in General / 14 Comments

I skipped last week’s Top Ten Tuesday because I wasn’t feeling it, but this week’s theme is bookish brags and/or confessions, which sounds like fun. Let’s have a think…

Five brags:

  1. I read really fast! If you’ve been around here much, you probably know that, but it still catches me by surprise sometimes. In the past, I’ve read around 500 books in a year, though I can’t manage so much now while I have a full-time workload with self-employment, plus a part-time degree: last year I managed 400 books, if I remember rightly. Which is still a lot!
  2. I read a whole range of genres. I’m not sure if this is entirely a brag or just a fact, but it’s something that makes me happy and that I like to show off, so I guess I do think it’s a brag. I’ll never run out of reading material at this rate. (Looks nervously at TBR…)
  3. I have autoapproval from Tor on Netgalley. It’s great, obviously.
  4. My wife is a-okay with “has room for lots of bookcases” being a criteria for any home we rent or buy. I can, theoretically, understand that some people don’t want bookcases to be their primary piece of furniture. Theoretically. But I’m lucky enough that Lisa’s absolutely fine with my ever-expanding collection.
  5. An author I love had actually heard of my blog (and liked it). I just about dissolved on the spot.

Five confessions:

  1. I get jealous about how fast other people can read (or how much time they have to spare for reading). Like there are people who can read for more than 45 hours in 11 days every time Bookly do a readathon, and I don’t get how they fit it in around other obligations and hobbies. And sometimes I think those people are possibly lying about it. Which… kind of sucks of me, to be honest, because there are definitely people who think I’m lying about how much I read — and it really grinds my gears. I try not to give into this suspicion… but in that specific context, they do potentially have a big prize to win by lying, so I don’t think it’s quite the same as when people accuse me of bragging on social media.
  2. Sometimes, I’d rather play FFXIV. I say this as a confession, but I don’t think it’s a bad thing. I think there’s a risk of wrapping one’s whole identity around being bookish, at least for me, so it’s good for me to recognise that sometimes I’d actually rather play a video game… and I definitely know there are readers who think that’s awful of me. I don’t believe in being a purist about how books are always the best. Nope.
  3. I think some book bloggers (and especially people on Bookstagram etc) are more interested in conspicuous consumption than books per se. The book hauls people post sometimes seem to be book hauls just for the sake of showing off. I worry about falling under that heading too, when I have my several-times-yearly trips to buy loads of books, or get spoiled for my birthday/Christmas. I try to keep my motive being sharing excitement, and to always ask myself if I want this book or just any book that I can show off. Sometimes the answer has been that I’m veering toward the latter, and then I put the book back. If I discover I really did want that specific book, it’ll be there another time.
  4. I suck at listening to audiobooks. I get so impatient with the pace. I almost always put them on about 1.5x speed when I can.
  5. I’m super bad at reading books to any kind of time frame. I’m a mood reader, and I stop reading altogether when I feel too much pressure to read something in particular. I always need to be able to just move with my whim.

Okay, it was harder to think of brags than I thought… but that was still fun. Very curious what other people have come up with!

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