Kingdom of Knuffel

I forgot to mention I also see how many people rate each book too. But then that's not accurate because I feel like someone on here(?) mentioned they rate books as a place holder too or something. Oh well lol. We all have our own way of determining things.

I still read teen fantasy romance novels as a break from my big thicc fantasy books and I find them so ridiculous now, even though they are my guilty pleasure. I know if I read them as a teen, I would rate them so much higher than I do nowadays.

Actually looked at a book on goodreads for the first time in a bit and they changed the layout. I really hate that kind of layout where is looks super modern. It just looks bad imho. But whatever. I mostly use it to add books and keep track. I rarely look at the actual book pages past the summary.

There are definitely some books I really enjoyed when I was young that I don't want to pick up now because I know that I'll be disappointed -or I'm afraid I will be.

Then there are other books that I really enjoyed when I was young and I read them now and I'm "wait what was going on? How did I miss this? And look at this implication here! There's a whole subplot I entirely missed! Why was it listed as a children's book?"

Tastes evolve, that's just natural.
I keep liking the same genres, but I need more depth that I did as a younger reader.
And I feel like younger readers these days are ok with more clichés than I ever was, not even at their age.
Which sometimes is ok, but other times gets too dull for my taste.


Some books are like that, aren't they?
That's why I've always loved Roald Dahl: you can read him at different stage in your life and still find his books amusing - in different ways.

Now my son is reading the books of Le petit Nicolas, by Goscinny, which were my husband's.
I did not read those as a kid, but I'm really enjoying them as an adult!

I'm very old-fashioned.
I don't get audiobooks, I don't think stream reading could be my thing at all.

One of my favorite cliches is the underdog story. Some poor farmers son is suddenly the hero after starting off weak and feeble compared to everyone else. And throw in one of his companions being a prince or princess of some country. I live for those.

I do and don't see the appeal of audiobooks. I want to get into then so I can multitask but I don't think I'll ever consider whatever book I was listening to as read because I wasn't reading it. And watching people read on live stream doesn't sound interesting to me.

Wait, so they read quietly in their own place and people watch them? What's the fun in watching a person read a book? It's like watching paint dry

I'm more and more confused about this

I enjoy reading with others, but because I'm reading too. Not because I'm waiting to hear their insights xD

.... the world is truly a strange and wondrous place.

I'd never heard of that, and having now heard of it I'm having a hard time imagining how it would be engaging enough to be successful (not that I can't see it occurring, but how is it popular enough that it occurs more than once?)...


I mean, it is a very very common thing in my family to enter a quiet house, wondering if anyone is home, walk into the living room and see six people all quietly curled up on a cushion or sprawled out on the floor or cuddled up together on the couch or perched sideways in a chair and they're all reading their own books. And that's "being social" for our family (except for that one sister who's an extrovert. Everyone else does this and considers their social duties done for the week).
So... reading together I can see.

But... watching someone else read? Online?
This, this is a mind-boggling concept.