This weekend I took my usual trip down to the village and perused the ongoing library sale and charity shop. The reason I am telling you is that I have a long list of 150 books I don’t have and do want to read.

So anyway, the library sale was interesting. I got a few more books, then the charity shop was a gold mine, the Flashman books, several F1 biographies and even a couple of the greek legends books I was after!

They were all piled up together on one shelf waiting for me, so thank you, God, of book readers, you did a good job!

Next, a little rant to clear the air…

Since no one reads these, I can let rip, so for the first time, let's just let it all out.

Twice in the last few days, I have encountered the following (on this site) as questions mainly when adding friends.

Tell me who your favourite black woman author is and why?
Tell me the last relevant feminist book you have read?
Tell me the last Trans book you enjoyed?

Get the picture?

Frankly, what is this s**t?

This is a site called Goodreads; read a book, enjoy a book (hopefully), review it and move onto the next. My job has all this b*****t creeping into it, but GR too?

I would imagine, like most readers, writers out there, we just want to enjoy/immerse ourselves into the experiences offered by the book. NOT as seems to be suggested again and again recently use it as a platform to check for the political views of the author, or to make sure if they are white they have three coloured friends and a lesbian they are close to.

I don’t have three coloured friends. I have many Jewish friends and a few lesbian friends. I get the sense sometimes that it is okay to look down on the Jewish culture-wise. Still, frankly, that annoys me more than the latest nonsense on Trans and Feminism extremists.

Back on point, who reads a book with a checklist as follows next to them?

Stong Feminist character?
Extra points for coloured or Lesbian?
Trans characters appreciated?
White men put in their place?

So for you lot guilty of this, can you just please read a book based on the following…

Did I enjoy it?

That’s all, nothing more…