#bookworm asks

[howlsmovinglibrary]

6 & 47 for the bookworm ask, please?

6. Favourite romance novel(s)

Roleplaying by Cathy Yardley (contemporary romance about two people in their 40s who meet via MMORPG, demisexual/bi male lead)

Beach Read by Emily Henry (romance novellist and litfic novellist live near each other for the summer and take each other on 'research' dates)

Swordheart by T Kingfisher (woman falls in love with sentient sword while trying to find a family lawyer)

Half A Soul by Olivia Atwater ('fey-cursed' woman teams up with the Royal Sorcier to try and cure the strange disposition that arises from her curse)

47. What are the last three books you read?

The View Was Exhausting by Mikaella Clements (4*)

Funny Story by Emily Henry (4.75*)

A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske (3*)

Bookworm ask!

[larsnicklas]

27 and 31!

27. What was the first book you remember reading as a kid? oh hmm i actually think probably the magic treehouse books, because i was an early and voracious reader; i also read every single roald dahl book available to me at a pretty young age and was particularly fixated on the witches LOL

31. Do you mostly read through e-reader; reading app on phone; on your laptop; a physical copy; or by audiobook? like a lot of people my favorite way to read is on a physical copy, but i live in a pretty small apartment and it wouldn't be sensible to primarily buy them, and the wait for physical books at my nearby libraries tend to be really long! so nowadays i read digitally, mostly. i bought an e-reader last year after resisting (stubbornly) for a while and it was actually probably one of the best purchases i'd ever made because i read a lot more now! i have a kobo because i am opposed to the way kindles uh stick ads on your screen among other things, and i love it so much because it's super easy to sideload with my personal epubs AND works seamlessly with libby/overdrive!! this is not a paid ad i just really like it

[penna-nomen]

For the book ask:

Name the best book you've read so far this year.

Which genre(s) are your favorite?

My favorite of the year so far was also the first book I read this year: Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree. I appreciate low stakes stories, and the bookshop setting is hard to resist.

I tend to cycle through genres. At various times I've been into romance, mysteries, YA... Right now I'm reading a lot of fantasy and sci-fi. Shout out to several series including the Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells, the Dungeon Crawler Carl series by Matt Dinniman, the Tinkered Stars series by Gail Carriger and the trilogy that started with Little Thieves by Margaret Owen. And I'd love to find time to reread some of my favorite Discworld stories.

[the---hermit]

13 and 15 for the bookworm ask game?

Hello!

13.what books make you happy?

A recent one was certainly Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree, it was absolutely lovely, and has become part of my comfort books. Others are The Humans by Matt Haig, aka the book I cannot shut up about and is criminally underrated, which is what I read when I need to get some hope in life back. And also The Hobbit is part of my comfort/happy books.

15.can you read anywhere? moving vehicle? rollercoaster?

It depends on lots of things, I can read on moving vehicles only if it's a train, or the bus I get to commute to uni, because I have grown comfortable with the road (sometimes the driver is not that good tho so I have to stop reading to avoid getting sick). If I am reading in a crowded place I need my earphones with some music or else I can't focus.

Send me a bookworm ask!!

[bibliophilecats]

15, 19, and 22 for the book asks please?

15. can you read anywhere? moving vehicle? rollercoaster?

Not at all - I can’t even sit ina moving vehicle without getting sick, reading is, unfortunately, completely out of the question (haven’t tried rollercoaster as I am too busy being scared out of my wits when I sit in one).

19. how well do you take care of your books?

Very - to a certain point. So, my PB books look very well maintained - if I buy them new. If I get them second hand and they have already seen some wear and tear, I do not take particular care as well. With hardcovers, I am careful as long as the dusk jacket is on but without the dusk jacket, I do not worry too much (after all, the dusk jacket will hide so much). But there are some things I do not do, like I never take a book into the bathtub with me (anymore), I have a waterproof eReader for that 😉 And I don't dog-ear.

22. what is an essential element of a good book?

That I enjoy it. 

Thank you for asking!

[kazoosandfannypacks]

as always, I'd love to hear your answer in the tags, especially if it's one of the "other" choices!

[dragonsbluee]

I need everyone to acknowledge the fact that KRS!Cale is a MASSIVE bookworm. He's able to thrive in Birth of a hero because he read it and enjoyed it. (yesyes record helps him, but you can't ignore the fact that he knows the characters, not just the plot. That comes from liking the thing you're reading!)

Give me the young master spending his afternoons reading under the shade of a tree with a new book series and absolutely devouring it in one sitting. He's missed being able to read a whole series and not having to hunt for the next books through a destroyed city.

Give me Cale with a little notebook full of books he'd like to read, the titles collected from the people he talks to. He'll read anything or at least try it out, but fantasy remains his favourite genre.

He also writes little opinion blurbs for his favourtie books, or jots down quotes and favourite lines. Sure his record ability means that he doesn't really have to, but it's an old habit he enjoys.

Cale, who starts collecting books on his travels, just one or two from every place he visits. His friends and allies pick up on this and start bringing him books they think he'd like. Cale has a very speicifc and rare smile when someone gifts him a book. Its small, but it somehow takes over his entire face, and you can almost see his eyes sparkle in delight. It quickly becomes a smile everyone looks forward to.

Cale, who never turns down a book given as a gift, and so he starts picking up bits of knowledge from across the continent. He learns about the edible plants in the Jungle, the different variations of marble and stone throughout the Roan Kingdom, the fables and myths of the Dark Elves. He keeps them on a shelf in his room in the super rock villa, and every once in a while, the kids pick one to have read to them. When the shelf is full, Eruhaben pulls some out from his hoard as a gift to Cale. They're almost too gaudy, but Eruhaben enchants them to protect the books from dust, damage, and pests. Cale spends an entire day reorganizing his collection.

He never thought he would be able to build his own personal library, but here he is.

Cale loves to compare the books he has in this world and the ones he knew before. Sometime in the future, he sits down and uses record to copy out his favourite series. He gifts it to Choi Han so he can have a small piece of home he never got to experience.

It becomes known that the best way to get Cale to stop and actually take a break is to plop a kid on his lap and give him a book he's been looking forward to. One year for his birthday, Alberu gives Cale free rein to explore the palace's secret library. They find him curled up in a corner a couple hours later surrounded by stacks of books.

Cale is 100% the type of person to insist that more libraries should be available to the public so that he can read easily when travelling to different places. It's definetly not because he wants more kids to be able to learn how to read, and he was able to grow into loving books because of his local library.

[midnightlibrarymouse]

for the book asks, 22, 25, 30!

22. what is an essential element of a good book? A good plot, & characters for me, or a well written narrative.

25. do you read reviews on a book before you read it? Sometimes! Other times I just pick up a book and see if I vibe with it (although this has led me astray on more than one occasion)

30. favourite book this year? Omg I have so many, in no particular order, here are some of my faves from this year: ~ If You Could See The Sun by Ann Liang ~ When in Rome by Sarah Adams ~ Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell ~ The Forest of Wool & Steel by Natsu Miyashita

Thank you so much for asking!

xx

[animezinglife]

17??

17. policy on book-lending? I don't lend books.

[howlsmovinglibrary]

Hi! For the book asks: 12, 31, 33?

12. Favourite horror book(s)

House With Good Bones by T Kingfisher is my favourite horror novel, I think it balances humour and pragmatism with genuine "oh fuck that's fucked up" very well. I also loved Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno Garcia.

31. How do you mostly read?

I tend to read mostly via e-reader these days bc my living room and I are in a stand-off about me purchasing a new bookshelf lmao. I reserve physical purchases for my favourite authors, as a result I tend to get hardback bc I can afford to splurge.

33. How often do you read by listening to audiobooks?

...I have never listened to an audiobook, to my shame. When I want to listen to media I have a bunch of different podcasts to catch up on so I tend to listen to those instead!

Bookworm ask!

[larsnicklas]

15 & 20 for 📚

15. Which genre(s) are your favorite? i've always been an incorrigible fantasy lover; when i was younger my mom was so worried i was reading nothing else and would bargain with me to get at least one (1) book of another genre every time we'd go to barnes & noble or the library. in adulthood i still prefer fantasy over everything else, but i self regulate a little better LOL. i do think life is too short to read things i don't enjoy, but am much better about keeping an open mind about what i might like than i was as a kid hahaha. i also like historical fiction and sci-fi (which i think is! starkly different from fantasy as a genre) and as a recovering english lit major i do really enjoy literary fiction as well!

20. Where and how do you find new books to read? i rely a lot on friends' recommendations and i do have some """bookfluencers""" whose taste often aligns with mine, so i keep track of their reviews too! i am also prone to bingeing an author if i like a book by them, so i get books that way too! and sometimes it really is as simple as wandering through a bookstore and a cover catching my eye; even if i don't usually buy it, if the cover/summary piques my interest i'll save the title and grab it from the library later!

[penna-nomen]

For the Bookworm ask:

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Favorite detective novel(s).

Favourite classical literature.

Fun questions! I tend to lean more toward cozy, amateur detective series. One of my favorites is the bird-themed series by Donna Andrews. It started out strong, sagged in the middle, but it has picked up again and now each winter I borrow the newest story from my library to spend time with the zany family and their neighbors. That’s become part of my holiday tradition.

For classical literature, Pride & Prejudice is my all-time favorite. I also took two semesters of Shakespeare in college -- I adore those plays, but I tend to seek out ways to watch them vs. re-reading them these days.

[sirphillipcranestanaccount]

I'm really curious about 16

16. How do you bookmark books?

I’m gonna be 100% honest with you, I do most of my reading via audiobooks and kindle, so I don’t have to bookmark very often.

HOWEVER when I do read physical books, I usually use the receipt from purchasing or borrowing from the library as a bookmark

Bookworm asks

[bibliophilecats]

23. genres you rarely read?

29. how do you organise your books?

30. favourite book this year?

23. Genres I rarely read: I stay away from books set during WW2 and adjacent times. In general, I rarely read historial books. And I have no taste for true crime.

29. How I organise my book: so, there is one big bookshelf in my bedroom which hosts all my German language novels (which are sorted by colour), my illustrated books and my science books. In the living room, the books are on many shelves which are either sorted by author or by “feel/mood” (often overlaps with genre but not alway). Oh, and they are sorted by size a little. And then there is the shelf with all my unread books. And the nightstand with the books I want to read next (some have been sitting there for several months now). You see, totally simple system 😂

30. My favourite book this year: This is the most difficult question of them! I gave 19 books the highest rating this year. Let me take a look ... with anguish and heartache I have narrowed it down to Winter’s Orbit by E. Maxwell and Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher (but there’s also Empire of Gold by S.A. Chakraborty. Or the Book of Tea duology by Judy I. Lin, Amongst our Wapons by B. Aaronovitch, and I also highly enjoyed Tolkien and the Great War by John Garth which is non-fiction and therefore a category all by itself. And for my German friends: Der Tag, an dem Papa ein heikles Gespräch führen wollte by Marc-Uwe Kling (as audiobook) is unsurpassable).

Thank you for asking!

[tiddie-taylor]

YOU ASKED FOR JOYNESS REQUEST

Sadness often reads instructions just to entertain herself. Joy is glad her gf likes it but she barely understands, how can this be so interesting. But she likes to hear Sadness discussing described ideas (Joy understands only rare words but loves to listen and be by sad's side)

AWAWWW YESYEYSS I LOVE THIS IDEA, I can definitely see Joy getting lost in sadness' words even if she doesn't understand most of them or is even paying proper attention 🥹💗