next try vladimir by julia may jonas for the trifecta of discomfort.

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YESSS would’ve loved that

And they were made in thriving collaboration with Henry Winkler.

Oooh I’m gojng to read that soon, interested to see how I feel!

I liked the multi-media format, but really disliked everyone except Harry. I kinda want him to have his own book (a la Lord John Grey) so we get all of his romances and fixer capers.

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I didn't love it, but I read it after I read Daisy Jones and I absolutely ADORED Daisy Jones. So I was disappointed in comparison, but I've also heard people say the opposite and they loved this book and disliked Daisy Jones.

Omniscient and 3rd person are the most common perspectives in older and classical literature. For a long time editors were reluctant to publish books in 1st person because of custom and that is was difficult to pull off really well. That has changed in the modern era where nearly half of traditionally published books are 1st person.

The other part, switching character POVs has also become more popular. It too is harder to pull off really well. One of the drawbacks is you don't get as close to any single character and sometimes get stuck with chapters for characters you don't even like. There are a lot of people that don't like the Game of Thrones books just for this reason. I know people that read the series skipping whole chapters because they didn't like a specific character.

I always make sure that I'm something like busywork (chores/cleaning the house, low stakes knitting, walking/driving) when I have an audiobook on or else my mind wanders too.

I've found that when I'm doing something I don't need to focus on but keeps my body busy it let's my mind be able to focus on the narrator instead of getting distracted.

I also always make sure to take a break and turn off my audiobook when I catch myself not listening.

I can’t do audiobooks either. I tried to do The Night Circus over audiobook and it just didn’t work for me. I get so bored.

I can do podcasts but those don’t require remembering what you just heard a day ago. It’s a quick bite of audio and then is over. The moment I need to work in continuity I need the written word.

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I've collected the omnibus' up to the sixth, and the newer Gotrek AoS books as well.
The newer audiobooks with Brain Blessed as the voice of Gotrek are pretty good too.

I DNF’d pretty shortly. I found the relationship part boring and I just wanted to know what happened underwater!

Yes, I feel like the "speculative literary" novel is just my sweet spot with books. I really want to read more books like this.

No it is very short!

Amazon says the book is only 240 pages long, so it’s like a novella? Or are they wrong (it happens)?

Fonz is pronounced “fawns,” so the joke is that he heard “would you like some headphones?” And he corrected her pronunciation, meaning he interpreted it as “would you like some head, fonz?”

I keep a reading journal and change it up each year to fit what I'm interested in tracking at the time. Some things remain the same for it: book title, author, date I finished the book, what medium (audiobook, ebook, physical copy), and whether it wad a book I own or borrowed from the library.

The things that changed that I started tracking this year was genre, fiction/nonfiction, and the country that the author is from because I'm trying to read more books published outside of the US this year. I also rate my reads on a 1-5 star scale.

All of this is done in a physical journal and so far I've got 3 years worth of reading and reviews in it. I like having it in a journal instead of using something like goodreads or the story graph (I use that to track what I want to read, but not what I have read) because I use my tracking systems more when it's physical rather than digital.

I have started a Google sheet that lists all of the books I started reading and the date because I start so many more books than I finish and am interested in seeing the comparisons between started and finished books by the end of the year.

Tldr: I use a physical journal to track books I've read and my reviews of them, google docs for books I've started, and the story graph for my TBR

I can’t do audiobooks at all. I get distracted and lose my place.

I’m an ELA teacher, and the thing about reading text is that we don’t just run our eyes over the text one time from start to finish and instantly comprehend it. Reading is an active process where you’re frequently needing to stop, think, reread, look back, and look up words in order to comprehend. You HAVE to be able to stop, think, and reread in order to fully comprehend what you’re reading. Seriously, try it - pick a paragraph and read it by scanning your eyes over it one time, beginning to end, one word at a time, without stopping or going back at all. Then stop, reflect, and see how much you understood…

A lot of my students would use audiobooks to support while they also read the text with their eyes - that way, the audiobook does the work of decoding the text, but they can still see it, and if they need to pause to comprehend, they can easily do that without losing their place. I hope someday there will be high-quality apps that combine ebooks and audiobooks so people can do this very easily.

I also hate having to watch videos or listen to speakers to get information - I much prefer to read it at my own pace. It’s so much easier and faster for me to make sense of information that way.

Started watching the TV adaptation having read the book a few years back and couldn’t watch beyond the first episode as it was so bad. The book is fantastic though. One of those rare books that really stays with you

By far the most horrifying part of Shadow Over Innsmouth is the actions of the US government.

Listening to audiobooks is a skill that can be improved, similar to reading words off a page. It's fine to have preferences, but the statement "audiobooks just aren't for me" sounds just as silly as "reading books just isn't for me".

I totally agree! I loved them more as friend soulmates than her and Celia. And exactly, it was so heartbreak how Harry’s story ended, and it wasn’t in a good way either. But that made me even more sad for him and his story!

Nice. I see what you did there.