#book review account

[abalonetea]

Seeing this a lot in the indie book market with other authors works (I browse regularly as research for work) so here’s a hot tip for everyone out there. If you pick up a book that is clearly labeled YA/NA as the genre. And you give it a 2/5 star review, and your only critique is “I couldn’t connect to it because it’s a YA book”, then you’re being an asshole. You just plummeted that author’s overall ratings, and the books overall ratings, and affected their sales... Because you knowingly bought a YA book and then didn’t like that it was a YA book. 

I’m all for leaving poor reviews if the writing is bad, the plot isn’t great, or whatever other reason you’ve got. But please, don’t buy a book that’s directed at a certain age range or a certain genre, and then leave a bad review BECAUSE IT’S WRITTEN FOR THE AGE RANGE THAT IT’S BEING MARKETED AT! 

#writeblr #i am seeing this all over the place the last few months #in large part related to those 'read from this genre' bingo challenges that have been showing up #if you buy a book that is clearly marked as being written for a YA audience and you knock it for being written for a YA audience #you're not being a good reviewer! and you're being a bad reader too #for not taking into account the context that the book is written in #!

[bespectacledbun]

I often think about how it's been shown over and over again that chev reads romance not for some bullshit reason of understanding humans (as he claims) but because he likes them. I think about how he very clearly self inserts with these books too, like in that one event where he kept imagining himself and Emma as the main characters of the romance novels he was reading. like. that shit is so funny and sweet and endearing to me. this man would soooooo be into reader insert fan fiction if he was real like he would absolutely bitch about people writing the characters OOC or making them do dumb shit in a fanfic. chevalier "he would not fucking say that" michel is real to me idk

#this is just as funny to think about as him having a goodreads account #or a book review blog and tearing apart those shitty booktok romances #every time I think of chev canonically self inserting with the romance books he's reading I go a little more insane #I wish you were real you would've loved ao3 #now that's certainly a fic idea. modern au anonymous fanfic writer chevalier. what genre does he write tho is the question #chevalier michel #random rambles

[neechees]

I've done only 2 goodreads reviews & both of them were of bad books fbfjcg

#one is a revisionist historical rpf written by a white pretendian #& the other is traumaporn full of racialized misogyny towards a Cree woman written by a guy who only recently found out he was Cree #& decided to capitalize on it by writing about what is likely a sensationalized account of his kohkums life #maybe i ought to do a good review on a book i like

[curieincali]

Me reading ACOTAR/MAF/WAR: This is great, sure there are some problematic elements, but it doesn't meet my problem-threshold while I'm thriving in fairy smut silliness :)

ACOSF: I need to fight the author in a parking lot. x

#I was gonna write my whole review in the tags #but instead i created a whole goodreads account to write my full rant #a court of silver flames #acosf #a book that could have aborted tbh #where was the editor i ask #books #am reading

[herigo]

#pedro pascal #original character #neil gaiman #plants #mua #motd #natural hair #margot robbie #accounting #misha collins #book review #bookish #booklr #book photography #books #book blog #bookblr #books and reading #book quotes #reading #bookworm #books & libraries #goodreads #bookstagram #currently reading #trees #christmas tree #trees and forests #forest #river

[bookwyrminspiration]

absolutely adore the fact that the a chorus of dragons books exist in-universe. we are not just reading an account from an outside perspective, these books exist exactly as we are reading them in their world compiled by senera and thurvishar. that's just such a satisfying premise I love it

#a chorus of dragons #it's like how dracula is written by mina #she compiled all their letters for their review. and we read the same thing they did #senera and thurvishar's accounts are read in universe by the characters!! #we are reading!! the same books!! that characters in the story have read!! #it's not a completely new concept but GOD it's always so much fun

[bookphile]

I’ve been in the book community for over a decade at this point, and I’m still somehow surprised when I hear about an author acting like a jerk towards a reviewer. It’s the year 2023, how do authors -- especially younger authors who grew up with the internet -- still don’t know online etiquette or author v reviewer etiquette? And worst of all, I don’t understand how other people can watch them behave like a jerk and still support them in any way. 

#This is about CJ Pipper dog pilling on a book reviewer and sending people to mass flag their account and getting it perma banned from tiktok #booklr #book drama #book news #how many authors have we had behave this way #this is as bad as lauren hough last year #she's the new anne rice

[navramanan]

i post my read books on my insta story but i havent updated since ramadan cuz i took a sm break then. i've since then finished 4 books need to update my fans once i'm back in my dorm

#if you are to ask why when ur in your dorm. it's bc i take a little pic holding the book #and my room there looks a lot better then my room in my parents' place agdhshdvwjvfvjd #anyways! my fans must be missing me #i actually posted my first finished book of the year here as well then with the rest i forgor </3 #cant be arsed to post 7 book reviews. if ur so curious add me on goodreads (nesi) or better yet on storygraph (kitebbinceng) #need to do more storygraph propaganda.............i need my mutuals to open an account PLEASE #also can u believe! i've listen to more audio books then i've read them in print......also read more ebooks then print #how do i know? bc i can track the book edition on storygraph and they put all the stats in pretty graphs for me!! #GET STORYGRAPH NEOUW #nesi rants

[dragonsbooksandtea]

10/04/24

My most surprising read so far of 2024?

Voyage of the Damned by Frances White

I was so surprised by this one! It was a Spin the Wheel pick from my “Need to read soon” wheel. I actually enjoyed this so much; it was fun, quirky, a little emotional. There was some plot twists that I wasn’t expecting, but it was also very predictable from the start of who was going to be the murderer. But actually getting there was fun and unexpected. I ended up giving this one a 4 stars, almost a 5 star rating.

My only gripe with it was that’s it’s listed as an Adult novel when it’s more of a New Adult, mostly YA vibes. The main character was very immature and content wise wasn’t very adult either in my personal opinion.

This version of the book is by @illumicrate from their January box Murder Mystery.

Have you read Voyager of the Damned?

#book account #book blog #book lover #bookstagram #book review #special edition #books #booklr #bookworm #illumicrate #frances white #voyage of the damned #voyage of the damned book #murder mystery #illumicrate edition

[nomattertheoceans]

Now that I finished reading the Percy Jackson books (well, at least up to The Last Olympian anyway), it's finally time for me to watch all the rage reviews that trash on the movie adaptation and honestly I have been waiting to do that for years lmaoooooo

#like i have never watched the movie okay but I KNOW how you guys felt #on the account of having other childhood obsessions ruined #and i never watched reviews cause i knew i wanted to read the books at some point but never got the time #so NOW that I have read the books you BET YOUR ASS I'm headed to youtube #if you have any recommendations for reviews I am open to suggestions lmaoooo #also i am planning on watching the tv show soon as it is what got me to decide on reading the books now #but I'm not at home and i don't want to watch it on my crappy phone you know i have a perfectly good laptop home #Percy Jackson #percy jackson and the olympians

[mintbees]

Just saw someone on instagram put 6 (six!!) whole warning slides up before they said which books they read this year they disliked. Girl it is not that deep grow up and just say you think the author should be launched into space

#the bee speaks #this whole account was about reviewing books too. if ur a reviewer and I never see you say anything negative l? don’t trust that #some books suck ass come on now

[inthewaytoamultilinguallife]

hello, ive been learning portuguese for a bit and i was wondering if you had any recommendations for media? like youtubers, blogs, movies or series. if you do, thanks in advance

uff fuck, i will sure try my best but i can’t promise anything

I normally get my dose of Portuguese via going to academic workshops or working alongside Brazilian people, so I don’t exactly engage with media in Portuguese as a conscious learning process, I'm afraid. Like, for example, i normally just get a bunch of Instagram reels and TikToks cause I'm on the Brazilian side of instagram/tiktok, and not exactly because i follow any particular account or something, and i don’t level or recognize how hard the Portuguese is in each one, etc 

I have some series that i remember watching and liking tho, which are:

De volta aos 15: a drama/comedy series around a 30yo woman that time travels a few times to when she was 15 and tries to fix everyone's life, as one does

A sogra que te pariu: a very absurd sitcom in the best latinoamerican style (and set during covid)

Samantha!: Another comedy, now about a kid star from the '80s who is trying to launch herself back

Lulli: comedy, drama and romance. A medic student gets electrocuted and starts hearing everyone's thoughts

3%: suspense, fiction, drama. Set on a diasporic word where, while everyone gets a one-time change to better their life, only the 3% makes it

Ciudad invisible: Drama, mystery. This one has lots of references to folk culture and stories! It's about a man who, after a family tragedy, starts seeing different mythological creatures that will help him uncover the past

omnisciente: sci-fi, drama, thriller. The city is controlled and watched all the time everywhere by drones. A woman tries to solve a murder that the drones never picked on + plus discover how fucked up the system and the drones are

Coisa mais linda: Drama, romance, set in 1959, after getting cheated on and left alone, a woman sets herself to open her own bossa nova club

ninguem tá olheando: comedy, drama, fantasy after discovering some secrets of the bureaucratic angelic system, a guardian angel set himself to break every rule that there is for protecting humans

Valentina: drama a young trans girl moves to a more conservative rural town 

Alice júnior: Coming of age film about a YouTuber trans girl as she challenges her catholic school's conservative ways 

#you can always check/follow latinotiktoks here on tumblr #there is not only lots of videos in portuguese #but also ppl are always asking for recomendations about music tw shows books etc #specially those that are more closely related to brasil/latine culure(s) #a fair warning about the list above: while several are pretty light. some of the stuff addressed on other will be very heavy #+ as i said. i don't really remember or notices how advanced was the language used #what more? #many of them can be found in myflixerz.to #i sooo wanted to also mention orgulho e paixon which is a telenovela adaptation of all the jane austen books #but it felt a little too much sdjskhkjads #for other types of media/hobbies i just recomend to do what u normally do but search it in portuguese #like i loove to draw and paint and sometimes i look up video reviews of art supply to see which one will be best for me #but instead of searching it in english or my mother tongue #i just search it in portuguese #sometimes is more less of following an account and add them to your already formed rutine and alike #and more like just working and exciting in another language during a normal day

[sqeedledob]

Intro Post

I still don't rightly know how to format this or what to say in these things so if anyone has recommendations for how to make this better please let me know!

A Little Info:

I am not by any means a professional or organized blog. This is a sort of chaotic amalgamation of book reviews, hot takes on shows/books/movies, filling prompts, and generally whatever my tiny little lizard brain decides to enjoy at any given moment (writing wise).

I try to read at least one book every 1-2 weeks, so if you do like book reviews and book recommendations, you're in the right place! If you want to see what I am currently reading and what I plan on reading:

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But if you also like personal writing blurbs and fandom blurbs as well as prompt fills, you're also in the right place!

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Hi! My name is Sqeedledob! I am okay with being called sqeedle, Kaili, or K! Do not, for the love of God call me Kai, I regret making that my name back in the day. This is my little haven for writing, everything from fandom to personal projects to prompt fills. I really love bringing characters to life, both through art and writing, so if you like that too, helo :)

I am a 21 year old hobbyist. By day I work blue collar jobs and go to school, by night I draw, write, play ttrpgs and play video games. I like a lot of stuff. Ask me about the stuff. Yell at me about the stuff u like!

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Sci Fi Fantasy High Fantasy Sci Fi/Fantasy Halo Wheel of Time (THE BOOKS. YES I'M GATEKEEPING.) Wings of Fire (still in the process of reading) WWI-WWII books? I know, that's a weird one Mythology and Religion A lot more I cannot list off the top of my head right now

also my friends, my beloveds <333 @natyune-art @briarborealisart @doeblossom @briarborealisocs

#writer #writers on tumblr #new writer #intro post #intro to writeblr #how do I tag? #I do not know #artist #artist on tumblr #this account is a lie and an excuse for me to make cool art for cool writers #hand over your ocs #and your wips #I want it all #book reviews #fandoms #disorganized post #disorganized #I #me #I am disorganized

[achillessulks]

would you ever make another goodreads? I was literally devastated to find yours had been deleted, I would spend hours scrolling through your book reviews 😭 they were so beautiful and insightful

Thank you for your kind words. As mentioned in my responses to previous asks, some of my reviews had been backed up on Wordpress and Storygraph, so you can still look there... I did think very seriously about just making a new GR account and reposting everything, but the concept of having to rebuild over ten years’ worth of work is just exhausting. I’m grateful for all the good parts obviously, but overall, yikes.

Ultimately, I’m done with GR unless some pretty significant changes are made to the structure of the website. For example:

There needs to be a way to appeal if a review gets flagged. One time a review of mine got deleted for allegedly plagiarising Wikipedia... but I had written the Wikipedia page, and after writing the review.

There needs to be a way to thread comments. This is a very basic function of any decent forum or really any halfway decent website, and it’s honestly embarrassing that GR still doesn’t have this capability. RSS is not that difficult; you guys are just lazy.

There needs to be more support and allowance for people who aren’t just writing an eighth-grade book report. This sounds mean, and is intended as such, but one of the rules GR has is that your review can’t be about the author’s character, actions, or behaviour. Well, those things inform one’s opinion of a book, so this rule is dumb as hell. Furthermore, I like writing about interesting things, not just a basic summary of plot and theme; all the time I would get comments saying I was writing “bad” or “useless” reviews because I didn’t use the structure of a book report. GR stifles creativity and freedom of expression, constantly and internationally. The types of reviews that are officially sanctioned are unhelpful for me personally.

There needs to be support in different languages. This is a website owned by Amazon; they have the money to pay for translation services. There’s no good excuse for not having at least the basic framework of the site available in languages other than English.

There needs to be a way to rate a book zero stars. Some books just suck.

I’m not even thinking of stuff like the constant and intrusive advertisements on the browser site, because I have adblockers so I don’t see any of that shit, but let the record show that the types of adverts being shown demonstrate that most people on GR have terrible taste. Not my friends though, they’re all geniuses and very smart.

#anonymous #asks #talking about books and stuff #many of the most popular reviewers on GR are either 1) just copy-pasting the blurb and then saying they liked/hated it‚ or #2) linking to their Youtube account or some blog somewhere. which is apparently allowed‚ but god forbid you talk about the author’s politics #tl;dr no. it’s a bad website full of immature and toxic people‚ and I was ready to leave anyway :/

[stop-breaking-my-heart-telltale]

Oh god I just finished Book 2 and it was so bad… I went into this with an open mind just like I did with Book 1 and god did I hate this. Clem just annoyed the hell out of me for the entire book. I liked everyone BUT her, Ricca and Morro. And I don’t even hate Morro she just showed up randomly to say weird ominous shit and then went to do her walker autopsies. Idk… it just sucked so hard. I miss Amos.

I've reread it and I'm working on my review so I won't go into a whole spiel but yeah. I mean, I still think I like Book Two over Book One... until we get to chapter 7. It has the same problem as Book One where the ending is just bad.

Clementine still feels out of character when you compare her to game Clementine, but she's consistent with Book One Clementine. I get what her character's supposed to be and why she's going through these things, why she approaches things the way she does but it makes it hard to enjoy when you have context from the games. I've already seen Clementine grow up and face hardships in the apocalypse, and the games have the advantage of showing all that across four games whereas this series only gets three books, so we don't have time to waste, y'know?

But Morro was the biggest wasted opportunity, like... what a disappointment. When I read it the first time, I was giving my first reactions in chat with Pi and we were both like, "So it's gonna be revealed that Morro's actually doing science experiments on walkers, right?" but no.... she's literally just doing autopsies like c'mon, walker science experiments and abominations would've been amazing!

And Ricca... honestly, I like the idea of Ricca because let's be real, a lot of us wear glasses or contacts or have some sort of vision impairment, myself included, and a zombie apocalypse would suck! If my glasses broke and I had no means of getting a new pair and it's the zombie apocalypse, I'm dead. And Book One set up this interesting story where Ricca's brother was an abuser who purposely broke her glasses so that she had no choice but to rely on him, then when she finally found pair that worked, she left him. But now her eyesight is worsening, and that's scary, that's something I could sympathize with...... but it's almost treated like an inconvenience? Because her and Clementine's relationship is the emotional drama that takes stage and frankly, I don't like clemricca. Not just because it's not clouis. I went into it with an open mind wanting to ship it but... meh.

I don't like how Ricca's like, "I'll wait for you," and then later she gets butthurt because Clementine won't get on the same level as her fast enough. Clementine doesn't owe Ricca anything, y'know? But Ricca is like "I love you, and I know you love me too, but I need you to love me always, not start and stop. It's not fair, you want me to wait for the impossible!?" Stop trying to guilt her when she's clearly not ready for a relationship? I get the frustration but c'mon.

And then there's chapter 9 which... I'm honestly this close to losing my shit with people. I don't think I've ever been as disappointed or disgusted of the fandom than I have seeing people send threats to Tillie on her instagram over chapter 9. She posted about how Book Two released AND she gave birth to her son on Oct 4th, and you go to the comments and there are just people calling her a pedophile and writing threats-

On a post. From Tillie. About the birth of her son. What the hell is wrong with you???

And then there are people just straight up LYING about shit.

I read a comment on reddit where someone compared Clementine Book Two to 50 Shades of Grey because there's an explicit sex scene and uhm NO??? There's absolutely nothing explicit, Ricca is not like Christian Grey like?? What the fuck is wrong with you? It's like these people read the summaries on the wiki- WHICH BY THE WAY if any of you happen to see this screenshot circulating anywhere-

^this is not a real quote, this is obviously fake.

Please don't mindlessly believe people on the internet about shit, especially when they themselves haven't actually read it.

Anyway, it's like people read the wiki summaries and decided to spread false and exaggerated information about the comic because they want to paint it in the worst light possible to trick people and it's working and I'm so...UGH.

Sorry to nosedive into this but it pisses me off. There's a lot to discuss about chapter 9- shit, there's a lot of criticism to be had with Book Two, and I will go over everything in my review, but for right now I'll just say yep, Book Two isn't very good.

I miss Amos, too.

#asks #twdg clementine #clementine book two #i'm so upset with the fandom on reddit and instagram #which is stupid because they're not worth it but my brain can't comprehend it like why are all of you like this? who hurt you? #also when i would going through reddit i found someone misquoting *me* which was the wildest thing? i don't have a reddit account sksksk #but then i happen to find a comment like 'she said this' and that's not what i said?? unreal i can't #i knew book two's release would bring a shit storm but oh my god at this point i hope tillie just kills clementine off in book three #as a final fuck you #i know she won't because clem's no use to skybound dead but it would be so fucking funny #i don't think anyone but me would find it funny though i think people would rage and ruin my fun #anyway in-depth review to come but feel free to send in asks about it

[arnold-layne]

over the last two years i've actively been trying to read more books, as reading was my childhood passion that i nearly abandoned in my teenage years and i also realise that i can't become a better writer if i don't read. but it's been a hard journey, with my attention all over the place, college, depression, video game binges etc. this year i'm making this effort again, hoped to read at least 30 but looks like it will be unachievable since i've only read 5 full books over these four months. i mean, it's still better than nothing but it's definitely less than i want it to be. i feel like i mostly read out of duty and only very rarely a book really captures me. any advice on how to change that and read more?

#also i was thinking of maybe starting to write book reviews and post them #if i do so i'll try it out on this account first and if it goes well i'll switch to a separate blog #anyone interested in this? #also sorry for the rant #arnold's diary