I swear finding books that I enjoy for me is such a struggle because I went through a process (that lasted basically all my life) where I basically read everything that could make me sound intelligent and I found something I enjoyed and some things I absolutely despised (but forced myself to finish anyways )
Ever since I started trying to find books that actually fit my taste I went insane because literally I don’t know what to choose from
Every single booktok trend fucking sucked
Goodreads is nothing but regurgitated booktok trends
So now I actually follow a newsletter from an online book magazine published in my country and here and there I do find some interesting stuff (the last book I read and really liked was Hamnet by Maggie o Farrell that made me bawl my eyes out) , while some other recommendations from that magazine sucked
That being said , I would 100% try to rec you something I enjoyed if I feel like it’d fit your taste. Is there something you would absolutely not read ? Like genres/authors/ time periods you would absolutely not be interested in ??
Yeah, I follow a few publishers just to get book news but mostly I just text my friends every once and a while about what they've read recently. And then I think "WO WTHOSE SOUND GREAT!" and then let them down by never reading them because my attention span is that of a new born rat who has only been fed sugar and shrooms.
I'm pretty open minded about genre and time periods. I just do not enjoy grim dark shit that has nothing to say outside of "life sucks" or "I have lots of political intrigue where the message is 'every side sucks in some way' but don't have anything to actually say about politics/society."
I do prefer faster paced reads but can get down with soemthing more meandering if it has really good character dynamics within it. I do lean more towards fantasy over like... historical stuff but a good book is a good book.
I do prefer for the books to be focused on adults though. I don't mind some teenage focus but a lot of them tend to focus on like Coming of Age a as theme and like... I've come and gone of age, y'unno? I've been there. I understand the themes cause I've lived them.
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big big big fan of found family relationships with shithead sibling dynamics
sure, yeah, they had no one in the world until they found each other, and they will fight tooth and nail for each other's safety, but they will also eat the last of the other's cereal and put the box back in the cabinet or tell the other's significant other every embarrassing story about them or greet each other by means of full body tackle and chokehold
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Losing my shit about this article in which a transphobic Tory was so busy panicking about existing in the vicinity of a Trans that she almost certainly misheard "jeans" as "penis" and decided that not only was this a problem with the other woman, but also that the world must be informed of this pressing danger.
"a trans woman! I had to stand directly behind her....I thought, 'this is going well', I'm handling The Situation fine'..."
translated: I saw a tall woman with broad shoulders. How would I get out of this alive? I thought. she has a PENIS. PENIS PENIS PENIS. through some force of PENIS I mean will I managed to PENIS behave normally towards her. My hands were PENIS PENIS PENIS shaking as I tried to dry them. summoning up all my PENIS courage I said 'dryer's crap innit'. she turned to me and said " yeah I'm just goiPENIS PENIS PENIS"
It's been a week and I'm still shaking. This proves trans women are the problem and I'm not weird. I'm fine. It's fine. If you think about it I'm the hero hePENIS!!!!!
very this
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y'know what. sometimes there is something wrong with you. and i don't mean in a "you are broken and that makes you unworthy" way, just in the "your brain/body does not work the way it's expected to and that's why things are so hard" way
like as someone who grew up constantly being told there was nothing wrong with me and i just had to try harder to clean/socialise/work, knowing i had ADHD earlier would've saved me a LOT of guilt. knowing i have IBS would've prevented a lot of pain/embarrassment from not being able to manage it yet. i wish someone had told me there was a reason i couldn't do things instead of just telling me i was fine. people reassuring me i didn't have any issues to spare me the shame of being "different" only made me feel worse about not being able to function like everyone else!!!
idk sometimes i just wish i knew there was something different about me sooner bc then i would've had an explanation and a way to get better instead of just a lot of self loathing
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