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Is this Stardew Valley? Am I reading Stardew Valley? I'm having a great time, but I get strong SW vibes.

Goodreads Socialjusticed too close to the sun AGAIN.
They just called Ishiguro Kazuo Asian American. Dude is Japanese-British, but hey, how do you say that in trendy coastal PC?

Surprise the Goodreads Choice Awards are still a massive fucking joke. Romance, Fantasy, YA fantasy, YA fiction AND ROMANTASY are all separate categories with literally the exact same kind of books in every single one.
Why is the new Cassandra Clare in general Fantasy, when what it is has literally multiple other categories?
(Nothing for books for kids under YA age. Just saying.)

So the Award winners got announced.
I'm a fantasy fan, so I looked at that one category, but I assume this isn't unique.
How is it that 5 of the first 8 books have votes either equal to or more than the number of ratings they have???
Babel by R.F. Kuang has more than TWICE the amount of votes, compared to ratings.
HOW????????

Question. Does ANYONE like the new format for the book page thing? Because I think it's pretty dang awful. How do I add books to more shelves? Where do I find all the shelves they got added to that are not genres?

2% in a book where supposedly characters are brilliant and the Midas touch is used to refer to a positive thing. DUDE, nooooo. Read the end of that story, you absolutely idiot.

Shit, Talena is such an annoying, self-righteous bitch, I can't take this. Carter is also a bleeding heart martyr, but she hardly ever leaves her soapbox.

RTC

Another book with multiple POV characters that all just sound artsy-fartsy and flowery and the exact same.

Gion and varisk, gion and varisk, gion and varisk. Please, talk more about gion and varisk. I want to hear the name of damn plants repeated again and again.
God, so far this book is so annoying to read.

Okay, this is mysterious and I'm liking it so far. I have zero clue where it is going.

And we reached that time of the year when you can vote for "yaaaas kweeeeeeen" YA-feeling, romance-y gurlbawse crap in every literary genre. Cool.

Hey!
Do you guys mark comic books/manga on this site? I'm reading this manga called Spy x Family and I'm not sure if I should count it towards my yearly goal.

RTC

RTC

I just started and the protagonist references some weird wizard guy in Chicago who advertises in the phone book. I see you, dude. I see you talking about my boy. :D

"Oh, these people want to figure out who are the secret superhero students." Dude. Just look at the people who hang out together and got inexplicably super buff and confident in their first year? Not THAT hard.

I know I'm old when I relate to the teachers most. Dean Blaine and Sean are the best characters.

This book is a bit too long. Just a bit too much repeated descriptions of weapons and airships and military maneuvers.

I reached the first thing that made me roll my eyes.

This series is so... high school anime. In a good way, I like it, but it has a beach episode, a camping episode, tournament sagas (yes, multiple). Now Heroes are Part-Timers.
If you grew up on anime, I think you will like it.

I would love it if GR allowed challenges based on the pages read, either separately or in conjunction with the number of books read.

When you speak to someone with an accent... you don't have to use the same accent. It only works with whole entire languages. Maybe Kvothe does it to seem more approachable, but it's freaking painful to read and just annoying.

I want to slap the shit out of both Kvothe AND Denna, Good match.