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bee wrote:

Eostre wrote:
Yeah, mood! I'm on my reread round, so I'll probably collect some books before I start reading them.

i have too many unread books and i keep buying new books so i have decided that i need to read two books i own before i can buy a new one. lets see how long i can keep it up lol

That's a good way of doing it : )

am i already failing by having four books on my christmas wish list? sshhh

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MasileinDE wrote:

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I have no patience to go looking for new books considering my "old books I intend to read someday" currently is 70 books long (which can be done in a year if I'm dedicated, but still, like ... oh boy, haven't read in a decade and now this)

I also have quite a few backlisted books on my tbr. I keep refinding them down though to only keep those I genuinely still care for, but every year I also add some new ones and end up reading some that weren't originally on the list at all. And some keep coming back to the list due to its premise, so now they are just a staple on it. If I had the same will and time to read as I had some years ago, I'd hit max 60 books a year, which would mean it would take me around 1,5 years to finish my current list.

I really should work through it in december when I set myself my reading challenge for the year to come

Nice!

I don't do reading challenges anymore. This was actually the first year I didn't put up one at all. For the last 2-3 years I've had one but I only put in the year I filled that year to make it something, but this year I just ended it. While it can be motivating, I also have had too strong ties to the online book community to feel the negative side of it - the pressure, the stress of falling behind, etc. and figured it wasn't worth it atm.

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bee wrote:

Eostre wrote:

bee wrote:
i have too many unread books and i keep buying new books so i have decided that i need to read two books i own before i can buy a new one. lets see how long i can keep it up lol

That's a good way of doing it : )

am i already failing by having four books on my christmas wish list? sshhh

if you don't buy them yourself, it doesn't count.. shhh

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bee wrote:

Eostre wrote:

bee wrote:

Eostre wrote:
That's a good way of doing it : )

am i already failing by having four books on my christmas wish list? sshhh

if you don't buy them yourself, it doesn't count.. shhh

a loop hole yes😈

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bee wrote:

Eostre wrote:

bee wrote:
am i already failing by having four books on my christmas wish list? sshhh

if you don't buy them yourself, it doesn't count.. shhh

a loop hole yes😈

Leenie
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Leenie wrote:
Heartstopper #5
The last hours #3

MasileinDE
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MasileinDE wrote:

Eostre wrote:

MasileinDE wrote:

Eostre wrote:
I also have quite a few backlisted books on my tbr. I keep refinding them down though to only keep those I genuinely still care for, but every year I also add some new ones and end up reading some that weren't originally on the list at all. And some keep coming back to the list due to its premise, so now they are just a staple on it. If I had the same will and time to read as I had some years ago, I'd hit max 60 books a year, which would mean it would take me around 1,5 years to finish my current list.

I really should work through it in december when I set myself my reading challenge for the year to come

Nice!

I don't do reading challenges anymore. This was actually the first year I didn't put up one at all. For the last 2-3 years I've had one but I only put in the year I filled that year to make it something, but this year I just ended it. While it can be motivating, I also have had too strong ties to the online book community to feel the negative side of it - the pressure, the stress of falling behind, etc. and figured it wasn't worth it atm.

it's not really a challenge challenge, more like a "would be nice if I had the time for this", but definitely very conservative estimate of 5 books per year
honestly, yeah, the pressure in general is what keeps me from most book communities, because it feels like they don't really fancy casual readers or people who read like 2-3 books and then call it a day

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Leenie wrote:
Heartstopper #5
The last hours #3

You make me want to have read all the Cassandra Claire books, but I stopped after the dark artifices.

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MasileinDE wrote:

Eostre wrote:

MasileinDE wrote:
I really should work through it in december when I set myself my reading challenge for the year to come

Nice!

I don't do reading challenges anymore. This was actually the first year I didn't put up one at all. For the last 2-3 years I've had one but I only put in the year I filled that year to make it something, but this year I just ended it. While it can be motivating, I also have had too strong ties to the online book community to feel the negative side of it - the pressure, the stress of falling behind, etc. and figured it wasn't worth it atm.

it's not really a challenge challenge, more like a "would be nice if I had the time for this", but definitely very conservative estimate of 5 books per year
honestly, yeah, the pressure in general is what keeps me from most book communities, because it feels like they don't really fancy casual readers or people who read like 2-3 books and then call it a day

definitively not. Like my insta account is only about books (used to be at least) so people follow you on the premis of "you post about books." so to make content you have to read books, to make it frequently to gain attraction, you have to read a shit ton of books and hype many others at the same time. but I feel like an outliner among most on there though by rarely publishing about books I haven't read in my feed or aren't currently reading, nor doing many pics of the same books "just to post", nor by not using an insane number of props and by not liking merch and hoarding special editions particularly well. like I read and I give you some nature photo about it, but I don't really do anything for my acc to actually reach out to anyone or to follow trends I have seen again and again keep ppl gaining followers bc it feels too ingenuine to me and makes me miserable.

and the community moves so fast as well, you have to read books when they release, reads ARC if you can, but it being English-publishing-industry, being from anywhere but the US\CAN\UK is putting you in so many disadvantages you literally cannot join any of the "fun" like giveaways, the majority of ARCs, events, pre-order merch, books takes longer to get to you so you miss out on hype and so on. And since I personally can't pick the norwegian publishing sphere because it doesn't fit me at all, and we barely even do fantasy, it's so bad, I neither want to read books only to fit in there either bc my main priority when reading is the reading experience.

it's a loose-loose in any situation where I attempt to do anything about it beyond a hobby-premise.

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I have such a long list of books I'm gonna read during this fall/winter, but some of them are:

* Things we never got over by Lucy Score
* Thirteen Storeys by Jonathan Sims
* Stolen Toungues by Felix Blackwell
* The Inheritance Games-trilogy
* Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
* A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
* The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse
* The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex

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provocative wrote:
I have such a long list of books I'm gonna read during this fall/winter, but some of them are:

* Things we never got over by Lucy Score
* Thirteen Storeys by Jonathan Sims
* Stolen Toungues by Felix Blackwell
* The Inheritance Games-trilogy
* Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
* A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
* The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse
* The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex

The beginning of Shatter Me is so good!

MasileinDE
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MasileinDE wrote:

Eostre wrote:

MasileinDE wrote:

Eostre wrote:
Nice!

I don't do reading challenges anymore. This was actually the first year I didn't put up one at all. For the last 2-3 years I've had one but I only put in the year I filled that year to make it something, but this year I just ended it. While it can be motivating, I also have had too strong ties to the online book community to feel the negative side of it - the pressure, the stress of falling behind, etc. and figured it wasn't worth it atm.

it's not really a challenge challenge, more like a "would be nice if I had the time for this", but definitely very conservative estimate of 5 books per year
honestly, yeah, the pressure in general is what keeps me from most book communities, because it feels like they don't really fancy casual readers or people who read like 2-3 books and then call it a day

definitively not. Like my insta account is only about books (used to be at least) so people follow you on the premis of "you post about books." so to make content you have to read books, to make it frequently to gain attraction, you have to read a shit ton of books and hype many others at the same time. but I feel like an outliner among most on there though by rarely publishing about books I haven't read in my feed or aren't currently reading, nor doing many pics of the same books "just to post", nor by not using an insane number of props and by not liking merch and hoarding special editions particularly well. like I read and I give you some nature photo about it, but I don't really do anything for my acc to actually reach out to anyone or to follow trends I have seen again and again keep ppl gaining followers bc it feels too ingenuine to me and makes me miserable.

and the community moves so fast as well, you have to read books when they release, reads ARC if you can, but it being English-publishing-industry, being from anywhere but the US\CAN\UK is putting you in so many disadvantages you literally cannot join any of the "fun" like giveaways, the majority of ARCs, events, pre-order merch, books takes longer to get to you so you miss out on hype and so on. And since I personally can't pick the norwegian publishing sphere because it doesn't fit me at all, and we barely even do fantasy, it's so bad, I neither want to read books only to fit in there either bc my main priority when reading is the reading experience.

needless to say the bullshittery that currently is the shipping
I wanted to order a book from the UK and they told me I probably would have to wait 3+ weeks because of brexit and just in general reduced shipping from english speaking countries to europe

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MasileinDE wrote:

Eostre wrote:

MasileinDE wrote:
it's not really a challenge challenge, more like a "would be nice if I had the time for this", but definitely very conservative estimate of 5 books per year
honestly, yeah, the pressure in general is what keeps me from most book communities, because it feels like they don't really fancy casual readers or people who read like 2-3 books and then call it a day

definitively not. Like my insta account is only about books (used to be at least) so people follow you on the premis of "you post about books." so to make content you have to read books, to make it frequently to gain attraction, you have to read a shit ton of books and hype many others at the same time. but I feel like an outliner among most on there though by rarely publishing about books I haven't read in my feed or aren't currently reading, nor doing many pics of the same books "just to post", nor by not using an insane number of props and by not liking merch and hoarding special editions particularly well. like I read and I give you some nature photo about it, but I don't really do anything for my acc to actually reach out to anyone or to follow trends I have seen again and again keep ppl gaining followers bc it feels too ingenuine to me and makes me miserable.

and the community moves so fast as well, you have to read books when they release, reads ARC if you can, but it being English-publishing-industry, being from anywhere but the US\CAN\UK is putting you in so many disadvantages you literally cannot join any of the "fun" like giveaways, the majority of ARCs, events, pre-order merch, books takes longer to get to you so you miss out on hype and so on. And since I personally can't pick the norwegian publishing sphere because it doesn't fit me at all, and we barely even do fantasy, it's so bad, I neither want to read books only to fit in there either bc my main priority when reading is the reading experience.

needless to say the bullshittery that currently is the shipping
I wanted to order a book from the UK and they told me I probably would have to wait 3+ weeks because of brexit and just in general reduced shipping from english speaking countries to europe

yeah, avg shipping is 1-2 weeks here (around 1 week just national shipping something), but can take longer when they have to be ordered from britain which is most books because Britain is the international editions (just showing how US-centered everything is) and so many stores seems to keep less in a local warehouse of their online stuff.

MasileinDE
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MasileinDE wrote:

Eostre wrote:

MasileinDE wrote:

Eostre wrote:
definitively not. Like my insta account is only about books (used to be at least) so people follow you on the premis of "you post about books." so to make content you have to read books, to make it frequently to gain attraction, you have to read a shit ton of books and hype many others at the same time. but I feel like an outliner among most on there though by rarely publishing about books I haven't read in my feed or aren't currently reading, nor doing many pics of the same books "just to post", nor by not using an insane number of props and by not liking merch and hoarding special editions particularly well. like I read and I give you some nature photo about it, but I don't really do anything for my acc to actually reach out to anyone or to follow trends I have seen again and again keep ppl gaining followers bc it feels too ingenuine to me and makes me miserable.

and the community moves so fast as well, you have to read books when they release, reads ARC if you can, but it being English-publishing-industry, being from anywhere but the US\CAN\UK is putting you in so many disadvantages you literally cannot join any of the "fun" like giveaways, the majority of ARCs, events, pre-order merch, books takes longer to get to you so you miss out on hype and so on. And since I personally can't pick the norwegian publishing sphere because it doesn't fit me at all, and we barely even do fantasy, it's so bad, I neither want to read books only to fit in there either bc my main priority when reading is the reading experience.

needless to say the bullshittery that currently is the shipping
I wanted to order a book from the UK and they told me I probably would have to wait 3+ weeks because of brexit and just in general reduced shipping from english speaking countries to europe

yeah, avg shipping is 1-2 weeks here, but can take longer when they come from britain which is most books because Britain is the international editions (just showing how US-centered everything is).

yup and when it comes to translation, a lot of them in German are only barely decent and the decision on which ones to translate is soooooooo infuriating, it's really only shit like colleen hoover and that specific brand of weird ya and adult fiction that's just hyperfocused on shitty relationship-dynamics

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MasileinDE wrote:

Eostre wrote:

MasileinDE wrote:
needless to say the bullshittery that currently is the shipping
I wanted to order a book from the UK and they told me I probably would have to wait 3+ weeks because of brexit and just in general reduced shipping from english speaking countries to europe

yeah, avg shipping is 1-2 weeks here, but can take longer when they come from britain which is most books because Britain is the international editions (just showing how US-centered everything is).

yup and when it comes to translation, a lot of them in German are only barely decent and the decision on which ones to translate is soooooooo infuriating, it's really only shit like colleen hoover and that specific brand of weird ya and adult fiction that's just hyperfocused on shitty relationship-dynamics

YES. EVERYONE IS DOING COLLEEN HOOVER NOW BECAUSE OF TIKTOK. I'M LOSING IT EVERY TIME I ENTER A STORE. AAAAA