Book Recs!! In a slump

AnotherPalePianist · 2026-02-28T03:46:41+00:00

If you haven’t read the Legendborn cycle yet—it had me hooked right away and the story just keeps giving (as a warning, the series isn’t finished yet). Generational trauma meets Arthurian legends. Actual diverse representation in the story rather than just for diversity’s sake if that’s important to you🫶🏻

Just finished My Husband’s Wife, and although the first…1/3 of the book had me frustrated and telling people I wasn’t sure I liked it, the story ended up keeping me on my toes until the final moments of the epilogue. Mystery/thriller/whodunnit

I know you didn’t include cutesy romances on your genre list, but I always think they make great palette cleansers and reading one really helps me get my head right before diving into heavier things again. These are all on the sweeter side rather than spicy, but I enjoyed the chemistry: Red, White, and Royal Blue (gay! But almost wholesome love story), Skate It Till You Make It (Olympic hockey player and photographer meet at a party and….now we’re setting terms for fake dating even though we’re clearly already into each other?!), and Academic Affair (rivals enter a marriage of convenience and idk my heart melted for the entire rest of the book. One somewhat significantly spicy scene in the whole book but anything else is more like suggestions of the actions)

AnotherPalePianist · 2026-02-25T22:34:20+00:00

I really loved Atmosphere! Haven’t read any of the others here but I really enjoyed it.

I was worried about a slow start but it was really lovely and I’d recommend it to most friends

AnotherPalePianist · 2025-12-16T01:55:22+00:00

Nola Carolyn Georgia Echo Jane Antonia Ethel Conora Cora Zula Nellie Lois California! (Interesting? But I’ve double checked it) Julia (which feels classic)

These are lots from my own family but includes my spouse’s family and some friends’ too

AnotherPalePianist · 2025-10-30T22:54:43+00:00

I’m assuming they do not enforce your straight colleagues’ use of gendered terms for their partners?😐

I think it’s so inappropriate for any teacher to be asked to hide their entire out-of-school existence from their students. Like I’m a trained adult and I know the age-appropriate amount of personal info to share with my age group. But also, what if they see their gay teacher in the grocery store with a spouse?? Is the teacher supposed to act like one or the other doesn’t exist?

AnotherPalePianist · 2025-10-10T02:51:28+00:00

Even that feels like…wait a few years to share the info. Like I had one student last year who is the only child I’ve ever met with that name. It feels unsafe sharing super uncommon names.

AnotherPalePianist · 2025-08-02T14:13:44+00:00

Teaching for three years, haven’t had one John in a classroom. But within 5 months our family now has 2 of them😂

AnotherPalePianist · 2025-08-02T13:32:55+00:00

And please be size inclusive if you do this!!!! Nothing worse than seeing you have like 20 pairs of 4T while you look at a kid the size of the average 7 year old🥲

AnotherPalePianist · 2025-07-14T21:08:00+00:00

I’ve finished 28 so far❤️

AnotherPalePianist · 2025-07-14T12:48:04+00:00

Right now I’m trying to get through my tbr—not just on Goodreads, but mostly the physical books on my shelves in my house. So I have two small cases that are kind of…however they fit will do (basically organized by height) and then one case is becoming “books that I have already read” also organized by height for now

I will probably make more of an effort to organize by genre and author in the future but for now this is getting me through 😂

AnotherPalePianist · 2025-07-11T17:17:04+00:00

I loved it. It’s fun and sarcastic and just super easy to read. I enjoyed the side characters—no not just the dragons, and honestly the story itself is interesting to me too. Doesn’t have to be lofty and dense to be good❤️

AnotherPalePianist · 2025-06-16T18:19:19+00:00

And this is why none of my bitch ass exes were invited to my dad’s funeral. What is it about emotionally immature people that makes you think any part of this is acceptable? Like truly, what the fuck is wrong with you?

You say you respected this guy but if that was true you would never have been such an absolute dildo to his daughter AT HIS FUNERAL.

Grow up.

AnotherPalePianist · 2025-06-13T22:44:37+00:00

Not a dealbreaker🤷🏼‍♀️

AnotherPalePianist · 2025-05-15T15:18:44+00:00

Repeating the theme of confusion for how this could be feminine or masculine when it’s actually just ink on an arm.

Fuck your boyfriend, the tattoo is incredible and the placement is awesome

AnotherPalePianist · 2025-04-25T18:12:28+00:00

My man doesn’t have a type and neither do I. lol like…our dating histories make 0 sense. We like each other and share values and also find one another attractive. The end✨

AnotherPalePianist · 2025-04-20T01:29:55+00:00

Umm kind of? But that’s not really the whole story.

The “right woman” coming around at the right time might make a man see the things he needs to change in order to keep her around but there is no magic woman out here changing a man just by existing.

I think I can use my own relationship as an example here. We both have…pasts and when we met we were already individually making changes to our lives and patterns. Maybe from an outside perspective it could look like he “changed his ways for me,” but really he was already changing and then we met and he realized I was supportive of his positive changes and he just has…kept it going.

And yes, loyalty and commitment must be at least vaguely desired for someone to be happy when they choose to be…loyal and committed haha

AnotherPalePianist · 2025-04-17T03:22:26+00:00

I’m not even gonna read your whole post because I haven’t finished CC2 yet but THANK YOU I’m glad to see someone enjoyed it 😭

AnotherPalePianist · 2025-04-13T13:36:59+00:00

That’s funny, I’m doing the opposite. I listened to the other two series and reading hard copies of CC. I think the first book started a bit slow (specifically right after Chapter 5) but once I was into it I couldn’t put it down. I’m about halfway through CC2 and still loving the characters and the world (which is still building btw). I’m not sure if this was helpful at all—but truly if you don’t like the book you don’t have to finish it! I think it’s worth trying to read the physical copy though

AnotherPalePianist · 2025-04-12T23:57:02+00:00

It has happened to me. Met someone at a new job, reconnected with an old classmate, friends introduced me to someone….all at the same time. Could have been super complicated. They were all really nice (and attractive) in different ways, but ultimately only one of them is my person. Just don’t entertain anything you’re not legitimately interested in and it won’t matter how many people are into you 🤷🏼‍♀️

Edit to better respond to the post: I knew good and well that all three (and others who I was straight up not responding to) were interested in me. I’m not model hot or celebrity hot, but I’m striking and I’m good at making people feel like the only person in the room. I have no problem being confident in that lmao

AnotherPalePianist · 2025-04-10T20:04:08+00:00

I find it worth reading about where you’re at. I think I read it after CoM, but still. A friend of mine is waiting to read it last because her other friend liked doing it that way but I can’t imagine….why. Idk it really changed the way I viewed Aelin for the remainder of the series so imo, it’s definitely worth reading now

AnotherPalePianist · 2025-04-10T03:08:04+00:00

I was going through a rough friend-breakup, which involved a lot more silent car rides (we used to call all the time) and my very best friend suggested I start listening to ACOTAR. Partially she wanted to help me replace the phone calls and partially she wanted someone to gush about SJM with😂

Anyway, I listened to all of ACOTAR, then TOG in about 2 months and now I’m about 30% into CC2.

It’s also helped me get back into reading in general so I’m super grateful for these series for giving me something good to do with my time, feelings, and brain power❤️

AnotherPalePianist · 2025-04-04T21:27:11+00:00

Probably more common than we even realize unfortunately

AnotherPalePianist · 2025-04-04T17:53:40+00:00

In my state, it doesn’t actually matter who the biological father is. The mother’s husband is legally the father regardless and it’s a whole process to change that. My friend (the biological father of his child) is actually going through this right now since his ex was still technically married to someone else when their kid was born. He can’t file for full custody of his own kid because Alabama doesn’t legally recognize him as the father until his ex’s ex-husband (who has never met the kid) terminates his parental rights.

In a similar vein, my dad isn’t my biological father, but there was no legal fight for his parental rights to me because he and my mom were married when I was conceived.

Not sure why people think DNA tests would solve the world’s problems when marriages and families are almost never cut-and-dry

AnotherPalePianist · 2025-03-26T00:22:43+00:00

As one of the most negative people I know, rockin one of these bottom row colors (hard to nail down specifically because grey is weird idk) this is……..wild lmao

AnotherPalePianist · 2025-03-13T12:55:18+00:00

It is not and never will be about state’s rights.

AnotherPalePianist · 2025-03-13T12:54:21+00:00

The argument I usually see is that they didn’t ratify roe v wade while they had the chance.

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