I Am Absolutely Terrified Of Modern Grind Culture. No Matter What Your Occupation Is, There Is An Immense

i went to the YA section several years ago since i needed a book to read to pass some time. there was this one called "the border" that had a nice looking cover that i ended up buying (was a good choice for me specifically since it taught me a few things about immigration that i had never exposed myself to, though i don't recommend it otherwise. like, at all.). the only female protagonist offered to show her tits to a kid so he'd buy her something from the corner store, and did the same thing for the main protag in the middle of the desert because she liked him(??? they were both teens, but it was still strange). ended up looking up the author years later, and yes, it is a grown ass man. the A in YA stands for AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH??????

Sometimes I think we need to ban grown men from writing teen girls. I've never seen a demographic so convinced that sexualizing children is super normal and okay

Let me just remind you guys that...

AI fanfiction is not fanfiction

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Literally learning how to speed read just so I can get through The Secret History faster. I just want to be done with this terrible book

I might be sick, but I'm still going to be streaming Diablo III on twitch.

Please join me! I'm so lonely!

to be perfectly honest, long before everyone realized jk rowling was a piece of shit, i thought her writing was terribad. fit for second graders at best, even with her aspirations to tell a "darker" story. i literally picked up a book, saw a character named remus lupin, said to myself and he's a werewolf hurr hurr. 400 pages later, big SURPRISE REVEAL HE'S A WEREWOLF. who was already named remus lupin before he even got turned. frankly get the fuck out of my face with that shit.

Dude I get it. I guessed the big twist of every single one of those books, and I was reading them back as they were coming out. Joanne does the most hand-holding foreshadowing I have ever seen.

I think everyone (including Baby Robi, I'm not innocent here) just fell in love with the sandbox she created and didn't want to look at all the cat turds that got mixed in

I am really tempted to try to take an inventory of all the books I own. It'd be useful for me to keep track of what I have so I don't accidentally get duplicates. And it'd be kind of neat to post it here because I love to see what people have in their libraries.

But.....

I own over 300 books, at least. Probably a lot more. And, due to limited shelf space, I kind of have them stashed everywhere around my house.

It would be a huge undertaking for me just to make a full list of them all. And then organize that list. And I know myself. I would absolutely include details about what specific edition I have. Have I finished them? For the unread ones, have I just not started them yet, or are they dnf? And on and on and on....

So much effort and I'm not sure if I can really commit to it

250 posts!

Did it really take me this long?? Your girl has been caught slacking

I'm gonna throw one of my hot takes out here real quick.

Speed reading is just skimming. You're missing out on so much of the book when you do it. It's really not worth it just so you can say that you read 90 books in one month. We need to stop encouraging it. The quality of a read is so much more important than how quickly you finished it. Might be mean, but I won't take your book opinions very seriously if you're just skimming.