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⌈ Secret Post #4421 ⌋

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Re: Book survey

[(Anonymous)]

I do have a list but I can't go through it linearly nor alphabetically, I have to go through it depending on availability. Can I find it, does the library have it, which library has it, do I have to waitlist it, would I dare buy it, what does it cost...

One book at a time. I would only read multiple books at the same time if one was fiction and one was nonfiction and they weren't related in topic in any sense.

I used to read in full even if I hated it (fuck you Stranger in a Strange Land) but now I've far less patience and I will immediately stop reading and return a book if I'm five chapters in and I think it sucks. I think the least I'll allow is two chapters if the writing style is clearly not engaging - just enough to learn who the important characters are and see if I can literally predict the tropes and plots. If I'm okay with it by then I'll keep going but definitely nope out if I haven't engaged with either the characters or the plot by chapter five.

Recs are hard with me because I've gotten burned on so many that I'm extremely gun-shy now. I need not just a rec but a summary of the plot and setting, and I will still at least take the book off the shelf and glance at it to figure out whether the writing style or synopsis grabs me. I don't give a shit about reviews because I know so many of them are bought; I need to verify first that it's not in some quirky present-tense format, then that I can get with the writing style, then that the plot isn't setting itself up to be tropey, gross, and predictable.

As I'm sure you can tell I've found exactly one book in the past five years that I actually stuck with to the end. I liked it. I tried re-reading it and didn't like it. So here I am with zero books to read.