#the story graph

[naphthaflash]

unpopular opinion but reading lots of types of fantasy isn’t reading widely. if you want to improve your fantasy writing, read biographies, poetry, essay anthologies, women’s lit, contemporary fiction, mythology, hell even a car manual, but get out of the fantasy bubble. it’s not doing you any favours.

[tealeavesand-roses]

Final Girls by Riley Sager 🔪🩸

Rating: 4.25/5

Leaning into the ✨summerween✨ of it all and trying to squeeze some thrillers into the mix before my semester starts. I really enjoyed Final Girls by Riley Sager. It started a little slow, and I wasn't too crazy about the central-park-quinn-has-repressed-anger-and-puts-man-in-a-coma subplot. However, the twist at the end both pleasantly and chillingly surprised me. Also, can we all collectively agree that Jeff sucked?

add me on StoryGraph: tealeavesandroses 🥀🕯️ :)

[happilyvaliantkitten]

So I really fucking love Fall Out Boy and I really fucking love reading. I went to the So Much (for) Stardust Tour, and it was amazing. I was riding the high for the next several days. It was all I could think about. So I was inspired to create a reading challenge on The Story Graph based on Fall Out Boy songs. Feel free to join me on this unhinged adventure.

[la-libreria-chula]

Update for the Plus Size Readathon:

So far I think I've been doing pretty well. I have started in Kimberly Lemming's book as well as Obsidian Feathers. My Curvy Rival I have been taking it slow since I read the chapters to participate in the discussion questions every week.

Honest thoughts so far for MCR (My Curvy Rival, not My Chemical Romance), eh, I think have read better. I enjoy a slow burn romance, and this isn't it. I do enjoy Jazz's (the mc) gym and why she opened it. She's very confident in herself and a joy to read about. Leo, still warming up to him but I'll see.

Out all of the books I read so far, I gave The Fastest Way to Fall by Denise Williams a 5-star review. This book had me whipped, and I loved the Brit and Wes' relationship. It is a slow burn, but I felt like it was done super well. I had borrowed it from the library so I'm going to be buying it, hopefully soon.

Out of the prompts, I officially finished two. So yay to me!

Also realized that these are mostly monster romance..lol..okie bye

[theremightbecupcakespodcast]

Book Review: The Secret Passage by Nina Bawden

4 stars. Nina Bawden was one of the authors of my childhood. Greatly enjoyed revisiting her during my Daylight Savings Time hangover/flareup. This would be an excellent gateway to horror for young people–scary without too much peril and no death or bloodshed. Keywords given to The Story Graph for other readers: Africa, England, London, family secrets, secret passageways Category answers for The…

[serenityatnight]

Math tells us the saddest love stories

"Parallel lines were never meant to meet"

"Tangent lines only meet once and grow apart forever"

"Asymptotes get closer and closer but will never be together "

[author-genbelmont]

My 2022 Reading Wrapped 📚

(Courtesy of The Story Graph)

This year, I discovered the joy of the Romance Genre and I am NEVER. LOOKING. BACK.

I have never before read so much in a single year and have never before enjoyed reading so much!

[novelconcepts]

It really frees up so much mental real estate when you start thinking of sex as just: a thing people sometimes do. Some people are super into it! Some aren't! It's for fun! It's for intimacy! It's the deepest connection some people will ever feel and totally meaningless to others! It's hot! It's boring! It helps some people sleep! It exists as an exciting construct solely in fantasy for others! What it isn't is some complicated moral ground that needs to be fought against at every turn. It's just A Thing. Which means people who have a lot of it, or none of it, or whatever in between are all worth the same. Which means stories that have a lot of it, or none of it, or whatever in between are worth the same, too. Smut isn't less valuable than "clean" stories. People who have a high "body count" aren't less valuable than those who have never had sex at all. It's just A Thing. Making peace with sex as just A Thing that is natural to consentingly have or not have, want or not want, really is a great adjustment to your brainspace.

[universitypenguin]

Do any of you use book apps? For example: Goodreads, Story Graph, Bookmory, or Hoopla?

I’m sick of Goodreads, so I was looking through the App Store and it was surprising how many new apps there are for books.

[regicidal-defenestration]

To carry on from my last post I'd also like to make something up entirely (possibly) and propose this curve, not applicable in a way even close to being universal, but it does illustrate my point right now:

How Much Does A Form Of Media Need To Explain Its Existence (eg, Framing Devices)?

Where in an established form of media, you don't necessarily need to explain why it exists. A modern book doesn't necessarily explain to you how the words are on the page, or why you know what the characters are thinking.

Compare this to older novels which tend to explain their existence much more. Don Quixote (and indeed, the chivalric romances it parodied) claimed to be translations of works from distant lands. Frankenstein and Jekyll and Hyde are epistolary.

And then, of course, once an idea gets established, people start playing around with it. You get your Houses of Leaves - a book made of an annotated manuscript of an essay of a film (if I remember all the levels correctly) - works that break the fourth wall or play with their own truthfulness.

We start by asking "why does this exist?" and we get told letters, a story found, a story told, and we grow comfortable in these answers for a while until once again we find ourselves asking "okay, but why?"

[kazz-brekker]

i am going to achieve a good grade in "beating the minimum amount of words required each day" something which is normal to want and possible to achieve

[its-no-biggie]

me finishing a good story: wow i need more of this immediately *opens ao3*

me finishing a GREAT story: wow. *doesnt even think about consuming anything else for the next 3 days*

[gwensy]

american girl doll is such a phenomenon for me as an european, why are these childrens dolls having anti war storylines

from an outsider standpoint american girl is probably like insane im only now realizing. here's my cutesy dress up doll who you can take to the store to have tea parties with and get their hair done and their ears pierced. her name is nellie and she is experiencing 1904 child labor

[humanmorph]

MY guess for now is that whatever it is next season is a smaller one akin to marielda. though i do wonder if they can even still do those... maybe it ends up at what used to be regular season length instead of the "oh god this just isn't ending" that's been going on. and then sangfielle 2 and THEN the next divine cycle season

[clowndensation]

book reviews are so interesting. “this is a really good book about this subject, but i don’t care about the subject so 2 stars” the equivalent of those recipe reviewers who go to an egg salad recipe and go “i’m allergic, 1 star”