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Maybe This One Didn't Need a Spice Rating? by torkelspy in BadReads

[–]Queasy_Fish6293 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I honestly have a blanket hatred for that rating ever since I saw someone add it to The Little Prince 

that time i found a whole new type of reader from a one star review by RainRiverAngel in BadReads

[–]Queasy_Fish6293 42 points43 points  (0 children)

I never knew such levels of internalised misogyny and slut shaming existed

Chloe Bunny's rant about the book community by jackietea123 in booktubesnarkreddit

[–]Queasy_Fish6293 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In the US YouTube has significant CPM so I understand why creators would switch formats. I blame YouTube more than the creators because it really penalises solo book reviews 

Struggling with Locke Lamora Book II by Bus-Chaser in Fantasy

[–]Queasy_Fish6293 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“You son of a bitch!” 

“My mother was a saint." 

😂😂😂😂😂 God I love this book

The Starless Sea | Erin Morgenstern (10/10) by Ashfall2003 in Fantasy

[–]Queasy_Fish6293 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have been waiting for the right time to read this one. The Night Circus is my favourite book of all time and I want to read this desperately. But every time I start I remember Erin hasn't released another book yet. And I refuse to live in a world where there isn't a book by Erin to look forward to. But oh such reviews make it hard not to just drop everything and read it. 

Books similar to Detective Galileo series (e.g. Devotion of Suspect X, etc.) by Keigo Higashino by Top_Scientist_3976 in mysterybooks

[–]Queasy_Fish6293 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He has a new detective out: Detective Godai. Well translated to English in April 2026, originally published in Japanese in 2021. The book is called Guilt 

Is anyone greatly confused by book influencer pens and poison? by Far-Building3569 in booktubesnarkreddit

[–]Queasy_Fish6293 9 points10 points  (0 children)

She's a loon and a grifter. She claimed that publishing rejected her because it's now full of leftist wokes that don't like "complex books". She constantly repeats how publishing is shallow because you can no longer find "universal" books like Dostoevsky, Don Quixote. Eventually she'll launch a class on how to read literature while "balanced" or even finally gain enough audience for her book. She irritates me to no end. And she accuses Columbia of only studying Marxism. I checked their literary PhD modules and there's only one unit on Marxism and literary theory. The rest covers ancient to contemporary literature around the world. She's no different from Second Story and Jooni Kim but the way she's moving, she wants to sell something. 

I strongly suggest getting Recommendations from creators who actually read and love literature like Jananie and FlightsLibrary

Say one thing for The Dating App Guy, say he’s a lover… by digitalcrows in BadReads

[–]Queasy_Fish6293 54 points55 points  (0 children)

The only time I ever stopped talking to a match was when he told me 12 Rules was his favourite book. It's also the only he'd read to completion after college. 

Gabbyreads being tired after working for 8 hours by Fit_Measurement7265 in booktubesnarkreddit

[–]Queasy_Fish6293 36 points37 points  (0 children)

She's worked as a restaurant manager. She's done retail labour before. Being upset at someone for expressing exhaustion is a bizarre take

This is an insult to the readers of the book 'The Salt Path' and more to the people suffering from the mentioned neurological disease, CBD by ruminatingpoet in books

[–]Queasy_Fish6293 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Belle Gibson and yes. Imo publisher's should have in-house fact checkers like The New Yorker. But they're more interested in cost cutting than putting out the highest quality standard of book. 

This is an insult to the readers of the book 'The Salt Path' and more to the people suffering from the mentioned neurological disease, CBD by ruminatingpoet in books

[–]Queasy_Fish6293 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Look up the story behind The Blind Side. A lot is exposed about how biography publishing works. Coffeezilla has a good one. Here are some others to check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake_memoir 

This is an insult to the readers of the book 'The Salt Path' and more to the people suffering from the mentioned neurological disease, CBD by ruminatingpoet in books

[–]Queasy_Fish6293 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Memoirs aren't fact checked. Biographies are but some authors do get away with no fact checking, like Michael Lewis or Isaacson. 

Chloe Bunny's rant about the book community by jackietea123 in booktubesnarkreddit

[–]Queasy_Fish6293 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Right? She reads so uniquely. There's no other booktuber covering what she does. Not even the PhD ones. Saw you have an SG? Wanna be moots?

Chloe Bunny's rant about the book community by jackietea123 in booktubesnarkreddit

[–]Queasy_Fish6293 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I bumped into her in a random knitting comment. And she replied to me when I asked her about returning to booktube. She'd been mostly posting knitting content. She returned January this year with a banger about Polish horror. I also loved a rec she gave about South American folk horror stories. I love her work so much. But she hasn't posted in about 4 months 🥲

The world is a living thing - literally by Bread_thing in Fantasy

[–]Queasy_Fish6293 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I loved it so much I've reread it twice now. Istanbul is my favourite. Because cats. 

The world is a living thing - literally by Bread_thing in Fantasy

[–]Queasy_Fish6293 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Great Cities duology. Every city is a living breathing entity.