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hi guys! because of certain issues I wont be as active on goodreads 🥲 if you still want to reach out to me feel free to dm me on insta or tiktok!
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have a lovely day 💋

give me the worst Rina Kent or Lola king book, I feel like torturing myself.

something we need to leave behind in 2025 are books not having a diverse cast. because why the fuck is everyone in a fantasy or romance book a white straight cis gendered individual? can we make our characters unique? can we have more race representation? we want Arabs, Asians, brown people, black people. we want queer characters, trans characters.
lets represent more communities in books.

I saw someone say that Victoria averyard is calling out Lauren Roberts for plagiarism. but I can't comment on their status update and they aren't responding to the comments, so is it true? I checked her tiktok and there's noting there. & my insta's banned so if anyone could tell me if this is true? because of it is, that's AMAZING.

so much motivation to read, but you don't know what to read.

hey guys, am I the only one who's experiencing this issue? whenever I search up a book on goodreads & click on it, it directs me to a page that says, "Sorry, we couldn’t find the page you were looking for." if anyone's experiencing this please lmk!
fuckass app.

── ⭑ ( maryam's end of the year awards ) .ᐟ

welcome to maryam's end of the year awards! the better version of the goodreads awards! what the Goodreads choice awards wanted to be. well, this years books has been as shitty as the year actually was! let's take a look into the best & worsts books of the year!

keep in mind this is my opinion!
- check the comments!!

first person to comment on this status update determines my next read.

petition for romance authors to stop referencing taylor swift in every fucking chapter.

can we stop with the useless updates? please I don't mind when updates are about books & writing & poetry. but some of these updates are just too much. they keep clogging my feed as well when I'm trying to view book content. this isn't targeted toward anyone, but if the shoe fits.

just wanted to share my fav quotes/lines from my work in progress! 💋

"Being free to be in love with whoever, no matter their name, rank or title, is the only privilege a royal does not have."


"I'm never bowing down to a king. A king only king because his mother was a whore."

hi guys! I'm writing a dystopian/sci-fi/fantasy series and I'm adding some lgbtq+ representation in it ! & I need help from members of that community. I don't want to represent characters in a wrong way so I would love if you guys could help and lmk what type of characters you like in lgbtq+ rep! also, I'm sorry if I offend anybody with this question 😭 I'm just trying to represent communities better.

EAST ASIAN AND HISPANIC REPRESENTATION !! 🙏🏻

check the comments for pro-pales tine celebs !
also please add more celebs who're pro-palestine and not on this list 🫶🏻

looking for beta readers for my sci-fi dystopian fantasy!
synopsis is in the comments !
please dm me if you're interested
ps: it's still not done yet. I want opinions as a I work on it.
thank you so much 💋

I want to be so disgustingly well read to the point that people start hating me for it.

figured out the perfect ending for the first book of my series. can't wait for readers to suffer and wish death upon me 💋

genuinely hope my book becomes big. not because I want fame, not because I want money, but because I want my book to be someone's comfort place, a world where they can get back to and feel loved, and understood. to have characters they can relate to. to know that the author poured bits of her soul into this book. to know that this author cares about every single minority and majority.

2025 was such a horrible reading year. can we move onto 2026 please?

James Aldridge from lovely war is the BEST book boyfriend and the most underrated one too.

I need a good fantasy book that will make me fall in love with reading again.

fearless getting runner up in reader's favorite ya fantasy is my villain origin story. padeyn and kai literally fucked on kai's little sister's grave in that shit. 💀 and it still got runner up. that should've been rebel witch or the rose bargain in that spot, or any other fantasy book on that fucking list.

my birthday is on the 3rd of December, which means I am Santa (sweater/ 3rd of December version)
so everybody and I mean everybody gets free sweaters.
here ! fuck there isn't a sweater emoji so pretend this is a sweater
🧥 !!
happy heather day everyone !

PLEASE BOOST & HELP OUT!!

please boost this update by interacting with it. & please help out and send any of the email templates (or both) down in the comments & send them to the emails mentioned in the comments below.
the more emails, the more attention we'll get and that's what will make a difference. goodreads might actually listen to us.

just because you cannot keep this app safe, doesn't mean you have to take away community services. how are we supposed to communicate with fellow readers?
please strive to make this app a better place by keeping a community safe from creeps without having to take away our rights to communicate with each other. this is what this app is for. to interact with fellow readers.

this app just gets worse.

FYM WE WONT BE ABLE TO PM EACH OTHER ANYMORE?? FYM WE WONT BE ABLE TO SEND LINKS TO EACH OTHER?? NO THIS IS A FUCKING NIGHTMARE 😭

all the booktok books that I hate because being a hater is my only personality trait.

shatter me, this woven kingdom, made series, mindfuck series, powerless, fourth wing, the serpent & the wings of night, haunting Adeline, the jasad heir, bride, from lukov with love, lords series, the inheritance games, the naturals, the prison healer, anything Ana huang, when the moon hatched, more in the comments.

what's the most important time stamp in your life?
game of thrones, season 2, episode 8, 39 minutes & 49 seconds.

what's the most important page in your life?
once upon a broken heart series, The ballad of never after, prologue , page 381, line 24.

you know you have good written amazing characters when your friends, claim them, obsess over them all the time, write fanfic about them, and add "xxx's wife" in their bios.

yall better boost this shit.
since stranger things is coming out tomorrow, please do not fill the app with spoilers I'm watching it the second it comes out, but others might not have time or aren't caught up with other seasons. or have never watched it and intend to later on. so do not ruin the experience for some people by making status updates spoiling it ! 🫶🏻