#and even the goodreads reviews

[herotome]

It's weird that you let even the slightest criticisms in the herotome's comment section get mass-downvoted. It just gives the impression that you let your fanbase hate on anyone who isn't giving compliments

??????

How.. How much control do you think I have over comment section votes, anon?

If a comment has been unfairly hidden due to unreasonable downvotes, that is an issue for itch.io support -- because I'm pretty sure comments are all displayed based on chronological post date regardless of vote count. It's not like reddit where you can actually be downvoted into oblivion... right?

[kittensandforeheadkisses]

I am NOT going to let a one star review on goodreads ruin the emotional euphoria I got after finishing one of the best trilogies ever

[largishcat]

if there’s one thing i’ve learned from the trend of putting those little quotes on the back of books instead of a summary, it’s that apparently a lot of authors i admire really like books that fucking suck

[oysterie]

also i lied yesterday you can see ppl posts and profile of a private account if your friends on goodreads just only on desktop. Not the app because the app lacks the basic feature of viewing your friends profile??

[strawhatboy]

sooooo, I’ve been writing a fantasy novel for some time now, and I finally decided to publish it on Amazon next year. I’m dealing with the absolute mortification of sharing something like this, but I’m going to do it anyway. Anyway, I’ll show you the cover!

[roublardise]

when i get completely striken by a book and turns out the author got a nobel prize years ago i always feel so sillyyy and basic comme si j'avais inventé l'eau chaude. but well what can i do. it does absolutely slap !!!!

[sylveriasarcana]

🐊🦒

[douknowanoah]

OK. All the fandoms here go as follows takes deep breath

Lucifer, Good Omens, The Good Place, Lost in Space, Starship, Expeditionary Force, Epic: The Musical, Thessaly, Percy Jackson

[crownstar]

I Cheerfully Refuse - Leif Enger

-> I liked it. slow build - less of a suspenseful build and more of an atmospheric build (for me). quiet ending. brief bits of action. kept me interested throughout.

-> yay Minnesota mention ! a good portion of the novel takes place either on the shore of or on lake superior. lake superior is a big part of this book.

-> dystopian setting - environmental near-apocalyptic scenario (corpses rising in the warming water of superior, etc.). illiteracy (reading is evil). rich/powerful people vs the poor (everyone else).

-> despite the above.... the book feels like it focuses on the mundane? like yes all this bigger stuff is happening, but we are mostly focused on the simple moments, and the retrospective. even when the current moments are completely removed from what was our everyday life.

[themyscirah]

Just finished rereading All Star Superman. It's a book that is incredibly bizarre in so many ways but still manages to make you feel something profound at times despite (or perhaps because of) how much it leans into the silver age weirdness of the character and lore

[rosetintedkaleidoscope]

best books i read in 2023:

- comfort me with apples by catherynne valente. fantasy/horror. this is a creepy, dystopian, fairy tale kind of story. some biblical references. the creepiness builds up slowly through strange little details.

- quest for a maid by frances mary hendry. children's historical fiction / fantasy. 13th century scotland & norway. read as a child, completely forgot, then found in a used bookstore this year. it absolutely lives up to my memories: rich with details, from the foods to the clothes to the activities to all the little things you don't really notice that create a sense of another time & place. the loving attention to detail is a big part of why i like this book so much. also excellent characterization.

- nisa: the life and words of a !kung woman by marjorie shostak. nonfiction. okay, if you're following me you've probably heard of this because of @etirabys, whose posts inspired me to read it, but i had to include it anyway. based on interviews with a hunter-gatherer woman, it tells about her life and worldview. moving and immensely fascinating

- making babies: the science of pregnancy by david bainbridge. nonfiction. also immensely fascinating. my ideal kind of science book: readable yet detailed and in-depth, and full of strange facts. strong contender for the coolest nonfiction book i've ever read

- the ladies of grace adieu and other stories by susanna clarke. fantasy. wonderful eerie fairy stories

- we have always lived in the castle by shirley jackson. classic, horror. sinister and evocative. one thing i really like is that the characters are likeable and often happy despite the weirdness and the horror. it's optimistic and tragic at the same time, and gives you things to think about even after you're done reading

- murderbot series by martha wells. science fiction. it has an interesting plot and setting and all that, but the main appeal is the character and charm of the protagonist, a robot who hacks itself to gain freedom. all it wants to do with that freedom is watch tv, but dangerous stuff keeps getting in the way

[saprosappho]

a lot of horror is just What If... a disabled person.... was PURE EVIL!!!! but i think at least recently i've seen more authors at least like. trying not to do that. anyways the book that i just read was published in 2017 and is so absolutely absurdly ableist that i actually had to stare at it openmouthed for like ten minutes after i'd finished it and the only reason i did finish it was because i assumed it must get better, which it did not in any way

[hexjulia]

someone should tell the writers who respond to negative goodreads reviews about this

[carriagelamp]

I finished my Chill Falling Asleep Novel and the one I meant to listen to next is boring as dirt so I have given up on it and returned it... now I'm adrift with nothing to listen to (⁠´⁠；⁠ω⁠；⁠｀⁠) save me

[comfortcomes]

i feel like this is such an uncharitable reading of that statement like given the “““context”””” of oscar wildes life wouldn’t you assume that to mean “it pains me that he wasn’t able to explicitly write about the things he clearly wanted to explore in literature because of the constraints of the time that literally put him in prison” . which you can agree or disagree with but it actually seems pretty historically informed