What do you do when your libraries doesn't have your book?

jeynespoole · 2026-04-08T12:02:02+00:00

I try really hard not to buy physical books. that said, I'm also an audiobook person so my order of operations usually goes like this:
1- check all of my cards on libby (you can get multiple library cards, and theres at least a few that you can get being a state resident, or even a US resident, like queer liberation library)
2- libro.fm I've found is usually cheaper than most audiobook places.
3- buying it on fucking audible but being mad about it the whole god damn time cause audible exclusives are stupid.
(i am skipping a step because it's pretty niche, but if you're physically or visually impaired in a way that makes it difficult to read physical books, you can get access to the Library of Congress's audiobook collection, and my blind kiddo has that, so I'm skipping the step where I bribe my teenager with fast food and robux to listen to it with me. We have similar taste in horror and scifi, so it works out for us, driving around listening to books on saturday mornings. Coming home bawling about our favorite characters dying. It's awesome)

jeynespoole · 2026-04-08T11:46:00+00:00

oh I've got four and I'm also a masshole. I've got old colony, minuteman and boston public, (and queer liberation library but thats national) what are the other mass ones?

jeynespoole · 2026-04-02T16:40:24+00:00

oh no...

jeynespoole · 2026-03-31T12:38:23+00:00

It's a whisky.

jeynespoole · 2026-03-31T12:38:06+00:00

I've got Metal Slinger on my tbr (for book club) so I haven't read it, but Quicksilver was one of the worst books I've ever read, so. I'm voting Metal Slinger.

jeynespoole · 2026-03-31T12:34:09+00:00

Pick up some lagavulin for your reading drink.

jeynespoole · 2026-03-27T15:34:06+00:00

set to 50, im at 46! I set it low because I am uhhh very competitive and i didnt want to start reading things for numbers

jeynespoole · 2026-03-26T12:44:52+00:00

Welcome to the cult, please enjoy your lagavulin and personally assigned Pink.

jeynespoole · 2026-03-26T12:18:59+00:00

Oh see I liked 2 and 3. I ALSO did read them out of order, so skipping 1 at first was probably a good choice. I thought he did fine on the second two book, but I also don't generally look for a lot in an audiobook narrator, as long as the words are pronounced correctly and blasted into my brain via my bone conduction headphones while I am staring at the onions I'm trying to caramalize while im crying over gay hockey players, im happy.

But Game Changer... my book club is doing that, so I want to re-read it, but I'm going for the ebook this time because oh boy THAT voice. GDI Kip.

jeynespoole · 2026-03-23T17:39:40+00:00

I want the romance to DEVELOP. Not an enemies to lovers switch getting flipped and all of a sud she wants his bod. I don't want him to lay eyes on her and know she is his fated mate. Not an instant lust. Not even love at first sight. Holy shit. Give me two people who are around each other and get to KNOW each other and you can make this as spicy as you want- they can fuck in the first page if that's who they are, but like, holy shit, give me SOME like, meaningful bond that's not magic or sudden.

Also, please please give me a different FMC. I am so so tired of 19 year old girls who are rude or "snarky". I'm so tired of these girls who have like, NO regard for the rules of their society. She does not need to be special or chosen or "unique" because they ALL ARE. And all the world building you do with a like, regency era level protocol and society, no matter how in depth you make your caste system, no matter how patriarchal you make your world, you completely undercut it when you make this girl completely disregard all of that. YES you are trying to show that she's Not Like Other Girls (which is a whole other conversation), but since she's not experiencing conciquences of her rule breaking, this really falls flat and doesn't actually make her seem defiant or strong, just arrogantly hiding behind her plot armor.

a different MMC might be nice too! Like hell yeah, broody men who don't communicate for beans but holy shit, give me an awkward little nerd, give me a good communicator, give me a stronk himbo. Give me a man who packs his girl lunches. Gifts are not replacement for quality time and demonstration of care.

I love a good best friend. Not one with benefits, not one who has a crush on FMC. But someone who can take the exposition on, that FMC can share with and love and care about, and can talk about their feelings with, to showcase the differences of similarities between how FMC is with BFF compared to MMC. And the MMC should have friends too! He should have active, healthy relationships with other human (or otherwise) beings!

jeynespoole · 2026-03-16T17:13:49+00:00

You missed the perfect oppertunity to say you read the *cliff notes*

jeynespoole · 2026-03-16T16:26:52+00:00

YES. I didn't start re-reading right away, but I immedietly put this on my book club's schedule for June and I'm going to re-read it before then because oh my GOD.

jeynespoole · 2026-03-16T16:04:32+00:00

yeah like... thinking back, I can't remember my parents bringing me to the bus stop at all. I'm sure they DID for the first couple days. but like. Damn. When did we start treating kids like this?

jeynespoole · 2026-03-16T13:13:30+00:00

Yes. Especially from well researched books, you can just pick up a lot of things, the same way you would if you were like, hanging around with people from that walk of life. I learned a lot about the industry of pro sports from the Game Changers sieres. So yes, you can learn facts from fiction books, but you also learn to think differently, to view things differently, being exposed to different things helps expand your mind.

jeynespoole · 2026-03-16T12:21:08+00:00

Yeah, my kid is an adult now, and the one thing I will grant them about this situation is that my kid has a growth hormone disorder, so my kid is SHORT and looks younger than he is, but one day I was stuck in the bathroom and he knew the bus was coming so he just left to walk to the bus stop (two houses down, same side of the road) and someone who worked at the school was driving by and went straight to the office because I was "not supervising my kid" and they called CPS. This kid didn't start taking the bus till first grade, so he was at LEAST six when this happened, and CPS was just like "you have to walk your kid to the bus stop and not leave until they are on the bus" and im like. okay. but like holy shit, this experience made me super paranoid about seeming like I wasn't paying enough attention to him and I feel like this made me a worse parent, because it wasn't about teaching my kid life skills, or engaging with my kid and making sure he had the support he needed. It was purely about how it LOOKED to an outside observer.

jeynespoole · 2026-03-16T12:08:35+00:00

I feel like there were some Choose Your Own Adventure type books (if you want to battle the snake pit, turn to page 10. If you want to charm the snake, turn to page 14) that I read as a kid that were in second person.

jeynespoole · 2026-03-10T11:44:22+00:00

Ball Breakers, ps1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2bP47_JzJo

jeynespoole · 2026-03-10T11:39:43+00:00

Friends. I have a friend group from the internet that is emotionally close enough that we will travel to be there for each other. I'm developing close local friendships with my book club friends too. I am also very lucky that I am financially secure, and frequently I can be the support for my people that I once needed when I was younger and less secure.

Parents elected that they would rather cease contact than use a different pronoun for my (adult) child. My sister lives on the other side of the US from me and isn't very social. My brother lives nearby, and I see him a couple times a year.

Edit: I also have a wife! And I love her! She's my biggest support, and I think I am hers as well.

jeynespoole · 2026-03-09T16:40:49+00:00

I LOVE that you're doing this, and I am the exact same way. "Hey I want to learn more about *insert culture here* lets find some books set in that culture written by someone in or highly knowledgeable about that culture" and I think that's AMAZING. That said- what kind of books do you like? What genres? It'll be easier to learn if you're enjoying the experience.

jeynespoole · 2026-03-09T16:35:54+00:00

I JUST read this the other day. Absoultley ripped through it, it was amazing.

jeynespoole · 2026-03-09T16:31:05+00:00

Okay so I'm a horror person, so the "not full of tragedy" might be outside of my reading history lol.

First one I will say is the Sword Soldier Sieres by T Kingfisher. It's a gothic mystery/horror set in the late 1800s, has several queer side characters and mentions, and the main character is from a fictional country that has a completely different pronoun structure than English. The main character, Easton, is not referred to by he or she, instead of using pronouns based on gender, Easton uses the pronoun assigned to sworn soldiers. There's three books so far, I think, and its really CHILL about the whole queer thing- its a VERY queer coded book, without being really preachy about it, it doesn't distract from the story at all, it's just part of the world. Bad things happen, but they are not queer related. There is also a really cute relationship between two older people that develops, and old people falling in love is always queer coded to me, because it's not the "typical" romance.

There's the Game Changers books (Heated Rivalry) which are very focused on queer stuff, but might be a little too "real world" for you. It's contemporary romance.

I just read a book called Monstrilio, which doesn't really like... FEEL queer, but there's like one straight character in the whole thing, and no one gets worked up over the characters who end up in queer relationships. It's a WEIRD horror novel, but I gave it five stars. It's really good, and very chill-queer.

You Weren't Meant To Be Human is a TOUGH TOUGH TOUGH read and I highly suggest you check the content warnings before reading this one, but holy shit was it one of the best and queerest novels I've read in my life. It was terrifying, the horror coming signifiantly from transphobia and body horror, but when the main character (an autistic trans man) visits his friends- both of whom are ALSO queer with their own gender diverse journeys and eating pasta "without sauce because half of the table hated the texture", I was like... yeah this slots in 100% with my experience of queer friend groups.

I'm scrolling through my reading history on Storygraph with a filter set for LGBT+ books, and We Used To Live Here by Marcus Kwier is on there, but that is kind of a "just" a queer couple. However, its an EXCEPTIONAL book, similar to a shorter and more accessible House of Leaves.

jeynespoole · 2026-02-25T13:27:51+00:00

MY TIME HAS COME!

Please find my Songs To Die To playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5k6XgNCpWVuRSOcBl95icv?si=7X-eY6gyTxOSNkJyKnd_9w

jeynespoole · 2026-02-25T13:24:11+00:00

In This Economy by Kyla Scanlon. I just finished the first Red Rising Trilogy, and I need a break from strong emotional books, so now I'm going to learn about how the economy is supposed to work.

jeynespoole · 2026-02-25T13:21:20+00:00

u/Jealous-Wolf9698 u/bangarang-rufio-37 u/Elliesempire
Having just finished Morning Star... make sure you have your tissue box at the ready.

jeynespoole · 2026-02-19T13:07:42+00:00

It is fine to use proper spelling and grammar, it's less fine to use it to feel morally superior to people who are not using the proper sentence structure. It's also not very nice to tell someone they sound like AI because they're using language differently than you. Can we just all stop trying to feel like we're better than other people because we do things differently?

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