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[brightbeautifulthings]

Welcome to Forgotten YA Gems’ fifth annual Reading Bingo Challenge!

There are a lot of ways you can customize your challenge with length and number of books read. Whether you’re reading 8 books or 24, one month or all season, we hope you’ll join us!

Guidelines

Choose your card! We have options for small (8 books), medium (16 books), and large (24 books) cards.

The challenge begins June 1, 2023 and officially ends August 31, 2023, although you're welcome to set a different time limit if you want it to be more challenging!

You can join the challenge at any time! There is no deadline.

You’re welcome to read whatever you like for the challenge, from picture books to YA to adult. If you want to make things extra challenging and really target that backlist, you can stick to the group guidelines (five years or older and YA/MG/NA), but how you play is up to you!

Each book only counts for one square, so choose carefully!

If you’re good with a photo editor you can update your Bingo card with each book you’ve read.

Have questions? Andrea @thelivebookproject, Carrie @brightbeautifulthings, and Lore @cementeriodelibrosolvidads are happy to help!

Feel free to tag us and let us know what you’re reading, or join us on Discord for discussions. We’d love to know how you’re doing! We hope you all have fun with it, read some great books, and talk to some awesome people!

[the-hilda-librarians-wife]

i hope you guys get better food soon :(

[bisexualamy]

I really try not to prejudge books if I like the concept I try to keep an open mind but I have to start taking it as a red flag when books are morning talk show book clubs picks. They have such interesting concepts and vapid executions. Sorry for being an elitist but how do you take such incredible book ideas and bore me to tears 😔

[aparticularbandit]

I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener as well as of the teller. A story has in it neither gain nor loss. But a lie is a device for profit or escape. I suppose if that definition is strictly held to, then a writer of stories is a liar - if he is financially fortunate.

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden

[susansontag]

the fact the most-liked review on andrea dworkin’s pornography on goodreads is both essay-length and by a man defending why he likes porn

[dykrophone]

middle/high school me didn't form parasocial relationships with celebrities they formed serial parasocial relationships with random lesbian 20-something bloggers with a penchant for being 24/7 haters on increasingly obscure platforms (often that they had abandoned years ago) and would stay up till like 4am every night reading their posts from like five years back and collecting the Lore

[basiltonpitch]

just finished a book for the first time since january who cheered

[sunshades]

Your sparknotes tags on my post got me and the mutuals making conspiracy theories about how Limbus fans never actually read Demian. You opened our eyes. Why do so many people insist book Sinclair is a smol bean sweetheart. Why do they never mention Knauer Pistorius and Alfons. I'm pacing around my room in agony

RIGHT. RIGHT. once you start noticing it never ends. the focus on his and demian's relationship as if it's a romance novel and not a bildungsroman that heavily relies on metaphor. the other characters being forgotten despite them being necessary for the development of the novel with emil's world is Expanding as he meets many different people that fulfill various roles in his life (and here. knauer always gets the axe first because in their dynamic emil's the one that's in a kind of mentor position so that doesn't jive with smol bean limbus sinclair LOLLL) idk idk it's wild. i stopped checking twitter cuz i wanted fanart of these silly videogame guys and i'd just be seeing the dumbest takes in the world about books i love and it was making me lose it. they'd never understand what it's like to sit on the floor and stare at the fire with my buddy and realize i've grown up.....

[s3sss]

Reminder #s3salim

[emeraldcreeper]

The way books are marketed now gives me fucking hives like it’s cool that you can find a romantic comedy where there’s fake dating (which is less fun when it’s characters I have to learn to care about it seems or I read a Bad One) but like I get so frustrated when all I read on a review is “this sapphic romance with xyz and trope trope trope is soooo spicy!” Just say it’s a romantic comedy with sex scenes, half the time they’re bad and awkward I just want lesbian porn that’s done well! And ain’t spiiicy scenes like cool I’d love to see good ones that aren’t written in to be there to say it’s spicy gimmie good porn in the romance novel make me love the characters instead of going oh they tick 3/5 diversity boxes that’s… so cool.

[brightbeautifulthings]

Forgotten YA Gems is now on Discord! Join us for discussions!

We’re a Goodreads/Discord group that reads YA, NA, or MG books that are at least five years old. While not necessarily “forgotten” (as many of them have lovely fanbases here on Tumblr), we focus on backlist books that aren’t getting the same attention as new releases. Feel free to join us to vote on group reads, participate in challenges, and talk about books!

Spring’s theme is 🌈 Pride 🌈, and our group reads are Let's Talk About Love by Claire Kann, Luna by Julie Anne Peters, and Strange Grace by Tessa Gratton.

Have you read it? Is it on your TBR? What did you think?

[thebookbud]

Hey guys! Wanna crush your TBRs with some fun challenges? Come check out our group on Goodreads! We do all kinds of fun stuff and plan on Buddy Reads coming soon too! Plus if you read the most in our Battle of the Books by the end of the year, you get a prize!

[paigebbooks]

Fairy Tale - Stephen King (Not Much A Fairy Tale)

Have you ever read a book and the descriptive writing turns you off. Especially for in this example, Stephen King writes about this bridge where Charlie's (Main Character) mom get's hit and killed on much early on in the book and every time Charlie mentions the bridge it is GODDAMN BRIDGE. Every time Stephen King brings it up it is always THAT GODDAMN BRIDGE. Ok King, we get the fucking point but don't have to put it into each sentence and at times, in a couple chapters, in the next couple of pages, 10x on each page. It is a real turn-off from reading and makes the reader lose connection with your story. It is poor story writing but sadly that never improved in this novel at all. 600 pages? Please, could have been done in 300. The extra 300 is a waste of paper in my opinion.

I found this novel, which many described to be one of the best of King yet, to be so slow that I literally put it down for a month and came back to it later and was still able to know what was happening. It is like a poorly written soap opera and its sad to say even those are written better. There is nothing keeping the reader hooked in this story until 400 pages in, when the story is finally reaching the climax, is when it starts to get really faced paced and good. As A King fan, I was truly disappointed in this book. Maybe my expectations were to high, I don't know, but truly I did find the writing to be atrocious and I had hoped it would get better but once I was 200 in, I came to the conclusion it never would.

The gladiator fighting in the novel truly intrigued me and that is when I found the story to really get going is when we finally meet the horrifying Night Soldiers, Living Dead Soldiers, and I loved that the twist is the brother of the royal family that was all presumed dead. That kind of surprised me. Leah, princess in this story, becoming Queen once she helps practically kill her brother to save her world, but not getting Charlie and Charlie not getting the girl, I truly loved.

The one other thing I truly did not like about this novel is that it felt completely plagiarized and lacked any originality. Story building also lacked. That truly made me sad for Stephen King. Hope his next book is better.

[lordsardine]

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[h0ney8ee]

month four of book club and everybody has hated every book so far. when i said i wanted a book club i was hoping for one with like. better taste

[authorksc]

What About Writing Excites You?

March 15, 2024|Blogging

For me, writing is an outlet and a creative way to explore new worlds or characters. Starting something that builds into a great adventure is the best. I get excited when my readers tell me they loved my story, or remember a character. That is the whole reason ai write. What are some reasons you love to write? Please share your thoughts. And no matter what excites you about it, remember to "Enjoy the Write!" KSCarson