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2024 reading q&a except no one asked for it

1. How many books did you read this year?

about 125

2. Did you reread anything?

nope

3. What were your top five books of the year?

no particular order bc i just can’t but:

Never Saw Me Coming - Vera Kurian

The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer - Jennifer Lynch

Crush - Richard Siken

Poor Things - Alasdair Gray

Anarchism and Other Essays - Emma Goldman

4. Did you discover any new authors that you love this year?

Eliza Clark, Kathryn Harrison, Anne Carson, Richard Siken

5. What genre did you read the most of?

Romance, Fantasy & Contemporary

6. Was there anything you meant to read, but never got to?

Lots. Apprentice to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer and Queen of Dreams by Kit Rocha to name a couple.

7. What was your average Goodreads rating? Does it seem accurate?

3.38. Yes.

8. Did you meet any of your reading goals?

Yes, I read much less this year & met my goal of 10 sapphic books (I read 13).

9. Did you get into any new genres?

Poetry & Short Stories! I also truly attempted to read more classics this year.

10. What was your favorite new release of the year?

maybe She’s Always Hungry by Eliza Clark? hard to say

11. What was your favorite book that has been out for a while, but you just now read?

Poor Things - Alasdair Gray & Notes from Underground - Dostoevsky

12. Any books that disappointed you?

plenty. I really wanted to get through Crime & Punishment but wasn’t able to (a me problem i’m sure). Both novels by S.T. Gibson disappointed me, but A Dowry of Blood especially. I expected more from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson, as well.

13. What were your least favorite books of the year?

some that i shan’t even name. but here’s some: When I Was Ten - Fiona Cummins, The Stranger Beside Me - Ann Rule, Electra vs Oedipus: The Drama of the Mother–Daughter Relationship - Hendrika C. Freud…idk i read some random stuff this year

14. What books do you want to finish before the year is over?

Book 1 in The Witcher series (Blood of Elves)! but it’s a slow read for me so i’m not hopeful

15. Did you read any books that were nominated for or won awards this year?

some may have won awards, but not this year. some nominations.

16. What is the most over-hyped book you read this year?

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson 😬 I’m sorry. Perhaps it’s one of the those that was something new and unique when first released but is now…kind of ordinary? like i expected something incredible but it felt very standard and unintentionally predictable.

17. Did any books surprise you with how good they were?

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King. My first Stephen King read…I thought that it was very good for what it is and didn’t feel boring like some How To writing books. If only I liked his novels.

Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer was very charming and fun which I didn’t expect after seeing it marketed as a booktok romance.

Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant opened my mind to more kinds of horror fiction.

18. How many books did you buy?

too many, mostly poetry books

19. Did you use your library?

once. until very recently i lived somewhere with a very shit library with no libby

20. What was your most anticipated release & Did it meet your expectations?

i’m going to be so real - i can’t remember

21. Did you participate in or watch any booklr, booktube, or book twitter drama?

nope it’s not easy to integrate into booklr like where is everyone let me innnnnn

22. What’s the longest book you read?

Zodiac Academy: Restless Stars. 1,153 pages.

23. What’s the fastest time it took you to read a book?

like 5hrs i think

24. Did you DNF anything? Why?

quite a few. my attention span was SUFFERING this year which meant if i wasn’t into a book then i just couldn’t finish it. most notably I DNF’d Crime & Punishment at about 50%…I WILL finish it one day. Mayhaps i’ll try a different translation.

25. What reading goals do you have for next year?

read no more than 100 books. Read more literary fiction. Read more WLW stories. Read more classics. read more translations.

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i’m fran and i like to both read and write about typically non-traditional romances

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i originally started this blog as a place to organise my OC thoughts however i’ve also decided to use it to yell into the void about the books i read.

please keep in mind that i read what i want and recreationally – my favourite books are often not bestsellers or classics or considered ‘real novels’ by some snobbier people. however please also consider that in a lot of these instances that has less to do with the quality of the story or writing and more to do with the unconventional romances they portray.

feel free to request book recommendations of a specific trope etc. however please check my goodreads/storygraph/literal to get an idea of what i may recommend. often kindle unlimited indie books with queer and/or poly themes apart from the odd exception <3

join my bookclub on literal!

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full blog post with more recs is up! please excuse the formatting, i’m still getting used to blogger <3

also ik people on here don’t like tropes etc, but i haven’t added the keywords to replace blurbs, just supplement them!

here are some of the recs <3 middle three are indie works available with KU

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CAN SOMEONE PLS POINT ME TOWARDS A WRITERS COMMUNITY OR DISCORD OR SOMETHING BC IF I DONT YELL ABOUT MY OCS TO SOMEONE I WILL EXPLODE

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2023 reading q&a

questions are from this ask game

all links go to the books’ goodreads page

1. How many books did you read this year?

220

2. Did you reread anything?

nope

3. What were your top five books/series of the year?

Little Bird Lost - Jessie Walker

The Way I Used to Be - Amber Smith

Curious (series) - Jess Savage

The Collector (series) - Dot Hutchison

Release (Stolen #2) - Lucy Christopher

4. Did you discover any new authors that you love this year?

Jess Savage, Cora Rose, Tal Bauer, D.J. Jamison, Tiffany Reisz

5. What genre did you read the most of?

Romance (MM/gay mostly)

6. Was there anything you meant to read, but never got to?

I wanted to read more FF/sapphic romances but I couldn’t find many that gripped me

7. What was your average Goodreads rating?

3.89/5

Does it seem accurate? Definitely

8. Did you meet any of your reading goals?

Yes, 200+

9. Did you get into any new genres?

not really, there’s not much i haven’t already read

10. What was your favorite new release of the year?

impossible to pick just one

11. What was your favorite book that has been out for a while, but you just now read?

Carmilla & Laura - S.D. Simper

12. Any books that disappointed you?

many that i didn’t finish

13. What were your least favorite books of the year?

it feels petty to name them tbh

14. What books do you want to finish before the year is over?

i just finished Consort of Fire by Kit Rocha tonight (31/12/23)

15. Did you read any books that were nominated for or won awards this year? What did you think of them?

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth was nominated for a few things I think. I enjoyed it a lot and rated it 4.25/5 stars ✨

16. What is the most over-hyped book you read this year?

Strange Sally Diamond - Liz Nugent

17. Did any books surprise you with how good they were?

All of Cora Rose’s ‘Unexpected’ series and The Way I Used to Be by Amber Smith

18. How many books did you buy?

3-5 (I use Kindle Unlimited)

19. Did you use your library?

no, i only read ebooks

20. What was your most anticipated release?

Coming in Third (Hardwick Hall #1) - Jess Savage. It definitely met my expectations, 4/5 stars ✨

21. Did you participate in or watch any booklr, booktube, or book twitter drama?

no 😭 i tried and failed to joined booklr

22. What's the longest book you read?

Little Bird Lost - Jessie Walker (772 pages)

23. What's the fastest time it took you to read a book?

4hrs ish

24. Did you DNF anything? Why?

many things. kindle unlimited is a melting pot of books that deserve pulitzers and books that should’ve stayed on wattpad.

25. What reading goals do you have for next year?

unironically? read far less. participate in the real world.

…and to read 10< wlw romances.

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wlw books bingo 2024

i’ve made a few storygraph reading challenges but this year i made myself a little bingo to try and read more wlw/sapphic stories!

i also created some rubbish but lovingly-made bingo cards that you’ll find under the cut <3 if you’re not on storygraph please @ me or tag any updates with #writeasiread so i can steal your book ideas see what people are reading :)

here’s the link to the storygraph challenge

here are 9 categories & 1 optional/bonus category that make up the bingo:

a book by an author whose work you’ve read previously — (if no authors have written wlw, then read an author from your TBR)

a book in which at least one person in the main wlw relationship is BIPOC

a book with pink on the cover

a book with a consensually non-monogamous relationship 👥👥 other members of the polycule can be any gender as long as at least one couple is wlw — (if you can’t find a book that fits this description, instead read a book with a character who’s just out of a relationship.)

a fantasy or paranormal book

a book that’s title is made up of 2 words or less

a Young Adult (YA) book

a book about a relationship that you’d tell your best friend to run a mile from — (if you aren’t comfortable reading about the more toxic relationships, read a book from before 2010!)

a book about a relationship with an age difference of more than 5 years

BONUS/OPTIONAL:

read some sapphic erotica