Bookworm Baddies discussion

suggest any books

i didn't know what chat to put this in lol but are we doing a BOTM for January?

or are we gonna wait until there's a few more people

I'm going to start the botm in February but untill then we can just chat and recommend books!

I'm just started "the extraordinaries" and it's really good it's made me literally laugh out loud I never do that for books

i love books that make you actually laugh. unfortunately there aren't many of them though and a lot of the books that are really hyped up for being funny normally fall flat in my opinion. i had that problem with good omens

N e way, I'm currently reading Wayward Son (sequel to Carry On) and I am very pleased to report that these books have also made me laugh quite a bit. This book has quite a reputation for being angsty and there's certainly been a couple bits that have made me pretty sad but I get the feeling that it's gonna get much worse. I appreciate the portrayal of mental illness tho and it works as a much better "epilogue" than for e.g. The Harry Potter one which just ends with And Then They Were All Happy! I like that the traumas the characters experienced in the first book aren't being de-valued for palatability. And it does all this while still managing to be funny and quite cute/sweet most of the time which I'm enjoying

wow that sounds great I'll have to check it out when I'm don't with this book. The extraordinaries is a very loveable book I immediately liked the main character after the first chapter (which is just a fanfiction he wrote about an extraordinary in his town) his awkwardness and cluelessness are both distressing and enteraining.
has anyone here ever read the six of crows? I want to read it but I'm not sure if it's just overrated on tik tok or actually good

I have read Six of Crows and in my opinion it is definitely worth the hype! It's easily my favourite series of all time. The characters are all incredibly well developed (which is quite impressive since there's 6 of them) and it has great POC, LGBT and disability rep. The relationships are well and realistically developed (and not toxic at all which is something a lot of YA books fall short in). The plot is also so well written and developed and though they can be a bit slow sometimes the slow bits are usually full of either angst or the characters being funny and interacting with each other so it's always entertaining. There's also good commentary on cultural appropriation and systemic poverty poverty that feels natural and fits into the books without it feeling like the author went Oh Wait I Need To Put This In. I just love it sm lmao but yeah it's really good. Ofc no guarantee you'll like it bc to each their own but I think it's so well written and the characters mean so much to me

The only thing I will say is if you read Six of Crows without reading Shadow and Bone (which isn't as good by a long way) the learning curve of the world is pretty steep. Bc it's set in another fantasy world with its own history, politics, cultures, lore etc it can be a bit much just being launched into it if you have no background information but after the first 50ish pages you'll be able to follow what's going on

i would also like to add that i think the writing style is beautiful and the book has some really excellent quotes too

"The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true."

"Maybe there were people who lived those lives. Maybe this girl was one of them. But what about the rest of us? What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary. That was how you survived when you weren’t chosen, when there was no royal blood in your veins. When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway."

"I will have you without armour, Kaz Brekker, or I will not have you at all."

"Her heart was a river that carried her out to sea."

"I like it when men beg" (OK this isn't beautifully written™ or anything but Inej really Did That)

"I would come for you, and if I couldn't walk, I would crawl to you, and we would fight our way out together - knives drawn, pistols blazing - because that's what we do. We never stop fighting."

"Her name was Inej Ghafa, and her future was waiting above."

it's so good but im done now lmao

omg i love six of crows so much!!!

also, some funny books are Red, White, and Royal Blue and The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue

I L O V E D red white and royal blue!!

but those quotes tho :0 it's like my favorite thing when writers are actually good at writing. I get so distracted when the plot is 10/10 but the writing style is 1/10

does anyone have any good books to read to get out a reading slump bc I am in a huge one and it’s so frustrating

I like reading books that are "simple" or easy to consume when I'm trying to get out of a slump, which usually doesn't mean a novel. Last time, I binge read all the Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark series (it wasn't that good but it was easy, quick and motivating), and before that I read some of the poetry by Amanda Lovelace (also not that good, but easy). Short stories like Masque of the Red Death or Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen and The Yellow Wallpaper have also helped (though as a warning these aren't fun books lmao these were the kind of stories you read and then you just have to sit in a dark room for 20 minutes and go "what the hell was that"). A lot of my friends also recommend middle-grade fiction (Nevermoor, though I haven't read that one, Harry Potter, Percy Jackson and the Olympians) or something kind of trashy (like those Bad Boy romance books from Wattpad pfft).

Has anyone here read Loaded by Joe Hill (it's a short story in an anthology book called Strange Weather)

Yess Red White and Royal Blue is one of my favorite books as well. No book has made my heart utterly ache like that one. 100/10 recommend.

I´m reading all of your comments right now and i just want every single book everyone of you suggestet right now in my hands!!! And i also wantet to start reading more like psycho thriller books because i really like these kinda stuff so if you want to suggest any, feel free to do so.

Has anyone read the Throne of Glass series? I really want to buy it but I don’t know if it’s any good! Should I just buy one or the whole set, because I really want the paperback ones but they don’t come as separate books

oof ive owned it for like 2 years and still haven't read it lmao

I would recommend just borrowing it out from a library/getting the ebook if possible before committing to buying an entire series (the only reason i have it is bc it was a gift) otherwise you might end up wasting anywhere between $20-$60

Ahh that’s a great idea! I didn’t even consider it lol
Thanks Anna :D

If you are looking for a good psycho thriller I would highly recommend The Silent Patient! It’s so good! It’s rare when a book actually catches me by surprise and I don’t expect the ending at all. So highly recommend!

Thanks Chloe and Keidra!!!! Love Youu! I will 100% read these books and tell you about it <3

Oh my I’m reading ‘Where the crawdads sing’ right now and I love it soo much. I didn’t expect to feel so much reading this book but it really hit me, and the writing style just makes me want to turn another page, and then another.
Seriously, if you have an opportunity to read it please do!!