Dísir > Recent Status Updates

Books have been my escape route through a turbulent 2024 and 2025. Maybe not quite looking to use them as a crutch so much in 2026. (right).

It's often people's (and GR friends') reviews that help decide whether I'll even bother to pick it up or take if off the TBR list.

Not true that the slower the burn is, the better. I'm sure I'd like the burn to happen sometime in my own lifetime.

Wish there'd be a note outright if a book contains polyamory/throuple/orgies or whatever name they call it these days instead of letting me guess by the cover or a blurb that tries hard to say everything and nothing at all.

Wasn't there a time when boobs in books were typically described as 'perky'?!

Too many middle-of-the-road books which I really wanted to like.

Spicy/steamy..gimme gimme gimme ALL of it. *Just with good plots and even more fabulous writing*

The bloat in the books these days really rivals the bloat in my belly.

Human characters who dare to kill petty gods. Gimme.

I wish I could end the year with a crazy (good), unforgettable book.

So, so happy that I've been able to accelerate my book consumption rate once again towards the last few months of this year!

Too much purple prose is distracting, yes?

Really liking the Romance-fantasy angle of books (which is incidentally coming into its own genre), but so many are hit and miss. Damn.

When you devour books much faster than when you can review them...

Pet peeve: author making up countries in contemporary books that deal with 21st-century reality.

Really enjoying reading the low-rated reviews because the non-hysterical ones actually feel more honest.

I've forgotten how much of a joyous familiarity there is in re-reading old favs.

Do indie authors only grant ARCs to those who always rate their books 5 stars?

Really wish there were some warnings about tropes I absolutely hate before I even pick that up to read.

Has anyone ever re-read 1980-90s type fiction that's got what was considered cutting-edge technology (but is absolutely outdated and non-existent now)? It just feels morbidly fascinating/horrifying to read about how tech used to be, especially right now in 2023.

Feeling somewhat sad that the number of books as my reading goal this year is the lowest it has ever been. (And still steadily dropping)

Every time I think I'm about to read something new and exciting, I read the reviews (thank god for them!) and my enthusiasm tanks immediately.

Does anyone know how to get back the old GR interface?!!! Anyone????

Just going back as early a 2010-ish and I still find books that portray female/male relationships in a way that infuriate the hell out of me.

Is anyone hating GR's new format?

The need to keep someone safe (i.e., a protective instinct) is too often fully equated with a character who is 'falling in love'.

*sceptical about this*

Trying my best to get all my library shelves do all the talking for me when I don't feel like writing reviews....

Supremely enjoying the awkward, rocky start that both protagonists are having right now.

When some books that rub you just the wrong way actually come from authors you really like...

Almost the norm for me to find that the longer a series goes on, the worse the books start to get. Happened too many times to count...and still counting.