r/bookdiscussion

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When I’m choosing a new book, I tend to look at the title first, but sometimes a cover catches my eye and makes me curious about the book. When you choose a book, which influences you more, the title or the cover?

The title can give you an idea of what the book is about or what kind of atmosphere it has. If a title catches my interest right away, I usually end up looking up the synopsis too.

On the other hand, the cover can shape your first impression of a book just through its colors, illustrations, or design. I’m sure many people have picked up a book at a bookstore simply because the cover caught their eye.

Of course, many of us ultimately decide after checking the synopsis, author, or reviews, but I think what first gets us interested in a book can be different for everyone. 

Which one are you?

1. I look at the title first
2. I look at the cover design first
3. Both are important
4. The synopsis, author, or reviews matter more than the title or cover

If you’ve ever picked up a book because of its title or cover and ended up really enjoying it, please share it in the comments!

Ok so I’ve read the first 2 books in the off campus series by Elle Kennedy this week - do I read the third book (allie and deans book - the score) or do I continue redeeming 6 which I’m ≈ 25% the way through but it’s a 900ish page book

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Hi guys

I am currently part of a bookclub that is looking for new members. This bookclub is making it's way through the Booker Prize winners and shortlist.

Members take turns picking a book and once a month we meet to discuss the book picked.

The bookclub is run on WhatsApp and meetings are over Google meet

We are looking for people who love books and love talking about them. Communication and engagement is really important, this is a safe space to get excited about reading.

Inbox if interested.

Howdy y'all!

I love reading books a lot. But I noticed how theres some ways of keeping track of what you read/finished reading.

Some do it by

• Having a journal to keep track of it
• Some do it by checking them off a Reading List based on Book, Author, Date, and rate it from 1-5 stars.
• Some color in a printed out bookshelf showing spines of the book.

I originally thought about my own way, my own idea. It involved having a jar and writing on index cards of the book info and put them in said jar as a way to show visually and by info on how many and what books I read. But I was curious about something...

Has anyone thought of tracking them by having mini 3D blank books that they could write on the front or/and spines of?

Like you could write on and erase it with a pencil/whiteboard marker, put it in a jar/mini shelf to show you read it, and have at least 50+ of them to do this.

I thought about it, considered it a fun and creative way to track how many books you have read visually and by names. Let alone it's also reusable for as much as you want, so you never have to buy a new journal or anything to track it.

My issue is that I cant find something like this where its mini books that are blank that you can write on with anything and erase it easily.

I did see the mini books for the "anxiety bookshelf" fidget thing (IDK, that thing gives me more stress just seeing it), went into a little scavenger hunt for an hour or so to see if I could find anything like my idea. The Anxiety Bookshelf fidget thing does have book only options where you could get mini books... but I noticed it either were of books I wont read, were spicy books (I dont read those - I prefer ones with plots that can get by without sexual things), didn't have enough choices, or straight up didn't have the same cover as the books I have (I like to keep it as close to it as possible). So I went deeper into the research just to find some actual mini blank/white books. I thought about using those but I wasn't sure if its writable and erasable.

Annoyingly enough, I found some things but they had clear signs of either it or the ad using ai. My rule, ever since ai came out, i've ended up living by the "If theres signs of ai at all on the product or ad involving it, I dont buy it" thing. So I wanted to see if fellow book lovers thought of my idea, have thoughts on how to do the "visual with names" tracker idea I had, etc!

I tried tabbing key scenes in a mystery novel to track clues, but stopping to mark pages ruined the pacing so badly I lost all momentum.

Does annotating actually help you engage with fiction, or does it turn reading into homework?

I was just thinking that if there is any community where the members can share their idea on diffrent philosophical topics and learning from books. Like a chat group for book worms with same mentality. IF NONE WOULD YOU MIND COMMENTING IF YOU We THINK WE SHOULD CREATE ONE.

Funnily enough a fanfiction kind of ruined me. I read it early this year and the author used a simile literally every other line. Ever since then I've been overly sensitive to similes, I try to let it go, I do.

I don't know if it's me or the books. Do a lot of modern authors overuse similes? In the book I'm reading right now it feels like a lot, so I flipped back through the first 20 pages and just through a quick skim there were 6 similes and only one of those I felt like was a justified simile that I feel like deserved to be in the book

But a simile every 3(ish) pages, is that really so bad?

I know reading and writing are subjective arts but if you're constantly telling me what things look like it makes me feel like the author doesn't trust me to visualize it on my own or the author is using similes as a crutch when they could put more effort into descriptions

Has anyone ordered from Book Outlet?

I’m looking around at subscriptions and just websites to buy books that are different than Thriftbooks and Book of the Month Club.

Thanks!

I am in an adult text group where my niece added her (then) 11 year old daughter. Her daughter put in the group a pic (on her 12th birthday) of her mom surprising her at the bookstore with the latest book in the series. This little girl was flipping out with excitement, with many pictures and videos! My adult son told me what he had heard about the books and we found out information on the Internet. Understand, her mother knows what they are about. I’m just curious of some opinions about this. I haven’t read the books, I have only seen what is on the Internet. Any opinions!?

I'm a newbie (like you can already guess lol) and honestly, I have no idea what I'm doing yet.

So, I started writing on Substack recently about my literary thoughts that aren't quite academic, perfect essays yet but are not so vague or 'book-centered' for Goodreads either. Instagram is not my thing as well lol.

I’ve just written my first post about Shakespeare (don't kill me pls), specifically his rather suspicious habit of putting women in disguises, giving them male identities, letting them over rule all sorts of gender boundaries, and then conveniently resolving everything by the end of the play. (like, bro what?)

And now that I'm done posting, it hit me: HOW TF ARE PEOPLE SUPPOSED TO FIND NEWBIES LIKE ME THERE?! 😭

If you've been there long and have seen growth, maybe please help/suggest?

Thank you!!

About a year ago, I started using apps for tracking my reading and, well, used them for about a whole year, but now it just feels overwhelming. I did enjoy having all the stats and stuff like that, but I believe tracking books put me in a reading slump somehow.

Every time I read a book, I feel pressured to track the pages that I read that day, the day I started, and the day that I finished, rating the book and everything else. It kind of took the pleasure out of just reading the book and enjoying it. It feels almost like a job, lol. Am I the only one having problems with that? I know it's kind of stupid, like, "just stop using it then," but when I read and don't track, I feel somehow guilty for not doing it.

And i also don't want to forget what i read so it's really stressing me out. Reading is my favorite thing in the world and i don't want to have a bad feeling about it. Any thoughts on that?

Since less people read nowadays, I find this question quite interesting. TV shows, movies, and all social media content can be seen in one sitting. The only thing that can’t be completely consumed in one sitting is video games, but a lot of the online multiplayer games (which also seemed to be the most addicting) expect players to play individual games.

Have any of you read a book with no pictures with at least 200 pages in one sitting. If you have, how many pages of books do you actually read in one sitting and how long does it take?

When it comes to reading, do you prefer physical books, digital books, or a mix of both?

Does anyone knows how the book is? Sounds quite depressive in the beginning.

I don't mean either/or! I’m just curious whether, when you read a book, you like getting something out of it beyond pure entertainment - like a life lesson, a new perspective, some random fact you didn’t know, or even something that makes you think differently! 😂

Or if you only want entertainment.

Because that is totally fair.

I’m looking for books that explain the basics in a way that’s easy to understand and actually interesting to read, rather than something that feels like a dry textbook. I’d especially like to understand concepts that help make sense of the real world, like inflation, interest rates, unemployment, recessions, markets, government policies, trade, etc.

This was my second Ann Patchett book, my first being Tom Lake. They felt like homework and I struggled to get through both of them.
Whistler is Daphne recounting every minute detail of her childhood with which she seems disinterested up until this point in her life. Here’s my biggest problem with this book: if Eddie meant as much to Daphne as she said he did, how and why could she neither think about him nor ever try to find him?